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2. BURSINOPETALUM, Wight. 



I. BAbboreum, Wight Ic. 956.— A large tree ; leaves ovate 

 oblong acuminated ; flowers terminal, small; calyx conical, adhermg 

 to the ovary ; petals 5, ovate-pointed, leathery ; fruit drupaceous, of 

 the size of a small plum, ovoid. Par war Ghaut ; not common ; 

 flowers in April and May. Thwaites refers this to Arahaceae. 



3. MAPPIA, Jacq. 



1. M Oblonga, Miers in Taylor's Ann. of Nat. Hist, x, p 40.— 

 A middle-sized tree ; leaves eUiptic oblong acuminated, venous ; 

 flowers terminal, cymose panicled, of a yellowish white, very foetid ; 

 drupe succulent, ohve-shaped, purple when ripe. The Ghauts 

 opposite Goa ; common. Closely allied to the Stemonurus foetidus 

 of Wight's Ic. 955, if really distinct. 



4. PLATEA, Blume. 



1 . Axillaris, Thwaites Enum. p 44. — Dioecious glabrous ; 

 leaves shortly petioled, acuminate, membranaceous ; cymes axillary^ 

 solitary or twin, as long as the petiole, male few-flowered, female 

 2 to 5-flowered ; calyx minutely 4 to 5-toothed ; petals 4 to 5, 

 united at the base into a tubular corolla ; fruit ovoid. Choria and 

 Parwar Ghauts. Syn. Gomphandra polymorpha, Wight. lUust. i, 

 103 ; Stemonurus axillaris, Miers in Ann. of Nat. Hist. vol. x, p 41 . 



XXXI. AURANTIACE^. 



1. ATALANTIA, Corr. 



1. MoNOPHYLLA, DC. Prod. 1, 535. — A large climbing shrub 

 armed with small thorns ; leaves ovate or oblong ; racemes short, 

 sessile, pedicles long, slender; flowers white, appear in November, 

 fruit size of a nutmeg, very much like a lime. On the Ghauts ; 

 common. Native name " Ran" or " Makur limboo" Syn. Limonia 

 monophylla, Linn. Roxb. Cor. i, t. 82 ; Fl Ind. ii, 378 ; Trichilia 

 spinosa, Willd. ii, 554; DC. Prod. 1, 623 ; Rheede Mai. iv, t. 12. 



2. LIMONIA, Linn. 



1 . Oligandra, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 25, 8. — Shrubby, 

 climbing, thorny, thorns numerous, short recurved ; leaves petioled, 

 trifoliolate ; leaflets elliptic, obtusely acuminated, shghtly crenated ; 

 flowers axillary, racemes panicled, about as long as the leaf; petals 

 5, linear oblong ; stamens 5, filaments free ; fruit size of a pea, 

 6-celled ; flowers in November and December. Ram Ghaut, 



