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3. Montana, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 620. — A shrub, thorny; leaves 

 elliptic or obovate, tapering into the petiole, minutely and sharply 

 crenate, serrated, coriaceous, glabrous ; whitish-glaucous when 

 dried ; cymes axillary, lax, ped uncled, twice as long as the 

 petiole ; capsules somewhat globose, 3-angled, about the size of 

 a pea. Hills in the Deccan, at Koondiana in Guzerat, also in Sind. 

 Roth. nov. sp. 154; Syn. C crenata, Roth. loc. cit. 156 ; Catha 

 montana, Don in Mill. Diet, p 10. Young branches often pointed 

 with a thorn. Much used as dunnage for roofs of houses. Native 

 name " Mai Kangonee." 



4. EL^ODENDRON, Jacq. 



1. RoxBUHGHii, W. and A. Prod, p 157. — A small tree ; leaves 

 opposite, elliptical or ovate crenate ; serrated, young ones glaucous ; 

 cymes lax, dichotomous, divaricated about half the length of the 

 leaves, usually with a sohtary flower in the forks ; drupe round, 

 hard, size of a cherry ; flowers small, yellow. Sattara and Kamatkee 

 Ghauts; Beemasunker, Dr. Gibson ; Syn. Nerijadichotoma, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. i, 646 ; Rhamnus nerija, Spr. syst. supp. p 86. Maratha name 

 " Tamrooj." 



5. LOPHOPETALUM, Wight. 



1. L WiGHTiANUM, Arnott. Ann. Nat. Hist, iii, 151. — A 

 middle-sized tree ; leaves elliptic -oblong, a little acuminated, obtuse 

 at the base, quite entire ; corymbs terminal panicled ; flowers with 

 6 divisions ; ovary 3-celled ;. fruit sharply triangular, hard, 4 inches 

 long ; seeds oblong, corajjressed, surrounded by a long hnear wing. 

 Wight Ic. t. 162. 



XLIX. RHAMNACE^. 



1. VENTILAGO, Gaert. 



1. Madraspatana, Gaert. fr. i, 223. — A large climbing shrub ; 

 leaves alternate, coriaceous, short-petioled, orbicular to ovate acu- 

 minated, acute or obtuse or cordate at the base, crenate, serrated 

 or entire ; flowers fascicled on long leafless branches, forming a 

 panicle ; small greenish fruit, size of a pea, with a long linear 

 membranaceous wing. Khandalla, the Ghauts generally, and at 

 Baitsee ; flowers and fiuit in January. Native names " Lokundie," 

 " Kanwail." Cordage is made of the bark. As. Res. vi, 352 ; Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. i, 629 ; Syn. V denticulata, Willd. DC. Prod. 2, 38. 



2. BoMBAiENSis, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Hot. iii, 36. — Branchlets, 

 petioles, and flowers covered with fulvous tomentum; leaves 

 lanceolate acute at the base, unequal^ acuminated at the apex. 



