ICONES PLANTARUM INDI^ ORIENTALIS, OR FIGURES OF INDIAN PLANTS. BY EGBERT WIGHT, m.D.,f.l.s, &c, MEMBER OF THE IMP. ACAD. NATURJB CUKIOSOKUM, Of THB ROYAL EATISBON BOTANICAL SOCIETY, &c. &o. Sc. SURGEON OF THE MADRAS ESTABLISMENT. C' 'JQ^ VOLUME III. T'^ MADRAS: TRINIED FOR THS AUinOR, AND SOLD BY MESSRS. FRANCE AND CO., MADRAS J AND MESSRS. OSTELL, LEPAOB AND C9. CALCUTTA, ATHEN^BDM PRESB, Digitized by the Internet Arcliive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/b21912762_0003 EXPLANATION OF PLATES. VOL. m.-PART I. 737, SalicoKnia indicA (Vahl. Roxb.) Perennial, diffuse ; joints gibbous : spikes cylliidrical,_flowers hid. —Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1 p. 85. . ^ . Very abundant on the sea coast at various Stations in the Northern Circars. I have also met with both species further South, but not so abundant. Floral ioiuts very short : flowers inconspicuous opposite three- fold hid"^by tlie upper margin of the next floral leaf below: calyxaflask-like fleshy substance with a sht for the style, in this species I have never been able to discover eveu'the rudiments of a sXamen.— Iloxb. 1 A flowering branch— 2 ;i flural joint with 3 flowers _3 female flower magnified and cut vertically to show the ovary— 4 a detached flower natural size— Seed de- tached enveloped in its persistent calyx. 738. SaliCorkia brachiAta (Roxb.)Pirennial erect: branches numerous, dicussate, joints clubbed : spikes cvlindriciil : flowers conspicuous.— fioa;6. Fl. Ind. 1. 84. Native of the sea coast. Roxburgh suggests that this species should be compared with S. herbacea, others have referred it with doubt to S.frvticosa. 1 Portion of a flowering plant full sized— 2 floral joint with 6 flowers three uncovered and three above in situ —3 a flower detached showing the position of the sta- men and ovary -4 ovary natural size— 5 seed enclosed in the capsule or persistent calyx. 739. CoBCHOKUS AcuTAKGULus (Lam.) annual : leaves* ovate: peduncles opposite to the leaves, 1-2-flow- ered : capsules prismatical, straight, glabrous, stout, about 10 times longer tlian broad, 6-angled with 2-3 oi the angles winged, 3-celled, truncate with 3-5 divancat- ino- en'tire or bifid horns : seeds numerous in each cell, wi'th the transverse septa nearly obsolete.— W. and A. Prod. 1 p. 73. , . , J , Common in pastures and cultivated grounds by the banks of ditches &c. i ^ • r, 1 Portion of a plant bearing flowers and truit— 2 a flower showing the subulate bractea;— 3 a fluwer fully ex- panded showing the stamens-4 the same partially dis- sected to show the ovary and style-5 detached stamens —6 ovary cut transversely ovules surrounded by pulp —7 cut longitudinally- 8 a nearly mature capsule cut transversely- 9 a seed— 10 the same cut vertically— 1 1 embryo and radicle detached, all except the first mag- nified. 740 ViTis (Cissus) MXiRiCATA (Wall. :) unisexual, glabrous except the densely pubescent inflorescence : stem woodv ; brances terete, with a rugulose, muricated bark • leaves petioled, trifoliolate ; leaflets stalked, firm and somewhat coriaceous, distantly serrated (the serratures shallow, tipped with a hardened gland), obloncr, acuminated ; lateral ones broader, unequal- sided"- umbels shortly peduncled, with bracteas at the base of the peduncle, axillary, not so long as the petiole, twice compound, with 3-5 primary branches : petals distinct : style very short, thick : stigma large, capi- tate, somewhat lobed : fruit globose (about the size oi a cherry), 2-4-seeded.- W. and A. Prod. p. 1 128 Found not uufrequent in subalpine jungles climbing among bushes to a great extent. 1 Tortionofd flowering branch— 2 a flower magnified —3 a cluster of immature fruit~4 a berry cut trans- versely m£«gni6ed. 741. Impatiens cuspioata(W. and A.) herbaceous erect glabrous, sparingly ramous : leaves alternate, long petioled, raembranacious, oblong lanceolate atte- nuated at both ends, serrated ; nerves beneath sprinkled with tawny hairs : pedicels axillary, slender, shorter than the leaves, solitary or in pairs, when in fruit, erect : lateral sepals small subulate pointed, upper one deeply obcordate suhcuniate, furnished on the back with a pro- jecting horn-like appendage; lower one cuspidate at the apex, terminating below in a long, slender, straight spur, gibbous at the point : petals two-lobed, upper ones large slightly bifid ; lower vertical, (pointing to the earth) cuspidate, capsule glabrous, oblong, attenuated at bom ends : seeds ov^ite, reticulated; reticulations hairy. R. W. Arnott, Comp. Bot. Mag. 1 p. 221. Neilgherries, in moist woods near Kotergherry. This species is allied in some points to I. Leschenatdiii, as well as to I. laiifoliaM^ is readily distinguished from both by the form of the flowers, the straight spur, and the reti- culated seed. 742. Impatiens dasysperma (R. W.) herbaceous, erect, unbranched : leaves petioled, alternate, ovate- lanceolate acute, hairy above, glabrous beneath, cre- nate-serrated ; petiols glanduliferous : pedicels axil- lary, solitary or paired, erect, scarcely half the length ot the leaves : flowers rather small : upper sepal obcordate cuniate, cuspidate ; lateral ones minute: lobes of the petals nearlv equal scarcely half the length of the slen- der curved "hairy spur ; capsule glabrous ovate many seeded : seeds hairy. M. W. Madras Journal. Courtallum in dense jungles flowering August and September. 1 A flowering plant natural size— 2 a detached flower-3 ovary stamens and spur— 4 stamens detached —5 ovary and lateral sepals— 6 ovary cut vertically— 7 ovary cut transversely— 8 a mature seed natural size— 9 the same magnified— lO seed cut transversely. 743 Impatiens albida (R. W.) suffruticose erect, famous, branches terete, marked with numerous scars ot fallen leaves : leaves ovate lanceolate pointed, sliglitty serrated, attenuated at the base, tomentose : pedicels solitary, as long as the leaves glabrous : upper sepal large, broadly emarginate villous above ; lower one tomentose : spur slender tapering curved, nearly twice the length of the flowers : lateral sepals cordate acuminated : petals deeply two-lobed, the upper lobes larger : ovary hairy ; ovules few. R- W. Madras Journal. Courtallum rare, growing at an elevation of between O500 and 3000 feet among rocky clifts in exposed ;ituations. I have since found it on the Pulney moun- tains on the rocky banks of a stieam, but so much more luxm'iant that it did not seem to be the same plant. Flowers pure white. 1 Flowering branch natural size-2 detached flower _3 stamens ovary and sepals-4 stamens-5 ovary de- tached— 6 the same cut vertically. 744. Impatiens campanuiata (R. W.) herba- ceous erect, sparingly branched, glabrous : stem and branches terete: leaves alternate, long pet.oled, broadly ovate lanceolate acute, encurved br.stle serrat- ed ; beneath glaucous with the veins very promiaent : peduncles axillary erect, shorter than the leaves, three- flowered ; pedicels about the length of the flower : up- per sepal keeled above; lower ventricose with a short encurved spur ; lateral ones large naviculate about the length of the others : upper lobes of the petals mucro- natl short; lower ones large exceeding the upper sepal capsule ovate attenuated at both ends glabrous : seeds echinatr R. W. Madras Journal of Science. A very handsome species found in moist woods on the Pulney mountains at an elevation of about SoUO feet Flowers cream coloured speckled with purple. The lar-e size and incurving of the upper sepal over the edges of the petals gives the flower a campanulate shape (whence the name) not easily represented on paper. 1 Flowering branch-2 dissected flower-3 detached 9tamens-4 detached ovary- 5 ovary cut vert.cally- 6 c?psulecut transversely-7 placenta detached with the seed adhering-8 a seed-9 the same cut trans- Tf^rsely— 10 a seed cut longitudinally. 745 Impatiens UMBELtATA (HeyneO herbaceous erect • root tuberous : leaves crowded towards the top ofthe stem broadly ovate-lanceolale, obtuse, crenately serrated- above sprinkled with short hairs,below ulabrous, and usually purplish coloured : peduncles shorter than the leaves, bearing from 4 to 6 rather large pedicelled flowers: upper sepal orbicular nearly equallingthe petals, not furnished with a herbaceous point . spur slender taperino- curved, longer than the petals : lobes of the petals about equal lower one broader : capsule glabrous many seeded: seeds echinate.- W.Madras Journal of Science. ^ . . ^ j Courtallum in moist jungles flowenng August and September. The lower surface of the leaves is usually tinged with a dark brownish purple but not always. ] Flowering plant— 2 dissected flower— 3 stamens— 4 ovary and fateral sepals— 5 ovary cut vertically— 6 cut transversely-7 a seed— S cut transversely. 746. Impatiens viscida (R. W.) herbaceous dif- fuse rooting at the lower joints afterwards erect, stem angled, with a few bristly hairs scattered over it : leaves alternate, longish petioled, ovate pointed serrated ; veins on both sides covered with stiff erect hairs: peduncles axillary erect, filiform, viscid, •2-4 flowered, usually short- er than the leaf: flowers large, all the sepals about equal, the lower furnished with a long tapering spur, nearly twice the length of the flower, lateral ones ovate cordate : upper lobes of the petals larger than the se- pals, but much smaller than the lower ones: capsule irlabrous, tapering at both ends, ventricose : seeds pen- dulous hairy. — ii. W. Madras Journal of Science. Pulney mountains at an elevation of 5500 feet in wet swampy' ground, flowers light purphsh or deep pink colour, the peduncles covered with a viscid secretion whence the name. 1 Flowering branch — 2 dissected flower— 3 stamens — 4 ovary — 5 ovary cut vertically — 6 capsule cut trans- versely, showing the hairy seed. 747. Impatiens iincinata (B.W.) herbaceous erect ■ leaves ovate or cordate acuminated, serrated, hairy on the veins j above, glabrous beneath ; petiols glanduli- ferous at the apex : peduncles axillary solitary, nearly as long as the leaves, 4-8 flowered : lateral sepals about half the length of the upper one, ovate pointed, lower campanulate : spur shorter than tlie flower, ventricose, hooked at the point : lower lobes of the petals declining Iirger than the upper ones : capsule attenuated below beaked above, few seeded.— Zi. W. Madras Journal of Science. Courtallum in dense, moist, forests flowering August and iieptember. 748. Impatiens fascicttlata (Lam. :) stems erect, glabrous : leaves opposite, almost sessile, from narrow- linear to lanceolate, usually rounded or cordate at the base, serrated ; upper side somewhat hispid; under o-labrous, whitish, and marked with coloured nerves : pedicels usuallv in pairs, slender, elongated, sometimes nearly as long as the leaves : sepals all with a callous point'; lateral ones linear, falcate ; posterior roundish- ovate,'larger than the posterior but only half the size of the large anterior semi -obovate lobes ofthe petals; lower widely-infundibuliform, with a tapering slender spur about as long as the pedicel : stigmas combined : capsule oblong, a little ventricose, tapering at both ends.— W. and A. Prod. p. 138. This plant occupies a wide range of elevation ex- tending from about the sea level in Malabar to 8000 feet of elevation on the Neilgherries, where it abounds in marshy grounds decorating them with its large showy pink flowers. I Flowering plant— 2 dissected flower— 3 stamens in siiu—i stamens detached— 5 ovary— 6 cut vertically-7 capsule cut transversely— 8 plants and seed— 9 a seed 10 the same cut transversely. 749 Impatiens toMeNtosa (Heyne :) stems dif- fuse, elabrous : leaves opposite, sessile, Hnear-lanceo- late, obtuse, acutely serrated ; upper side shgluly his- pid ; under pale, glabrous : pedicels axillary, solitary or in pairs, pubescent, about as long as the leaves, in fruit deflexed • anterior sepal cucnllate, with the spur short and inflated at the point : stigmas united : capsule ob- long, tapering at both ends.— W. and A. Prod. p. 139. In marshy pastures, Neilgherries, Pulney mountains, and Mysore, flowering August and September. 1 he specimen figured is rather a large one, I have frequently met with it not 3 inches high. 750 Impatiens rOSMarinifot.ia (Retz.) herbaceous erect," ramous, glabrous: leaves opposite subsessile cord ite at the base, linear lanceolate, serrated • pedi- cels axill..rv solitary or paired, shorter than the leaves: upper sepal vaulted broad ovate, pointed,nearly equalling the lower: upper lobes of the petals much smaller than the lower: spur short conical: fructiferous peduncles erect capsule ovate. Courtallum in moist woods flowering August and Sep- tember. Dr. Arnott likewise describes tins species from Ceylon specimens, sent to England by Colonel alker in terms that leaves no doubt of his plant being identical with the one here figured. ] Plant natural size-2 detached flower magnified- 3 dissected flower-4 ovary-5 ovary cut vertically-6 a nearly mature capsule cut transversely. 751 Impatiens kivalis (R. W.) herbaceous, root tuberous : leaves all radical, ovate oblong, somewhat ob- lique at the base, serrated, above hairy, glaucous and gl.brous beneath : scape racimose man3' flowered : Aower.s large drooping long pedicelled from the «xils of smal fleshy bracteas : upper sepal obtuse vaulted above, lateral ones minute, lower large ovate ending in a long curved spur nearly twice the length of the petals : pet.ls large spreading ^he lower lobe deeply 2-cl eft : capsule erect glabrous many seeded seeds hispid.-ft. W. Madras Journal of Science. Courtallum on clifts of rock at what is called " Five Falls" where it is constantly, during the flowering season (August and September) exposed to the spray from the adjoining cataracts. 1 Flowering plant-2 detached ftower-3 stamens -4 sepals-5 a half grown capsule cut vertically-6 cut transversely-7 a seed -8 the same cut transversely. (2) t 752. Ckotataeia noTONH (W and A :) suffruti CO e erect : branches divaricating, shortish, tomentose stipules nl row-subulate : leaves slightly approximated folio late, long-petioled ; leaflets cuneate-obovate iXcdY etuse: mucronate, rather longer than the So e (f- n a half to an inch long, and one-t urd of an nc broad) ; upper side glabrous ; under paler, sn inkledw tL minute adpressed hairs; racemes ter- Kl or leaf-opposed, shortish (2-3 tnches ong , many- aowered: flowers approximated (pretty large) : biac- teas linear.-VV. and A. Prod. p. 19-2. Neilgherries near Kotergherry, August. 1 Flowering branch-2 detached flower-3 dissect- ed flower-4 stamens showing the elongated form of the anthers of the shorter series-S stamens of the onger series with their round a,uhers-6 ovary cut lengthwise S '2 ovules-7 legume full grown l-seeded-8 seed-9 Tut longitudinally shewing the cotyledons and radical- —10 Embryo detaclied. 753 Cakavaua gladiata (D. C. :) perennial, twi..mg, glabrous: leaflets cordate-ovate rather acute : kgum^s 5-10 times ror more) longer than broad.-W. and \ Prod, 1 P- '■^■53 , . A common plant in hedges and thickets much culti- vated for the beams which are used as a potherb. 754. Atylosia canbollu (W. and A. :) erect : branches straiaht, twiggy ; young parts vdlous with fulvous hairs : leaflets oval: upper side even, ptibes- cent • under reticulated, shortly tomentose, villous on the nerves and margin : stipules lanceolate acumi- nated, spreading: peduncles ■2-flowered, longish : calvx villous ; segments htnceolate-acumiuated, curved upwards, lowest one about half the length of the keel : spurs of the vexillum introflexed, sbghtly callous: leanmes villous.- W. and A. Prod. p. 2.57. °Neiio-herries, where it is most abundant from an eleva- tion of'^dbout 5500 feet to the top. It seems to be in flower at all seasons, flowers yellow. 