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135. GARDENIA ULIGINOSA.
Reti. cbs. 2. 1 -1. Limi. spec, plant, edit. Wiildenojo, I. ji.
Nella Caklsha of the Telingas.
•Trunk ill clefmed, covcrec! with ei dark rust-colour'd, scabrov
Branches erect, rigid, rour-coriier'd, thick set witli short:
round, diverging, decussated bniiichlets.
riwnts cue, two, Lince, or four, at the extreiniiies of the shor ound
Leaves opposite on young slioots, or fascicled at the extremities of
the branch! ets, sliort-pEtiol'd, oblong, smooth, shining, entire,
two or three inches long by one and a halfbroad.
Stipules within iho leaves, as in the rest of the genus.
Flowers one, two, or three, upon their proper short peduncles at the
extremities of the branchlets, large, white, and fragrant.
Cn(>'.v above, tubiilnr, obtusely five-tooth'd, permanent,
Corel; mouth of the tube shut up with much white liair; border
nat, from five to eight-deft: divisions orbicular.
Iti nth 1
tliorns; delights in moist places, such as the banks of rivers j
low lands. Flowering time the beginning of the hot season, or,
some measure, all the year.
The flowers of this species, as well as the beauty of the en
shrub, render it deserving of a conspicuous place in the fie
136. GARDENIA DUMETORUM.
Relz. obs. 2./i. li. Ail. horl. Kav. I, /a 295. Linn. spec, plant,
edit. Willdfnww, \ .p. 1229.
Manga of the Telingas
I
Uvihcls simple, small, terminal, or from small ttibercles on the
branchlets, bearing many small, white, fragrant flowers.
Pcdimclcs very short.
Brncle small, acute, at the base of each pedicel.
Calyx above, five-tooth'd: toothlets acute.
Carol: throat hairy; border always five-cleft: divisions acute.
Berry, size of a small cherry, red, two-cell'd.
Seeds itova eight to twelve, kidney-shape, orangc-colour'd.
Like Gardenia spinosa, it is a common, rigid, shrubby species,
delighting in a poor soil, and armed with-strong, sharp thorns; but
when brought into a good soil, the thorns almost totally disappear.
Flowers about die beginning of the rains, in June and July.
I know of no use this species is applied to, unless for making
fences, for which it is well adapted ; especially when the produce
of a poor barieii soil, being then well armed with strong thorns.
The flowers, like those of the other species, delightfully fragrant.
One of the most common, thorny, ramous, shrubs on the Coast;
there being few uncultivated spots where it is not to be found.
Flowering time, die beginning of the wet season.
It is employed for fences, and also for firewood. The fiowers are
few in number, but, like all of this genus, highly fragrant.
The fruit, when ripe, resembles a small yellow apple; when
bruised and ihrown into tanks where there are fish, ihe iish are soon
intoxicated, and seen floating on the surface. If this is practised
during the hot season, it is said the fish generally die; but if in
the cold season, diey recover. Fishermen sometimes follow this
mode of catching fish, which are not on that account deemed less
wholesome. Cocculus indicus is not used in these parts for catching
fish.
137. GARDENIA FRAGRANS.
Pedally of the Telingas.
Leaves opposite on the young shoots, fascicled on the old ; shortpetiol'd,
oblong, on both sides smooth and glossy, from two to
three inches long, and one, or one and a half inch broad; hollow
glands in the axils of the large nerves, with hairy borders.
Slipides connecting the petioles, acute.
138. ANTHERICUM TUBEROSUM.
Cushellie of the Telingas.
Roots: many, fleshy, round fibres, each ending in a small oblong
knob. They are perennial.
Leaves radical, many, sword-form ; margins waved, smooth ; from
one to two feet long, and from two to four inches broad.
Scape round, smooth, naked, from one to three feet long.
Panicle oblong, erect.
Floxocrs numerous, sub-erect, pure-white, about the size, and in appearance
like the snow-drop.
Filaments equal, simple, short, asccnding. Anthers linear, erect.
Style ascending, projects rather beyond the anthers. Stigma lopp'd.
Cafmlc diree-sided.
Is a native of the moist vallies among the Circar mountains.
Flowering time the rainy season.
159. LORANTHUS BICOLOR.
Yellinga-wadinika of the Telingas (Wadinika means parasitical).
scarcely any.
Branches numerous, ascending, woody. Bark grey.
Leaves neaily opposite, sessile, or very short petioled; below ovai,
oblong, or lanced; above linear-lanced, waved, entire, reclin'd,
veins scarcely any ; from three to five inches long, and
from a half to one and a halfbroad.
Racemes axillary, single, simple, crect, many-Eower'd,
Flowers in size and appearance, very like those of honey-suckle.
Bract concave, hearted; pre
one side. There is no other
above-mentioned bract; that
inth of the fruit ihi
e flower cup-form,
permanent.
Carol one petal'd: tube long, a little
bottom to within a ihird of the n
border five-parted, upper fissure i
linear, reflected.
urved, swelling from the
uth, then contracts a little ;
ich the deepest: segments
21 LORAiNTIll
Filaments five, from the base of the segments of the coro!, short.
Anthers linear,
Germ beneath, naked. Style length of the corol. Stigma headed.
