172 Catalogue of plants found in the IJanda district. [No. 2. 



the exclusion of all other underwood — when of large size it may form 

 a tree 1 5-20 feet high, and the leaves are obtuse and obovate, they only 

 assume the acute elliptic form where they have been browsed on by 

 goats. They then assume a compact appearance like an alpine shrub. 

 It is very probable that this is the Conocarpus myrtifolius alluded to 

 by Royle as found by him on the banks of the Jumna — but as no 

 description of that has been published I have given the above name 

 to be rejected, if they be the same, as myrtifolius is very appropriate. 



270 — Luffa Bandaal — I have little doubt that this is Roxburgh's 

 species, which was sent to him from Cawnpore, and is called Bandal 

 by the natives, but his description is imperfect and somewhat incor- 

 rect. I have never seen the plant climbing and the echini of the fruit 

 are not ciliate while the leaves are uniformly 5-lobed, however, the leaves 

 of all cucurbits vary so much that they are not a character at all to be 

 relied on, should it be a different species it should be called longistyla. 

 The following is the detailed description. 



Dioica diffusa, ramis sub-glabris scabriusculis, foliis longe petiolatis 

 5-lobis, lobo medio longiori acuto plus minus simiato lobato, ceteris 

 acutis vel obtusis denticulatis, utrinque scabris glabris, cirrhis bifidis 

 pedunculis geminis axillaribus uno longissimo 1-floro, altero racemoso 

 multifloro, bractea parva ovata, pedicellis gracilibus, calyce 5 fldo 

 rotato, corolla rotata 5 flda tenui alba, segmentis obtusis extus 

 parce pilosis, staminibus 5, triadelphis $, pedunculis solitariis uni- 

 floris petiolo (adulto) brevioribus calyce villoso, limbi laciniis 5 acutis, 

 corolla sub-rotata ut in $ — stylo longo apice 3-fido stiqm. 3-bifidis — 

 peponide ovato, v. sub-globoso echinato echinis glabris apice stylo 

 persistente increscente apiculato. 



The fruit is bitter and is sold in the bazars as a horse medicine. It 

 grows abundantly on marshy land at the commencement of the rains — 

 the flowers open in the morning and close before ten. They are pure 

 white and very delicate in texture. 



298-9. — I have not seen the flower of either of these species, there- 

 fore am uncertain as to their genus. The former has dark polished 

 brown bark and deep green polished leaves lanceolate. The latter has 

 pale bark and small leaves not unlike Gardenia tetrasperma. 



309. — Vemonia (Decaneurum) divergens — This is in truth as 

 well as V. multiflora technically a Vemonia ; the outer series of short 

 pistils is present but most exceedingly caducous. 