1 Flowerino- branch— 2 dissected flower— 3 stamens— 4 dissected ovary-S dissected legume— 6 detached seed showing the caVunculus— 7 seed cut transversely -8 embryo detached. 755 Phaseolus lunatus (Linn. :) biennial, usu- ally twining, glabrous or pubescent : leaflets ovate, acuminated: stipules minute, reflexed. caducoiis : ra- cemes shorter than the leaves, peduncled, the Horiter- ous part elongated : pedicels in pairs : bracteoles nar- row small, shorter tlian the calyx, adpressed, caducous: ]e<^u'mes pendulous, scimitar-shaped, long-mucronate, not torulose, glabrous, 2-4-seeded : seeds oblong, com- pressed.—W. and A. Prod. 1 p. 244. _ Much cultivated but seldom if ever found in a truly wild state. A lara:o podded variety of this is the well known " Duffen Bean" of India, said to have been intro- duced by Dr.Duffeufrom theMauritius, whence the name. 756. Desmanthus TRiat:iTRXis (WiUd. :) bi-trien- nial, prostrate : stem compressed, triquetrous below : leaves bipinnated ; pinnae 2-3 pair ; _ leaflets 10-12 pair : stipules subulate : peduncles axillary, solitary, naked or with 2 caducous bracteas about the middle : flowers globuUr-headed ; 5-petaled, decandrous ; le- 0- unies sfalked, linear-oblong, equal-sided, 4-6-seeded. 1- W. and A. Prod. 1 p. 270. , ^ Found in wet pasture ground near the coast flowering during the rains. The specimen here figured was gather- ed at Madras. 1 A small plant natural size— 2 a fertile flower— 3 dissected flower— 4 stamens— 5 dissected ovary— 6 a pod nearly mature— 7 a dissected seed- 8 embryo de- tached—9 a sterde flower— 10 a pair of leaflets to show their form and cells. 757 Cassia (Senna) obtusa (Roxb.: ) perennial, herbaceous, diffuse, procumbent, branches glabrous : leaflets 4-6 pair, obtuse, mucronate, unequal at the base, glabrous : petioles and rachis without glands : stipules lanceeolate -subulate, tanenng sprnading per- sistent : racemes axillary, few flowered, much shorter than the leaves : pedicels without bracteas, legumes lunate, broad, thin, obtuse ; valves protuberant and sli^ I _ „ tlip^e constructed a from imperfect specmrens of ^^^o ot/''^-^^ enabled generic character so nearly correct that Ij;;^ "^f ^^^'J l-om it to refer two or three new «Pf '^^^'/^^^/^ Neilo-herries to the genus. Dr. Arnott. (Annals oi Nat Hi t 3 p. 151,) from more perfect specimens^ of character taken from the exammation ot sexeiai species. 760 Ltjdavigia puostkatA. (Iloxb.Uo^ver branches creepin-^^^el 'es alternate, petioled lanceolar flojei axmar;sessile : capsule filiform mth one row of jeeds in eaoh cell attached iumiediately to the axis. AoxO. Fl. hid. 1 p. 520. Native of Pegue. nRi Mara BUTIFOLIA (Juss.) Ferriola huxifoUa i^olT'lefvesobova^fglabrous in the adult state: calyx £ny flowers solitlry or aggregate, hexandrous, fila- t? ..11 clmr.lp G Don. D ciion. 4 p. 43. r JuShi-ub info; jungles veiT abundant in the Circars, but also extending to the Southern paits ot the Peninsula. 764 5 Myrtca integeifolia (Roxb.) leaves lance- olar entlrf smooth; scales of the female am^nts renitorm cordate one or tVo flowered : drupe oval granulated. ^ti^:^ow?S^;izeofalargebash.rio^^ Stvsite'^hough inviting .o tl;^3 eye s - sour to be relished. Drupe oval the ^f^^^^^^ Z '""^^'ShTr'exTe'Id r nd mewh';T sharp, densely dXd Si q-n^ity of fine .bite hau- ?i penciSo m tufts. The pulp consists of u.nume.j- Se closely impaced but distinct clavate succuleut yel- low bodies." Moxb. 768. Male plant with detached flowers, seen from above and below. 769 QUEKCUS CASTANICAUPA (Roxb.) leaves oblong entire smooth : nuts ovate, a little hairy, completely bid in the evalvular capsiile-like cup which is complete- ly armed with ramous sharp spines. (Itoxb. FL hid. 3 ^ Cbittagong, a large tree, flowers July and August, and the small acorns ripen during the cool season. 770. QxJEKCUS AKMATA (Roxb.) leaves lanceolate acuminate entire smooth : cup an entire evalvular capsule armed with many compound thorns, liiding completely the subovate acorn {Roxh. Fl. hid. 3 p. 610.) Mountainous countries East of Bengal, a large tim- ber tree. 771. Abistolochia acuminata (Lam.) laerenuial twining smooth : leaves cordate, rather acuminate : ra- cemes axillary,simpleor compound, drooping {Roxh. Fl. Lid. 3 p. 489.) Eastern parts of Bengal, Roxb.— Lower slopes on the eastern face of the Neilghewies, R. W.-Mauritius, Lam Flowering season on the Neilghernes June, July and August. I Flowering plant— 2 dissected flower— 3 a capsule as seen hanging from the stem— 4 capsule cut vertically — 5 cut transversely. AROIDE^. Ols The natural family Aroidea has of late years un- dergone much careful revision, by several most eminent Botanists in the course of which it has been found Scessarv to break down the old Linnean genera and coTstS numerous new old genus Aruni ;o copiously illustrated in this Part, affords a stukmg exWe of the correctness of this statement. Ol 22 Sc'ciis described ^y Roxburgh,, in his Flora Ii^^^^^^^^^ imder that gener c name, not one is left. I have notwitn sundii rprefer^ l\ r w f name quoting the new ones as synonyms, not b cans i dTsapp^ove of the innovations, for I have not 5 San op'p^oruuiity ^i^^-^-.'-g £t "eS fo'r pvflTTiination of the plants the necessity that exists tor ScTmSerus changes, but because I think it desira- II to sh^w the progress he made in elucidating this dif- ficult and"\t the time he wrote, imperfectly understood family 764 A branch of the male plant with a detach- ^V6rr3fptnt with analysis of the ovary and fruit. 763 AntipesmA L.«CEOLAa.A (Wall. StUago Roxb ) .bmbbvlmooth: leaves lanceolar : sfpules ensitorn . sJilSslrminal filiform: male flowers diandrous. Fl. Lid. 3 p. 760. Native of Cbittagong. 767. 8 ANTIDESMA TOME?.TOSA (Wall. «_i*%o"Roxb.) shrubby tomentose, leaves acuminate ; stipules subu- late spikes cylindric, amentaceous, male flowers tnan- ^^^^aS5hS^rs Maraud June, ripens it. fruit in September. The genus Stilago not being considered sufficie^ntly distinct'iVom Antidesma has been reduced to the lattei as being the older name. 767. flowering branch of the female plant with analysis* When naming the plates I had not access to any sjs.- tPmadc description of the order, and now find I have S in 0 several errors in writing the synonyms on ifn Since then, indeed while these sheets were pass- hrough £ F-ess, I received Xunth's Enumeratia iHg tnrougu y embracing among others this fa- SrS^tL^aifof wSrifiave been enabled, in the letter press, to correct the errors of the plates. 772 CaiPTOCOUYNE HETKOSPIEALIS (^'is'^^e'--^"^- ' 'ilaSv^ of the Northern parts of Bengal in mud soil. • Roxo^ le°Sirpet^^ linear lanceolate: spathc celled. {Roxh. FL Lid. 3 p. 492.) Native of .nar.hy banks of streams and -ks I W bank of aa irrigation canal. (4) 774:. CrTptocoryne ? tiNiLOCuiATtT'! {Amhrnsiiiia Eoxb.) stemless; leaves linear lanceolate: spathe as long as the leaves twisted : capsule one-celled. — Roxi. Fl. Lid. ;J p. 493. A native of Coromandel in marshy places where it is partly imoiersed in sweet water. This species I am not aware of ever having met with. The one-celled ovary seems to make it a very doubtful member of this genius. 775. Crtptocoryne citrAXd (Fischer — Amhrosinia Eoxb.) leaves long petioled lanceolar : spathe shorter than the leaves with a tabular case and expanding oiliate apex: capsule n\-s.-ce\\cd.—Roxb.Fl.Ind. 3 p. 494. A native of Bengal in marshy grounds on the banks of streams and tanks. 776. PoTHOs scANDHNS (Lin. Roxh.) epiphytic : petioles as broad as the lanceolar leaves ; spadix globu- lar reflexed.— J?o.r&. Fl. Ind. 1 p. 430. A very widely distributed plant, always found climb- ing on trees, to the bark of which it adheres like ivy by its slender fibrous roots entering the crevices of the bark. Roxburgh defines it " Parasitic" which in the modern more limited sense of the term is incorrect, I have therefore substituted Epiphytic or growing on trees for his word. 777. Lasia HETEROPHYtLA (Endl. Potlwa hete- phjlla Roxb.) caulescent, creeping, armed: leaves from cordate, segittate to pinnattid: spathe erect spiral many times longer than the short cylindric spadix: florets tetrapulatous tetrandrous.— i2oa;6. J'^. 1.437. Native of Bengal. This and PoiAos Lasin R. have been separated from Pnthos as a distinct genus on ac- count of their solitary pendulous ovules. PutJios having several erect ones. 778. ScrNDAPSTjs ofFicraAtES (Schott. Po^^os Roxb.) perennial epiphytic stems rooting; leaves oblong cor- date entire : flowers terminal; florets naked octandrous ; berries one-seeded. — Foxb. Fl. Ind. 1 p. 431. Native of Bengal. In some parts of the Midnapore district it is cultivated for its fruit which, cut in transverse slices and dried, forms an article of the Hindoo materia medica. 779. SciNDAPSUS DECiiRsivus (Schott. Pothos Roxb.) perennial, rooting on trees, smooth : leaves subdicur- sively pinnate ; segments falc;ite cuspidate : flowers lateral or axillary long ^cAmcle&.—Roxh.Fl.Ind.l p.436. Native of Sylhet. A very large powerful species bios? soms during the hot season. 780. SciNDArsus peepla (Schott. Pothos Roxb.) perennial subparasitic rooting on trees : leaves long pe- tioled oblong acuminate : flowers subterminal florets ;apetalouB tetrandrous. — Roxh. Fl. Ind. 1 p. 433. Sylhet, flowers April and May, 781. SciNDAPsus p-EUTUsus (Schott. Pothos Roxb.) scandent subparaitic rooting on trees : leaves cordate perforated on one side and pinnalifid on the other : anthers two-lobed. Roxh. Fl. Ind. 1 p. 4 55. " A native of the mountainous parts of Coromandel" .Roxb. I have only so far as I can recollect, met with jjiis species at Courtallum at the place called "FlveFalls." 782. Aeitm CAMPAXTILAITJM (Roxb. AmorpJiopIinl- lus Decalsne) stemless, leaves decompound : flowers sef^silc ■with respect to the surface of the ground and appearinc; when the plant is destitute of leaves : spathe the length of the spadix campanulate, with curled margins : no nec» tary : club broad ovate lobate : anthers 2 -celled. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 p. 509, An extensively distributed plant much cultivated in Coromandel by the natives for the sake of the roots which are used as y;ams or potatoes. When in flower the fetor it exhales is most overpowering and so perfect- ly resembles that of Carion as to induce flies to cover the club of the spadix with their eggs. From a num- ber of drawings sent me I selected two, this one to show the plant, and the other 782 to show a most gi- gantic flower, but to which I find no reference in Rox- burgh's work, 783. Ar.UM BUl,BlFElil7M(Roxb. Pyfiionlmn. Schott. Amorpliophalm, Blum.) root tuberous stemless : leaves .decompound bulb bearing : spathe cauled rather longer than the cylindric spadix no nectaries. Roxh. 11. Ind. Vi. A native of Beng;d plentiful in woods in the vicinity iof Calcutta, blossoms in May. 784. AuTTM CUSPIDATUM (Roxb. Arisccma Martins) stemless : leaves ternate ; leaflets equal lanceolate cus- pidate : scapes as long as the petioles : spathe longer than the subulate pointed spadix : anthers from four to five in a peltate circular crown on each filament. Roxb. Fl- Ind. 3 p. 506. Aris. Roxburghii. Kunth. Native of Pulo-Penang. Roxburgh when he describ- ed this species had only some male flowers. 785. Aeum GampanaLaTTTM (Roxb. AmorpJiopJml- lus Decaisne) stemless leaves decompound flow-ers sessile with respect to the surface of the ground and appearing when the plant is destitute of leaves, spathe the length of the spadix campanulate with curled margins no necta- ry : club broad ovate lobate: anthers 2-celled. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 p. 509. An extensively distributed plant much cultivated in Coromandel by the natives for the sake of the roots which are used as yams or potatoes. When in flower the fetor it exhales is most overpowering and so per- fectly resembles that of Carion as to induce flies to cover the club of the spadix with their eggs. From a number of drawings sent me I selected two, one 785 to show the plant, and this one to show a most gigantic flower but to which I find no reference in Roxburgh's work. 786. AuxiM COLOCASSTa (Lin. Roxh. Golocassia an- iiquorum Schott.) 2. AUUM NYJipHiElFOLiUM (Roxb. Caladiiim Ventinat.) Two plants are represented in this plate, and according to some authors they belong to different genera. Roxhuru;h however doubts whether they are not mere varieties of one species. 1. COLGCASSIA ANTIQIJOETJM (Schott.)l stemlesq leaves peltate ovate repand semibifid at the base : scape shorter than the petiols : spathe much longer than the spadix cylinderic erect: club subcylindrical length of the anthei-iferonspart of the receptacle, authors many -celled. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 p. 4 94. A native of wet marshy grounds : is very abundant m the Tanjore district on the banks of irrigation canals. The leaves and foot stalk'' of some of the varieties of this plant are much ,eaten by the natives, 2. CoLOCASTA NympjeefoLIa .(K"Titk Caladiiim vent.) stemless : leaves peltate, ovate, repand, semi- bifid' at the base: scape shorter than the petioles, spathe much longer than the spadix subcylindrical erect : club slender acute, scarcely half the length of the antheriferous part of the receptacle : anther* many celled. Roxh. FL Ind. 3 p. 495. This is common in Malabar and like the former forms . part of the food of the natives. (5) I I * i i 787 Arum curuLAXUM CLour. ^oxh.-Calachum Zour Colocassia SchoU.) caulescent ramous : leaves sub- peltate exactly cordate acute, ^vith the lobes exquisitely rounded and convex or concave, from their margins bemg contracted: .cape half the length of the petioles : s padix cylindrical nearly as long as the cymbiforna spathe. itoxh. FL Ind 3 p. 501. Native of Bengal -found about Calcutta but rare. 788. Akum curvaTOM (Roxb.—^mffimaMart.) stem- less leaves pedate, leaflets from 10 to 1-2 lanceolar.spatlie vaulted half the length of the curved spadix : no nutu- rial filaments : anthers 3-lobcd. Roxb. FL lud. .i p. 506. Native of Nepaul blossoms in May. 789 Arum founiCatum. (Roxb. Colocasia. Hay. Schott.) caulesdent: leaves peltate, narrow cordate with the lobes angle rounded : spadix clavate, upper _ halt ot the spathe vaulted equaling the spadix berries with from one to three seeds. Eoxb. FL bid. 3 p. oOl. Native of Bengal and Chittagong, blossoms during the rainy season. 790. Ahum DiVARiCAxnM. (Roxb. Typhonium Schott.) steniless leaves cordate acuminate spathe longer than the subulate spadix with a slender drooping spiral apex nectarial filaments simple and subulate, encurved. Roxh. FL Ind. 3 p. 503. Native of Malabar— Roxburgh also received living plants of it from China. 791. Ardm flagelijfoeme. (Roxb. Tijphonmm Schott.)stemless : Jeaves sagittate lobes spreading : spathe and spadix equal whip-shape nectarial scales coloured -, anthers two-lobed two-celled. Roxh. FL Ind. 3 p. oO-i. A native of Bengal found In damp shaded ground. 79-'> Arum fobsiCatdm (see above No. 789-) This fio-ure' should have been numbered 790-The drawing R "ems to have been made for the purpose of showing a neculiaritv of this species unusual in the genus namely, ts viviporous property, the buds on its stem becoming developed and forming new plants there, deriving their nourishment through the parent plant. ^^ e have here a ft)TCUM (Roxb. CoJocank Ray Schott.) cauliscent erect, leaves cordate base bifid, lobes approxi- mate and rounded : spadix cylindrical equalling the hne- ar boat-shaped spathe : club cyliudric longer than the rest of the spadix. Roxh. FL Ind. 3 p. 493. A nativeof various parts of Southern Asia, cultivated in Ben o-al for its esculent stems and small pendulous tu- bers^f its root, which are eatsn by people of all ranks m their curriesi 795. Arum MARGARiTiFERTJM(Roxb. Amorphophnttus Kunth.) herbaceous stemless : leaves trifid with entire narrow lanceolate pinnatifid segments : spathe campanu- late equaling the obtuse spadix ; nectaries like large pearls. ■ Roxb. FL Ind. 3 p. 512. Native of Hindostan, flowers May and June. The globular bodies seen on the spadix are not fruit but ab- ortive or modified pistilla or in E,oxburgh's language " Nectaries." The ovaries occupy the lower iinvtion of the spadix the stamens the upper— the pearl-like bodies the middle. Roxburgh's description of the leaves does not convey to the mind a clear idea of their form. Ge- nerally they may be designated bipinnatifid ; that_ is they are first divided into 3 primary lobes each of which is again cut into several narrow laucolate segments with entire margins. They may then be briefly_ and clearly defined almost in Roxburgh's own words slight- ly altered in the an-angementthus " leaves tnfid, lobes pinnatifidly cleft into several narrow lanceolate seg- ments, entire on the margin." 