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alternate, ovate-obtuse, glabrous ; racemes 1 to 2, axillary, as long or 

 longer than the leaves, simple ; flowers pedicelled ; flower-bud 

 sharply 4-angled ; petals 4, linear ; berry nearly globose. Rotunda 

 Ghaut, M ahableshwur ; flowers in May. 



6. LoNiCEROiDES, Linn sp. p 473. — Glabrous ; branches terete, 

 young ones slightly 2-edged ; leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminated ; peduncles axillary, solitary, opposite to the petiole, 

 bearing at the apex a few sessile flowers ; bracts 3 at the base of 

 each ovary, roundish acute concave; corolla tubular, curved,, equally 

 6-cleft ; segments cuneate, linear, spreading. Island of Caranjah ; 

 the Concans. Syn. L coriaceus, Desv. ; L umbellatus, Heyne in 

 Roth. nov. sp. p 192. 



7. BuDDLEOiDES, Dcsv. in Encyc. Meth. iii, p 600. — Branches 

 terete, glabrous ; young shoots sometimes tomentose ; leaves from 

 elliptic to cordate-ovate, thinnish, firm, at first furfuraceous on the 

 underside ; peduncles axillary crowded, very short, few-flowered ; 

 flower-bud clavate ; fruit turbinate. On Asanna and Kurmul trees 

 at Kandalla ; flowers in February and March. Syn. L scurrula, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 550 ; L Heynei, DC. Prod, iv, p 300. 



8. LoNGiFLORTjs, Dcsv. loc. cit. p 498. — Glabrous; leaves usu- 

 ally opposite, sometimes alternate, from linear to oblong-lanceolate 

 or ovate-obtuse ; racemes axillary, solitary or in paiis, simple, many- 

 flowered, much shorter than the leaves ; bractes concave oblique ; 

 close to the ovary ; corolla long infundibuliform curved ; segments 

 6, linear recurved, one of the fissures deeper than the others ; 

 flowers greenish- white. The commonest species in the Concan ; 

 extends into Guzerat. Syn. L. bicolor, Roxb. Cor. t. 139; Fl Ind. 

 1, 548; L koenigianus, Agardh in Schult. syst. vii, p 108. 



9. L Lageniperus, Wight Ic. 306 — Glabrous ; branches terete; 

 leaves opposite petioled, elliptic, oblong-obtuse, rounded at the base; 

 peduncles fascicled, having at the apex a large campanulate 4 to 6- 

 lobed involucrum, inside of which are 4 to 5 flowers. This curious 

 species, which is pretty common on the higher hills, extends 

 to Malabar. 



10. L CuNEATus, Heyne; Wight Ic. t. 305. — Covered with a 

 grey pubescence when young ; branches terete ; leaves alternate 

 or fascicled in pairs, narrow-oblong or obovate-obtuse, cuneate at 

 the base ; umbels peduncled ; flowers 2 to 5, shortly-pedicelled, 

 clothed with short tomentum ; corol tubular, 5-cleft ; segments hnear. 

 Parwar Ghaut and Tullawarree. Syn. L goodeniiflorus and Can- 

 dolleanus, W. and A. Prod. Found also at Gondabyle. 



3. VISCUM, Tournef. ^'^'-''■'^^" • •■^^- 



1 V Angulatum, Heyne. — Leafless ; stems and older branches 

 terete or obscurely many-angled, dichotomous, younger ones 



