N. 0. MELIAOEiE. 299 



A large or small shrub more or less pubescent with short 

 hairs. Leaves thin, pubescent, ovate, acute or shortly acumin- 

 ate, acute or obtuse at base, entire ; in flower usually about 

 l^in., in fruit about 2-4 by 2J-lJin. Petioles |in. long, pubes- 

 cent. Flowers sweet-scented, white, axillary 1-1 Jin. long, in few 

 — flowered clusters or short racemes ; peduncles short, pedicles 

 fin. long, hairy, tomentose. Calyx short, cup-shaped, pubescent 

 outside, teeth acute. Petals yellow, linear, longer than the 

 Staminal — tube, free, glabrous. Staminal-tube glabrous, slender, 

 f-lin. long, dilated at top, teeth subulate, short. Anthers \ as 

 long. Ovary 5-celled. Style long, exserted, Stigma capitate, 

 urn-shaped. Capsule sub-globose, glabrate, Jin. diam. (Talbot). 

 Seeds not winged (W.P. Hiern). 



Western Peninsula, on the Ghats, from the Concan south- 

 ward ; Mahableshwar, North Canara. Gujrat at Dolra (Dholara). 

 Use : — " The root is used as an application to fistulas, and 

 is administered internally in black leprosy" (Dymock). 



261. Naregamia alata, W. and A. h.f.b.l, 

 i. 542. 



Vern. : — Kapur-bhendi, pit-wel, tinpana (Mar.) ; Trifolio 

 (Goa) ; Kanu-dida (Kan.) ; Nela naregam (Malay.). 



Habitat :— Western Peninsula or the Western Ghats, from 

 the Concan southwards. 



Parts used : — The roots and stems. 

 A small, glabrous and shining undershrub. Branches erect 

 or decumbent, from a few inches to 2ft. long. Leaves trifoliate, 

 l-4in. long. Leaflet sessile, cuneate obovate, quite entire, or 

 obtusely lobed, terminal leaflet rather longer than the lateral 

 ones, and about the length of the common petiole. Common 

 petioles winged. Flowers 1-1 £in. long, quite white, longer 

 than the peduncles. Petals 5. Calyx 5 cleft, small campanulate. 

 Staminal-tube elongated, inflated above, 10 crenate at the mouth. 

 Anthers 10, terminal, shortly oblong, inserted at the crenatures 

 of the mouth, exserted, setaceous-apiculate. Disk annular. 

 Ovary 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Style yellow. Seeds 2 in 

 each cell ; albumen fleshy, embryo foliaceous. 



