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ceous, size of a pea ; seeds ni.imerous, angled. Generally cultivated 

 as a h^dge in gardens, but indigenotis in Guzerat. Used by women 

 for staining their hands and feet of an orange-colour. Native name 

 "Mendie." It is the Henne of Egypt. Syn. L spinosa, Linn.; 

 Roxb. L inerrnis, Linn. ; Fl Ind. ii, 258. 



6. LAGERSTROEMIA, Linn. 



1 . Parviflora, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 505. — A very large tree, with 

 very white bark ; leaves from oblong or oval-obtuse to ovate-acute, 

 pale beneath ; peduncles axillary, 3 to 6-flowered ; flowers small ; 

 white ; capsule, small oblong, 3 to 4-celled. Very common in the 

 Warree country ; also on the Ghauts. Produces a very useful reddish 

 timber, called Benteak. Native name "Naneh," also " Bondareh." 



2. Regin^, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 505. — A tree ; leaves oblong, 

 glabrous ; panicles large, terminal ; flowers large, purple, very showy ; 

 calyx tomentosp, longitudinally furrowed and plaited. Jungles near 

 Nagotna, at Vingorla, and very common throughout the Southern 

 Concan. Maratha name "Taman." Syn. L flosegina, Retz. Obs. 

 i, p 20 ; Adambea glabra, Lam. Encycl. Meth. i, 39. Wood very 

 valuable ; tough and almost indestructible. 



3. Lanceolata, Wall. List 2120.— A tree; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, smooth, rather glaucous ; flowers small, white ; capsule 

 very like an acorn, -exceedingly hard. Common in the Warree 

 Country and Southern Ghauts. 



7. SONNERATIA, Linn. 



1. AciDA, Linn. DC. Prod. 3, 231. — A small tree; leaves 

 opposite, entire, thick, veinless, oval-oblong ; flowers, large, solitary; 

 fruit baccate, nearly globose, many-celled. In salt marshes, Sinn 

 Causeway, Rutnagherry, Vingorla, &c. ; flowers in March. Syn. 

 Rhizophora caseolaris, Linn. 



LXIII. ONAGRACE^. 

 1. JUSSI^A, Linn. 



1. J Repens, Linn. Maut. p 381. — Herbaceous, glabrous, 

 creeping or floating, rooting at the joints ; leaves oblong obovate'- 

 obtuse or retuse-petioled ; flowers on longish pedicels ; tube of the 

 calyx cylindrical, attenuated at the base ; lobes 5, lanceolate-acute ; 

 petals 6, obovate-retuse, yellow. Common on margins of tanks. 



2. J ViLLOsA, Lam. — Tall, suflfruticose ; leaves from broadly 

 lanceolate to linear acuminate, tapering into a short petiole ; flowers 

 axillary, almost sessile, yellow; calyx lobes broadly lanceolate or 

 ovate, 4 to 5, much shorter than the rounded obovate petals. 



