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XXIV.— LINE^, DC. Prod. 1, p 423. 



1. L UsiTATissiMUM, Pentandria Pentagynia, W. and A. 441 ; 

 Eng. Bot. t. 1359. — " Jowas," Maratha; " Ulsee," Hindoostanee. 

 Said to be originally from Egypt, Don ; has long been grown in 

 India, and is very common as an edging-ridge to fields, because 

 cattle do not eat it. Of late years the cultivation has been pushed 

 to a very great extent in Berar, Kandeish, and Eastern Deccan. 

 The unripe capsule is used by the natives as a base for chutnee. It 

 is only cultivated for the sake of the seed, as it has been found, by 

 repeated experiments made in India Proper, that it is too short, 

 ■weak, and worthless as a fibre. The virtues of an infusion of the 

 seed as an emollient in certain diseases are well known, as also its 

 use as an emollient poultice. 



2. L RuBEUM (Grandiflora) Don's syst. \, p 456. — A native 

 of Agrigentum (Gergenti) in Sicily ; has been raised at Dapoorie 

 from Europe seed. 



XXV.— OXALIDE^, DC. Prod. l,p 689. 



AVERHOA, Decandria Pentagynia. 



1. A Carambola, W. and A. 464; Rumph. Amb. 1, <. 35; 

 Rheede Mai. 3, t. 43 and 44. — " Kurmul." A common tree in 

 Coast gardens, with close, thick-set, drooping branches ; flowers 

 lateral, on short racemes, white and purple variegated ; fruit acutely 

 angled. 



2. A BiLiMBi, W. and A. 465 ; Rheede Mai. 3, t. 45 and 46; 

 Rumph. Amb. 1,^.36. — " Dakta Anvula," Maratha, Small tree; 

 fruit oblong, obtusely angled ; grows on the trunk and branches. 

 These trees take their name from Averhocs, an Arabian physician 

 of Cordova. They are believed to be natives of the Eastern 

 Islands. The acid they afford is used to clean silver and take 

 spots out of linen ; the fruit is sold in the bazar for preserves. 



MELIANTHUS, Tetrandria Monogynia. Honey Flower. From 

 mel, honey ; anthos, flower. 



3. M CoMOSA, Linn. sp. 892. — Shrub ; native of the Cape ; 

 leaves villous, downy beneath; flowers alternate, in pendent 

 clusters, yellowish ; seed received from the Cape through the 

 late Dr. Wallich. Fort Sewnere. M major, received at the same 

 time, has since died off. 



4. OxALis. — A small annual, flora English seed ; common as 

 a pot plant ; flower small, white. 