796 Arum montanum (Roxb. CoJocasiaHay, Schott, Kunth) stemless, root a subcyllndrical tuber : leaves cordate repand polished : spadix nearly as long a.s the cuculate coloured spathe : anthers many-celled Roxb. FL Ind. 3 p. 497. . . „ ^, A native of the mountainous parts of the Northern Circars where the root is employed to poison tigers ! 797 Arum odorum. (Roxb. Colocasia Ray, Schott) caulescent, leaves cordate, base bifid lobes rounded : flowers in axillary pairs : spadix equalling the cymbiform siX: club onlthird the length of the .diole spadix; berries one-seeded. Roxb. FL Ind. 3 p. 499. Native of Pegue, flowers during the cool season ripen- in^its fruit in Ma^xh and April. The flowers possess a, conslrable degree of agreeable fragrance, a very un- usual quality in the family. E'rA'„TSlu»«..-s be.>i„g vi,ife,„«s bulbs V, .w at the latter station, under the shade of tZ'toS. I found it in perfection August and September. 799 Calla CaLYPTEATA. (Roxh nnmahmema 1 ,\,Hnn Kunth ^ stemless leaves oblong cordate : ' ■'(fr r untcSe the upper conical portion falling S ea \"n b otU: sp'adix the ripper half clavate Id cohered with stamena the lower half cylindnc and female. RoxL FL Ind. 3 p. ol4. Native of Amboyna. 800 Arum sESSILIFLOEUM. (Roxh. Sauromafvm Kunth) stemLs: leaves pedate leaflets about nine r 1.1 l.nneolate entire : flowers sessile appearing when during the dry hot season. 801 ARUM ORIXENSE. (Roxb. Typhonium Schott.) 801. iQbed : flowers subsessile : spathe stemless : ^^^^^^ !\iian the spadix nectarial, filaments ample, erect, longer tiian luc i long and often ramous. Roxh. FL Ind. 3 p. &u^. A f-„o «-hndv man"-o groves near Samulcottah / "tl soilit^ ty S ancffertile ; flowering time the where the so 1 is P"^'.'^^"^,. , ■ x j ^ot recollect ever be"-inn ng ot the rains, (iioxo.; ± uo uu uLoUiiu station indicated. ims to have met with it " ^ne T,pUonimn spec es IS ^l-^'f^^l^'^ZtTSU^^^^^^^^^^ show trdobatum (No 803^ a ^>ant .^f^o-ly acrid and ( « ) I k Aeum sylvaticcM (Boxb. AmorpUpUlhs b02. ARUM^ c.u^tn leaves super-decompound; Kunth Python.um ^^'h' Jo or three times season. of L Mo to -henci. «as introduced into the Botanic Garden. «04 rAiLAPicTA(Roxb. ^/jZaonma Kunth) caules- 804. ""-^^^K^ „vite oblona entire clouded : acuminate! im-rer than \l obtuse clavate spad.x. 7.V 7nc/ 3, P- 516. NaUve;!' the Island of Sumatra. ROT Calla ahomatica. (Roxb. J?o»i«,'onm« Schott.) 80o. ^-^Yptvessubsa-ittate, cordate, acuminate ; lobes caulescent 'favessuDsa . c,,nndric, obtuse, equal- ,ou>,ded above nJe beloV^^^^ ^vith abortive SS:ii:t*-Sr^S^s many celled. Eo.^.Fl. -^'"f" ^'r;/nf^rhitta-on-: ^vhen cut it diffuses a pleasant "^"t c sce.t i'l'e natives hold the medical virtues aromatic seem, j-"^ . of the root in high estimation. Rf^fi CvLTA OBLONGEFOLIA. (Roxb. Aglaonema T^nS^ caulescent: leaves erect, oblong: spathe boat- £el\°ro;eS.S4 celled anthers. Ro.K Fl. ^'1 native Sf the Moluccas, thence introduced into the Boianic Garden of Calcutta. Kft- r^LL\ KTJBESCENS (Roxb. Homalonem Kunth) '■-^■i\i»/orp.SfSd«„e,» covered ^vlth anthers only. R&xb. FL Ind. 6, p. OLo. 808 C vLL^ vlKos^ (Roxb. CoJocasia Kunth) cau- The station of this plant is not mentioned. It is cal d in mndoo bJ Ruchoo,B\sh meaning poison, UoSurgh derived his specific name Irom that >vord. 809 SwiLAX OVALIFOLIA. (Rox.b.) stem cylmdric ramed- leaves unarmed, oval, smooth from five to seven nerved,' petiols, tendrel bearing, umbels compound. Native of the Circars in hedges and forests. 810 DioscoEEA ALATA. (Linn.) tubers oblong, white, stems 'annual l^vining, four winged : leaves opposite deep cordate from five to seven nerved, ^o^^- FL Ind. d ip. <97. This plant is universally cultivated m the Carnatic be- ing that which produces the Yam. 811. DIOSCOREA D^MONA. (Roxb. Fl. Ind. D. am^- y>a Roxb Mss.) root tuberous, biennial, stems annual, twining, armed, leaves ternate, leaflets obovate cumate, three to five nerved. Boxh. Fl. Ind 3, p. 80o, Native of Bengal and Moluccas. " The root is dread- fully nauseous, even after it has been boiled. (Roxb.) 812 D.oscoKEA GLOBOSA (Roxb.) tubers roundish .vhite "stems twining six winged, leaves alternate and op- sagittate co'i-date : male spikes compound long pendulous and verticelled, female simple. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. "'Thls^Fcies is much cultivated as affording t> most • esteemed of the Yams amongst Europeans and Natives in India. 813 DioscOKEA OPPOSITIFOLIA (Linn.^ berbaceous smooth, leaves opposite from cordate to ovate-lanceolate, ~ from thre!;^o seven nerved ma e Jo-rs panicled. the female ones spiked. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3, p. b04. A iSve of Coromandel, and of frequent occurrence in sub-alpine jungles. 814, DioscoEEA PENTAPHYLLA. (Linn. Roxb.) tu- bers oblong, stems herbaceous, twining.pnckly : leaves d - Ste downy : male flowers panicled.lemale onces spiked. Roxb. FL Ind. 3, p. 806. _ . , A sufficiently common species m jung es on low nuis, &c but never, so far as I have seen, cultivated ^^^llch is nwe remarkable as I have always found the Natives ii^ the tubers, whenever they had an opportunity, to dress and eat them. 815. DIOSCOEEA TOMENTOSA. (Koen.g ) herbaceous, tubers irregularly oblong : stems twining downy, slight- Wmed : leaves^alternale, ternate, downy male racimes axelki Y compound. Roxb. Fl Ind. 3 p. 8Uo. rwidely distributed species, extending from the Cir- 7 r«L Comoi-in and to be found on almost every ''''•l?bk hdHhat is covered with natural jungle. Setmf memoVclrceivesme, I have seen specimei. in Dr Royl 's collection from even the high latitude of SehareJpore and the foot of the Himalayas. (7 ) i 1 V 7 I ESPLAHATION OF PLATES. VOL. m.-PART IL 81 6 Mappa moltjccana (Spretig-P^eenw^ mappa Lin nel rSd staLns about 8 fila.ueats longer Si.rthi calyx. Ro.h.FlInd.Zv.^^^' Amboyna and Eastern Islands. T^oxbureh's description of the flowers of his plant is ^l ient bv omitting to notice the stamens and anthers. t:S:lloTl 1 un.ble to identify ^P--- Ts Tee : J Ved: in it also the anthers are TelSte dS divided i.^^o 4 globose ceUs not mentioned here but described under his O.^yris peltata. 817 Mappa ? peltata (R. W. Osyris peltata Roxb. Maca'ranla? Pet. Thour.) A vborious, leaves petateova^^^ fordate entire (Roxb.) '-^1%?''"-'^^^;''"^;^,,,^,''^ many flowered : flowers exceedingly i"'""'';' • cells narted ■ stamens three ; anthers peltate four celled , ( ells ^"vered with lids, (Ro'.b.) female, calyx 3 parted ; ovary ^up^rior covered with yellow glutu.ous f ^^^^^^^^^ abortion ^) one sometimes two celled ; style short, lateral, sprTiSg from near the base of the ovary, ending in one, EeUnres two, long reflexed subulate .t.gmas ; ovu at- tached near the base of the ovary opposite the insert on of the s vie, ascending : capsule 2 valved, fleshy, about the :iVe of a pea, dehissin| vertically; seed globose asceuding : integuments three- exterior smooth shining blackish the m ddle one nuciform black, thick, hard and rough on the outside; between it and the exterior tunicj a aua tity of sof whitish pulp; the inner one pure white and very ^hin: embryo obliquely inverse, enclosed in a :V,o"dbumen; cotyledons foliaceous -rdate 3 nerved pluniula minute ; radicle pointing obliquely upwards to wards the apex of the seed. Circars Roxb., Malabar and Eastern, slopes of Neil- gherries. This extended character is taken partly from my own dissections, but principally from Roxburgh's description and is "iven with a view to showing that the Mappa ot A. de Jussieuandthe Osyris of Roxburgh are genencally congeners even though in this species the f «™ens are nsuallv only 3 and the ovar.es solitary, and further seems"probable that they must all be referred t« D"/^ Thouars' genus Alacaravga between which and Mappa the plant now under consideration seems, to me, to torm the connecting link; with however the weighty objec- tions that in it the ovule and seed are said to be pendul- ous from the apex of the cell and the calyx to be 4 parted while in this the one is ascending and the other 3 deft. But even with these diffeiences to be explain- ed I think it probable a careful investigation of all the known species of both genera will show that they can be reconciled and all brought under one generic denomm- ation, the plants themselves being very like, bhould t us not prove the case then, as surmised by Roxb. in a Mb. note on the drawing, this must constitute the type ot a new genus and possibly wilh the other two form the type of a small suborder. 1 18. Spinace. TETRANi>EA(Roxb.Steven ? Moq.Tand.?) ann 11 erect: leaves variously lobed: ^-P''^,' sessile ; the male ones tetrandrous, the female calyx 2 parted.' Roxb. FL hid. 3 p. 7 71- Hab. much cultivatedin Bengal. I have quoted the S. tetrandra of Steven and Moq. Tandon with doubt, the character of the latter not aoree- in. well with Roxburgh's figure and description Steudel kwnclatorBotan.) is equally i"/-bt but he seem either not to be aware of the existence of Roxburgh a Flora Indica, or if he is, does "O^.q^^'t r f ".nl ati ' lich's catalo<^ue, as if the one might be safe y and «atis- S or ly ubstituted for the other. Should this be his oDinion he could not have fallen into a greater error ; the ca aWue being a work not published and of no autho- U though well adapted to fulfil the end proposed, that namely, of supplying a temporary and convenient expedient by whi h numerous undescribed plants, distributed among Rot. ists mi<^ht be distinguished and thereby,_ ren. Saiaiirble to the advancement of Botanical Science pending their more caieful determination by numerous Sminenl Botanists who undertook to aid the author of the catalogue in carrying out the munificent u - tentions of the Indian Home Government by the pub- ic ati o" of descriptive monographs ot the different nati a orders intrusted to their care for that purpose. Roxburgh's work on the contrary is one o high authority the result «f ^'"^'^ application and careful study of he numerous species described as well as figur- ed in his most extensive and unique collection of draw. [n.s:tothe general accuracy of which representa ona his work bears most ample testimony. I" h's poin of view Dr. Wallich's catalogue was most useful to all ^^ho received his plants, and is in the hands of but few be- sides The burthening therefore of our Science, already overwhelmed with synonyn>s, by the addition of the nu- merous undefined names of that list, was an error scarce- W exceeded by the exclusion of Roxburgh s Flora f om the list of authorities quoted in 'i'^' otherwise invalua- ble compilation, his names being genera ly well defined and his plants for the most part elaborately described. 819 Antidesma liONEAS (Spreng. Stilago Bunias Liu Roxb ) Arboreous ; leaves alternate entire lanceolate ob- long pol-hed : spikes axillary and terminal : male flowers triamlrous with an abortive column lu the centre. Jtoxi. '^' Nepai ^Amboyua, Malabar all claim this as a native. It isi ue 'otquickgr'o.tband particularly beautiful when loaded with its numerous bunches ol rqne, shunng, deep red fruit, which are subacid and palatable.- Uoxb. BOO Antidesma PANTcntATA. (Roxb. Wllld.) Spikes panU-led • leaves round oval villous : stigma stellate drupe -t:^^:. ^uitlU ^asJ'^^iloured bark flowering ia Atiil Spikes termin-n and axillary, pamcled ; flowers fn a "quinary, male ones with an abortive pistil : ovary emb aced by a yellow villous disk, stigmas 5 stellate; dnipe round dark purple when ripe and ot a pleasant subacid tast; : nut one .ceded, embrjo mverse eadosedm albumen. Roxb. * 1 I I i 821. Antidesma puijescens. (Roxb. Willd.) leaves obloni^ entire downy : stipules subulate : spikes terminal panicled K. Fl. Ind. 3, 2^. 770. A sninll tree flowering about the beginning of the rains. The berries of this species are eateu by the natives. 822. IIebyOtis ramosa. (Blumc — Oldenlandln ra- mosa Roxb.)diflfuse rainous ; leaves narrow lanceolate : pe- duncles axillary with from one to several flowers. Ruxb. Fl. Ind. l,p. 424. Native of Pegue apparently very nearly allied to //. «m6eZ/a^a which it much resembles in habit and appear- ance. 823. DiLLENiA si'ECiosA (Thunberg.) : leaves oblong, serrated, glabrous, appearing with the flowers : peduncles solitary, terminal, one flowered : stamens all equal in length : styles and carpels about 20: seeds hairy. IF. ^• A. Prod. pg. 5. Southern provinces and Malabar cultivated about Madras as an ornamental tree. Several figures of this plant have been published, that of Rheede (Horl. Mai.) is very characteristic, but none of these have analyses of the flower. The accompanying figures will therefore, it is hoped supply to some extent that desideratum. They represent outside and inside views of the flower natural size, a transverse section of the entire ovary showing the 20 carpels or cells, of which it is composed, magnified. A portion of the same more highly magnified showing the two rows of placenta in each cell — and, at that early stage, the 2 ovules each tear — also a vertical section of the ovary, showing the conical form of the receptacle and position of the car- pels on its surface. The larger figure represents the fruit in a further advanced stage, at which period one of each pair of ovules has aborted, leaving two not four rows of seed iia each cell. Below that is a portion of a mature fruit showing the hairy seed in situ, also a seed dis- sected, showing the minute embryo, at the base of a very copious albumen, immediately under the liilum, and lastly, the embryo itself detached. Through an oversight the figures in this and several following plates were not numbered which renders the above explanation less explicit than could be wished. 824 ) CoccuLDs PLUKENETii. ^ 9 (DC.) Stem twin- 825 j ing, glabrous; young branches pubescent : leaves ovate, mucronate, sometimes slightly cordate at the base, rarely retuse at the apex, glabrous ; when young the nerves on the under side, and long petioles liairy : racemes spike-like, longer than the leaves ; pedi- cels short, with a subulate bractea at their base, of males 2-3 together, of females usually solitary : petals cuneate- oblong, emarginate, obtusely 2-toothed near the base ; in the male about equal to the stamens, somewhat mem- branaceous above, below fleshy, and embracing the fila- ments ; in the female fleshy, and internally warted : anther cells approximated : ovaries 3 : drupes solitary ; nut reui- form. W. c^- A. Prod. I, p. 13. In these two plates I have represented the male plant in flower the female in fruit from specimens collected in the vicinity of Madras. The berries when ripe are pulpy aud of a fine purple colour. 