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Catalogue; D cordifolia, Wight Ulustr. 1. 148 (non. Roxb.) ; Wight 

 Ic. 1-225. Native name " Goindii." 



6. Candolliana, Wiglit Ic. 1221. — Arboreous glabrous ; leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, obtusely acuminate, flowers axillary aggregated 

 sessile; calyx 4 to 5-cleft ; of the female, revolute on the margin; 

 corolla tubular, 4 to 5-cleft ; stamens of the male 10, filaments united 

 by pairs, of the female 4 to 5, sterile ; fruit ovoid, hard, about the 

 size of a nutmeg. Distinguished from all the others by its veinless 

 leaves. The Ghauts, common. 



7. D ExscuLPTA, Ham. in Linn. Trans, xv, p 111. — A small 

 tree; branchlets, peduncles, and flovifers clothed with ferruginous 

 tomentum ; leaves large, broad-elliptic, tomentose beneath ; peduncles 

 of male flowers as long as the petiole, 3-flowered ; fruit size of a 

 pigeon's egg, smooth, eatable. Native name " Timljoornee." No. 

 826 of Graham's Catalogue; Wight Ic. 182 and 183. 



8. D Montana, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 48. — A small tree, with or 

 without thorns on the stem ; leaves ovate-acute, obtuse at the base, 

 smooth, membranaceous, male racemes 5 to 6-flowered, double the 

 length of the petiole; female flowers solitary; drupe globose, shghtly 

 depressed, rather hard, olive-coloured. This species is not unlike 

 D Goindu, but has much larger leaves and fruit, and more numerous 

 flowers. The Ghauts to the north ; hills around Hewra. 



2. HOLOCHILUS, Dalz. 



1. H MicRANTHus, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 290. — A 

 middle-sized tree ; leaves elliptic or oblong, attenuated at the base, 

 obtusely acuminated, shortly petioled, coriaceous, smooth ; flowers 

 minute, white, axillary solitary, sessile, dioecious ; calyx tube entire 

 truncated ; corol tubular, 3-divided to the middle ; stamens in the 

 female flower 6, sterile; fruit cylindric-oblong, hard, dry, 1 inch 

 long, G-celled ; seeds solitary, pendent. On the Southern Ghauts ; 

 flowers in February and March ; male flowers not yet seen. , 



3. MABA, Forst. 



1. M NiGRESCENS, Dalz. — A small tree with rigidly erect- 

 branches, young branchlets covered with rusty or tawny pube- 

 scence ; leaves small, shining, subsessile, ovate or oval-acute, margins 

 shghtly recurved and undulated ; leaves beneath, especially on the 

 margin and midrib, clothed with tawny adpressed hairs. Pretty 

 common in the Ghaut jungles. Native name " Ruktroora." The 

 leaves turn black in drying, and appear quite veinless. Alhed to 

 M Guineensis. 



