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thin and smooth, 3 to 4 inches long ; flowers numerous, small, 

 collected in small axillary, solitary, short-peduncled fascicles ; 

 capsule transversely oval, 2-lobed, size of a nutmeg, covered with 

 a grey down .dehiscing,- showing inside a beautiful red arillus. 

 Ram Ghaut ; plentiful. 



LII. HOMALINE^. 



1. HOMALIUM, Jacq. 



1. H Zeylanicum, Benth. in Jour. Proc. Linn. Soc, vol. iv, 

 p 35. — A tree ; leaves petioled, oval-elliptic or ovate-acuminate, 

 somewhat toothed, shining, glabrous ; racemes elongated, slightly 

 tomentose ; flowers small, white ; leaves 3 to 4 inches long. Syn. 

 Blackwellia zeylanica, Gardner in Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist, vii, 452; 

 B tetrandra, Wight Ic. t. 1851. Ram Ghaut. 



LIII. CONNARACEtE. 



1. CONNARUS, Linn. 



L MoNOCAEPUs, Linn. sp. PI 678. — An erect shrub ; leaves 

 3 to 5 foliolate; leaflets oval oblong acuminated, shining on both 

 sidesi coriaceous ; panicles terminal elongated ; flowers small, 

 yellowish-white ; fruit a capsule, pod-like, stalked, slightly kidney- 

 shaped, red when ripe, extremely ornamental when covered with its 

 bright-red fruit. On the Southern Ghauts ; common. Lam. Encycl. 

 Meth. ii, 95 ; Spr. syst. iii, 78 ; Syn. Omphalobium pinnatum, DC. 

 Prod. 2, 86 ; O iiidicum, Gaert. t. 46 ; Rheede Mai. vi, t. 24. 

 Native name " Soonder." 



2. ROUREA, Aubl. 



\. Santaloides, W. and A. Prod. 144. — A climbing shrub; 

 leaflets 2 to 4 pair, ovate, narrow blunt acuminated, coriaceous, 

 shining; panicles axillary and terminal, few-flowered; fruit ovoid- 

 pointed, rather fleshy, not pod-shaped as W. and A. remark, 

 though they had never seen the fruit. Syn. Connarus santaloides, 

 Vahl. Symb. iii, 87. The leaves are like those of Santalum. 

 Warree country, Ram Ghaut, &c. Syn. Connarus santaloides, 

 Vahl. Symb. iii, 8. 



