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3. CcELESTiNUM, Lindl. Bot. lleg. 1839, t. 36. — Pubescent; 

 stem erect-branched; radical leaves cordate-petioled ovate, subacute ; 

 stem ones ovate-acute, cuneate at the base ; racemes without bracts, 

 often twice bifid ; calyx lobes ovate, rather obtuse ; corol tube the 

 length of the calyx, limb spreading ; flowers pale-blue ; nuts ovate- 

 compressed, covered with hooked bristles round the margin. Near 

 Vingorla. Syn. Echinospermum coelestinum, Wight Ic. t. 1394. 

 At Mahableshwur, common. 



3. TRICHODESMA, R. Br. Prod. 496. 



1. Amplbxicaule, Roth. nov. sp. p 104. — Erect, all over hispid 

 with scattered spreading hairs; lower leaves opposite sessile linear- 

 oblong, up[)er ones alternate, cordate, stem-clasping, broadly ovate 

 acuminate; pedicels lateral and op|)Osite the leaves, 1 -flowered; 

 calyx lobes shortly and obtusely auriculate; limb of the corolla; 

 with scattered hairs inside ; lobes rounded, mucronulate. Around 

 Bombay (Polydore Roux.) Very like T indicum. Native name 

 " Chota Kulpa." A common weed. 



2. Zeylanicum, R. Br. loc. cit. — Stem erect, sparingly covered 

 with scattered bristles; leaves opposite, subsessile, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, attenuated at the base, bristly ; pedicels hispid, lateral, 

 long, 1 -flowered disposed in a raceme; calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 villijus; flowers pale-blue. A common weed. Syn Borago zey- 

 lanica, Linn. Mant. 202 ; Trichodesma kotschyanum Fenzt ; 

 Leiocarya kotschyana, Hochst. in Flora 1844, p 30. 



C. CORDIACE.S. 

 1. CORDIA, Plum. 



1 . C Latifolia, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 330. — A tree ; the branchlets 

 angled, and the petioles smooth; leaves petioled, ovate-rounded, 

 sometimes slightly cordate, slightly repand, entire, smooth above, 

 paler beneath, and with the nerves a little hairy ; panicles terminal 

 and lateral, rather shorter than the leaf; calyx irregularly toothed, 

 hirsute within ; corol lobes 5, linear-oblong ; flowers white ; drupe 

 1 inch in diameter, yellow vfhen ripe, full of a glutinous 'pulp. 

 Common in Gujarat, where it is called " Burgoond ;" still com- 

 moner in Sind, whefe it is called " Gedooree." The timber is 

 tough, and much used for agricultural im|)lements in Sind. 



2. C Myxa, Linn, sp 272. — Branches round and smooth; 

 leaves petioled ovate, repand-dentate on young trees, smooth above 

 roughish beneath ; panicles terminal, rarely lateral ; flowers white 

 appearing in March and Afiril ; berry smaller than the precedinsr 

 ovoid mucronate, and is an article of native materia medica, beint-- 