826. Canthi'jm LESCHiNAULxri. (\T. & A.) shrubby, climbing? quite glabrous : old branches armed with short supra-axillary thorns ; young shoots long, slen- der, often unarmed: petioles shortish, twisted : leaves op- posite or 3-4 verticillate, oblong, much acarainated, acute at the base : cymes axillary, short-peduncled, few- (3-5-) flowered : calyx minutely 5-toothed : corolla in aestivation acuminated ; tube campanulate, with a ring of reflexed hairs internally: segments of the limb 5, linear-lanceolate, acuminated, reflexed : stamens 5; antheis exserted, after- wards reflexed : style thickened about tlie un'ddle and hairy downwards: stigma mitriforni, bifid to about the middle: drupe oboordate. W. i^- A. Prod. pg. 42G. 'J'he specimen here figureil nas obtained at Courtallum but the species is not confined to that station. I have repeatedly met with it in subalpine jungles. 827. IsoRv LANCEOLARiA. (Colebrooke.) shrubby: branches slender, drooping, glabrous : leaves short- petioled, spreading, approximate, narrow or oblong- lanceolate, acuminated; upper surface dull, glaucous, glabrous ; under pale, glabrous or pubescent ; corymbs small, few-flowered, .i'J. seems to be a rare plant. I have not myself me the accompanvin- drawing having been prepared my absence Iroiii India. 841. SoL^^NUM (Nvctf.eium) WiGHTii (Nees) herba- ceous, armed with acieulate prickles, and clothed with fasi- clcd hairs: leaves cordate, ovate or elliptic, repaudo-sinu- ate • li-uitiferous peduncles elongated reflexed : the three inferior anthers hu-er ; fruit covered bv the persistent calyx. I\'i'cs in Avl. Acad. Cais. Nat. Cur. Vol. 18. A rare plant found sparin^'ly on the Xeilgherries near Coonoor in jungle, the specimen figured was not however from that station. 842. WAHr.KNBERGIA PEROTirOLIA. (W. & A- DC. Deniilla AViUd. Koxb.) stem erect, flexuose, pilose, angled i-ainuus : leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate, acuminated attenuated at the base, glabrous ; the margin somewhat un- dulately- crisp, denticulate : peduncles terminal pubescent naked :"tube of the calyx hairy ; with shorter,linear acumi- nate, glabrous lobes : capsule globose. DC. Prod. 7, p. 434. Found not uncommon in cultivated sandy soils near the Coast. Leaves finely ciliate, capsule 3 celled. 843 1 Embrtofteris GLOTENirERA.— Male and female 844 j (Roxl). Diospi/ras ijhiUiwsa Konig. in Roxb ) leaves linear lanceolate glabrous male peduncles iroin three to four flowered with about 20 tilaments and forty anthers: fertile flowers solitary, with from one to four sterile stamens styles tour. Ruxh. Fl. Ind. % p. 533. The specimens here figured v/ere found in Malabar. They seem to correspond so nearly with Roxburgh's des- cription that 1 can scarcely doubt their being the same species, though they vary in some points. Judging from one or two I have seen cultivated at Madras it seeins a middle sized tree. 815. Ceropegia bulbosa. (Roxb. W. & A. Conttiba- tions) twining, glabrous, rather fleshy : root tuberous •. leaves from suborbicular to lanceolate acuminated : pe- duncles many flowered, shorter than the leaves : calycine segments much shorter than the ventricose base of the corolla ; tube of the corolla subclavate, segments of the limb enlarging upwards, much shorter than the tube, cili- ated : middle lobes of the leaflets of the corona subulate incurved at top, lateral ones minute, acuminated lying ou the primary ones. W. A. contributions p. 32. The specimen figured was grown in m> garden from a root found in sandy soil on the sea coast near Point Calimere, I am uncertain whether I have since met with the plant. 84(1. Cfropfgia AlYSORF.sisis. (R. W.) suffrutecose, glabrous, twini'ig : leaves broad cordate ovate, acumi- nated: peduiicl 's about the length of the petiols, four to eight flowered : lacinicc of the calyx acute, much shorter than the ^r'atly dilated base of the corolla: tube of the corolla short, suddenly expanding into a large 5 elift limb, segments short, bioad ovate, adhering at the point, glabrous on the margins: lobes of the corona all ligulate, the lateral ones about equaling the primary : follicles long glender irregularly curved. Mysore twining in hedges December 1834. I "have not since met with this beautiful, copi nisly floweriii'-T, plant. Flowrrs jiale straw-coloured. It is most nearly allied to C claj^mis luit is readily distinguished at first sight by the uniionu colour of its flowers, their being quite glabrous, but more and satisfactorily by the divisions of the stamiiial crown which are all equal in place cf the lateral oues only about half the lenjjth of the primary. 847 HoYA ovALiFOLiA. (W. & A.) climbing, rootiog alon- 'the stems, glabrous : leaves fleshy oval acuminated at both ends : peduncles shorter than the leaves many flowered • corolla puberulous within, segments ovate acute, leaflets of the staminal crown oval, obtuse, interior angle short : stigma muticous. irirjhi's contributions, p. 37. -\ handsome species but apparently of rare occurreHce as I have not met with it for several years, the specmieu figured was found iu Malabar. 84a Tyi.opuoba fasciculata. (Ham. W. & A. Con- tributionO erect, or slightly twining, glabrous : leaves ap- proximited ovate somewhat fleshy, slightly decurrent to- wards the ends of the branches: peduncles erect flexuose, beariu'T at the flexures two or three flowered facicles : leaflets of the staminal crown oblong ovate, bluntish : pol- len masses transverse : stigma apiculate. Wi!;ht'!i contri- butions, I. c. Copper mountains Bellary frequent, twining on grass also on low grassy hills at Courtallum twining among long erass. When it meets with support it twines to a small Extent. In the analysis the peculiarities of this species are not so well shown as 1 could have wished. 849. Ophioxylon sebPENTInum. (Linn.) This is a plant of frequent occurrence in moist woods and bein'' one of great beauty is also much cultivated as aa ornamental shrub. The leaves are generally whorled, trom three to five round the joints, lanceolite acute or acu- minated, waved on the margin, glabrous; cymes axillary ou loner peduncles usually erect: pedic«ls and calyxes bright shiinu'' red whicli, contrasting with the pure white flowers, aive the cvmes a showy appearance especially when com- bined witii its clusters of black berries. 850. Aniseia unifloba. (Cholsy.) stems glabrous or pilose at the apex, prostrate : leaves oblong on very short petiols, mucronate at the apex, glabrous : peduncles equal in length to the petiols 1 flowered : outer sepals joined obliquely at the base. Dun. gard. diet. 4, p. 295. _ A rare plant in Coromandel. I have only once met with it near Negapatam, where this drawing was made. As I found it growing on the edge of a tank in moist sandy soil it may perhaps be more frequent in the more humid climate of Malabar where Rheede also found it. Sol Argyreia spEciosA.(Sweet Choisy. iZifea, R. W.) tomentnse : leaves large cordate, acute, glabrous above or rarely villous, thickly nerved beneath and clothed with sdky silvery down : peduncles about equal in length to the petiols, at first umbellately capitate the divisions after- wards elongating, forming lax cymes : bracteas acute un- equal : sepals ovate very blunt. Don. gard. diet. 4, p. 2o4. A most powerful twiner and splendid plant. The juice like that of most of the genus is milky and viscid, the flowers pink or rose colored within, but appear nearly whitft exteriorly, owing to the thick coat of white hair with which the tube 'is covered. Except in the campanulate corolla this is a Eivea having the 4 celled ovary of that genus. 852. Datura, alba. (Nees.— D. inetei Rosb.) leaves ovate, acuminated, repandly toothed, unequal at the base, and are, as well as the stem, smoothish : stamens enclosed : fruit prickly. Don. cjnrd. did. A, p. il i. A very common plant, possessing, in every part, intense- ly narco'tic properties which has led to its being benefici- ally emploved in medicine for the relief of various nervous disorders a'nd, among evil disposed persons, for other most^ mischievous purposes. 853. Physalis Somnifera. (Link. Nees,) shrubby : leaves entire : flowers crowded, nearly sessile, subvertice- late. Don. gard. diet. 4, p. 44, This is a common plant but, so far as I am aware, a useless one to man. ( 4 ) 4 834 SoLANUM Tnii-OBATUM. (Linn.) frute.cent, .c.nd<;nt, prickly ; prickle, hooked: leaves pa-'dunlonu ly 3 lobcd, o 3 lobed obtuse, glabrous and are, as ;^ell as ll e petiole and peduncles, pnckly : racemes subuu.bellate lerminal and lateral : corollas deeply 5 chit. Don. gard. '''1 'common plant found creeping on the Sronnd or climbing among hedges and bu.heB Ihe co or ol the flower v^iries fron. ^vhite to purplisli the berries red. 855 Stiiigv euphRASiodes. (B.Mith. liucln,crn e;ph. rfls/n«?c,s Vahl.l3enth.) neatly glabrous, rough, l-aves linear obh.ng : calvx oblong, markod with about ^0 str.oo tube ol- the" corolla pub-scent. _ Benth. Scrof Ind. p^\. Thi=pl^"t is common m wet pasture land Since the publica'tion or his synopsis of Indian Scrotu annc. M • lientham has revised his previous labours in his m and has separated the Indian species ot Buchncra, 1 o ti e Cape ones, under the generic name Stnya, n.a ny on account of the very difterent form ot the coroUa- bein" ^trai^rht salver-shaped in Bachnora and abruptly bent°in Strk/a. This therefore being a true Stnga I have nd o ed the name and quote that on the plate as a r m m, without, however, approving of the principle and tUl ess the practice of constructing genera based on ^u h lender points of difference. So far as I can judge f,"n perusal of the generic character, I should suppose r t a sub'^enus would have amply sufliced, hereby avoid- : the infurv to the science arising from breaking down lood na u -al genera and unnecessarily adding to the al- Kady too long list of synonyms under which Botany groans. 85G. SuTERA oLANDUiosA. (Rosb. Benth.) diflfuse, clothed with glandular hairs, viscid, segments oi the pi - mtificd leaves cut; the upper ones, with the racunes of flowers, alternate : sepals obtuse.-ii.«i/m«'. ^'■-Jfiis drawing was not made under tny direction and the a,rdvsis are less perfect than I could have wished. J he Xi orn ing tl is genus are low difluse herbs with op- 'posUe ,,innatitled feaves, pedicelled axillary, solitary, or occasionally, racemose flowers. 857. BoNNAYA ii.ssopioinEs. (Bei.th.) stem elongated las ■ leaves oblong lanceolate, remote : pedicels axillary elongated, fililorm corolla three or four times longer than the calyx. Benth. Si/nop. p. 34. This is a common plant on the banks of paddy fields and in wet pasture every where during the rainy season. 858. BoNNAYA MINIMA ? (G. Don. Graliola minima. Roth.) stem filifoim erect simple : leaves oblong, sessile, remote, serrulated and are, as well as the calycme seg- iDCiits, ciliated on the margin : capsule oblong, rather longer thiui the pedicels. Don. f;ard. diet. 4, •''■'f'- this very minute species is found in paddy helds, but to the best of my recollection is of rare occurrence. 1 he flowers are pale vellow. I am uncertain whether tins is Roth's plant, but 1 think it corresponds well with the character and, like it, only attains the height ol about 3 inches. 859 Doi'ATRiuM i.oi!ET.ioiDEs. (Benth. Grntiola lohe- lioides Iloxb.) stem elongated, sparingly branched : leaves of the stem minute.obtuse : capsules globose : corolla ne^irly five times the length of the cal.NX. BcNth. S'piop. p. 31. Frecnient in rice fields growing in water, flowers usnal- Ir nale blue, loiiiiish pedicelled ; raclmes on the ends ot the branches, the draftsman from not understanding ! , not cloarlv shown the structure of the capsule whicU is four valvcd. This however is unquestionably iMr. Benthain's plant. . , Figure 4 ia a detached antlier considerably magnihed. C 8G0 LiMKorniLA polt'^tachta. (Benth.) leaves emersed terniiaielv whorled, 3 nerved : racemes branched, slender many flowered : flowers^ small sessile, hcnili. Si/i-op. Scropuhiri/iw Indicce, p. , \ot unfrequent in li.e helds and other flooded grounds in the Tanjore district and indeed in most parts of Loro- iiiaiidel. Flowers small white. 8G1. LiMSOPHILLA RACEMOSA (BcUth. Cl/rllla OfJUd- iica Roxb.) leaves eni'^rsed opposite or subverticelled, three nerved, entire, or the lower ones divided : racemes dense- many flowered ; flowers pedicelled and like the mem- branaceous calvx smooth. Bexili. Syiwp. Scroph. Ltd 20. A native of flooded ground such as rice fields the flow- ers are purplish, possessing considerable fragrance. 862. ToRE.NiA ASiAiiCA. (Linn.) leaves ovate or ovate lanceolate : peduncles axillarv fascicled : calyx oblong, con- tracted at the base, about half the length of the corolla. Benth. Si/Hup. Scrojili. hid. p. 38. .,, j- An alpine or subalpine plant very widely ditiused ui alpiue re-rions. The specimen selected by the drafts- man for the illu.nration of this species is not so favoura- ble a one as might have been. The plant itself has little beautv, except when forming a compact tuft with a num- ber of open blossoms when it does become one strikingly so, owing to the deep rich purple of its flowers. 863 Vandelia culstaCea. (Benth. Gratiola hicida, Roxb ) diffuse, glabrous : leaves ovate : peduncles axi lary or subraciniose two or three times longer than the calyx : calyx before expansion 5 toothed, afterwards o parted, ex- ceeding'the ovate capsules. Benth. Si/uop. Scroph. Ind. 3o. A ve'ry widely distributed plant and well represented ui this figure. 861. Anisomeles malab.uica. (Brown. Benth.) tomen- toselv villous : leaves oblong lanceolate narrowing at the base- verticiUasters manv flowered, dense, or at leiigtl elongating into large cymes; floral leaves bra':ts, and subulate Teeth of the calyx very soft. Benth. Lab. p. 704. Frequent in m .ny parts of the Carnat.c, but has un ex- tensive range, being also found in Burmah, the Mauritius, Penaug, Java, China, &c. 865. Anisomeees ovata. (R. Brown.-Benth.) hairy or subMabrous: leaves ovate or roundish, aoumuia ed, rounded or truncately subcordate, at the base; verticil a - ters deus" many flowered, teeth of the calyx lanceolate '''^ A"onf^i:;f platu .(ot'Sy ornamental and with as wide 3 geographical range as the preceding. 866. Ltuc.AS B.iT.oRA. (Brown. Benth.) herbaceous diff-use : leaves ovate, coarsely dentate, pubescent on both sides ; verticiUasters two flowered ; bracteas nunule : calyx tubular, mouth equal, teeth subulate. Benth. I. c. p. 610 \ low growing plant, common in and lungles, very poivmori.hous in its general appearance. 1 he form here lepresented is not the most common, but being sm abU. lb the size of the plates was taken. 1 have seen plants three or four feet long, usually lying on the ground, but sometimes climbing to that height among bushes. 867. Lr.oNOTis NEPETioFOEiA. (R. Brown-Benth.)her. Laceons : leaves ovate crenate : all the teeth of the calyx spinous, the upper one larger ovate : corolla ( ed) about twice the length of the calyx. Benth. !. c. p. 618. This verv Conspicuous plant, owing to its Ini-ge redish oran-e coloured flowers, is usually found growing among rubbish and in neglected places, flowering at^' It is wldelv distributed over the world, >^eHig found in e tropical parts of Asia, Africa, America, and Ne^Y EolLiud. 5 ) / I ( ij : ■ - ij i I I »|{ 8G8 OciMUM Basilicum. var. th Yr.sni.oRCM (Ccnth.) Jierbaceous, erect or ascending : leaves petioled, ovate or oblong narrowing at the base, subdentate, glabrous ; petiols cili.Uo: racemes simple : cal^ x longer than the pedicel the fruitiferous ones reflexed, campanulately inflated, gibbous above the base, superior division ovate concave, witti a short acumen, its wings not extending to the base ot the calyx ; the lateral teeth ovate acute, the lower ones seta- ceous pointed ; superior filaments appeiidiculate— [var. THYRSIFLORCM erect, glabrous, petiols and calyx scarcely ciliaie, raceme thyrsoidly ramose. Bcnlli Lab. page 4. 869. Pkemna. i.atifolia. (Roxb.) arboreous : leaves round cordate, entire, smooth : corymbs axillary and ter- minal : throat of the corolla woolly. Boxh. Fl. Imi:i,p. /6. A common shrub, flowers of a dirty yellow colour, drupe about the size of a pea erect wriuckled 4 celled. 