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nated ; berries size of a pepper corn, globose, red when ripe, 

 Vingoria, plentiful. 



2. E Glandulifera, R. Wight Ic. 1 207. — Shrubby, glabrous ; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, entire, furnished with 

 numerous hollowf glands on either side of the midrib ; flowers small, 

 panicled or racemose axillary ; -petals elliptic, puberulous ; fruit 

 small, globose. The Ghauts. 



3. E RiBES, Burm. Ind. 62, t. 23. — Branches glabrous ; leaves 

 ovate, obtusely acuminate, entire, coriaceous, shortly petioled; 

 panicle many-flowered, much-branched ; petals elliptic-ciliated ; fruit 

 like pepper corns, sold in all the bazars under the name of 

 " Waiwurung." The Ghauts. 



3. ARDISIA, Swartz. 



1. HuMiLis, Vahl. Symb. p 40. — A handsome evergreen shrub ; 

 leaves obovate lanceolate obtuse, entire, coriaceous, narrowed 

 into the petiole, quite smooth ; racemes axillary and terminal um- 

 bellate, drooping, shorter than the leaf; calycine lobes rounded, 

 subcihate ; flowers of a beautiful rose-colour, shining; segments of 

 corolla lanceolate-acute. Common on the Ghauts to the south. 

 Syn. Tonus humilis, Burm. Zeyl. t. 103; Anguillaria zeylanica, 

 Gaert. Fr i, t.ll ; A solanacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 580'; Bot. Mag. 

 t. Ifi77; A umbellata, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 582. Native name 

 " Dikna." 



4. iEGICERAS. 



1. Majus, Gsertn. Fr. i, p 216. — A milky shrub; leaves 

 obovate, rounded-obtuse, often retuse ; flowers pure white, fragrant, 

 in terminal umbels; fruit elongated, falcate, 3 to 4 times longer 

 than the pedicel. Common in salt marshes, in company with the 

 different species of Mangrove. Syn. Mangium fruticosum corni- 

 culatum. Humph. Arab, iii, t. 77 ; Rhizophora corniculata, Linn. 

 sp. p 635 ; Aeg. fragrans, Kcenig. Ann. of Bot. i, i. 3 ; Aeg. 

 obovatum, Blum. This tree is well described in Arrian's account of 

 Alexander's expedition. No. 816 of Graham's Catalogue is most 

 probably Blackwellia. 



LXXXIII. Jasminace^. 



1. JASMINUM, Linn. 



\. Sambac, Ait. Hort. Kew. i, p 8. — Shrubby, somewhat 



climbing; branches and petioles hairy; leaves simple, shortly- 



petioled, ovate or subcordate, often acute, rather smooth ; racemes 



terminal, few-flowered ; calycine lobes about 8, subulate. Native 



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