NOTES ON A JOURNEY FROM POONA TO NAGOTNA, 
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Lantana Camara, Fann , is superabundant, andf Argyreia cuneata^ 
Ker, conspicuous, with at wide intervals stunted teak and jambool. 
In the same neighbourhood is to be found Vitis r^panda, W. and A.» 
Girnool of the Marathas which has given local botanists much 
trouble from its variable character ; the following notes regarding 
it may be taken as supplementary to the description in the tlora of 
British India,\Q\,\^ fol. 648: A shrub, with a stout erect stem 
attaining 5 — ^0 teet in height, with rugged bark and producing annual 
branches 2 — 3 feet in length, 4 inch in diameter at the base, which 
die back during the dry season. Its root is large fusiform and 
succulent, its leaves attaining 8x8 inches, cordate, coarsely and 
irregularly bi-serrate with curved teeth directed apically, on petioles 
a little less than the length of the leaf with stipules | inch in 
length, ^ inch in breadth at the base, obtuse and slightly falcate, 
deciduous from a persistent ridge. The colour and degree of pube- 
scence on stem and leaf are variable. The peduncle is about 4 inches 
in length, and bears about four simple or blanched rajs, each having 
about four fruits on 4 inch pedicels. The fruit is about 4 inch, obovate 
with persistent style base. Tendrils wanting. Flowers in June. Fruit 
in September. Its reputation that if the wood is used as fuel for an 
earthenware cooking pot, the pot will break, will assist its preservation. 
Lagascea mollis, Cav., another detestable American weed, was abund- 
ant, and a Phyllanthus occurred rarely. Linum mysorensis^ 
Heyne, was met with at this place for the first time on this journey, 
and Vishnoo' krant* for the last time, those showing the border land 
between dry and wet regions. Lepidagagthis cristata, Willd., showed 
its remarkable cushion>like inflorescence among the stones. This is 
one of the homes of Gloriosa superba, L., but at the beginning of 
December there was scarcely a vestige of the stems left. JBoswettia 
serrata, Roxb., in company with Euphorbia neriifolia, L., is abundant^ 
and climbing over both the showy Cylista scariosa, Ait., was 
seen conspicuous from its white bracts. On the tops of the 
hills patches oi Guizotia a by ssinica, Cass., named Kala teel in 
this district, were ripening, and Marwailf and Mota Bongarat| 
were prominent grasses ; Vicoa auficulata, Cass., occurred frequently, 
and Hemtdesmus tndicus, Br., was seen occasionally : the latter vari- 
able in foliage, but easily identified by the characteristic agreeable odour 
of its root. Pclyearpsea corymbosa, Lamk., was plentiful, and as a weed 
in cultivated parts Gontocaulon glabrum, Cass, with its erect angular 
stems— 6 feet in height, Caesulia axillaris, Roxb., and Vernonia 
* Emtvulus ahinoidea^ Lmn. 
t Androptkffon seandens^ 
I AntMsii ia ciliata^ L. f. 
