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one-celled one-seeded nut in each ; flowers white, polygamouR. 

 The Ghauts ; common. Native name " Gowlee." This is the 

 G lancaefolia of Graham's Catalogue. 



4. ERINOCARPUS, Nimmo. 



I. E NiMMONii, I. Grah. in Cat. Bomb. PI, p 21. — A small 

 tree ; leaves on long petioles, roundish cordate, strongly nerved 

 beneath; flowers rather large, yellow, in terminal panicles, appear 

 in September and October; fruit triangular, bristly, angles winged. 

 Common on the Concan hills ; allied to Clappertonia ofMeisner. 

 Native name " Chowra" or " Jungle Bendy" ; bark used for 

 making ropes. 



XXIX. ELAEOCARPE^. 



1. ELAEOCARPUS, Linn. 



1. Oblongus, Gaertn. — A small tree; leaves elliptic oblong- 

 pointed, with blunt serratures ; racerries simple, short ; nut oblong, 

 very hard, indehtscent ; prominently tubercled ; petals white, beauti- 

 fully fringed. Rare; on the higher Ghauts to the south, Syn. 



2. Ganitrus, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 692. — Leaves lanceolate 

 serrulate, glabrous ; racemes simple, drooping ; drupe spherical, 

 smooth, purple ; nut 5-grooved, and elegantly tubercled. These 

 are xgenerally imported from Singapore for necklaces for faqueers. 

 On the higher Ghauts. Syn. Ganitrus sphserica, Gaertn. t. 139. 

 Maratha name " Roodraksh." 



2. MONOCERA, Jack. 



1. TuBEKCULATA, W. and A. — Leaves petioled cuneate o!)Ovate 

 retuse at the base, remotely serrulated ; racemes simple, solitary ; 

 drupe oval; nut compressed, tubercled on the flattened sides, 

 with a thickened margin. Ram Ghaut. Syn. E tuberculatus, 

 Roxb. Flor. Ind. ii, p 694. 



XXX. OLACACE.E. 



1. OLAX, Linn. 



1. O WiGHTiANA, Wall. — A scandent shrub, with ovate or 

 oblong smooth leaves, upperside shining, under pale ; racemes 

 axillary, usually compound ; flowers white, appear in February ; 

 fruit smooth, oblong, more than half covered by the closely 

 adherent calyx. 



