120 



24. DISCOSPERMUM, Dalz. 



1. Sphacerocarpum, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 257.^A 

 middle-sized tree ; branchlets with the bark pale ; leaves opposite, 

 elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, petioled, with hollow hairy glands in 

 the axils of the primary veins; stipules between the petioles solitary, 

 triangular cuspidate, persistent ; flowers in the opposite axils, small 

 sessile, clustered ; calyx deeply 4-lobed ; fruit nearly an inch in 

 diameter, globose, fcetid, indehiscent, 2-cellfed, seeds in each 5 to 6, 

 compressed lenticular, with membranaceous partitions between 

 them. The Ghauts, latitude 16°. Syn. D dalzeUii, Thwaites in 

 Enum. PI, Ceylon, p 158. 



2. Apiocaepum, Dalz. loc. cit. — Like the preceding; the fruit 

 pear-shaped, with a circular ring somewhat below the apex. In 

 the same locality. 



25. GARDENIA, Ellis. 



1. LuciDA, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 707. — A large shrub, unarmed, 

 with resinous buds; leaves oblong or oval, orobovate, smooth, hard, 

 and shining ; flowers somewhat terminal, large, white, fragrant, with 

 a long tube ; berry drupaceous, oblong ; nut very hard, thick, and 

 bony. Common in the Concan jungles. This, as well as G Gum- 

 mifera, furnishes the Decamalee resin, sold in every bazar ; it is 

 greenish-yellow, of a repulsive odour, and is effectual in cleaning 

 sores and in cutaneous diseases. Syn. G resinifera, Roth. nov. 

 sp. p 150. 



2. Latifolia, Ait. Hort, Kew. i, 294. — Arboreous, unarmed ; 

 leaves opposite, or in threes, very shortly petioled, oval or obovate, 

 glabrous ; flowers terminal, solitary, very shortly pedicelled ; fruit 

 nearly globose, large. Duddi on the Gutpurba, Law ; Kandeish 

 jungles, Auld; Nagotna; the TuU Ghaut. Syn. G enneandra, 

 Kcenig; G latifolia, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 706. 



3. GuMMiFERA, Linn. Suppl. p 164. — Arborescent, unarmed, 

 with resinous buds ; leaves sessile, from narrow elliptic-oblong to 

 ovate oblong-obtuse, or bluntly pointed ; flowers terminal, almost 

 sessile, 1 to 3 together ; corolla with long slender tube ; fruit 

 drupaceous, even oblong. Duddi on the Gutpurba ; very common. 

 Law ; also on barren plains south of Dharwar. Syn: G arborea, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 708. North Canara. Decamalee is of the greatest use 

 in medical practice for keeping flies off" putrid sores. 



4. Montana, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 709. — A tree with short rigid 

 spines ; leaves oblong-obtuse, nearly sessile, upperside glabrous and 

 shining ; flowers 3 to 6 together, fascicled from the young leafless 

 shoots ; berry drupaceous, roundish ; nut hard and bony, with 4 td 6 

 pointed receptacles ; fruit size of a pullet's egg. In the Ataveesy, 

 rare. Law. 



