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and axillary, longer than the leaf; flowers in clusters along the 

 rachis, yellow ; berry oblonp:, black, size of a small cherry. 

 Jungly parts of the Concan; flowers in April. Syn. Erimatalia 

 rheedei, Rocm. and Schul. syst. v, 331 ; Cotonia glauca, Vahl. 

 Roxb. Cor. if. 159. ■ 



2. WiGi-iTiANA, Grab. Cat. p 137. — A climbing shrub, with 

 rigid stems; leaves petioled, coriaceous, shining, oblong- acuminate, 

 attenuated at the base ; racemes about the length of the leaves ; 

 corolla almost rotate, white; divisions cuneate, bilobed, their lower 

 part clothed outside with rusty tomentum, very fragrant; calyx 

 segments rounded, clothed with rusty hairs ; stigma large, con- 

 volute ; leaves 4'inches long, 1 ^ to 2 broad ; flowers in November. 

 Phoonda Ghaut. 



XCVII. HYDROPHYLLACEtE. 

 1. HYDRO LEA, Linn. 



1. Zeylanica, Willd. i, 1327. — Herbaceous, annual, creeping ; 

 stems round, smooth ; leaves alternate, lanceolate, entire, smooth ; 

 flowers numerous, about the extremities of the branchlets, or solitary, 

 opposite to the leaves or between them, of beautiful deep-blue ; 

 capsules superior, 2-celled. Common on the margin of tanks and 

 other wet places ; flowers in the cold season. Syn. Nama zeylanica, 

 Linn. sp. PI 327 ; Rlieed. Mai. x, t. 28. May be safely used as a 

 bitter tonic. 



XCVIII. EHRETIACE^. 



1. EHRETIA, Linn. 



1. LjEVTS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 597. — A tree; leaves shortly- 

 petioled, ovate or oval-entire, glabrous ; corymbs lateral or sub- 

 axillary, dichotomous, many-spiked ; pedicels and calyx rather hairy ; 

 corolla subrotate ; flowers small, white ; fruit berried, dividing into 

 4. Near Malwan, south-east of Surat, Law; Beemasunker ; 

 flowers in October. Syn. E punctata. Roth. nov. sp. p 126; 

 Bewneria laevis, Don. 



2. RtlABDIA, Mart. 



1 . ViMiNEA, Dalz.— A much-branched shrub ; branches twiggy; 

 leaves obovate-cuneatfe, small, smooth ; flowers axillary, few, corym- 

 biform, corolla campanulate ; flowers small, pink; berries size 

 of a small j)ea, orange-red when ripe. In the beds of the Concan 

 rivers, pretty common. Syn. Ehretia cuneala, Wight Ic. t. 1385. 



