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CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



usually distinguished;" by Wight prodr. 57, in Southern Hindustan. Westward, by Bojer, "truly 

 spontaneous " on the Mauritius Islands ; and is known to grow in Western Equatnri il Africa (Benth. 

 fl. nigr.). Clearly by European colonists, was carried to the West Indies (A. Dec). 



root used medicinally : — observed by Rheede ii. pi. 39 in Malabar ; by Graham, " on bushes above 

 Kandalla tank," in the environs of Bombay; by Burmann pi. 92, on Ceylon; by Ainslie, and Rox- 

 burgh, in hedges and shady places as far as Bengal. 



Tcphrosia purpurea of Tropical Hindustan. A branching Leguminous plant, its bitter root 

 from early times used medicinally: — observed by Rheede i. pi. 55 in Malabar; by Brown, and 

 Graham, "common both in the Concan and Deccan " as far as Bombay, "appearing with the rains 

 and flowering towards the close of them, when it dies away ; " by Burmann pi. 32, on Ceylon ; by 

 Ainslie, Roxburgh, and Wight, as far as the Coromandel coast, its root in decoction prescribed by 

 native physicians in " dyspepsia, lientery, and tympanitis " (Lindl.) ; was observed by Mason indigenous 

 in Burmah. 



Acacia (. Mbizsia) odoratissima of Tropical Hindustan and Burmah. An unarmed tree thirty 

 to forty feet high, called in Tamil " kurroo-vaga," in Telinga "shinduga" (Drur.) ; and its particu- 

 larly hard and strong durable timber valued from early times : — observed by Rheede vi. pi. 5 in 

 Malabar; by Graham, in "the Concans " as far as Bombay; by Roxburgh, Wight, and Drury, as 

 far as the Carnatic and Coromandel, " common everywhere " and "one of the most valuable jungle 

 timbers ;" by Mason v. 529, indigenous in Burmah. Transported to Europe, is described by Plu- 

 kenet pi. 351. 



Kauden'a Rlieedii of the tide-waters of Hindustan and Burmah. A mangrove shrub or small tree 

 called in Mahbar " tsjeron-kandel " (Drur.) ; and from early times, its bark employed medicinally : — 

 observed by Rheede vi. pi. 35 in Malabar ; by ( iraham, as far as Bombay ; bv Drury, common in " the 

 back-waters in Travancore," its bark "used for tanning purposes at Cochin;" by Roxburgh, and 

 Might, in the deltas of the Ganges and Curomandel coast; by Mason v. 512 to 515, in the "mangrove 

 swamps" of Burmah, its bark 'used by the Tavoy women in dying red," probably "as a mordant." 



Triclnuanthes lordata of Tropical Hindustan. A climbing Cucurbitaceous vine called in Hin- 

 dustanee " boomee-koomura" (Lindl.); and from early times, its tuberous root employed medicinally: 



— growing on the banks of the river Mejjna near its mouth, and described by Rheede, Ainslie, and 

 Roxburgh, its root as large as " a man's head " used by the natives " as a substitute for calumba root '" 

 (Lindl., and Drur.). 



Hymcnodyctitm excehum of Western Hindustan. A Cinchonaceous tree fifty feet high called in 

 Bengalee " bundaroo " (Lindl.), in the environs of Bombay " kurwah " or " kurdwah " or " koodyee " 

 (Graham) ; and from early times, its fine close-grained wood used for various purposes : — observed 

 by Graham "common along the Ghauts " as far as Bombay ; by Roxburgh cor. ii. pi. 106, and Wight, 

 as far as the Circars, the two inner layers «.f the bark possessing all "the bitterness and astringency 

 of Peruvian bark, and when fresh in a stronger decree" (Lindl., and Drur.). 



Gardenia campanulata of the forests of Chittagong. A low Cinchonaceous tree, its fruit from 

 early times used in Hindustan as cathartic and anthelmintic : — observed by Roxburgh, its straight 

 trunk "soon dividing and subdividing into numerous stiff erect and spreading branches " (Lindl., and 

 Drur.). 



Willughbeia edulis of Eastern Hindustan. A very lar-e Apocynous climber called in Bengalee 

 "luti-am " (Drur.); and from early times, its fruit eaten : —growing in the forests of Sylhet and Chit- 

 tagong, and when wounded, yielding copiously juice that changes "into an indifferent kind of caout- 

 chouc" (Koxb., and Lindl). 



Cicendia hyssopifolia of Hindustan. An herbaceous annual called in Tamil " vallarugu," in Telinga 

 " nella-gullie " or '■ golimidi " or " chevukurti," in Bengali " kirota," in Hindustance " cbota chiretta " 

 (Drur.); the whole plant bitter, and with other Gentianace<e, employed in Hindustan from early times 

 as a stomachic : — C. hyssopifolia was observed by Burmann afr. pi. 74, Retz ii. 15, Roxburgh, and 

 Wight, from the banks of the Jumna to Coromandel, in " moist uncultivated grounds " (Pers., Lindl.. 

 and Drur.). 



Ocymum suave of Tropical Hindustan. A Labiate plant from early times used there medicinally : 



— probably as at the present day, for "a stomachic, and a cure for infantile catarrh " (Lindl.). From 

 transported specimens, the plant is described by Willdenow (Steud.). 



Geniosporum prostratum of Western Hindustan. A Labiate herb, prostrate and much branched, 

 and from early times used as a febrifuge, —as at the present day at Pondicherry (Pers., Burnett, and 

 Lindl.) : observed by Rheede x. pi. 92 in Malabar; by Nimmo, in "S. Concan" (Graham), nearly as 

 far as Bombay ; by Burmann pi. 70, on Ceylon. 



Metiandra Beugalensis of Eastern Hindustan. A straggling Labiate shrub, cultivated from early 

 times : — observed by Graham " in gardens " at Bombay, the " taste and odour of the leaves stronger 

 than that of sage ; " by Ainslie, and Roxburgh, as far as Coromandel and Bengal, its " trunk sometimes 



