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13. C Setosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. 1, 410. — Herbaceous, climbing, 

 bristly all over, even to the fruit ; leaves sessile, ternate ; leaflets 

 fleshy, grossly bristle-serrate about 4 inches long, oval and 

 waved; pedicels all recurved in fruit; berries red, ovoid; every ])art 

 of the plant is acrid. About .Jooneer; not seen elsewhere. 



14. C Araneosus, Dalz. — Climbing; all floccose except the 

 upper surface of the leaves ; leaves dark -green, pale beneath, 

 cordate acute, simple or trifoliate ; leaflets oblong acute, unequal- 

 sided at the base ; peduncles opposite the leaves, many-flowered, 

 cirriherous, rather long ; fruit S[)herical, smooth, 1 to 4-seeded, size 

 of a pea ; rare. On the highest Ghauts west of Jooneer. 



2. VITIS, Linn. 



1. V Indica, Linn. — Branches, petioles, and peduncles villous ; 

 leaves cordate, scarcely angled or lobed, toothed, underside 

 tomentose, upper floccose, at length somewhat glabrous; racemes 

 peduncled, cylindric; peduncles cirriferous; flowers bisexual; fruit 

 globose ; flowers in Ai ay. 



3. LEEA, Linn. 



1. L Staphylea, Roxb. — Shrubby, branches round, smooth; 

 leaves from compound to super-decompound ; leaflets from oblong 

 to linear lanceolate, with a long tapering point coarsely serrated ; 

 cymes terminal, large ; flowers greenish-white; berry size of a small 

 cherry, flattened, 5 to 6-grooved, 5 to 6-celled ; cells I -seeded. Com- 

 mon in the Concanand Ghaut jungles. Wight Ic. ^'78 ; Illust. t. 68. 



2. L Maceophylla, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 653. — Stem herbaceous, 

 erect, flexuose-jointed ; leaves very large simple, broad cordate, 

 toothed, smooth on both sides; cymes terminal, large; flowers 

 numerous, small, white ; berry depressed, size of a small cherry, 

 smooth, black and succulent when ripe. Hills in the Concan; 

 pretty common ; root tuberous, and employed in the cure of 

 guinea-worm. 



XL. GERANIACE^. 



1. MONSONIA, Linn., Fil. 



1. M Sbnegalensis, Guill. and Perr. Tent. Fl Senegamb. i, 

 131. — A very small plant 3 to 4 inches high; leaves ovate cordate, 

 acute or lanceolate, remotely toothed, pubescent and villous, 

 long-petioled ; stipules villous; flowers axillary, long-peduncled; 

 peduncles solitary, 1-flowered, with two bracteoles ; corolla and 

 calyx about equal ; flowers j^ink ; fruit often longer than the whole 

 plant. Dry pastures in the Deccan; not common. Syn. Erodium 

 6 c 