874. BoEKHAAViA rHOcuMBENS. (Roxb.) root fusi- form perenial : branches ])rocuinbeut, smooth : leaves variously cordate, covered with u silver coloured pellicle underneath: flowers terminal in long peduncled heads : stamens three. Jiuxb. FL Lid. \, p. MS. A very common and troublesome weed, always in flower. The young leaves are ealen by the natives as greens and made into curries. The analysis of the seed, though strictly correct, as seen in the .sections represented, does not convey a correct idea of the structure, a circumstance which i regret to find I overlooked when sending the drawing to the press, fig. G seems to represent the embryo surrounded by albumen in place of conduplicate and enclosing a central albumen. Tliis is shown in figure 7, where the cotyledons are unfold- ed, but not clearly. , t •• Roxburgh seems to think this the only Inoian species, there are certainly other two, namely, the following which 1 have ventured to consider undescribed and another larger flowered species probably B. diffusa. $70. Barlema BuXFor.iA. (Lin. Nees.) shrubby : hairs ^prea(ling• : bracteoles axillary paired, spinous, opposite, divariced, alternately one flowered and sterile : leaves el- liptic, acute at the base, spinou^^ly mucronate : laciniue ot the calyx shorter than the spines, the inferior one obtuse, cmarginate. Nees. in Wall. pi. Asiat. rat: 3, p. 94. A low growing thorny shrub, frequent in poor lands and about road sides. The flowers open in the course of the night and generally drop before midday. They vary in colour from white to rose colour. 871. Hexacentkis mySokensis. (R. W.) leaves ellip- tic oblong, acuminate, crenate, three nerved, reticulated : anthers bearded : stigma tubular. Mysore.— 1 am indebted for the drawing and specimens of this plant to the kindness of Mr. Stokes of the Mysore commission, who found it near Nuggur in Mysore. It is the only specimen I have seen : the dissections were made bv my Draftsman. The limb of the corolla is bright yel- low the tube purplish. The bearded anthers and tubular stigma seem to indicate that it might form the type of a new, or at all weiits a sub genus, but not having truit 1 prefer leaving it here. P. S.— Since writing the above 1 have seen fruit which does not difl'er from'those of Hexaeeiitiis 1, therefore, tliink it advisable to view the hairy anthers rather as a sectional than generic character. 872. TnuNnERGiA grandiflora. (Roxb. Nees.) scan- dent : leaves cordate, angled, acuminated, hispid : limb of the calyx truncated, entire. Nees. in Wail. pL As. rar. 3 ■p. Ti. This plant I have never met with wild. The specimen here reprL-sented was obtained fiom the Mysore Horti- cultural Sociotv's (harden at Bangalore. It is an exten- sively twining handsome iilant, well fitted for arboui-s. 873. Stenosipiionium nussEr.TANCM. (Nees.) leaves ovate, dentate, glabrous oencath : bracts rhomboid obtuse, cuspidate, equaling the calyx. Nees. in Wall. pi. Asiat. rar. 3, p. 84. The specimen here figured diflers a good deal in ap- pearance from the one so named by Professor Nees in my licrbarium, especially in the shorter spikes and greater abundance of llowers, but still I believe them only difter- ent states of the same plant, they are fVom the same lo- caliiy, namely the Tulney mountains. This fonu is also met "with on the Neilgherries. 87.5. BoERHAAviA sTEi.LATA. (R. W.) decumbent : )e ives succulent, cordate ovate, obtuse, mucronate : ra- cemes long peduncled: flowers verticelled, subsessile, in- terruptedlv subspicate : ovary elongated,clayate, furrowed, the interniediate ridges furnished with viscid glands, five, round the apex, elorigated, spreading starlike. Tinnevelly in black cotton ground frequent, forming dense tufts, also, but sparingly, in Coimbatore. Its whole appearance is difterent from the preceding and is at once distinguished by its white flow^-rs, the viscid glands and stellate processes surrounding the apex of the fruit. In that part of its structure it approaches B. scaiidens aa figured by Gartner. 876. Aerua jayanica. (Juss.) stem erect, and like the oblong obtuse pale greenish leaves, clothed with woolly tomentnui : spikes cylindrical, crowded towards the ends of the branches, villously tomentose. Spreiigel Sy.-<1. Veg. ], ;). 81.3. a c a An exceedingly common and troublesome weed, tound nearly all over" the Southern provinces of India, but so little'known in the Northern ones that l^ioxburgh seeins never to have met with it, as it is not mentioned in hi« Flora Iiidica. r •■ i 1 flowerin" plant— 2 detached flower-3 flower forciblv opened— 4 o°varv and stamens detached— 5 ovary opened showin" the single ovule and podosperm-6 ovule detach- ed-7 niature secd-S cut vertically the embryo rolled round a minute farinacious albumen. 877 ACALYPHA iNDicA. (Linn.) spikes axillary lax: male flowers few ; females more numerous, altei-nate : involucra several flowered, glabrous, subdentate : leaves long petioled rhombeo ovate, serrated. Sprengel Syst. Veg. 3, p. 880, slighUii altered. , , . • , i •„ Frequent among bushes in subalpine jungles, also in wardens and about old walls where vegetation is luxuriant. The curious bodv, apparently sterile flowers, which ter- minates each spike in this species, readily distinguishes it from all the other Iiuiian ones. 1 flowering plant. --2 portion of a spike showing both male and female flowers with its terminal cross— 3 a male flower-4 female flowers and bractea-0 fruit, one of the carpels opened to show the seed-G a fruit cut trans- versely. 878 D10SCOE.T.A BULBirERA. (Linn.) leave? alternate deJplv cordate, acuminate, 7 nerved ; the exterior nerves ■'clift'- transverse veins reticulated: stem bulbiferous : niale spikes fascicled. Sprengel Syst Teg. 2 p 152. This drawing' was made from a cultivated plant which mav perhaps account for the flowers being bisexual in place ofdioicous as usual in the genus. 1 flowerino- plant with a large round tuber on the stsm, —o flowers- 3 calvx. lobes detached-4 a flower, the calyx lobes removed'to show the sexual organs-5 stamens. ( G ) « I I KYDIA. Roxbnrgli. RnybuMi in PstablisbinE this genus assigned two spe- cies to it, cahjcina and K.fraterna but ^ith characters 8 . o osel ' constructed that, but for his figures there wonld have been some difficulty in distinguistring thetn. Having L specimens of three different forms it became nec-.^sary Tde ermine tlieir species. This I found more diffi h.1 han 1 had anticipated. Had I only possessed the plant here figured No. 879 1 should have had no besitafon m considering it Kfraterna, vvith which, t sufhciently ..ccords n he for,,,, size and number of the segments of the invo- ucruni, also in form of the stamens and in the stigmas not , ect ng from the staminal tube. But on the other and, 1 could find no mark by which to sepai^te u from another, herbarium specimen I had, marked E. calyctna, Th?s^:d me t examine the only flower left on the fertile specimen which proved it. identity with Ro^l-'J'-g^^ K cahidna. The circumstance of every flower of th^ one fa'v ng passed into fruit while all those of the other- were sterile at once solved the difficulty by showing that he t ee is occasionally polygamous, that ,s, sometime* fer , e on etimes sterile.' RoKburgh's A', ca ycma is the fertile form, as indicated in the flower by the largely developed style; and stigmas projecting beyond the ^t-^'-'a ^^^^^ his K fratcrnu is the stenle one, in which the female organs ^re comparatively rudimentary and not seen until brou-Tht to light by dissection. For these reasons I unite hi wo species, under the older name oUahjcvm, which I have further endeavoured to illustrate by contrasting the analysis of his two species with a similar series prepared ftx m my sterile form and fruit taken from the fertile spe- cimen To the difference of appearance between ray figures and his I attach no in.pcrtance, depending as they do on the flowers of my specimen having faded somewhat, be- fore they reached the artist. After uniting the fertile and sterile forms, I had still a third to dispose of, that i have considered a distinct species, and have dedicated it to the ever-to-be respected founder ot the genus. The preceding observations will explain the cause of Roxburgh's never having seen the ripe seed vessel of K. frati.rna though the " structure and contents of the gerraen promise the same parts as that of the other specie.. S79. KvDtA CALVCTNA (R. W. K calijcina and fratrrnn Tio^h.) arboreous, polygamous : fertile flowers: involucels usually four leaved, longer than the calyx, spa- hulate, enlarging with the fruit: filaments united the r whole length into a tube : style elongated, stigraas project- h^ male° involucel 4-6 leaved shorter than the calyx, lamx.olatc blunt: filaments united about halt their length, free above : petals in both emargin.ite, ciliate. Howers white or pali yellowish. The figure is of the male plant correspoudmg with K. fraterna Roxb. In the valleys of the Circar mountains Roxb on the northern or Mvsore slopes of the Neilghernes flowering time the cool season : August, in Mysore. 880. A. Kydlvcalycin.^, dissections from the Neil- ^'Tan expanded flower seen from above-2 seen from be- low-3 corolla and stamens detnched-4 calyx detached, 0-involu. el and rudimentary ovary-6 anthers-7 style and stiduas shorter than the staminal tube-8 ovarj tut ve,ticairy--9 cut transversely-lO & 1 1 front and back views of immature fruit taken from a fertile specimen. B Ktd.a tratekna (Roxb.) (By mistake marked K cclnclna) showing the short contracted staminal tube and lengthened filaments of the preceding form, topiea from Roxburgh's figure. C Ktdia caltcina. (lloxb.) (also marked wrons;) showing the short tube of the filaments and anthers sessile on the apex with the top. of the long styles and stigmas projecting beyond. Copied from Roxburgh s figure. 881 KYDI4 RoxBLRGHiANA. (R.AV.) arboreous, poly- gamous? fertile flowers: involucel 4-5 leaved ; leaves at first obovate obtuse, about the lengtli of the calvx, after- wards enlarging, becoming narrow spathulate : filaments short, united at the base, free above ; style exceeding the stamens, stigmas large dilated. Flowers small, tube pur- ple, limb pale rose cokur. , t> 7 i Hamilton has a species which he named H pvherulenla but it is not described and may be either this or the other. Dissections the same as above. 88-^. AIicRocarffiNA qlinqcf.locularis. (W. & A.) involucel leaves minute, caducous, 3-5-lobed : ovarium 5-celled : stigma 5-lobed. JV. A. Prod. p. / 1. Slopes of the Neilgherries frequent. A moderate tree flowering in July and August, maturing its frmt dur ng the cool season. This, which is the only species of the aenus ought, I think, to have been united to Enuehlccna DC. from which it assuredly does not differ in any essea- t wering branch-2 flowers-3 petals back and front ,eins-4stamens-5 anthers-6 calyx and ovary-/ stigraa _8 ovarv cut transversely-!) cut vertically- 10 a Irmt about half grown-11 cut verticallv shownig .everal supre- posed seed-12 a seed-13 flower bud and nivolucel-14 & 15 upper and under surfaces of a leaf all magnified. 883 Impatiess, OPPOSiTiFOi.iA. (Linn.) A. : branches diffuse, filifomi, flaccid : leaves opposite, from narrow linear-lanceolate at the top of the stem 0 bon d obovate-lanceolate near the base, acute, "?embranac ous slightly serrated, serratures bristly : pedicels ax liar or inpaiiinot halfthe length of the leaves, very s ender lower sepal cucuUate, with a very short conu al nearly stra'sht spur : anterior lobe ot the petals elongated. pLgnluch towards the base: stigmas united : capsule ^^Xlab:r-it;^M?; This I W in^reat Sinfrsr^^=S^'=^a:i:£ and place the following. 884. Tmpatiens Kleinii. (W. & A.) W. &: A. : erect with spreading diffuse branches : leaves oppo e from 'obovate and obtuse to lanceolate and acute, with a Ce gland on each side near the petiole ; >'rPe>-J . HO. Ul ca,mot help thinking that, u, quotn,g Rheede s We a a synonym for his, Roxburgh ha. hdlen mto enor a dthat llheede-s plant is identical vyUh nune but diExnc fJom llu.bnrgh's, I must however leave them as find lliem for the present. 896. Basella AtBA. (Linn.) stem tvyining perennial : leaves ovate undulated : spikes peduacled simple. Spre^'g. %ItI::!Lou plant occurring in .very P;; J of the country the succulent leaves are dressed and eat like Za.^; The most curious part ot- the structure ot this plants the seed the embryo of vrluch is rolled up like the main spring of a watch. 897 Euphorbia antiquorum. (Linn.) stems jointed srect ramous, 3-4 or more angled angles furntsned with numer us protuberances (floral eyes or buds) each armed with two short spreading stipulary spmes : joints stra ,1 Tduucles solitarv or in pairs, usually 3 flowered, a httle above the axles of the stipules. Common all over India : a very polymorphous plant. No cTaracter can be derived from the number of atjgles thll Ln^'T most variable. It is however quite distinct from he following and easily distinguished by the strlhtnot.wisted°stems and the peduncles beiug f v oue or two, from each protuberance or bud ; while in the ether they are numerous. 898. Euphorbia toetilhs. (Rotller.) stems erect, ramous, jointed, joints spirally twisted, angular; angles fanash;d with armed protuberances ; flowers numerous fascicled on the angles : peduncles 3 flowered. 1 suspect when this famil>- shall have been more closely studied the best specifie as well as sectional characters Vdl be derived from the parts enclosed within the cup of The involucrum, the appendages ot the fl--^^./''" Viewing each stamen and ovary as a d.stinc flower These parts, as shown in this and the preceding plate, are sufficiently distinct in form to encourage further uivesti- gatiou in that direction. 899 Kcempferta galakga. (Linn.) leaves round ovate cordate : spikes central, upper segments ot the inner K^r.lpr of the nerianth, corolla, oval enuirgiuate. ^ S s I ha'e only 'seen wild on the Malabar const, the figlc was taken from a plant 1 found in Travaocore ueai Trevandrum. 900. v,„r»>. (Sl.o.t.) in No. ' S"';; rare, while the other was most abundant. 901. MicRosTTLis VF,Rsicor.oa. (Liiid.)stem leaO^ j leaves cordate or ovate oblong,abrnptly petioled " Plaited • lip transverse, dentated on the margin, >c""'''e. £htly overlapping at the base : column b-coinia e ^ tl- ap« sepals : and petals secund. Luul. genera and .jnucs, ^•lI>anWe,myZ«r«? Richard Ann. '^^^^.f'^I^j^^^-.i^Jta. En-queut on the Neilgherries and other elevated ^''^li^sSd^i^rCniguredwas gathered - the Pnlney ruouuui'us but i3 quite iaeutic^l >vilh theNcilgherry plant. 90". MicBOSTYLtsRHEEDii. (Lind.) stemlcaly : leaves oblong lanceolate plaited : lip truncated dentate, la.-gely overlapping at the base. Lind. g.n. and s/'"'^- /J- Pulnev mountains among pasture— August ISJ'J- This s'pccies has long rested on Kheede s hsure, and Dr. Lin. lev in his recent work " Genera and bpeces ot Orchideous plants" remarks " I do not think there are any materials in this country sufficient for detennining cxacilvwhat the 3/a/.t, W.