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inside. In the black soil of Gujarat and the Deccan. This and 

 the preceding are nauseously bitter. These plants have a reputation 

 as antidotes to snake-bites, but their qualities in this respect are 

 more than doubtful. A. indica has, however, decidedly active 

 qualities as a remedy in bowel affections, and Bracteata, a merited 

 reputation as an antiperiodic in intermittent fevers. " Keeramar," 

 IVl.aratha. 



2. BRAGANTIA, Lour. 



1. B Wallichii, R. Br. — Dioecious; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 3-nerved at the base ; tube of the perianth smooth, lobes of the 

 limb acutish; anthers 9, triadelphous ; pistil very short; stigmas 9, 

 radiating, united at the base, three of them bifid ; fruit like a 

 siliqua,. slender, about 4 inches long, terete. Southern Concan, 

 rare. At KullumbeeSt, in the Warree Country ; Canara, common. 

 Wight Ic. 620. 



CXIX. PIPERACE^. 



1. PIPER, Linn. 



1. Sylvestre (Lam.), Miquel syst. p 314. — Stem shrubby, 

 scandent, rooting ; leaves membranaceous, pellucido-punctate, gla- 

 brous, green above, glaucous beneath, ovate-acuminate, oblique 

 at the base, or in the lower ones somewhat cordate and equal, 7- 

 nerved, the three middle ones extending to the apex ; male catkins 

 ped uncled, fihform, pendulous; bracts linear-oblong; female about 

 the length of the leaves; bracts linear-oblong ; female about the length 

 of the leaves ; bracts oblong, roughish beneath ; stigmas 4-reflexed, 

 deciduous. Miquel in Hook. Jour. Bot. v, p 652 ; Wight Ic. t. 

 1937. 



2. PEPEROMIA, Ruiz, and Pavon. 



1. PoRTULACOiDES (Dietr. Miq.), Miquel syst. p 130. — Succu- 

 lent, glabrous, sparingly branched, creeping, deeply rooting, leafless 

 below ; leaves opposite, upper ones ternate, short-petioled, succulent, 

 glanduloso-punctate, obovate, oblong, or subspathulate, obsoletely 

 3, rarely 5-nerved ; catkins axillary and terminal, solitary, longish- 

 j)eduncled, shorter than the peduncles, cyhndrical obtuse. Common 

 on the Southern Ghauts on moist rocks, or on branches of trees. 

 Miquel in Hook. Jour. Bot. v, p 550 ; Wight Ic. t. 1922. 



CXX. EUPHORBIACE^. 



]. EUPHORBIA, Linn. 



1. E NivuLiA, Ham. in Linn. Trans, xiv, 286. — A large 

 shrub ; branches round, naked below, leafy at the apex ; stipulary 

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