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and horizontal branches ; leaves linear-oTilong with, cordate base, 

 smooth, with two sessile glands underneath ; flowers in April and 

 May. Common in the jungles south-east of Surat. The bark is in 

 great repute as a tonic and vulnerary. Native name " Arjoon 

 Sadu'ra." This tree is of great size in the Belgaum and Soonda 

 forests. In the Deccan, but rare. Koorun at Mooee Zillah, 

 Poona. 



5. T Bereyi, W. and A. Prod. 1, 314. — A tree, with smooth 

 bark and drooping branches ; leaves from lanceolate to linear 

 oblong, smooth, with two sessile glands on the apex of the petiole ; 

 spikes terminal, somewhat panicled. Banks of the Kaleenuddee 

 and Gutpurba Rivers. - Syn. Pentaptera angustifolia, Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. ii, 437. 



6. T Paniculata, W. and A. Prod. 1, p 315. — A tree, with 

 diverging branches ; leaves linear-oblong with a cordate base, 

 coriaceous, wrinkled above, with sessile umbilicate glands beneath, 

 near the base ; spikes of flowers forming compound panicles ; drupe 

 vrith three unequal wings. Common along the foot of the Ghauts 

 in the Southern Concan. Native name " Keerijul." Pentaptera 

 paniculata, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 442. 



LVIII. MELASTOMACE^. 



1. OSBECKIA, Linn. 



1. Leschenaultiana, DC. Prod. 3, p 142. — Annual, herba- 

 ceous ; stems 4-angled, slightly branched, the angles clothed with 

 hairs ; leaves ovate-strigose, quite entire, ciliated, 3-nerved ; flowers 

 very small, terminal, nearly sessile-aggregated ; calyx urceolate, 

 covered with spreading bristles, segments 4, deciduous ; anthers 8. 

 truncated. Syn. O truncata, Don in W. and A. Prod. 1, 322; 

 Wight Ic. t. 996. Common in pastures in the Concan, Caranjah, 

 &c. This is the only one we have met with. 



2. MELASTOMA, Linn. 



1. M Malabaricum, Linn. sp. p 569. — A shrub, about, 3- feet 

 high ; branches 4-angled, ultimate ones compressed ; leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, somewhat acute, obtuse at the base, entire, upperside 

 strigose, under hirsute on the nerves and veins, and harshly pube- 

 scent between them ; corymbs terminal, 1 to 5-flowered, ' almost ' 

 sessile ; flowers rose-coloured, handsome, large. The fruit when 

 ripe bursts irregularly and exposes a dark-coloured pulp, which is 

 eaten, and stains the mouth of a black colour.^ The Concan ; comes 

 as far north as Bankote. 



