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or terminal, solitary or aggregated, often compound, villous: heads 
of flowers somewhat globular, many-flowered: anthers included + 
drupe ovate-oblong. 
Nagpore. 
(9) M. ancustivorta. (Roxb.) 
Edent. Roxb. ft. Ind, f. p. 547. 
Srec. Cuar, Erect shrub, with few branghes: leayes swhsessile, 
recurved, lanceolate, smooth; stipules subcordate, united into a 
sheath, persistent: peduncles solitary, short, leaf-opposed : heads of 
flowers globular: flowers very numerous, pure white > calyx almost 
entire: corolla funnel-shaped: filaments inserted below the middle 
of the tube: anthers, included: stigma exserted,. 2-lubed: berrica 
aucculent, deep, shining black, distinct. 
' Chittagong, flowering in March, 
GENUS XVII. VANGUERIA. 
Pentandria Monogyning. Sez: Syst: 
Derio. Name altered from Voa-Vanguer, the Madagascar naine. 
of the first species, 
Gen. Cuan. Small trees or shrubs: stipules solitary on both 
sides: calyx-tube obovate: limb spreading, 5-toothed, deciduous : 
corolts globular-campanulate, 5-cleft, very hairy in the throat: lobes 
ovate or lancéolate, acute, recurved: filaments very short: anthers 
scarcely exserted: ovary 5-celled, with one ovule in each cell: style 
about the length of the corolla: stigma exserted, mitriform, or capi- 
tate and 5-angled: berry succulent, marked with the traces of the 
calyx and containing five 1-seeded nuts: seeds oblong; albumen, 
fleshy. 
(1) V, gpuxis. (Vahl.) 
Tdent. W.& A. prod. I. p. 421.—Dee. prod. IV. p. 454. 
Syn, V. cymosa, Gaertn. fr. p. 75. t. 193.--V. Madagascarien- 
sis, Gmel.—V. Commersonia, Desf. 
Seec. Cuar. Small tree, unarmed: leaves ovate or oblong, 
mempbranaceous, glabrous: cymes below the leaves from the old 
scars; stigma thick, shortly cylindrical and mitriform:' fruit round, 
smooth, ‘size of an apple ; ‘flowers greenish-white. 
Common in, the Concans and on the. Ghauts. Flowering in the 
cold season, The fruit is eatable. 
(2) V. spinosa. (Roxb.) 
Ident, Roxb. fi. Ind. I. p. 536.— Dec. prod, JV. p. 454. 
Syn. Meynia spinosa, Link. 
