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1. COLEBROOKIA, Smith. 



A small tree or large woolly shrub. Leaves opposite or in vprticels 

 of 3. Flowers small, in panicled spikes of dense whorls. Calyx with 

 lonsr feathery teeth. Corolla very small, white. Stamens 4^ very 

 short, included equal, distant. Disk equal. Style 2-fid. Nutlets 

 hairy, obovoid. 



C. oppositifolia, Smith. Exot. Bot. II. t. Ill ; Fl. Br. 1. 4. 642. 



O. ternifolia, Roxb. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 209. Dvbssarika jhcifr, 

 Bliamini, Vern. ; Tur/gi gidda, falia, K. 



Sub-tropical Himalaya; alt. 1 — 4000 ft., Central India and Western 

 Peninsula southwards to Travancore. Throuo^hout the moist forests of 

 the Konkau and North Kauara ghats, common. Fl. Dec. -Feb. Fr. 

 Mch.-ApL 



A small tree. Bark grey. Wood greyish-wliite, soft. Pores small, 

 few, equally distributed. Medullary rays fine or moderately broad, 

 prominent. Weighs 36 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used for gunpowder charcoal. 

 Graham says "spikes like a squirrel's tail." The feathery calyx divi- 

 sions are accrescent in fruit. 



Several species of Ocimum, Orthosiphon, Plectranthus, and Pogostemon, 

 are common under-shrubs throughout the presidency. 



Order 70. NYCTAGINEiE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves usually opposite, entire, simple, 

 exstipulate. Inflorescence various, flowers often bracteate-involucrate, 

 or bracts small, deciduous. Perianth petaloid ; monopetalous^ tube 

 persistent ; limb 3-f-lobed, plaited in bud. Stamens 4-5, rarely more 

 (up to 20), sometimes unilateral filaments unequal, inflexed in bud. 

 Ovary free, l-celled ; stisrma simple or multifid ; ovule 1, erect. Fruit 

 membranous, enclosed in the perianth-tube. Seed erect ; albumen floury 

 or Soft ; embryo curved, folded or convolute, radicle inferior. 



PISONIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, often spinous. Leaves opposite or alternate. 

 Flowers in corymbs, usually dioecious. Perianth 5-10-toothed, of the 

 male flower funnel shaped, of the female tubular. Stamens 6-I(), 

 exserted. Ovary sessile, oblique ; stigma capitate or feathery. Fruit 

 clavate or cylindrical ; cotyledons crumpled, enclosing a scanty albu- 

 men ; embryo straight. 



P. aculeata, Linn. ; Fl. Br. T. 4 711 ; Grab. Oat. Bomb. PI. 167. 



Coast forests of Burma, the Andamans, Ceylon and Western Penin- 

 sula, N. Kanara in the evergreen forests near Bimwasi, Sircy sub di vi- 

 sion. Fl. Jan.-Mch. Fr. Apl.-May. A robust, smooth, grey barked 

 rambling scandent shrub. Trunk 6 in. in diameter. Spines axillary, 

 recurved, sub-opposite. The cylindrical 5-ribbcd fruit is about 1 iu. long. 



