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3. SCUTIA, Coiiim. 



1. Indica, Brogn. Ann. Soc. Nat. x, p 363.— A straggling 

 thorny shrub ; leaves smooth, small, obovate obtuse or retuse, cori- 

 aceous, generally quite entire ; flowers axillary, shortly umbellate ; 

 fruit usually tricoocous, girt by the persistent tube of the calyx. 

 Common along the higher Ghauts. Native name " Cheemat." 

 Syn. Rhamnus circumscissus, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 603 ; R 

 myrtinus, Burm. Ind. p tiO ; Ceanothus circumscissa, Gaert. t. 

 106 ; C zeylanica, Heyne, in Roth. nov. sp. p 163 ; Celastrus zey- 

 lanica. Roth, in Schult. DC. Prod. 2, p 9 ; Catha zeylanica, Don 

 in Mill. Diet, ii, 10. 



4. COLUBRINA, Rich. 



1. AsiATicA, Brogn. in Ann. Soc. Nat. x, p 369. — A large, 

 smooth, dark-green shrub ; leaves ovate acuminated crenate, serrated 

 glabrous, shining ; cymes about the length of the petioles; flowers few, 

 appear in the cold vifeather; fruit capsular dehiscent, tricoccous, 

 size of a pea, very smooth. Elephanta and the Ghauts ; plentiful 

 near the sea at Rutnagherry. Syn. Ceanothus asiaticus, Linn.; 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 616 ; C capsularis, Forsk. DC. Prud 2, p 32; 

 Pomaderis capsularis, Don in Mill. Diet, ii, 39. 



6. GOUANIA, Jacq. 



1. G Leptostachya, DC. Prod. 2, p 40. — A climbing shrub, 

 branches glabrous ; leaves ovate acuminated, slightly cordate at the 

 base, crenate serrated glabrous; racemes of flowers long, inter- 

 rupted, axillary, or in terminal panicles ; fruit small, glabrous, 

 triangular, scarcely winged. At Banda, in the Warree country. 

 Syn. G tiliaefolia, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 632. 



6. RHAMNUS, Linn. 



1. WiGHTii, W. and A. Prod. 1, 164. — Unarmed, glabrous; 

 leaves opposite or nearly so, elliptical, with a short sudden acutni- 

 nation, sharply and closely serrated ; pedicels axillary, fascicled, 

 scarcely longer than the flower, much shorter than the petiole; 

 petals cuneate, obovate, not flat, as stated by W. and A., but 

 folded ; ovary 3 to 4-celled; styles 3 to 4, connected to the middle ; 

 fruit size of a pea. Highest hills in the Northern Ghauts. Native 

 name " Rugt Rorar." The bark is esteemed very medicinal as a 

 tonic and deobstruent. 



