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Spec. Cxar. Shrub or small tree, thorny and much branched ¢ 
thorns straight, axillary: leaves oval: racemes axillary, short, 
many-flowered :, ovary stipulate, 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each 
cell: fruit about the size of a nutmeg: pedicels longish: flowers 
white. i : 
Coimbatore, flowering in October. 
(8) A. pratystiema. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight's Ill. I. p. 108. 
Spec. Cxar. Style wanting: stigma large, flat, appressed to 
the apex of the ovary. : 
Peninsula. 
GENUS II. LIMONIA. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Lymoun, the Arabie name. 
Gzn. Cuan. Shrubs or trees: with simple, trifoliate or pine. 
nate leaves: filaments distinct, broader below: disk elevated, and 
forming a short stalk to the ovary: ovary obovate, 4—5-celled with 
1-2 ovules at the top of each cell: style elongated: stigma obtuse: 
fruit bacecate, 4-5-celled: seeds solitary, surrounded with mucilage. 
(1) L. acrvissima. ( Linn.) 
Ident, W. & A. prod. I.-p. 92.—Dec. prod. I. p. 536. 
Syn. WL. crenulata, Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 381. 
_Engrav. Rheede Mal. IV. t., 14.—Lam. Ill. t. 358. f. 1. 
Srec. Cuar. Shrub: spines solitary: leaves pinnate, with 2-3 
pair of leaflets and an odd one: leaflets oblong, crenated: petioles 
broadly winged: corymbs umbelliform, 2-3 together from the axils 
of the fallen leaves: petals 4, oblong: stamens 8: cells of ovary 
with one ovule: fruit 1-4-celled, globose: flowers small, white. 
Coromandel. Padshapore. Hurdwar. Flowering in April and 
May. The fruitis much used as a tonic in Malabar, where it forms 
an article of commerce with the Arabs, 
(2) L. atara. (Herb. Madr.) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 92. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. I. t. 41. 
Spec. Cuan. Small tree: leaves 3-foliolate: ledflets cuneate. 
obovate, quite entire: petioles slightly winged: petals 5, broadly 
oval: fruit globose: flowers panicled, white: cells of ovary 2+ 
ovuled. ; 
Foot of the Neilgherries, 
