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CAPPARIDE2E. 
CaPPARIS LONGISPINA. (H. f. et Thom.) A shrub 4-6 feet, stems petioles leaves beneath costa of the leaf above 
base of the thorns rufo-pubescent, leaves coriaceous orbicular-cordate mucronate inches each way. Stipules or thorns as long or 
nearly as long as the leaf straight or slightly curved 2 to each leaf, pedicels slender glabrous 3-4 terminal on the branchlets and often 
1 in the axil of the last leaf twice or nearly 3 times as long as the leaves, flowers glabrous, ovary oblong pointed glabrous, gynophore 
about | an inch. 
Ganara and Bombay ghats. 
PLATE No. CCLXXXI. 
ACANTHACEiE. 
RuELLIA PROSTRATA. (Poir) Stems prostrate pubescent, leaves ovate obtuse or acute subentire or scolloped pubes¬ 
cent, f-lj inches long by -J-f inch broad, penniveined, petioles 2 6 lines long, flowers white or bluish 1-1^- inches long axillary solitary 
on short peduncles, bracts oval petiolate longer than the calyx pubescent, calyx segments subulate pubescent 2-3 lines long, corol 
infundibuliform incurved puberulous outside, lobes obtuse regular, capsule glabrous or subglabrous 3 times as long as the calyx about 
IO-seeded. Poir. Enc. Metli. 6. 349. Dipteracanthus p'rostratus, DC. xi. 124, and D. dejectus, p. 125. 
Common in the Cuddapab, Coimbatore and Tanjore Districts, also in Bengal and Ceylon. 
PLATE No. CCLXXXIL 
MYRTACEiE. 
EUGENIA TERPNOPHYLLA. (Thw.) A middling sized tree, branches terete, leaves submembranaceous lanceolate or 
©blongo-lanceolate with a long acumination and more or less narrowed at the base, the younger ones ferrugineo-pilose, 2J-5 inches long 
by |-2 inches broad, primary veins 5-8 on each side looped near the margin, petioles J-l inch long, peduncles axillary and terminal 
short few flowered rufo-pilose as is all the inflorescence, pedicels about as long as the petioles, petals distinct white twice as long as the 
sepals, fruit spherical puberulous nearly as large as a cherry generally 1-seeded. Thw. En. Pi. Zey. p. 114 and 417. 
Ceylon, Ambagamwa and Ratnapoora districts and Reigam Corle up to no great elevation. 
PLATE No. CCLXXX1II. 
CaREYA HERBACEA. (Roxb.) Stems annual only a few inches high from a permanent ligneous root, leaves short 
petioled obovate with a short acute point, serrulate, 6-7 inches long by 3-4 inches broad, racemes short terminal, peduncles 1-2 inches 
long, calyx 9 lines long, petals 1J inches long, exterior filaments sterile and exceeding the fertile ones, ovary 1-celled with 4 parietal 
receptacles, fruit oblong 2J inches long by 1| inches diameter. Poxh. FI, Ind. ii, 638. 
Jubbulpore, Sumbulpore, &c., called Bui koombee : a very beautiful plant which should be introduced into our gardens. 
PLATE No. CCLXXXIV. 
SAPINDACEiE. 
EUPHORIA GrARDNERI. (Thw.) A middling sized tree, leaves abruptly pinnate, subglabrous, leaflets 2-3 pair lanceo¬ 
late coarsely and obtusely toothed, shortly petiolate glaucous beneath, about 3 inches long by 1 broad, racemes pubescent but the 
pubesence not stellate, sepals and petals acute and the latter much longer than the former otherwise as in E. Longana.—Nephelium 
Gardneri, Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 58. 
Ceylon, Putlam. 
PLATE No. CCLXXXY. 
^CHMIDELIA ALLOPHYLLA. (DC.) A small tree, leaves glabrous lanceolate, ovato-lanceolate or oblong acuminate 
entire or coarsely toothed near the apex, 5-10 inches long by 1^-8J inches broad, veins prominent and looped well within the margins. 
