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one of the best of Indian Governors,—Sir Thomas Munro. (See a Minute on 
the subject in the Appendix to his Life by Gleiz.) So long as England con~ 
tinues her home on the deep, something more than ‘*saplings chauce sown by 
the fountain,” are required, and amid the many minor affairs which engage 
men on the summit of power, it is to be boped this will not be overlooked. 
Dr. Gibsonmentions, thit there are some thriving plantations in the 
districts south of Poona: the large leaves are much used for forming a 
substratum for thatched roofs,—the timber in housebuilding &e. 
The teak tree flowers in June and July, in large terminal, cross-armed 
panicles;—the flowers are white, and give a forest a showy appearance ata 
distance. It sheds its leaves in the cold weather. 
** Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, 
Now green in youth, now witherimg on the ground; 
Another race the following spring supplies, 
They fall successive and successive rise; 
So generations in their course decay, 
So flourish these, when those are past away.” 
Pope’s Iliad. Book, 6. 
ORDER 106. MYOPORINE. Brown’s prod. p. 514. 
599. AVICENNIA.L. Didynamia Angiospermia. 
In honor of Avicenna, an Arahiay Physician, Lam. Ill. t. 540. 
1173, A. TomenTosa. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p.88. Oepata. Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 
45. Wall: Pi. Asiat. Rar. 3. ¢. 271. 
Sceura maritima. Forskol’s Arabia p. 37. Jacq. Amer. ¢. 112, f. 2. 
White Mangrove.—A small tree, with opposite, obovate or oval leaves; a 
little hoary underneath. Flowersin April and May; terminal, small; of a dingy 
yellow colour. 4 
Grows abundantly in salt. marshes; —the Vellard, Sion Canseway &c.— 
Flowers 4 petalled; stamens 4, equal.—This is probably the tree Camoens 
alludes to, 
“« Wide forests there beneath Maldivia’s tide 
From withering air their wondrous fruitage hide. 
The green-hair’d Nereids tend the bowery dells, 
Whose wondrous fruitage poisou’s rage expels.” 
Lusiad. Book 10. 
The bark of this tree is much used at Rio Janeiro for tanning. 
ORDER 10:. ACANTHACEA. Brown's prod. p. 472. 
THe Justicia TriBE, Lind. nat- syst. p. 233. 
570. ACANTHUS. v. Didynamia Angiospermia. ; 
Acanthos—a spine;—some of the species are armed with spines.—Gaert. 
1. ¢. 54. Lam. Ill. é. 530. 
1174, <A. Iiciroticius. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 32. 
Aquifolium indicum Rumph, Amb. 6. ¢. 71. f. 1? Paina schulli. Rheed. Mal. 
2.¢. 48. Hamilton in Linn: Trans (4. p. 297, Pluk. Alm. ¢. 264. f. 4. Ainslie 
Mat. {nd, 2. p, 306. Dilivaria ilicifolia. Persoon’s Synop. 2.p. 179. 
Sea Holly.—A. shrub, with waved, spinous-dentate, polished leaves, and 
pretty blue flowers. 
Grows abundantly in salt marshes.—It is very much like the common 
English Holly.—There is a species of BGerberis ou®the Neilgherries, to 
which it also bear a considerable recemblance. 
