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flowers in large terminal panicles ; fruit of tree globular ; berries 

 combined, rather hairy ; used as soap. Common about villages ; 

 a doubtful native. Syn. trifoliata, Linn. 



2. Emaeginatus, Vahl. — Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets 2 to 

 3 pair, oblong retuse or emarginate, upperside glabrous, under 

 very downy; racemes panicled, terminal; fruit usually 3-lobed, 

 lobes very hairy on the inside. This and the preceding are called 

 " Rhete" ; the fruit of both is used medicinally, also for washing 

 silk. Syn. S detergens ? Roxb. Is said to have virtues in 

 epilepsy. 



3. CUP AN I A, Plum. 



1. Canescens, Pers. — Leaflets 2 pair, obovate or oblong, glab- 

 rous ; racemes simple or panicled from the old leafless shoots ; 

 capsule ovoid triangular, brown, velvetty ; flowers white, appear 

 in Feliruary. Ram Ghaut and Kandalla ; Graham, Beemasunker ; 

 Koosur Ghaut and Beemasunker, Gibson. Syn. Molinsea canescens, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 243 ; Sapindus tetraphyllus, Vahl. Symb. 

 iii, p 54. Maratha name " Kurpa." 



4. NEPHELIUM, Linn.; EUPHORIA, Lam. 



] . LoNGANUM, Camb. — Leaflets 2 to 4 pair, entire, upperside 

 shining, under pale, glaucous, strongly nerved ; panicles lax, termi- 

 nal ; fruit size of a cherry, eatable when young, bluntly muricated ; 

 flowers in February and March, white. The wood of this tree is 

 hard, close-grained, and white, Roxb. Near Parr; Ram Ghaut. 

 Syn. Dimocarpus longan, Lour ; Euphoria longaria, Lam. ; Scy talia 

 longan, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 270; Nephelium Bengalense, Don in 

 Mill. Diet. Maratha name "Wumb." Bot. Reg. t. 1729. 



5. SLEICHERA, WiUd. 



1. Trijuga, Willd. — A tree, leaflets 3 pair, oblong or broadly 

 lanceolate, entire, nearly glabrous ; racemes axillary, or below the 

 leaves ; drupe globose-pointed, covered with stout prickles ; flowers 

 white, in February and March, minute. The natives eat the fruit, 

 and also make oil from it. Native name " Koosimb." Common 

 on the Ghauts. Syn. Melicocea trijuga, Juss. ; Stadmannia trijuga, 

 Spr. ; Cassambium pubescens, Ham. in Wern. Trans. " Koon," 

 Gaert. t. 180. The bark is astringent; the wood hard, and used 

 for various purposes, as sugar mills, &c. ; the bark is rubbed up with 

 oil to cure the itch, Roxb. 



