Caris&a.- pentandiua moxo-.yvi.v. 523 



celled, few-seeded. Embryo inverse, and furnished with a peris- 

 pei m. 



1. C. Carundas, JVilld. spec. i. 1 C IQ. — Rorb. Coram. 77. 



Sub-arboreous. Thorns often two-forked. Leaves elliptic, 

 obtuse, smooth. Corymbs terminal, few-flowered. Genu eight- 

 seeded. 



Avinga, Krishno-pakphwla, and Sanscrit names. See Asiatic Res. 

 iv. 263. 



Sung. cj\^H^":, Kummurda, ^TEHS":, Saoshena, "WWm^W^i'' , 



Kizshnapakphula, ^\<F&5, Kwram a, ^f^JT^t^*, Kurtimttrdfeka, 



Wf^-^J, C/vigna, mniffr^":, Paniawlda. 



Te/inga. Wa'aka. 



Tarn. Kalaaha. It is also thus called by Europeans on the Coro- 

 mandel coast. 



Seng. Kufum'cha 



A common, large shrub ; or irregularly formed small tree, growing 

 in most \vi:d, woody, dry, uncultivated parts. Flowering tune 

 February, March, and Aj.mi1. Fruit ripe in July and Augu'st. 



Trunk, when it is ol ;ige to have on&, -irregtda! ly bent in various 

 detections. Bark grey. Brain lies and bfaricMeis'vzvy numerous, 

 always two-forked, and standing nearly at right angles, rigid, smooth, 

 and round. — Thorns constantly m pairs at" the divisions ol the branch- 

 es and bratichlets, and at every oilier pair ol leave-, opposite, fiori- 

 zontal, very stiong, smooth, and exceedingly sharp, ihey a;e freq«K nt- 

 ly Forked. — Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, oval, obtuse, smooth, 

 hard, shining; their insertions remarkably regu'ar; generally one pair 

 below the fork, crossed with the thorns ; and another pair between 

 the (oiks, -where there are no spines/*— Feduricles terminal, gene- 

 rally in pairs, each less than an inch lung, beating from ihree to 

 many, beautiful, milk-white 1 , J asm ne-like flo,wefs. — Bractes, a small 

 one at the insertion of each pedicel. — Calyx, corol and stamens, 

 as in the genus, — Germ ovate, two-ceiled, with four ovula in each, 



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