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slightly acid ; in perfection in March. Found at Virdee and the 

 ghaut districts generally. Native name " Attuck." 



4. Sepiaria, Roxb. Cor. t. 68. — A thorny small tree common 

 in the Deccan, towards the Ghants ; leaves obovate ; fruit size 

 of a pea ; flowers in December. Native name " Tambat." 



2. PHOBEROS, Lour. 



1. Crenatus, Wight, in Wight and Arn. Prod. 1, 29. — 

 Thorny ; leaves elliptic oblong lanceolate, acute at the base, with 

 glands obtusely serrated. On the Ghauts to the south of the 

 Ram Ghaut. 



XII. PANGIACE^. 



1. HYDNOCARPUS, Gaert. 



1. H. Wightiana, Blume Rumph. iv, 22. — A tree with elliptic 

 oblong acutely serrated leaves ; flowers axillary, subracemose ; 

 fruit large, woody, warted. Common in the South Concan. Syn. 

 H. iiiebrians, Wight and Arnott ; Wight IlJust. i 38, t. 16. 



XIII. SAMYDACEiE. 

 1. CASEARIA, Jacq. 



1 . Anavin'ga, Rheed.,0 vata, Willd. — A tree ; leaves oblique and 

 subcordate at the base, ovate oblong, serrulate, downy underneath ; 

 fruit oblong, smooth and shining, larger than a nutmeg, and twice 

 as large as that of the following species. Found on Caranjah hill 

 and at Rajahpoor ; flowers in November. C. tomentosa, Roxb. 

 Appears to be the same species. Vide Flor Ind. ii, pp 420 & 4 1 1. 



2. Ghaveolens, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, 107. — Arboreous 

 glabrous; leaves short-petioled broad elliptic, shortly acuminated, 

 slightly and obtusely serrated, coriaceous and hard when old ; 

 stipules lanceolate acuminated, glabrous ; flowers numerous, 

 clustered in the axils ; pedicles articulated above the base, 

 very short ; fruit oblong, almost round, smooth, shining, one inch 

 long ; flowers green. On open hills in the South Concan ; flowers 

 in the rains ; odour disagreeable. 



3. Laevigata, Dalz. loc. cit. — Shrubby, 4 feet high, glabrous; 

 leaves short-petioled oblong acuminated, obscurely serrated or 

 nearly entire, half folded, coriaceous, shining on both sides ; stipules 

 acuminated; flowers numerous, clustered in the axils; pedicles 

 articulated above the base ; bark on the young bianches white, 

 highly polished. 



4. RuBESCKNS, Dalz. loc. cit. — Shrubby, 4 to 6 feet high, all 

 glabrous; leaves petioled ovate oblong, quite entire, rounded at 

 the base, suddenly and obtusely acuminated, coriaceous, with the 



