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spreading ; corol-tube long, inflated at the base ; lobes of the limb 

 as long as the tube, slender, filiform. S. Concan, near Vingorla. 



19. CARALLUMA, R.Br. 



1. FiMBRiATA, Wall. PI. As. rar. t. 8. — Erect, fleshy, leafless ; 

 stems quadrangular, toothed along the angles ; flowers at the top 

 of the branches solitary, or twin, or in threes, drooping, shortly- 

 pedicelled ; divisions of the corolla fringed. Sparingly scattered 

 over theDeccan. Native name " Makur Sing." Anglice, Monkey's- 

 horn. Eaten as a vegetable; flowers in June. 



XCI. LOGANIACE^. 



1. MITREOLA, Linn. 



1. Oldenlandioides, Wall, list No. 4360. — A small, erect, 

 herbaceous plant ; stem somewhat quadrangular, glabrous ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong-acute or obtuse, attenuated at tlie base ; cymes 

 dichotomous ; flowers subsessile on the branches, secund, small, 

 white ; capsule shaped like a mitre. Island of Caranjah. DC. 

 Prod. 9, p 9. 



2. MITRASACME, Lab. 



1. PusiLLA, Dalz. in Elook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 136. — Stem 3 to 4 

 inches high, erect, glabrous, obtusely quadrangular ; leaves linear- 

 subulate acute, glabrous, veinless ; pedicels axillary, solitary or 

 twin, 2 to 3 times longer than the leaf; calyx 4-divided to the 

 middle ; lobes lanceolate-acute ; corolla white, segments oblong, 

 rather obtuse, shorter than the tube, throat hairy ; capsule globose, 

 a little shorter than the calyx. Malwan ; flowers in August and 

 September. This was afterwards named M indica by Wight Ic. 

 1601 ; its proper name should be M crystallina, Griffith in Notulae 

 iv, p 87. 



3. STRYCHNOS, Linn. 



1. S CoLUBRiNA, Linn(?) A, DC. Prod. 9, p 14 (?)— Smooth, 

 scandent ; cirrhi for the most part bifurcate ; leaves ovate or elliptic, 

 obtuse or scarcely acuminate; cymes lax, axillary, and terminal ; 

 flowers generally of 5 parts ; tube of the corolla shorter than the 

 lobes. Syn. S bicirrhosa, Leschen. A, DC. Prod. 9, p 16; Rlieed. 

 Hort. Nlal. viii, t. 24. Chorla Ghaut; Meria Donger, near Penn; 

 fruit size of an ohve. We suspect that the S axillaris of Cole- 

 brooke is also a native of the Southern Ghauts, but our specimens 

 are insufficient to determine. 



2. NuxvoMiCA, Linn. sp. 271. — A pretty large tree, no hooks 

 or tendril? ; leaves petioled-ovate, quite smooth ; corymbs terminal, 



