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11. I Latifolia, Linn. sp. PI— Smooth ; leaves subopposite 

 or suliverticelled, long-petioled, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, crenate serrate and bristly on the margin ; flowers large; 

 sepals small ovate cuspidate ; lip acuminate concave ; spur elongat- 

 ed, slender ; vexillum reversely cuneate, horned. Syn, I cuspidata, 

 Wight and A rn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii, 3-21 ; I bipartita, 

 Wight and Am. loc. cit. i, 322; I floribunda, Wight in Madr. Jour. 

 V, p 7. Concan common. 



12. I Balsamina, Linn. Willd. sp. ,P1 i, 1 17.5, — A weed, herba- 

 ceous, erect, simple ; leaves alternate petioled, glabrous, acuminated 

 at both ends, acutely and often deeply serrated ; petioles glanduli- 

 ferous ; pedicels 1 to 2 or more aggregate shorter than the leaves ; 

 lateral sepals minute lanceolate, anterior one pubescent, infundibuli- 

 form with a slender spur; capsule ovate, tomentose, and hairy. 

 Very common; the double varieties are often of great beauty. 



13. ScABRTuscuLA, HeyuB in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Wall, ii, 464. — 

 Low, erect, branched, pubescent and tomentose ; leaves few, shortly- 

 petioled, lanceolate acuminate serrate ; pedicels short ; sepals very 

 small; lip boat-shaped, tomentose; spur ncme. Allied to I balsa- 

 mina, but much smaller, leaves broader, and lip without a spur. The 

 South Concan. 



14. I PuLCHRRRiMA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour, Bot. ii, p 37.— Stem 

 erect, glabrous ; leaves alternate long-petioled ovate acuminated, 

 crenate serrated ; serratures bristly, somewhat roughish above, glau- 

 cous and quite smooth beneath ; petioles glandular towards the 

 apex ; pedicels axillary, 2 to 3 together, one-flowered, half the length 

 of the leaf; flowers large, rose-coloured, 2| inches in diameter; the 

 petals divided to near the base ; the lobes cuneate obovate ; fruit 

 bearing pedicels erect, drooping at the apex ; spur 2 inches long, 

 filiform. Shady jungles in the Warree country ; flowers in August. 

 Hook Bot. Mag. 4615. 



XLIII. PITTOSPORACE^. 



1. PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 



1. Floribundum, W, and A. Prod, p 154. — A small tree ; leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, elliptic lanceolate, glabrous, margins waved; 

 racemes terminal, compact, many-flowered; flowers white, small; 

 capsule 2-valved, compressed, 3 to 4-seeded, size of a pea. All 

 along the range of the Ghauts. The clubs of the Australians are 

 made of the wood of P bicolor. .Syn. Celastrus verticillata, Roxb. 

 FI Ind. i, 624; Senacia nepalensis, DC. Prod. 1, 367. iVIaratha 

 name " Yekuddy." P zeylanicum, Wight lUust. i, 173. 



