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Original Articles. 
NOTE ON THE INDIAN SPECIES OF CRATZVA. 
By §8. Korz. 
(Tas. 147, 148.) 
In the present paper I wish to take up the — Is there but 
one ote of Crateva i in India, or are there m 
in the Appendix to Oudney, Dedham, and Clapperton’s 
“Narrative ¢ of 1 Travels in N. and C. Africa,” recognises more than 
one species, and points out pote the difficulty of technically separating 
Crateva from Capparis, otherwise than by the open zstivation of the 
corolla. Hamilton in ‘Li . Xv., also 
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of British India,” however, reduce them all, and adopt only a single 
aa which they identify with the Australasian C. religiosa of 
Miquel, in his ‘Illustration de la Flore de l’Archipel Indien,” 
figures ¢. tumulorum, Miq., a species well separated by the ater 
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t ; distribution excludes the possibility of its sp pain 
ay sacl Islands. Loureiro’s two species remain , 
= Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, piles : spi is 
R tow ; anda glance at the accompanying plates will leave no doubt that 
wn, and more especially Hamilton, had good reasons for their 
and Thomson give as the only habitats for their aggregate 
igiosa, Malabar and Concan, and state that it is eulti- 
here in Indi hey . 
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1874. | 
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