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KUNGIA LONGIFOLIA. (Nees and Arnt.) Stems slightly pubescent branched from the base, leaves unequal the lower 
oval or orbicular very small, the upper linear spathulate 3-4 inches long by 3 lines broad scolloped lineolate, spikes small axillary or 
terminal solitary or twin, bracts 3 lines long broad oblong long-ciliate mucronate and with a membranaceous margin, bracteoles 
narrower and smaller ciliate, calyx glabrous, corol 4-5 lines long a little hairy on the outside, upper lip bifid, authers a little hairy. 
DC. Prod. xi. 471. 
Ceylon, Ramboda and Adam’s Peak. 
PLATE No. CCLXVI. 
Pry SSIGLOTTIS RADICOSA. (Anders.) Stems creeping slightly pubescent, leaves distant oval obtuse lineolate and 
furnished with a few setae on the upper side glabrous or subglabrous beneath, 1 1- inches long by about 1 inch broad, petiole 4-6 lines 
long. Spikes terminal on longish peduncles (4-7 lines), bracts subulate, calyx segments subulate, corol white G lines loug the upper 
lip bipartite segments acute, lower lip tripartite segments rounded, capsule 3 lines long, seeds tuberculate. And. in Thw. Eli. p. 235. 
Rkytiglossa radicosa, DC. Prod. xi. 344. Rostellaria sarmentosa, Zollinger PI. Java. • DC. 370. 
Ceylon, hot drier parts of the island. 
PLATE No. CCLXV1I. 
JUSTICIA IIOOKEPJANA. (Nees.) Stem suffruticose 4-6 angled, glabrous in age, leaves narrow lanceolate obtuse or 
acute 2-2J inches long by 5-6 lines broad glabrous decurrent on to a very short petiole, spikes axillary flexuose longer than the leaves, 
flowers distant, bracts and bracteoles linear or subspathulate, corol 4-5 lines long. Adhatoda Ilookeriana, Nees. in DC. Prod. xi. 403. 
Justicia, Anders, in Tim. En. PL Zey. 233. Leptostachya Zeylanica, Nees in partim. 
Ceylon, abundant on bauks of streams in the central provinces. 
PLATE No. CCLXYIIL 
MONOTHECIUM APJSTATUM. (Wall.) Stems puberulous, leaves elliptic oblong furnished with a few hairs on the 
veins, 2-2£ inches long by I-l|- broad, petioles generally unequal up to 1 inch long, spikes terminal, bracts and calycine segments 
subulate glanduloso-pubescent, corol slightly puberulous on the outside white the lower lip blotched with red. Justicia aristata, TTaR, 
in Cat. 2481. Anthocometes aristatus, Nees in DC. xi. 312, Monothecium, And. in Thw. En. Pl. Zey. p. 234. 
Nilgiris and Ceylon. 
PLATE No. CCLXIX. 
GUTTIFER^E. 
(xARCINIA PURPUREA, (Roxb.) A small tree, direcious, leaves (red w T hen young) lanceolate elliptic 3-4 inches long 
by 1-1^ broad, penniveiued the primary veins irregular and not conspicuous ; male, flowers peduncled 3-S (generally 3) in the terminal 
axils 2-4 in the lateral ones, stamens very numerous on an entire short column, anthers oblong 2-celled dehiscing longitudinally, rudi¬ 
ment of ovary none ; female, flowers sessile solitary or 2 and 3 together, sterile stamens in 4 phalanges in a ring round the ovary each 
phalanx with 2-7 stamiuodes in 1-2 rows, ovary cells and stigmas 5-8. Fruit globose not furrowed 1-1^ inches in diameter purple Gr 
white, edible. Poxb. FI. Ind. ii. G24. 
A very common tree throughout North Canara where it is called Kokum ; there are 2 varieties, one with white and the other 
with purple fruit the fruit has a very agreeable acid flavor and is much eaten, and a syrup is made from it. The seeds furnish the kokum, 
a concrete oil or soapy substance useful in healing chaps; the tree flowers in November and December aud the fruit ripens in the lict 
weather. 
PLATE No. CCLXX. 
MELASTOHACEJE, 
IvENDRlCKIA ALKERI. (Ilook. f.) An epiphytic scandent shrub, leaves 5-nerved oblong or ovato-oblor.g narrowed 
at both ends obtuse furfuraceous when young, subentire, or ciliato-dentate when young, l|-3 inches long paler beneath, petioles 2-3 
lines long, pedicels about 11 inches long and with the bracts and calyx sparingly ferrugiueous, bracts oblong obtuse 2-3 lilies long. 
