334 
FLORA OF THE SUNDRIBUNS. 
An erect herb j sometimes used as a vegetable. 
Distrib. — Asia generally! Europe; N. Africa; N. America. 
151. Basella Linn. 
200 . Basella rubra Linn , F. B. I, v. 20 . B. alba F. 1. ii. 104 , 
E. D. B 203. 
Clearings, cultivated ; at Chandpie and Canning Town, also feral, 
Prain ! 
Vernac. Poi Sag ; Ban Pot, 
A much'branched twining herb ; a favourite vegetable. 
Distrib. — Tropical Africa and Asia. 
The form seen in cultivation was in each case the very large form that is pro- 
pagated by cuttings and not by seed ; the feral state was the white-flowered Ban 
Poi, probably not truly wild, but only feral by reversion, in our area. 
LI.— ARISTOLOCHIACEJE. 
153. Aristolochia Linn. 
201. Aristolochia iiidica Linn.; F. I. iii. 489; F. B. I. v, 75. 
E. D. A 1398, 
Sea-face at Tiger Point, prostrate on the sand, Heinig\ 
Vernac. Isharmal. 
A prostrate or climbing under-shrub; used in native medicine ; also {Heinig) 
a sand-binding plant. 
Distrib, — Throughout India and in Chittagong. 
LII.— LAURIAEJl. 
153. Cassytha Linn. 
202. Cassytha filiformis Linn.; F. 1. ii. 314; F. B. 1. v. 188. E. D. 
c 805, 
Sea-face, parasitic, Heinig ! 
Vernac. Akas~beL 
A parasitic leafless twiner ; reputed medicinal, 
Distrib. — Cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 
LIII.— LORAATHACE^. 
154. Loranthus Linn. 
Flowers with scale-like bracts but without bracteoles 
Leaves beneath covered with a rusty or whitish scurfy tomentum ; 
corolla-tube 4 -cleft ... . . Scurrula. 
Leaves beneath glabrous ; corolla-tube shortly 5 -fid longifiorus. 
