JPosoqucria. pentandria monogykia. 565 



ami seen floating. If this is done during the hot season, it is said, the 

 fish generally die, but if dui ing the wet or c.ld season they iccover. 

 Fishermen sometimes follow this mode to enable them to take 

 the fish with more ease. They are not deemed less wholesome 

 from the effects of the fruit. Coccuiis Indicus does not grow in 

 those parts nor it is known or used there for tins purpose. 



3. P. nutans, R. 



Shrubby, armed, branchlets drooping. Leaves narrow-obovate- 

 obiong. Plotters solitary. Berries round, crowned with the entire 

 calyx. 



Ciriscus malabaricus, Gaert. sem. i. ;. 28, is with respect to shape 

 and size a very good representation of the berry, but to render it 

 exact the calycine segments, and the receptacles of the seeds must 

 be added. The figures are too small for dumetorum growing in 

 exactly the same spot, and with the same management. In the botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, in twelve years, this is a tail slender shrub with 

 very slender drooping branches, and a trunk not thicker than a man's 

 wrist, whereas dumetorum of the same age has grown to be a stout, 

 rigid, small tree, with a trunk two inches and a half in circumference, 

 at tour feet above the ground. 



Trunk straight, from three to four feet high. Branches numerous, 

 with the extreme divisions long, slender, and drooping; tender 

 shoots a little hairy. — Spines axillary, opposite, horizontal, straight, 

 slender, but hard, stiff, and sharp. — Leaves on the young shoots op. 

 posite,on the old ones fascicled, shot t-petioled, from cuneiform-ob- 

 long to round, from one to two inches long, by about one broad. — Sti~ 

 pules triangular, acute, &c. a; in the order. — Floxcers solitary from the 

 old axils under the spines, with or without leaves, short-peduncled 

 middle-sized, white and fragrant. — Calyx with a short, rather hairv 

 cylindric tube, and live-parted border, all permanent. — Coro/, outside 

 sericeous. Tube very little longer than the calyx, swelled near the 

 base, and there shut with a dense circle or valve of white hairs, point- 

 ing upwards. Border of five, obovate, spreading segments, which are 



