FLORA OF THE SUNDRIBUNS. 
287 
Northern forests and clearings, Heinig\ 
Vernac. Barun^ Tikto-shak. 
An unarmed tree ; stands long leafless j properties tonic and rubefacient ; 
flowers purplish-yellow. 
Distrib. — Supposed wild in Malabar ; elsewhere planted. 
The presence of this in the Sun dribun forests is doubtless one of the vest ige^s 
of former occupation on mounds or platforms of higher ground, e.gt on the left 
bank of the Mandabari river. 
7 . Capparis Linn. 
7. Capparis sepiaria Linn.; F. I. ii. 568; F. B. I. i. 177. E. D. c. 
427. 
Coast, Heinig ! Jatta, Prain ! 
Vernac. Kanta Gurkamai. 
A stout thorny climbing shrub j said to possess antiperiodic properties, 
Distrib. — India; Indo-China; Malaya; Philippines. 
This species is very characteristic of the sea-fence immediately behind the 
beaches, on the Burmese and Andaman coasts. 
V.— BIXINEJE. 
8. Flacourtia Comm. 
8. Flacourtia sepiaria Roxb. ; F. I. iii. 835; F. B. I. i. 194. E. D. 
F 624. 
Northern forests and clearings; Cheila Bogi river, Heinig & 
Gammie ! Jatta, Prain ! 
A thorny bush ; properties unimportant. 
Distrib. — India; Indo-China; Malaya. 
\ I.— PORTULAC ACE.E. 
0. Portulaca Linn, 
9. Portulaca oleracea Linn, ; F. I. ii. 463 ; F. B. I. i. 246. E. D, 
p 1179. 
Northern clearings, very rare, Prain ! 
Vernac. Laniya, 
A prostrate succulent annual ; a fair vegetable. 
DiSTRiB.—Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
VII.— TAMARlSCIXEdE. 
10 . Tamarix Linn. 
10. Tamarix gallica Linn. var. indica Dyer; F. B, I. i. 248. T. 
indica F. I. ii. 100. E. D. T 70. 
