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‘Spee. Cuan. Large shrub: leaves opposite or three in a whorl, 
evate-oblong : spines decussate: cymes axillary, fascicled on a short- 
pedunele: stigma 4—5-lobed: berry size of a cherry, turbinate, 
smooth, yellow when ripe, succulent: flowers greenish-white. 
Bengal, flowering in March and Aprib. 
GENUS XVII. MEPHITIDIA. 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Mephitis, damp of the earth, in reference to the 
unpleasant smell of the shrubs. 
Gey. Cuan. Shrubs or undershrubs: flowers crowded, axillary’ 
and terminal: limb of the calyx 3—6-partite or toothed: corolla 
funnel-shaped, 4—6-cleft, hairy + stamens 4-6, inserted towards. the 
throat: filaments very short: anthers exserted or included: stigmas 
4-9, linear, thick : drupe baceate, crowned by the permanent calyx, 
containing 4-9 3-cornered arillate 1-seeded stones. 
(1) M. venurosa. (R. W.) 
« Ident. Watp. Annal. ET. p. 761. 
Syn. Santia venulosa, W.§& A. prod. I. p. 422.—Lasianthus: 
venulosus, R. BP’. 
Engrav. Wight's Spieil. FT. t. 96.—Icon. t. 1032. 
Srec. Cuan. Glabrous shrub : stipules triangular, hairy : leaves. 
coriaceous, short-petioled, elliptic-oblong, cuspidate or acuminate,. 
glabrous above, sprinkled with hairs beneath: cymes axillary, 
short-peduncled, few-flowered: bracts small, hairy: segments of 
the calyx subulate, as long as the corolla-tube: corolla 4-5-cleft : 
throat and lobes hairy: style 3-5-lobed, often longer than the: 
corolla: flowers pale-yellow or cream-coloured.. 
Common in woods about Ootaeamund. The blue succulent ber— 
ries are about the size of a pea. 
.»€2) Mo Jacxtana. (R.W.) 
Ident. Cale. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI. p. 502.—Walp. Annal. IT. 
p. 760. 
" Spec. Cuar. Fruticose, clothed on all sides with long yellow- 
ish hairs: branches terete, with short internodes: stipules triangu- 
lar, broad at the base: leaves subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, shortly 
and abruptly acuminated : flowers axillary, subsessile, aggregated,. 
few: bracts 2, leafy, lanceolate: calyx deeply 4-cleft: segments 
ovate-lanceolate, hairy on both sides: corolla about -equalling the. 
calyx: segments ciliated: ovary 3—4-celled: drupe small. 
Neilgherries. 
