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base, obtuse at the apex, glabrous and shining above, paler 

 beneath ; cyme globose, compound, many-flowered ; flowers greenish- 

 white, subsessile, fascicled, pubescent, woolly in the throat, follicles 

 a foot long. Pretty common in the jungly parts of the Concan; 

 very large trees in Rairee Fort. Native name " Satween." Wight 

 Ic. t. 422; Syn. Pala, Rheed. IVIal. i, t. 45; Lignum scholare, 

 Rumph. Amb. ii, p 246 ; Echites scholaris, Linn. The bark 

 possesses very powerful tonic properties, and may prove useful in 

 agues ; a common rustic medicine in bowel disorders, Nimmo ; the 

 wood is as bitter as Gentian. (Vide Pharmac. Journal 1852 

 accounts by Dr. Gibson of its virtues.) 



9. HELIGME, Blume. 



\. H Rheedei, R. Wight. Ic. 1 303. — Twining, glabrous ; leaves 

 ovate-acute, short-petioled, corymbs trichotomous, many-flowered ; 

 calyx lobes ovate-obtuse, ciliated ; corolla rotate, hairy within, 

 filaments beautifully twisted into a spiral column ; follicles 2-celled, 

 seeds comose at the apex. Near Banda, in the Warree Country. 



10. ELLERTONIA, Wight. 



1. E Rheedei, Wight Ic. t. 1295. — A scandent shrub with 

 opposite or verticellate leaves, which are elliptic-acuminate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous; corymbs axillary, or several, from the ends 

 of the branches, longish-peduncled, cymose, many-flowered ; corolla 

 hypocrateriform, revolute; follicles terete, divaricated. In the 

 Warree Country. 



11. CHONEMORPHA, G. Don. 



1. Macrophylla, G. Don. Gen. syat. Gard. iv, p 76. — A large 

 climbing shrub ; branches strong, covered with ovate warts ; leaves 

 broadly oval cuspidate, subcordate at the base, pubescent beneath, 

 membranaceous, 10 to 12 inches long, 6 to 10 inches broad; cymes 

 erect, stalked, shorter than the leaf, subpubescent ; flowers large, 

 white, fragrant, coriaceous ; follicles a foot long, rather slender and 

 pretty smooth. At Banda, in the Warree Country. Wight Ic. t. 

 432 ; Syn. Echites macrophylla, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 13. 



12. AGANOSMA, Don. 



1. A DoNiANA, R. Wight Ic. 1306. — Everywhere glabrous, 

 except the inflorescence ; leaves elliptic, cuspidately acuminate ; 

 corymbs terminal, compact, pilose ; lobes of the calyx linear- 

 lanceolate, longer than the tube of the corolla; foUicles- terete, 

 tomentose, divaricated. Phoonda Ghaut. 



