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Spec. Car. Small tree: leaves pinnate: leaflets alternate, 
ovate, acuminated, serrated, pubescent: panicles corymbiform, ter- 
minal, many-flowered: flowers small, white, fragrant. 
Coromandel. Western Ghauts. Assam. Flowering in Febru- 
ary. The fragrant leaves are used in seasoning curries, whence the 
English name of the curry-leaf tree. They retain their stomachic 
and tonic qualities when dry, and in this state are sold in the 
bazaars. 
GENUS VI. MURRAYA. 
Decandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Called after John Murray, a Swedish Botanist, and Pro- 
fessor in the University of Gottingen. 
Gz. Cuan. Unarmed shrubs: calyx 5-partite: petals 5, con- 
nivent to the middle into a tube: filaments distinct: ovary 2-cell- 
ed: ovules 2 in each cell: style elongated: fruit a fleshy berry, 
Q-celled : cells full of coloured fetid liquid: seeds solitary: seed- 
coat woolly. ; 
(1) M. exotica. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A, prod. I. p. 94.—Dec. prod. I. p. 537.—Roxb. 
fi, Ind. I. p. 374. 
Syn. Chalcas Japonensis, Zour. Coch. p. 332.—Marsana buxi- 
folia, Sonn. Voy. Ind. IIT. 
Engrav. Rumph. Amb. V. t. 18, f. 2.—Wight’s Icon. I. t. 96. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves pinnate: leaflets 5-7, cuneate-obovate, 
obtuse or bluntly acuminated, coriaceous: peduncles many-flower- 
ed, corymbose: berry globose, 1-seeded: flowers middle-sized, 
white, fragrant. 
Monghyr. Foot of the Himalayas, flowering in the hot and 
rainy season. 
(2) M. panicunata. (Herb. Sm.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 94. 
Syn. Chalcas paniculata, Linn. Lour. Coch. p. 381. 
Srec. Cuan. A small tree with pinnate leaves: leaflets about 
5, elliptical-ovate, tapering, acute at the base: upper leaflets larger 
than the lower ones: peduncles terminal, several-flowered, corym- 
bose; berry oblong, usually 2-seeded: flowers white, very fragrant. 
Peninsula. Goalpara. Circars, Western Ghauts. Flowering 
in the hot and rainy season. 
