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white ; fruit like black pepper. Chorla Ghaut. Syn. Psychotria 

 vaginnans, W. and A. Prod, p 434. Mahableshwur ; rare. 



6. SAPROSMA, Blume. 



1. Indicum, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 37. — A shrub ; 

 branches round dichotomous, glabrous ; leaves sessile obovate- 

 elliptic, attenuated towards the base, entire, margins recurved ; 

 stipules solitary between the petioles, sheathing the stem ; flowers 

 few, terminal, fascicled, very shortly pedicelled; berries ovoid, 

 smooth, blue, very foetid, crowned with the calyx teeth, one or two- 

 seeded. Chorla Ghaut. Syn. Dysidodendron glomeratura, 

 Gardn. in Calc. Jour, Nat. Hist, v vii, p 3. Thwaites thinks this 

 plant is a Serissa. 



7. PAVETTA, Linn, 



1. Indica, Linn. sp. p 160. — A shrub about 3 feet high; 

 leaves oval oblong acuminated, upper surface glabrous and shining ; 

 stipules broad, corymbs terminal and from the upper axils ; flowers 

 white ; corolla half inch long. Caranjah Hill ; the Ghauts ; common, 

 Syn. P alba, Vahl. Symb. iii, p 11; Ixora paniculata, Lam. 

 Encycl. Meth. iii, 344 ; 1 pavetta, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 386. " Paput," 

 Maratha. 



2. SiPHONANTHA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 133. — A 

 shrub ; leaves membranaceous elliptic-oblong, suddenly acumin- 

 ated, attenuated into a short petiole ; stipules cuneate mucronate, 

 hairy within ; corymbs axillary and terminal ; tube of the corolla 

 very long (l^inch); style long and slender, twice the length of 

 the corolla ; flowers white. Parpoolee Ghaut ; flowers in May. 



3. Brunonis, Wall. ; Wight Ic 1065. — Soft and villous all over ; 

 leaves obovate; stipules and bracteas broad, membranous; peduncles 

 trichotomous, with the branches dense and corymbose ; lobes of 

 the calyx triangular-obtuse. Syn. Pavetta villosa. Roth. nov. sp. 

 p 88. In hedges at Vingorla. 



8. IXORA. 



1. CocciNEi, Linn. sp. p 159. — Shrubby, 2 to 3 feet high, 

 glabrous ; leaves opposite oblong-obtuse ; stem-clasping, coriaceous ; 

 corymbs terminal, crowded; flowers numerous, of a beautiful 

 crimson ; berry size of a large pea, smooth, fleshy when ripe, purple. 

 This is the indigenous red-flowered species in the Presidency. 

 The Concans ; common. We have seen this in Ceylon, whence 

 Linnaeus obtained his specimens. It is highly probable that I. 

 bandhuca of Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 376, is identical. Syn. 1 grandiflora, 

 DC. Prod. 4, 486 ; Hook. Bot. Misc. Suppl. f. 36 ; I obovata, 

 Heyne in Roth. nov. sp. p 90. 



