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found in all bazars. Native name " Bhokur" in Bombay ; " Lessooree" 

 in Sind. The timber is good; also used in making Bird Lime. 



3. C Wallichii, G Don. Gen. sust. iv, p 379. — Arboreous ; 

 leaves broad, ovate-rounded, more or less cordate; 3-nerved acute, 

 smooth above, densely tomentose and white beneath ; corymbs 

 lateral and terminal, dicliotomous ; calyx campanulate, velvetty, 

 irregularly toothed. Native name " Duhiwun." Between Malsej 

 Ghaut and Ahmednuggur ; thinly throughout the Braminwai-a 

 range of hills. 



4. C RoTHii, Roem. and Schult. syst. p 798. — A small tree ; 

 leaves subopposite, lanceolate, obtuse, mucronate, entire rough ; 

 panicles terminal and lateral, rather shorter than the leaf, many- 

 flowered ; flowers small, white ; fruit size of a pea, orange-yellow. 

 Native name " Goondnee." Gum issues frnn;^ ^p. x ynimrlp''' '^"-^" ; 

 the wood is very tough, and useful; common everywhere. The 

 " Lyar" of Sind (C subopposita) is veiy like this tree. Syn. C angus- 

 tlfolia, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 33H. 



CI. SOLANACEiE. 

 1. DATUliA, Linn. 



1. D Alba, Neesab. Es. in Trans. Linn. soc. xvii, 73— An- 

 nual (?) ; leaves ovate-acuminate, repand-dentate, unequal at the 

 base, smooth ; stems herbaceous ; capsules nodding, covered with 

 prickles. A common and well-known f)lant, of which there are 

 several varieties. Rheed. Hort. Mai. ii, i. 2i ; Datura metel, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. ii, 238 ; Rumph. Amb. v, t. 87. 



2. D HuMMATU, Bernhardi Journ. Pharm. " xxvi, Var. B 

 fastuosa. — Leaves smooth ; calyx with 6 angles ; corolla often 

 double and treble ; flower violet-coloured outside, white within ; 

 fruit tubercled. Almost as common as the preceding. These 

 plants " ^re intoxicating and narcotic ; the root is used in violent 

 headaches and epifejjsy ; poultices are made of the leaves, for repel- 

 ling cutaneous tumours ; the bruised seeds are appUed to boils. 



2. SOLANUM, Tournef. 



1. Indicum, Linn. sp. PI 2(i8. — A prickly shrub; prickles 

 on the stem compressed, recurved ; leaves solitary or twin, ovate, 

 sinuate lobed or pinnatifid, unequal at the base, tomentose, prickly, 

 of 2 colours; racemes subcymose, placed between the leaves; 

 calyx prickly ; berries globose, size of a cherry, yellow when 

 ripe. Common. Syn. S violaceum, Jacq. frsig. ^ 1 33 ; S canesceus, 

 Blume Bijdr. 701 ; S pinnatifidum Roth. nov. sp, 129; S heynei, 

 Rcem. and Schult. syst. 669 ; S agreste. Roth. loc. cit. 130. 



