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Sepc. Char. Arboreous, the trunk and older branches armed 

 •with opposite spines : unarmed ramuli, panicles and petioles pubes- 

 cent : leaves short-petioled, ovate or oval, shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, rounded towards the base, entire, or crenato-dentate, the 

 adult ones glabrous on both sides, shining above, dull, opaque be- 

 neath: panicles terminal, loosely corymbose : calyx bilabiate, the 

 upper acutely bidentate, inferior often entire : tube of the corolla 

 'cylindrical, tvpiee the length of the calyx. 



Bengal, floWeriiig in the rains. 



(2) P. CORDIFOLIA. (Roxh.) 



Ident. Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 78.— Dec. prod. XI. p. 632. 



Engfav. Wight's Icon. t. 1483. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby : branchlets, cymes and petioles of the 

 younger leaves, villous : leaves shorti-petioled, cordate, or cordato- 

 ovate, acuminate, entire, buUate, glabrous on both sides, shining 

 above, dull and pate beneath : panicles terminal, small, cbntracted- 

 corymbose : flowers greenish white. 



Khandalla, flowering in May and June. 



(3) P. SCANDENS. (Roxh.) 



Ident. Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 82. — Dec. prod. XI. p. 632. 



Spec Char. Large climbing shrub : branches and cymes 

 pubesceflt : leaves ovate-oblong, or subcordate, cuspidate acuminate, 

 quite entire, glabrous, shining above : panicle terminal, corymbose, 

 rather large ; flowers very small, greenish white : drupe like a pea, 

 black, smooth. 



Kandalla. Silhet. Flowering in the hot season. 



(4) P. TOMENTOSA. (JVilld.) 



Ident. "Willd. Spec. III. p. 314. — Dec. prod. XI. p. 634. 

 Syn. Cornutia corymbosa, Lam. — P. flavescens, Juss. 

 Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1468. 



Spec Char. Shrub or small tree : branchlets young leaves and 

 cymes everywhere tomentose : leaves petioled, ovate, or ovate- 

 oblong, long-acuminate, entire, venoso-rugous, steliately pubescent 

 on both sides, sparingly above, copiously beneath : panicles large, 

 terminal, many-flowered, compact : flowers whitish. 



Coimbatore. Pondicherry. Flowering during the hot season, 