„.K>r,, - , subglobosc cuaSllaStwi small, erect, intermediate oue two lobed cordate. Lind. I. c. p. 30. Courtallum-I have also frequently met wilh U m other stations also iu Ceylou. ( 9 ) f)Of< BFNnROBUM rrr.HARDi. (Roxb.) stems pendu- lous ..IM.Kius : leaves ovate-lanceolate acute : flowers in pairs'lnnuiii" a spurious raceme : sepals acumaiale inem- Irauaceous : petals larger than tl.e upper sepal, acuminate : lip dilated cuculatc somewhat truncated ciliated. LmU. 1. c. p. 79. Pendulous from trees. Tlie ignorance of the Trans- ferrer of the habit of this plant, had made him turn it U[)side down. f)09. DENOROinuM TTktneaxam. (Lindley) stem erect, fleYuose,ckvate,clothed vvitii the lax shealhs ot tl.e leaves : leaves linear lanceolate, acute : r.iceine.; axillary, spreaanig, many flowered : bracteas, inimite ovate : sepnls and petals ovate lanceolate acute, about equal : lip tliree l„bed unit- ed with the base of the column ; a loucriludmal callosity on the disk ; lateral lobes acute, the middle one roundisti, fleshy inciso crenate. Lind. I. c. p. 0 0. Epiphytical on branches of trees in Malabar. " The spreading many flowered peduncled r.cemes, comhnied wth the figure of the lip are alone sufficient to distinguish tiiis species." Lind. 910. DendRoricm barbatulum. (Lindley) stems terete* aphyllous : racemes lateral and tennimil, ii'any flowered : sepals ov.ite acuminate ; petals obovate acute larger than the upper sepal: lip Hat, obovate-obtuse, apeculate, entire, bearded at the base. Lind. I. cfJ. 84. This seems to be a very handsome species, growing on trees but of which little is yet known, the specimens from which it was taken up having been poor ones. 1 he one figured here was found in Malabar. The flowers are pale straw coloured. 911. CvMBiDiOM TRiSTE. (WiUd.) leaves terete : uiTi- bels subsessile : sepals and petals conmvent fleshy, ob- long, cymbiform : lip oblong, about twice as broad as the sepals. Lind. /, c, IC^. 914. Asia LATiroi iA. (Linclley) leaves oblong plicate shorter than the scap>- : lip unguiculate three lobed, co- hering with the elongated base of the column ; lateral lobes oblusp, shorter than the roundish ovate acuie mid- dle one ; the claws furnished with three truncated lainel- loe tt rminating below tiie siims of the lobes, that of the middle one G toothed, the lateral oue8 shorter. Liitd. I. c. ])■ 130. Not having t!;e original drawing by me I am at present unable to give the station of iliis plant, but believe I'lilnfry mountains. I suspect it is not the species des- cribed h\ Dr. Lindley, differing as it dues so mateiially in the cliaracter of tiie lip and its lamelloe, neither do I feel quite certain tliat tiie structure of tlie anther case is the same as in his, but as I have not the speciinens at liand to ascertain that point by examination. 1 am for tlie present compelled to leave the matter in a state of uncertainty. This is a diflicult plant to dry hence Dr. Lindley seems imperfectly acquainted with it, having only had a bad worm eaten specimen to examine. I cannot understand, however, on wliat principle the racemes ot this and one or two otl er allied species are called uml)els, they are^ short but distinctly racemose. Another peculiarity o some species of the section of the genus to which this be- longs is the form of the lip, a hollow inflated sack. 910 GioDORuM DiLATATOM. (R. Brown) scape short- er than the leaves, spike pendulous : flowers congested hp Eubcalarate, dilated at_^the apex, crenulate. iBrown Hort. Kew. Lind. I. c. p. 175. This is a widely distributed plant. Rheede found it in Malabar, Roxburgh in tlie Circars, Blume in Java, Colonel \Yalker in Ceylon, and the plant here hgured 1 found within a few miles of Coimbatore. Kanathkoovoodoo, August 1843, in clefts of rock un- der the shade of bushes. . The figures of the elaborate analysis seem all so plain as scarcely to require explanation witli the exception of No. 13, which is a transverse section oi a nearly lull grown fruit. 913. Eut.opuiA viRENS. (il. Brown) leaves grass-like, linear-lanceolate, shorter than the branched scape : sepals :uul petals oblong obtuse narrower at the base, tessellated : lip three lobcd bearded, lateral lobes shorter middle one, ovate obtuse with an eiectish couical spur. Lind. I.e. This specimen was found with the preceding in clefts of rock filled with vegetable eartli hi great abundance lioiue of the spccimeus upwards of 3 feet high. 915. Vasha sPATHiHTA. (Sprengcl) leaves ovate oblong obtU'^e, oblique, emarsinate : racemes erect many flowered, much longer than tlie stem vnd leaves : sepals and petals oblong obtuse flat : two ctlosities in front of tlie base of the lip, limb rhomboid, incurved at the apex, crestate : ovary six winged. Lhtd. I. c. p. 216. A beautiful species growing on trees " tiie leaves and racemes often marked wiili blood coloured spots, flowers yellow spotless, base of the lip white w^iihin." The specimen figured was gatiiered in Malabar. 916. Vanda Koxbt-rghii. (R. Brown) leaves oblique ly tridentate at the apex : racemes erect, longer than the leaves : sepals and petals oblong obovate undulated olijuse, middle lobe of the lip emargiuate. Lind. I. c. p '2\5. A splendid species, remarkable for its finely lessilated petals; is found epiphytical on tiess, especially the mango. 'J'he specimen figured was found in Malabar. This is the Cybidmiiun tesseloides of Roxb. I'l. lud. 917. Saccolabium WiGHTiANVM. (Lindley, (EridfS radicosum ? Uicli.) leaves channeled, narrow, obtuse, flesh} , subequal at the apex : racemes ercL-t ranious, long- er than the leaves : sepals and "petals ovate obtuse : lip Avith a cylindrical obtuse bent spur ; limb furnished at the base with a two lobed fleshy callosity, lateral lobes rounded ; capsules three wiiige and iliree jurrowed. Litul. I. c. p. '221. Epiphytical on branches of trees, this specimen grew 19 from the Pulney's, flowers rose colored. The specimens fiom which the species was originally taken up, were far from good and the character is una- voidablv imperfect, but suflncieutly so to leave little rooi^ to doubt that this is tiie jilant. I have quoted Richard (Annal des Sciences. Vol. 15) with a doubt though I believe unnecessarilv his description and figure, agreeing so well with my plant. The erect not recumbent column and entire not 3 lobed lip of his plant show that it is not referable to CEi ides at least as defined by Lindley. 018. CalastiiE emargixata. (Lindley) leaves broad lanceolate: spike erect slightly pubescent : hp with two callosities, limb 3 lobed, middle one emargiuate, spathu- late the lateral ones minute : spur linear somewhat com- pressed equaling the ova.y. Lend. I. c. 2i9/rom Blume. Amhl^gloUis emarginalc Biume. This plant does not seem hitherto to to hnve been foun.l in India, the above character, which applies w'cll, having been taken from a Java specimen. I lowers pur- plish blue or violet. ( 10 ) 1 ( I 1 919. Platanthera mtra. fR. W.) stem erect, lower lialf felothed with slieathing sciilos, above lealy : leaves ovate lanceolate acute : bracteas foiiaceouf, ovate, cucul- late, aciiiiiiiiated, equaling tlie flowers . sepals ovate obtuse the lateral ones ascending : petals smaller, linear lanceo- late; lip 3 lol)ed, about the k-nath ofthe sepal-, lobes, ob- tuse, entire, lateral ones smaller ; Kpur pendulous cla- vate somewhat shorter than the ovary. Puliiey nionniains in pasturs-s among long g;rass, flowers yellow. I have not met with this species in any other station. It seems a genuine Platanthera though so very different from the next I thought at first it might be a Peristijlus but the free sepals and long spur induce me to p lace it here. 920. Pr.ATA^THFRA Sdsannoj. (Lindley) stem leafy about "three flowered : leaves ovate oblong acute, upper ones cuculate acuminated: sepals ovate obtuse, lateral ones oblique the dorsal one rhomboid : petals linear acute; hp Ihre.' tiarted, lateral lobes truncated many cleit, the mid- dle one linear spur double its length. Laid., L. c. p. 295. Pulney TTiount^iins with the other. This magnificent species seems very widely distributed Amaboyna, Cocliin China, New Holland, and India all claim it as a native. I liave never met with it except once, but I have a specimen from tlie vicinity of Bombay, for which 1 am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Law, of the Bombay Civil Service, as well as for many other liighly interesting additions to my herbarium, for all of which 1 beg to tender my sincere thanks. 921. Feristtlus plantagbma. (Lindley) leaves (3) erect oblong lanceolate acute, almost as long as the spike: sepals ovate : petals roundish obtuse : lip roundish obtuse- ly tridentate ; spur spheroid. Lindley, I. c. 300. In moist pasture in the forests of Paulghaut flowering in May Mid June, flowers small, white. Dr. Lindley des- cribes this species from Ceylon specimens. 922. Habenaria Lindletana. (R. W.) leaves few diatant, roundish uvate cordate, acuminated : raceme many flowered : bracteas foiiaceous equaling the flowers : posterior sepal truncated at the apex, the lateral ones ovate acute : petals two parted, segments linear subulate, about equal ; lip 3 parted, middle segment the longest. Pulney mountains in pasture. In the character of the flower this seems allied to II. Salaccetisis Blume, but as it is impossible to determine, from sut;h a character as he gives, 1 have thought it safer to consider it a distiuct speciej. 923. Habenaria Hetnrana. (Lind.) leaves narrow oval acute : raceme lax secund few flowered; bracteas foiia- ceous cuculated, somewliat ventricose, acmninatcd, longer than the flowers : lip 3 parted segments about equal, the lei\gth ofthe sepals, middle one narrow oval, lateral ones filiform incurved : sepals and i^etals about the same length connivent, spur pendulous tiliform sliorter than the ovary. Lind. I. c. pg. 320. This is frequent on p isture ground on the Neilglierries, but is far from being a conspicuous jilant, its pale Yellowish green flowers resem'ding the herbage among which it grows. The fleshy processes in frontier the column are particularly large and conspicuous in this species. 924. Uabekaeia nAnmoRA. (A. Richard i leaves ob- long lanceolate acute plicate, occupying the lower j)art of the stem: stem slender 1--2 flowered: floweri long pe- duncled bractiate : bracteas convolute oval acute, usually shorter than the peduncle : petals oval oblong ai^'umiiiate, with a, longer, linear npendage ; lip three partea, l iteral segments th - longest, linear subolate somewhat sprnad- ii}g; spur longer tlian the ovary, processes, of the stigma, long obtuse. A. liichard Aitual des. Sciences 15, p. 70. 'i his species I have only once met with on the Neil- glierries, whence Richard received his specimen, on clifts at Kaitty Waterfall. 'My f'gure i- from a specimen found on the Pulney mountains where it abounds. This is the only described Indian species, referable to Lindley's " Erostrate" division, having the upper sepal largest, and the anterior segment of the petals longer and narrower than the posterior. 925. Habenaeia loxgicalcarata. (A. Pvichard) ra- dical leaves numerous, oblong elliptic acute : ujiper leaf- less part of the stem clothed with the sheaths of numer- ous depanperated leaves, flowers 1 or 2 large, long pe- duncled ; bracteas convolute, oval acundnated, length of the peduncle: scpils diverging, petals erect lanceolate; lip triHd, middle segment lanceolate narrow; lateral ones broad truncate erenate : spur very long, two or three times the length of the ovary and peduncle, liichard, I. c. slinhtly alrtdn-ed. This drawing was made on the Pulney n^oimtains at the same time with the preceding. Ihere I (ound the jilant very abundant, on the Neilglierries it is compura- tively rare. 926. Habenaria crinifep.a. (Lindley) rndicalleavei oblong lanceolate, spike many flowered : bracteas acunii- nale, about one-third the length of the ovaries : lip 4 times longer than the sepals, ungniculate at the base, limb 4 parted lobe.s mneli acuminated upper sepal and petals galcate ; spur curved, compressed, clavate, longer than the lip. Lind. l.c p. ;i23. 1 am uncertain about the exact station whence this specimen was obtained. Lindley's specimens are from Cejlon. 927. Haden'arta Montana. (A. Richard) stem erect scaly at the base : leaves sheathing, oblong Innceolate acutf, subplicate, 4 or 5 perfect, approximate, the rest passing into long lanceolate very acute sheathing scales: raceme few (4 ;'3) flowered lax: bracteas oblong linear, very acute, shorter than the very long ovary : sepals gla- brous ; lip three cleft, middle lobe lanceolate acute, lateral ones broader, truncated, irregularly cut on the margins, stigmatic processes obtuse short : spur longer than the ovary. Richard I. c. pg. 73. Pulney mountains. This species I have not yet met with on the Neilglierries whence M. Richard had his specimens, but think there can be no doubt ofthe identi- ty of the two plants. Ist July. — \Vhile this sheet, was passing through the Press, 1 found it at Kaitty water- falls, but only comiLig into flower. 928. Ate virens. (Lindley 1. c. pg, 32G.) This is the only sjiecies of the genus ami was separat- ed from Habenaria priiicipalU on account of the curious tooth rising from the orifice of the spur, (figures 2 &4) combined with the unusually developed sterile stamens (see figures 2 & 4) and some difference of habit. 1 have only met with it on the Pulney mountains, where I found it in considerable abund.inc flowering during the rainy and cool season, and on the Slieramullies near Dindigul grow* ing among long grass. ( 11 ) 929. Satvuium Nepalinse. (Don.) radical leaves ob- long laiiteulate acute, sheaths inflated, acuminated, dis- tant : spike l;ix many flowered bractcas ovate auumiuatc rcHexed, Icugtli of tli;; lluwers : lateral sepals oblong, mid- dle one and the petals linear glabrous ; lip helmet Ibriii, ciested above, spurs filitbrni longer than the ovaries. Lindlcij, I. c. pui^e 340. A widely distributed plant extending t'roui Nepaul to Ceylon, very abundant on the Neilgherriea aud Pulney mountaius in pastures. 930. DisPERis TRIPETALIODEA. (Lindley) stem erett, three'orfour flowered : leaves cordate oblong acute : sepals glabrous lateral ones pendulous, sessile, united at the base, foviate above the base ; lip filiform pubescent, roundishly dilated at the apex, with a minute coucave appendix at the base. Lindley, I. c. p. 371. I am indebted to Mrs. Colonel Walker for this most eoirect representation of this very curious pl:uit speci- mens of which were found near Rambodde. The flowers are pink with a yellow lip. 1 flowering plant— 2 detached flower the upper hood- like portion consisting of the posterior sepal and lateral petals the two lower cues the lateral sepals with the pit at the base — 3 lip incumbent on the column — 4 the same with the p Hen partially drawn from its sheath or anther case — 5 pollenia quite detached— 6 column and anther showing its long spirally convolute caudieula — 8 lip de- tached, back and front views— 10 ovary seen from behind sepals removed. Vanilla aphylla ? (Blume, Lind.) leafless, peduncles 3 (or many) flowered : limb of the lip undulated obtuse bearded in the iniddle : atithers two lobed, fruit cylindrical (insipid ?) Lind. I. c. p. 436. Travaiicore near Trevandrum, cliinbing among bushes. Dr. Lindley refers to this plant in his remarks under V. aphylla but seems doubtful of tbeir being identical a point which my imperfect specimen did not enable him to clear up. At first he seemed to have considered it distinct as he has marked a specimen in my Herbarium V. Wightii, but on re-consideration changed his miud aud published the species under the name here adopted. The numerous flowers and acute not obtuse limb of the lip seem to indicale that his first opinion was correct, but that; point I leave for himself to decide. Vasili.a Walkebice (R. W.) leafless peduncles many flowered : " lip and petals much waved delicately trans- parent" and like the icpals marked with a deep green costa; iip slightly bearded ; anthers 2 lobed ; fruit c) lindrical. Ceylon. — For this very characteristic drawing I am in- debted to Mrs (Jolonel Walker. It is accompanied by the following note written on tiie margin. ' The leafless Vanilla alluded to by Colonel Walker, (in a letter to nie). The original drawing was sent three years ago (1834 !') lo Ur. (Iraham, by wtioni it was sent to Dr. Lindley who pronounct d it a new species of Vanilla. 