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axillary and terminal ; flowers white, fragrant ; fruit spherical, smooth, 

 green. Oil called " Woondy" is extracted from the seeds, and the 

 crooked steins furnish excellent knees for boats. Common in the 

 Malvvan talooka and sandy shores of Southern Concan. Syn. Balsa- 

 marina inophyllum, Lour. Hook. Pot. misc. ii, 355, t. 17. 



2. Speurium Choisg. in DC. Prod. I. — A tree with cuneate 

 obovate leaves, very much smaller than those of the last, inserted 

 on the authority of Nimmo as inhabiting the Southern Concan, 

 though not seen there by other botanists. It is plentiful, however, at 

 Honors, in Canara. Syn. C calaboides, Don in Mill. Diet.; 

 C apetalum, Willd ; C calaba, Linn. 



3. Angustifolium, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 608. — Leaves short, petiol- 

 ed lanceolate, lucid, finely veined ; flowers in axillary fascicles ; 

 pedicles with a cyathiform apex. Neelkoond and Woolwee Ghauts, 

 south-west from Dharwar. Poon tree ; yields the Poon spars for 

 ships' masts. 



5. CALYSACCION, Wight. 



1 . LoNGiFOLiuM, Wight. lUust. i, 1 30. — A tree ; leaves oblong 

 oval obtuse, coriaceous, delicately reticulated ; flowers in clusters 

 on the thick branches, small, white, streaked with red. The flowers 

 are an article of commerce, and are exported to Calcutta and 

 lately to Europe; they are used for dyeing silk. The globular 

 flower-buds were sent to London under the erroneous name 

 of Nagkesur. Maratha name " Suringee." Common in the 

 Rulnagherry CoUeetorate and elsewhere. Syn. Calophyllum 

 longifolium, W. and A. Prod. 



XXXIII. HIPPOCRATEACEiE. 



L HIPPOGRATEA, Linn. 



1. H Indica, Willd. DC. Prod. 1, 558,— Glabrous ; leaves 

 elliptic-acute at the base, obtuse or acute at the apex, serrulated, 

 shining; panicles dichotomous corymbiform; flowers minute, 

 yellow ; carpels I inch long, oblong striated, each 2-seeded ; valves 

 boat-shaped. Along the Ghauts ; pretty common. Native name 

 " Kazurati." Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 1 65 ; U disperma, Vahl. enum. ii, p 28. 



2. H Grahamii, Wight Illust. i, 134. — Shrubby, twining, 

 glabrous ; leaves coriaceous entire, broad ovate, or suborbicular 

 acuminate ; panicles very numerous, large, many-flowered, on the 

 summits of the branches ; petals linear spathulate obtuse ; carpels 

 obovate obtuse emarginate. H obtusifolia. Grab. Mss. Common 

 on the Ghauts. 



