262 PENTANDItIA MONOGYNIA. SlrychllOS, 



Cariram, R^eed* ma/, i. t. 37- 



Sung* 3^ ST J 3" ft* > Deerglmp^traka, 3*^5(5, K;opee'oo, ^t^j 

 ift^T, Kal«peeloo, ^TCsTxft^Ri, Kaltfpeelpoka. ^fl^f eft" 3^' Kak&t- 

 peelooka, -JoT^C:, Koolwka, ^f^fcl^^; 5 Kaliiiiiidooka,fa3f*T s V, 

 VtsbutindpO; Hfeft^^?, MurkwtMiiudooka, ^ftrjffeF^^j, Kakii- 

 tindookff, «JTC^'^} Kakeudoo, 3fT3fH!U:» Kakauda, ^[^n^g:, 

 Ka aiuia, ^"T^^n^f5> Kakitsphoorjoo, ^RTop^j Kalahwa, ^flf«f 

 tftsr^f:, KViKeej&ka* 



Seng. Koochila. 



Tetiii'j Musadi. 



A middling sized tree, common on almost every part of the coast 

 of Coromandel ; in flower during the cold season. 



Trunk short, often crooked, but pretty thick- Branches irregular, 

 both are covered with smooth, ash-coloured baik; young shoots 

 highly p.-lished, deep green. Wood white, hard, close-grained, and 

 bitter. — Leaves opposite, shot l-petioled, ova!, shining, smooth on both 

 sides, entire, from three to five-nerved, or rather between that and 

 triple, or quintuple, differing in size from one and half to four inches 

 long, and from one to three broad — Stipules none. — Flowers small, 

 greenish-white, collected on small, terminal corymbs. — Calyx -five- 

 toothed, permanent. — Cofol infundibuliform., as in the genus. — Fila» 

 fnents scarcely any, or exceedingly short, inserted over the bottom 

 of the divisions of the corol. Anthers oblong, half within the tube, 

 and half out. — Germ two-celled, with many ovula in each, attached 

 to the thickened centre of the partition. Style the length of the tube of 

 the corol. Stigma capitate. Berry round, smooth, size of a pretty 

 large apple, covered with a smooth, somewhat hard shell, of a rich, 



* Those ©''the above synonyma which are in tlio Z'raura Kosha are by Mr. Colebrooke 

 attributed to Diospyros melanoxylon. Most of the pundits are of the same opinion, pro- 

 bably because Tindoo, one of them, is the name of 1>. glutinosa. Tt is not unlikely that the 

 opinions of the pundits, joined 10 the similarity ofnames led him to this conclusion. These 

 words are however expressly stated in the Bhar«-prakas!iffi to bg the name i of the Koockila, 

 which is universally acknowledged to be this plaut, Ed. 