1 am anxious to get the flower again to nitke a better drawing, as I think 1 have improved a little since this was drawn, and also undcrstaud the structure of Ori-bidea: better than I then did. " Flower i[iside pure white : Labelluin and petals much waved and delicately transparent, sepals >triated, outside tinged with fawn colour, a streak of deep green in the cen- tre, which the petals also have, thougli neither so broad uor so strongly coloured." This species seems very nearly allied to the preceding but differs in the pe tals being imicli more waved ; the lip being less distinctly three lobed and sparingly bearded toward the base. Should they, on better acquaintance, prove the same species I tru'it this name will be retained in preference to Dr. Lindlev's MS. name, the compliment being so highly merited by that most accomplished lady, by wiiose aduiiiable pencil the Flora ami more especially the Orchiilcce of Ceylon has been largely and most ex- quisitely illustrated. Judging merely from the brief character given, I can scarcely hesitate in considering both distinct from Blume's plant. Fearing however that Botanists, more intinnitely acquainted with the order, rai^ht consider these two identical, this plate is given extra to the regular number. The figure is copied from a tracing not from the finished drawing. 1 flower seen from below — i2 lip side view — 3 front view, — 4 column — 0 anther case — 6 anther case with its con- tained pullenia — 7 front view, view of the column with the anther case raised to shcv the pollen — S side viow of the same — D seed vessel. ( 12 ) EXPLANATION OF PLATES. VOL. III.-PAKT III. 931 V^NILIA APHYT.LA ? (BUiiriP, Lincl.) leafless, peduncles 3 (or iu:a>y) Howered : liml. of the lip un- duhiitd obtuse beiuded in ihe middU- : aniherb t«o- lubt-d, fruit cvlindiical (insipid ?) Lind. I. c. p. 436. 'I'lavHiicorr near 'J'revaudiiuii, tluiibii'.g anu.ug buslies. Dr Lii.ill<'V refers tu this pla.t lu l.ia re- n.aiksunde. y. ,>phyila hut s^ems doubtful of tbeir beiMff i^.-micul, a p..iiit whi. h my imperfect specimen didifol ei.;.ble hinilocl.ar lip. At first he seemed to have cnsider^i it distinct as he has marked a specimen in my Herbarium r. Wii^hth, but on re- consideiaiion changed his mind and publi.^^hed the speci..- under the name here adopted. 'Ihe numer- ous flowers and acute not obtuse hmb of tlie lip seem to indicate that his first opinion was correct, Lut that point 1 leave for himaeU lo decide. 93-'>. Vanilla Walkerice (R.W.)leafless, peduncles manv' flowered : " lip and petals much Wdved dell- caiely transparent" and lilie the sepals marked with a deep green c.stH ; lip slightly bearded ^ anthers 2-lobed ; fmit cylindrical. _ _ Ceylon - For this verv characteristic drawing 1 am indebted to Mrs. Coioiiel Walker. It is accompanied tv the following note written on the miiryiii. " The leafless VuniUa alluded to by Colonel Walker, (in a letter to me) Tlie original drawing was sent three ve irs ago (1834 ?) to Dr. Graham, by whom it was sent to Dr. Lindley who pronounced it anew species of Vanilla. 1 am anxious to get the fluwer again lo make a better drawing, as 1 think I have improved a little sincethis was drawn, and also understand the structure of OrchideoR better than I then did. " Flower inside pure wliite : lahellum and petals much waved and delicately transparent, sepals striat- ed outside tinged with fawn eohmr, a streak of deep areen in the cnntro, which the petals also have, rhoiigh neither so broad nor so strongly coloured.' This species seems very nearly allied to the pre- ceding but dfl'ers in the petals being much more waved ; iht- Up being less distinctly three-lobed and sparingly bearded toward the base. SbouKl they, on better acquaintance, prove the same sp.-nes 1 trust this name will be retained in preference to Dr Lind- ley's MS. luurie, the compliment being so liighl) me- rited bv that most accomplished lady by whose ad- mirable pencil the Fh.ra and more especially the Orchideoe of Ceylon has been largely and most ex- quisiteU illustrated. . Judging merely from the brief character given, i can scaicely besitate in considering both distmct from Bluine's plant. Fearing, however, that Bntanists more intimatelv a. qnainied w ilh the order Blighl con- sider these two identical, this plate is given extra to the legular number. The fitjure is copied from a tracing not from the finished drawing. I flower seen from below— 2 lip side view- 3 front .view —4 column - 5 anther case— 6 anther case with it. .ontained pollenia-7 front view of the culnmii with tlie anther case raised to sliow the VoUen— 6 side view of the same— 9 seed vessel. 9^3 34. Cleimatis GouRiAfJA (Roxb.) climbing: leaves pinnate or bi^innale ; leaflets ovate- lanceo- late -.K-uminated, cordate at the base, 3-or obscurely 5 nerved entire or with a few coarse serratures : vonn^ branches an-led, and peduncle-, and oblong nchcuia pubescent: sepals revolule.>F.a(((?//.rrprf.fJ.2. This beautiful species flovfers during the cool season. At this time, January, ii is in full bloom ia the jungles beb.vT Cin)i;oor, where it mnj be seea climiiiuf,' to the tops of ibe higliest tiee* i on'pietely cohering ttiem wit It such a profusion of while flowers as almost to conceal tlie tree that sui pi.ris them. In My-ore it is of frequent occorience in the dense thickets burrouuding most of the haiuUts of that pro- vince. 935. Clematis Wigiitiana (Wall) climbing: leaves pinnate ; leaflets not wrinklerostrate, with a tendency to root at the joints, and bearing there severarie;ives : leaves and petioles ii8iry ; radical leaves trifoliate, leaflets petiole.!, S clefl, segments somewhat ovate lobed and isciso-serraie.i : pedoncles hairv, scarcely longer than the l eiu.les : petals (yellow) about as long as the calyx: heads of fruit clobose: acbenia roundish, cou.pressed lenticular, ii.i,.utely dot.ed : tubercnlHie.l : style bioad, hookea at the apex.— ^' >4 Prud. p. i. '1 his species is fienerallv met with in moist woods, is of a iiiocninb.nt habit, with small flo* ersflow enng in Rlav and June after the rains of the S..uth-west monsoon have cou.menced. It is however lound at other seasons, especially during rainy weather. Another species is lound at the same season and so much resembling this .,iir, that, to the uiipractised eve it is not distintjuishable. but is at once known by the'seed. which, in this, is furnished w ith numerous little tubercles, in that, is quite siuoolli aud without asperities «)f auj kind. 938. M. NiLAGincA. (Zenker) Leaver elliptic oblong taperiiiti to a point at both en Is, gUbroos ; stipules and spaib'^-i silkv: pe'als about 9, in three rows: stamens niiinTous, shorter thai) the columu of I'rnctific-ation : ovaries niiinerous, aboiu 4 ovules iii each : carpels warty, one or two seedeil. A lari/e tree found frequent in the clumps of Juntjle aboul Ootaca'nnnd. There are several very fine ones in the thicket iiniuediaiely adjoining the Church tlie branches of one or two of Iheia overhanging the road. 93D. Cltpta uehnandifolIA. (W. & A.)— Leaves ovate, rounded or scarcely truncate at the base, inn- cronulate; upper side glabrous, under slightly hairy : panicles about eqiial to the petioles, umbellifonn ; rays ninhelliferous ; pedicels very short: pollenifer- ons ring 6 -celled.— T^'. ^ A. Prod. p. U. Frequent twiniiiff among un lerwood, in tlic clumps of jungle about Ootacainund, particularly in lo,v moist situations-h is equally frequent in similar BitUHfions on the Pulnev mountain-, but also occurs on the plains in moist shady jungles. 910. Brrberu (Mahonia) Leschenaulth (Wall) — Leaves pinnate; leafl-is about six pair, ovate, nearly equal in size, slightly cordate at the base, re- pand with 6-8 thorny teeth at each side, about 5- jierved at the base ; lower p dr of leaflets close to the stem: racemes elongated, slend-r ; bracteoles at the liase of the pedicel oblong, obtu.se: petals wiihtwa distinct glands : filaments without teeth : berry glo- bose, crowned wilh the evident sty le and stigma.— W. and A.P od.p. 16. As this is a true congener of Nuttal's genus BLilio- ilia I preserve that as a subgeneric or sectional name. The plant is foun-tl in almost every clump of jungle about Ootacamund, flowering during the Southwest monsoon, but may generally be met with in flower at other seasons though more rurely, the fruit ripens during the dry se-ison and when luUy ripe acquires a bluish purple colour. 94l. CAiiDAMENEBnRi>oNiCA(Per80on).— Leaves tii- foliolate; leafleLs liairy on both sides, particularly on the nerves beneath, pelioled, ovate acuminated, unequal at the base, irregularly and sharply toothed; terminal one sometimes 3 lobed or divided into 3 leaflet-* simi- lar to the others : siliqua er<:ct.— W .&. A. Prod p. 20. 942. Hydn'icarpus alpinus (R W)— Sepals all equal reflexed : petals ovate lanceolate glabrous : scales lanceolate, as long as ille petals, ciliated to- wards the apex : male, stauiens 5, filaments much shorter than the petals, glabrous; anihers obtuse : pistil none: female, calvx, corolla, and stamens, as in the male, but the anthers wiihout pollen : style none, stisnia peltate 5 parted ; the divisions ob- coidate spreading, crowning the ovary. A large ramous tree, 70 to 100 feet high, not nnfre- qnentin deep moist vallies of the Neilgherry hills, about Coonoorand Kotergherry, usually growing on the banks of streams. Flowering in J uly and August. Leaves allernate, ovate-acuminate, entire, glabrous ; from four to .-ix inches long and from I to 2 inches broad at first red, afterwards deep green . fruit globose, about th^ size of an apple, clothed with short brown touenttim: seeds enclosed inawhite fleshy pulp: testa dark coloured hard: embryo enclosed in albumen : cotyledons, foliaceous curdiform i radicle elongate pointiugto the liiluin. H. ISEBRIAXS (V.t'i!) Sepals uneq'ul, the three inner ones longer : petals broad ovate, fringed with soft whil« liair» : scale-f bronl ov .le, about balf the ler-gth of the petals, densely liairy : Ktainens a3 lout; as the petals, filanieiita siit>uUl« ; anthers bioad renif>rm : pi-iiil none : female as in the male, aother.. without pdlen.— JF. S)- A. Prod. p. 30 Wi^iht's ll uf:. 1 lah. 16. A tree of moderate hize frequent near the coast in I^Ld.ibaraud Ceylon, floweiing at all seasons. Leave* alternate, ovate, acuminate, glabrou-, crenulately serrated about 5 or 6 inches long and I lo 2 iiiclies broad : racemes axillary, short, few-flowered : fruit globose many-seeded. 943. VtoLA WiGHTHNA (Wall.) stoloniferous, sliglilly hairy : leaves cordate-ovate, crenate 1 : sepals lanceolate: somewhat acute ; spur hhort, very blunt: torus flaliish : style atieouated downwards, stigma rostrate, convex but not heoked, neither margined nor papillose : fruit globose.— TF ^- A. Prod p. 32. A humble plant cuuitnon on rhe Neiigherries, flow- eriiit! at all seasons. In general appearance as well as it" Botanical characters very nearly allied to V. odurata but at once, in the growing plant, distinguish- ed by its being destitute of its sweet scent. 914. DaosERA BiRMAN'Ni (Vahl :) stemless : leaves all radical, obovate cuneate, sessile, veins reticulated; scapes erect, an i the caivs ylabrous : seed-coal uot arillifor.n.-rF. 8r A. Prod. p. 34. A low growing stemless plant, inhabiting swampy pround. ''On the hills it is usually to be met with in fl ,wer at allseasons, but in greate-^t perfeotiou duriuff the su nmei months. The clump of plan's represented were selected to show the manner of its growth, but unfortunatelv were unavoidably not taken a' llia best season and do not therefore show it to the be^t advan- tage, though it conveys a goed idea of its habit as seen growii.g. 915 Parnassta WtGHTiAVA (Wall.;) leaves broad- ly cordate-ovate or slightly reniform ; sinus slightls' rounded : braciea like the leaves, embracing the ••cape.- petals obuvate-oblong, their lower half hav- ing the margin cut into numerous slender linear sim- ple or forked segments reseiiililing a fringe ; uneuis very short, broad and cunene: s'erile stamens about as Ions as the fertile, cleft upwards into 3 5 stout horn-like segments that are glandular at the ^oh^t.— JF.SrA.I'rod.p.SG. A low growing herbiceom phnt abounding m almost aveij swamp which, during the rainy season, they ornament with their numermous rather showy flo«ers, in general aopearauce somewhat resembling Butter cups, but diffeiing in having the flowers pure, white in place of vello*. tlw prevailing colour of Ranunculus. Li Parnns.'« ets yt-llow racemose, rureiiies erect or scarcely dr'-ioping ; seeds enclosed 511 a large sea' let caruncu- lus, leaves de^ p green from 4 to 6 inches long, and about 2 bioad, acuminated, strongly nerved, glabrous or siglilly puberulous bcnealii. 947. Steli.vria media (Smith) stems procum- bent wih an alternate line of liairs on one side: lower leaves ovate, upper ones laiiceolote : petals de-ply diV'ded: stamens 5 l0: capsules deeply d'vid'-d, scarcely longer than the calyx. — W. A. Vi od. p. 42. Thisis .1 very common plant about villaj^es and corn- fields but I suspect has been introduced with European eeed along witli ihe following and with Spergula ar- veiisis wliii;li i.s now as connnon a weed iu Ootacamund as in European corn fields. 918. CerastiUM VOLGATUM (Linn) stems, leaves and cal\ X, covered with a roughish viscid pubescence : stems fl iccid, angled : leaves ovate or oblong, lanceo- late, wit li a short mucr(>iiiform altenuatiun : flowers much sliorter than the [)edicela, in a small coiufjact somewhat dichotomous panicle : petals scarcely lon- ger thnn the oliloiig-acutisli sepals : capsules ovoid, scarcely si> long as the calyx ; teeth 10, rolled back- Wards, their margins flat.— W. ^ A. Vrod.p. 43. Like the preceding as common a weed in the gar- dens of Ootacamund as in those of Europe. 949 Arenaria Neilgherrensis (W. & A.) stems elongated, much branched, procumbent, with an alternate line of hairs on one side : ieaves distant, obovate, mncronulate, glabrous, with minute whitish points, 1 nerved; margins tliickened, nerve-like, ciliated towards ihe petiole: flowers axillary, or in terminal sub-dictiotoinous panicles: pedicels viscidly pubescent all round, longish, slender: sepals oblong, acute, with I dorsal liairv nerve : margin membran- aceous: petals longer than the calyx : styles usually 3 (sometimes 2 or 4) : capsules ovate, nearly the length of the cal} x.— W. Sf A, ^rod. p. 43. 950. Malva NErLGiiFRRENsis (R. W.) annual hairy dl over; brandies diffu-c somt-what angular : leaves long petioled sub orbicular cordate, 5-lobed ; lobes ovate obtuse doubly seria'ed : flowers numerous, densely aggrei^ated in 'he axils of the leaves : invo- lucel of three narrow linear lanceolate acute leaflets, shorter than the calyx: calyx somewhat inflated 5 clif , lobes ovale acute 3 nerved : coralla ruse culonred, nearly twice the length of the calyx, petals deeply emargiiiate, carpels about 10, corrugated on the angles, pubescent. Kotterglierry, in cornfields and about villages, in tlie rich soil surrounding the latter very luxuriant : flowering during the rainy season. The larger leaves iire from lour to six inches across, pubescent above, hairy beneath, supported on a hairy petiol from four to six inches long. Flowers very numerous, small in proportion to the size of the plant, forming dense clusters, or short racemes in the axils of the leaves. Involncral leaves slender, clothed with long hairs, acntf, calyx considerably inflated, cleft about half way down, hairy, lobes ovate, obtuse, three nerved and, viewed by transmitted light, finely reticulated between ; after drving translucent and chartaceous : capsule white, triangular, corrugated along the ex- terior angles, pubescent. These last points are not shown ill the drawing, the figures having been taken from too young specimens. This species, comes nearest to M. verliceVata a Cliinese plant, but, so far as can be made out from writteii characters, seems amply distinct. 