Berrj below, crowncl with the remaining calyx, oblong, smooth,
pulpy, one-cell'd.
i«.-/single.
This is found growing upon the branches of various trees; is very
ramous ; flowers during the greatest part of the year.
It is a handsome parasite, bearing a great number of very beautiful
flowers ; its foliage also is beautiful. The upper part of the
branch of the tree, on which it grows, soon perishes.
stood, or from
bearing.
Hary, either from where the leaves
Ills of the thorns, frerjuently leafnaie
Flowers tinged witli red, hcrmnphrod
mixed.
HO. LORANTHUS SCÜRRULA,
Unn. spec, plant. -172.
Leaves opposite, petioled, hearted, scoJIop'd, below covered with
soft white down; about two inches long, and one and a half
Calyx small, five-tooth'd, below.
Petal's five, oblong, spreading, many times larger tlian the caly.K.
Filaments ten, short, awl'd, equal, hairy on the inside near the base.
Anthers erect, before tliey burst, very large, and tinged red;
afterwards they become small and yellow.
Germ above, oblong, sessile; in the male or barren fiowers, which
are most numerous, very minute, and globular. Style short,
thick; in the male flowers scarcely any, small, headed,
somewhat five-lobed.
Berry globular, about the size of a large apple, covered with a hard,
grey, scabrous, woody shell, one-cell'd.
Rccepiacles five, longitudinal, wedge-form, with their sharp edges
projecting inwards, which gives a stellated appearance to the
transverse section of the fruit.
MAI s like the hermaphrodite, but here the pis
Peduncles numeious, collected
Flowers considerably smaller tl:
and covered with grey, f,
lis, one-or morc-flower'd.
last, of a rusty-grey colour
Brade pressing on the germ, as in the last
Calyx of the fiuit, no other than the br.ic
former.
Co,Wone-petal'd: tube swell'd most towai
larted, upper fissure deepest : divisi
Stamens and PiM a; .e last.
Berry top-shape, one-seeded.
It is also n parasitical shrub, but smaller considerably than the
last, and much scarcer; grows in the same jiianner. Flowers during
the wet season.
nountainous parts in India.
Fruit ripe during the hot
From wounds ii i.ide in the bark of th
he flower, as in the tiful transparent g, im.which Mr.Smart,
me exceeded ever y thing he had ever
base ; border four- colours.
lear, reflected. The wood is wl lite, hard and durable
sun, it soon splits.
The fruit is un iversally eaten on thL
part, in which the seeds lie
: the pulpy
141. FE R O N I A E LEPHANTUM.
Correa in Act. Soc. Linn, i. p. 22 4.
Elephant-or Wood-apple Tree of the English.
Balong of the native Portuguese,
Yellanga of the Telingas.
Vellangay of theTamuis.
rntnh erect, grows to a pretty large tree. Bark deeply crack'd and
split in various directions, dark, dirty colour.
Branches few, irregular, forming a scanty ill-Jooking top.
The,.,3 axillary, single, erect, very strong and sharp; sometimes
[though rarely) they are wanting on many of the branches.
Leaves on the young shoots alternate; on the last, or two years
branchlets, two, three, four, or more come out together from
die old axil Is. or about the thorns; feather'd with an odd one;
from three to five inches long. Leaflets opposite, two or diree
pair, nearly equal, oblong, often slighdy notch'd, emargtnated
firm, smooth, shining deep green, about an inch and a
h:.If long, and three quarters broad. Petiole articulated, and
somewhat wiug'd.
Stipules none.
H2. BERGIA AOUATICA.
Bergia capensis. Linn. Mant. 211.
Pola-tsjira. Rheed. Malub. a. p. IJS. t. 73.
Neeroo Pavala of the Telingas,
Stem creeping, with extremities and branchlets erect, round, smooth,
jointed ; lengd., as in all water plants, very various.
Leaves opposite, sessile, lanced, saw'd, smooth, shining, about an
inch and a half long.
Flowers axillary, very numerous, as if vertieill'd.
Peduncle one-flower'd, shoi't.
• Dcsci¡pí¡onI,yUr.Kcraiig.
Fotic. pi„na.a : oirarc m.jcrcs,
«i/axillares. Ptáwmf, fil¡n.rmcs, gljb.i, nrliculati, flore vix longiores. Brc^Ux dw,
opposi u;, minimie.
nio.iopliyllu5, parvus, glat«r, «ducus, tjuinqucdcmaius : denticuli »ubiqual«, rubri.
Pílala qQ¡n<iiic. oblonga, acuii, plana, subcaruosa, albicaolia, «xius glandulis minimis
rarioribus adspccsi.
F-lamcuK, pk, umque dccco,, inicrdum pluia vcl pauciora, basi vilHs niaisirulibus invicem
arele col.srcnüa, cícic.-a glabr., oblonga, filamcnlis Iong¡o«s, crocac.
supcium, ovalum, glabrum. Sl;lu, conicus, crassus, glaber. Slig^ simplex, io
junionbiis, sulci's quataor decurrenlibus nolaiuni.
..valis, ci-eu cortice crasso einer«, albicami, uniloeularis, jwlysperma, magniiudmc
pomigran..ù.