N. O. MELIACF,*. 
299 
A large or small shrub more or less pubescent with short 
hairs. Leaves thin, pubescent, ovate, acute or shortly acumin- 
ate, acute or obtuse at base, entire; in flower usually about 
l£in., in fruit about 2-4 by 2£-l£in. Petioles ^in. long, pubes- 
cent. Flowers sweet-scented, white, axillary l-ljin. long, in lew 
— flowered clusters or short racemes; peduncles short, pedicles 
fin. long, hairy, tomentose. Calyx short, cup-shaped, pubescent 
outside, teeth acute. Petals yellow, linear, longer than the 
Staminal — tube, free, glabrous. Staminal-tube glabrous, slender, 
f-lin. long, dilated at top, teeth subulate, short. Anthers \ as 
long. Ovary 5-celled. Style long, exserted, Stigma capitate, 
urn-shaped. Capsule sub-globose, glabrate, |in. diam. (Talbot',. 
Seeds not winged (W.P. Hiern). 
Western Peninsula, on the Ghats, from the Concan south- 
ward ; Mahableshwar, North Canara. Gujrat at Dolra (Dholara). 
Use : — “ The root is used as an application to fistulas, and 
is administered internally in black leprosy” (Dymock). 
261 . Naregamia alata, W. and A. h.f.b.i., 
i . 542 . 
Vern. : — Kapur-bhendi, pit-wel, tinpana (Mar.) ; Trifolio 
(Goa) ; Kanu-dida (Kan.) ; Nela oaregam (Malay.). 
Habitat : — Western Peninsula or the Western Ghats, from 
the Concan southwards. 
Parts used : — The roots and stems. 
A small, glabrous and shining undershrub. Branches erect 
or decumbent, from a few inches to 2ft. long. Leaves trifoliate, 
l-4in. long. Leaflet sessile, cuneate obovate, quite entire, or 
obtusely lobed, terminal leaflet rather longer than the lateral 
ones, and about the length of the common petiole. Common 
petioles winged. Flowers l-ljrin. long, quite white, longer 
than the peduncles. Petals 5. Calyx 5 cleft, small campanulate. 
Staminal-tube elongated, inflated above, 10 crenate at the mouth. 
Anthers 10, terminal, shortly oblong, inserted at the crenatures' 
of the mouth, exserted, setaceous-apiculate. Disk annular. 
Ovary 3- cel led, loculicidally 3-valved. Style yellow. Seeds 2 in 
each cell ; albumen fleshy, embryo foliaceous. 