951. Abelmo«chds (HriiEsocALYx) angulosus CWall :) siem-i lierbaceous, not prickly : le.iVe.i oa long petioles, cordate, 5-lobed, unequally toothed; lobnn ovate acuminated ; upper bide pubescent with short softish hairs, under tlightly temenlose: pedi- cels rigidly and horizontally hairy, about as long as the petioles: involucel ;<-5 leaved, leaves cohering splitting spaih-like: calyx much shorter, and con- cealed wi'hin the involucel, membtanaceous : capsule ovoid, acute, very hispid. — W.und A. Prod. P. 53. This is a considerable, erect growing, shrub, fre- quent in moist soil in chimps (d Jungle .ge co- loured, roundith or f^lighly elcngattd or ('epressed: rind vMth concave vesicles of oil. pulp acid or bitter. Neilgherrie-, on the slopes below Koilerglierry and Coonoor ; in the opinion of the Collector quite vtild but pos'iibly raised from seed accideuiallj dropped by travllers. I am doubtful whether this is the true C. vulgaris, some points of the character are at variam e » iih 'he figure, but none of tui;ch importance and wiihout better specimens, for compari.-on, of the true C. vulgaris than I po69»'SS, 1 could not venture to found a uisliiict species on these differences. 95S. CiTnvs LiMETTA (Risso) leaves oval or oblong often tootlied : petiol more or less winged or margined: flowers small, white: fruit pale yellow ovoid or roundish, terminated by a knob : rind wiili concave vesicles of oil : pulp watery acid or sweelifh occasionally slit,hily hitler. Orange vallev, near Konergherry , flowering August and September certainly wiid. A low, » ery ramous erect, thoiuy, bush cove'red during the flowering sea- son with a profusion of beautiful fragrant white flowers; a very ornamenti>l shrub, « ell de»erving a place in the shrubbery, w here, judging from what I saw at Kottergherry, it grows freely. Petals five, furnished at the apex with an inHsxed bidentate process, estivation valvate. Stamens 5, an- thers 2 -celled introrse. Ovary adherent, one-celled, -with a single ovule pendulous from near the apex. Drupe ov"id umbilicate, one-celled, one seeded, endocarp deeply inflexed so as neartly to divide the cell into nvo compartraenls. Embryo sitall, eccentrc, immersed in the apex of the fleshy albumen ; radical very long superior. A lart^e umbrageous tree with very dark green, al- most publish foliage: leaves alternate, long petioled, obloiu' elliptical, acuminated at both ends, from two to three inches lona by about one and a halt broad ; ula- brous coriaceous. Flowers.termiual cymosely panicled, small in proportion to the tree, caly.i conical, adhering to the ovary, limb short, cup-shaped 5 toolhed : pe- tals five, ovate poinied, very coriaceous (whence the name, leaiherv petals) each furnished within at the point with a little bidcntrcfe hook. Stamen* hve al- ternate with the petals, filaments short compressed, «nihers lar^e, cordate ovate, obtuse two-cel ed in- trorse attached near the base. Ovary enclosed with- in the tube of the (jalyx and adherent, covered by a thick fleshy di-k : siyle short : siiyma obtuse. I'ruit drupaceous, about the sizp of a small plumb, ovoid the apex marked by a broi.»l scar whire the flower had separated. Putameu hard, deeply niflexed on one side Embryo small, eccentric, immersed near the apex of a copious fleshy albumen, the radicle, ^exy lomj, in proportion to the cotyledons, pouiling to- wards the hiluni or apex of the seed This >xennsdiff>rsfiom all the rest of the order in its pecnFiar seed, and from each hv many characters. It will form with Alph. De Candolle's genus en>7;',s, a new section of the order distinguished by theii inferior ovary. 956. BuBSiNorELALria ARBOHErM (R. W.) On the slopes of the hills at Sispara in dense forests flowering in April and M ay, at tl e 8,luncled : petals exuiiguiculate roundish, regular, mature frail, four- seeded. Choisy, in D. C. prod. This very handsome tree I found on the Eastern slopes of the Neilgberrie,, 3 m'les below Coonoor probably at au elevation of about o.OOO feet above tbe ^""it is not easy to distinguish the species of this eenns. I fbrmerly published a figure of the Ceylon plant under the name of M. ferrea :u,d up to tbe pre- sent time thought this distinct. A closer exa.nmation however leads me to doubt whether the coniinental one is different from the insular tree, the more so as the original iM. ferrea is an Eastern tree while the M. Bpeciosa is from Western India. 1 he distinctions between the two as given by Choisy are that in iU. ferrea, the [letals have a claw or ' unguis which is wanting m this, and that the fruit in that is one-seed- ed, while in this four is the usual number. 962. Salacia MAcaosrERMA (R. W.) a diffuse, ram- bling shrub; leaves oblong, elliptic acuminated, coria- ceous, alabrous: flowers numerous, fasicled, short pedi- celled! calyx 5-lobed fringed witU rusty coloured hairs : pef-ds ovate, obtuse, broad at the base : ovary 3-celled with 2 superposed ovules in each : fruit irregularly ovate, few-seeded : seed ovoid conferu- minate without a conspicuous radicle. Jungles about Sisporah flowering, and at the same bearing full grown fruit in April. This species seems nearly allied to my §. verrucos i but wants the warty stems, and has a c.Mted lu place of glabrous, calyx. The plants, besides, when compared, seem quite distinct, though the diflerences are not easily stated in words. The structure of the anthers and ovary amply distinguish U from my mnianora ; in this the anthers open longitudinally, ui that transversely : here the ovules are two super- posed in each cell, there they are numerous, lormius two rows. Iv tonenfosf, afterwards villous beneath : racemes axillary, solitary or sometimes paired, ofieii longer tliHii I lie leaves,' bran<-lied; rachii hairy: calyx glab- rous 4 sepaled, sepals unequ.il, laierni pair orbicular : petals 4 spathulaie hairy with 4 fleshy glandi at the base : ovary hairv, minute, style compresse-l ending in two spreading stigmas, berry two, or, by abortion, one-lobed; lobes obovate obtuse, glabrous: cotyle- dons, flrishy, foliaceous folded. Growing in thickets in Maf.bar and eastem slopes the Neilgtierries also on the hills near C.imbatore. The ripe fruit 1 have not yet found, but presume lb it it is like the rest, a red succulent bacca. 'Ihis i* distinguished from all oiber spe/i-s 1 have seen by the rrniuli and under surface of tlie leaves being to- meutose and by the many branched racemes. 9G4-2. ScuMiDHLlA coBuc (D. C.) leaves trifo- liate ; leaflets stalked, ovate or oblong, acute, serra- ted ; youn-erones more or less pubescent above, villous beneath ; older ones more glabrous but al- ways more or less pubescent : raceins axillary, solita- rv simple, or sometimes bifid ; rachis pubescent : p'etals cuneate, emarginatc, with a scale bearing a tuft of hairs above the slightly hairy claw, limb gla- brous: stamens glabrous : ovary hairy, 2-lobed : stvte as louii as the ovary, glabrous ; fruit baccate.— W.andA.Prod.y.m. This li.'cire of what I esteem the true S. cobbe is iniroduced to show bv comparison how p-rfectly disiiuct this species is from the preceding with vvhicli it has lonrr been confbunded. The specimens from which tliis is taken, were gathered m Malabar andsimelar ones in Courtallum. 964-3 MiLLiNGTONiA PDKGESs (Wall.) leaves simple, cori.ceous, laaGeolaie, acute at the base, nnile euire, glabrous on both sules, nerves benea It vvith a rusty pubescence : panicle rigid, densely covered with a rusty pubescence raoh.s terete ; flowers on the ultimate branchlets of the pamcle ag- cne-Ued: calvx with 3 bracteoles ; sepals unequdi, glaudularlv ciliated: outer petals roundish, J inner ones'e'eft beyon-6 to- gether, pubescent, as long as the petiole : calyx 4- cleft : petals obovate, obtuse, entire, fl.t : ovary 0.3 celled : styles 2-3, connected to the middle, then diverging ; the upper part jointed with and decidu- ousfronrthe periistent lower half: fruit 2-celled: seeds plano.con.ex. with a deep urrow at the base on the outer convex side.- Tf . and A. Prod., P- 1C5 A considerable shrub rather extensively uistributea on the Hills, but not so common on the higher ranges as lower down. The specimen delineated supplies a some<^•hat flattering likeness as it usually presents a rather scraggy appearance. It is to be met with in a flower at almost all seasons, but is not so free as the other in bearing fruit. ( ) 978. {bis) GouANiA LEPTOSTACiiYA (D.C.:) branches glabrous : leaves ovate, acuminated, ulij^luly cordate at tlie base, coarsely crenate-derrated, "glabrous : racemes interrupted, axillary or in tenuiii.il panicles, elongat- ed, wiien young, pubescent, afterwards glabroub : flowers on very short pedicels, polygamous : disk glabrou*, stellate ; accessory aiif^les partly adnate to the calycine lobes, free and acuminated towards the two horned apex: fruit gia')rous, shortly winged, — W. and A. Prod. p. 106. An extensively straggling climbing shrub, found in great abundance along tlie road between Burliar and Coonoor, flowering towards the end of the ye ir aod maturing its fruit during the hot season. We for- merly svipposed this species confined to the Northern parts of the Peninsula, a poiut on which, it now ap- pears we were mistaken. 97!>. SorHORA GLAucA (Lesch.) shrubby : leaflets 19-23, elli[)tical, mucronate, upper side glaucous and velvety, under villous : racemes terminal, crowded. — ■ W. and A. Prod. p. ^79. Very abundant on the Neilgherries, in flower at all seasons. A handsome flowering shrub from 6 to 12 feet high, all the green parts except the upper sur- face of the leaves clothed with soft pubescence, flow- ers pale purple : seed ova'., polished very hard. 980. CrotaLaria barbata (Graham :) herbace- ous, erect, densely clothed with dark brown hairs: stipules minute, inconspicuous : leaves oblong-lanceo- laie, bluntish ; racemes terminal, elongated; flowers few, distant : calyx a little shorter than the corolla, deeply .l-cleft, very hairy ; segments slightly falcate : legume glabrous, stalked, 2-3 times the length of the calvx, obovoid : apex of the style and stigma woolly. — W. and A. Prod.p. 181. Not unfreqiient in woods about Ootacamtind, in moist soil on the banks of streams. A large species conspicuous on account of the large size and bright yellow colour of its flowers. It is very readily distin- guished by the universal hairiness of all the younef parts. Among bushes where it obtains support, it often attains the height of lO or 12 feet. The whole plant turns black in drying. t)81. Ckotalaria fobiwosa (Graham!:) erect, branched, all over villous except the upper side of the leaves : stems terete : stipules minute, setaceous, reflexed : leaves ciineate, obovate, obtuse, glabrous on the upper side, villous boneath : biacteas lanceo- late, acuminated, lower ones without flowers : flowers in !i dense raceme atthe extremities of the bracteated elonojated branches : bracteoles setaceous, on the middle of the pedicels : calyx villous ; legum oblong, borader upwards, glabrous, about i times the length of the calyx, inauy-seeded. — W. and A. Prod.p. ISG. Frequent in pasture grounds on the hill sides, flow- ering in greatest perfection during tlie months of Fe- bruary aiul March. It is an erect shrubby species, rising in fiivourable situations to the height of between 4 and 5 feet, but is generally met with iimchlov\er. The leaves are a fine pea green colour above, clothed with white adpressed hairs beneath, flowers pale yellow streaked with brown. 982. Crotalabia WalltchianA (W. & A.:) her- baceous, erect, much branched, young branches irre- gularly and rather bluntly angled, with the racemea and under side of the leaves densely pubescent : sti- pules lunate, transverse, recurved: leaves oval, gla- brou-i above, marked beneath with rather prominent nerves : racemes terminal and leaf-opposed, manv- flowered : bracteas subulate, reflexed, small : pedi- cels elongated, longer than the calyx : bractecdes very minute, setaceous, about the middle of the pedicel : calyx smaller tbau the corolla, densely pu- bescent; legume clavate-oblong, stalked, softly pu- bescent, many-seeded.— TF. and A. Prod.p. lt>7- Abundant in woods an i thickets about Ootaca- mund, preferring a rich moist soil, and iu such situa- tions sometiuie'i, with the suppori of bushes, rising to the height of 9 or lO feet. It is iu flower at all seasons and is most conspicuous frO'B the size and brilliancy of its flowers. As a speciei it is perhap* too nearly allied to C, semperjlorens. 9S:3. ISDIGOFERA I'BDICELLATX ('W. (St A.:) Kuffru- . ticose, procumbent ; branches filiform, sprinkled with short adpressed brownish hairs ; older parts terete; young parts compressed, thickly covt-red wi'h brown glands : leaves petiole !, jialmaiely trifoliate ; leaflets cuiieate-oblong ; both sides with short whitish hairs mixed on the under side with glands; racemes al- mo-t sessile, somewhat corymbiform, about the length of the leaves : pedicels slender, drooping, 2 3, longer than the calyx : calyx deeply 7-cieft {■•egmeuts linear and acute), and with th-- vexilinm and keel hirsute and glanduliferous. — W. and A. Prud. p. 200. A low growing |)rocunibent, plant frequent in dry pastures, where it is rendered conspicunus by its bright crimson flowers, which rise above the herbage among which it grows and which conceals the rest of the plant, 9S1. Desjddium kdfescess (DC.:) shrubby : branches, racemes, bracteas, pedicels, stipules, peti. oles, and nerves of the leaves beneath, densely i lothed with yellowish-browii tomentum : leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets ov.il, obtuse with a long bristle ; upper side glabrous ; under densely clothed except the nerves with adpressed silky white hairs, especially whea young : sti[)ules caducom : racemes axillary and ter- minal, many-flowered : bracteas ovale, tapering to a long subulate poiut, before expansion densely imbri- cated, soon caducous : vexillum large, obcordate : alas as long as the broad keel: legume pubescent, about 7-jointed, straight on the one suture, notched into the middle on the other. — IK. and A. Prod, p. 228. A low growing shrub, not unfrequent in moist ground among brushwood. On the road side below Coonoor on the Neilgherries, it occurs in considf Ta- ble abundance, and from that station, the specin)en from which the drawing was taken was obtained. It is iu greatest perfection dtiring the rainy season, but may generally be met with in flower in the neigh- bourhood of springs. 9S5. Dp.smodium stkangulatums (W. & A.) herbaceous, erect?: branches hairy, somewhat 3- angled, angles obtuse : leaves 3-loliolate, long peti- oled : leaflets pubescent on both sides, lateral onei obliquely ovate, terminal one rhomboid : stij ule» scariose, oblong-lanceolate, concave, glabrous: ra- cemai hairy, axillary and tertninal, paiiicled, at first oblong and imbricated with large oblong concave hairy bracteas, afterward* becoming very long and lax, few-flowered: flowers 2-3 together, on long filiform pedicels: calyx campanulate, bilabiate; upper lip einarginate, under deeply ileft: vesillum obovate ; aloe shorter than the keel: stamens mo- nadelphows from the base to the middle, diadelphous towards the apex: ovary stipitate, about 4 ovuled : legume 2-3 jointed (occasionally from abortion 1 -jointed), much contracted on one suture between the joints, even on the other, liispidly pubescent ; joints semi-oblong, neatly equal at both eud«.— W. and A. Prod. p. 228. A slfuder erect growing herbaceous plant, frequent- ing dirk shady woods. It is at once distinguished from all the other peninsular species of the genus, by its deep orange coloured floweis, and the deep divisi- ons of the legume between the seed. ( 8 ) 4% i I I i I 986 Smithia blanda (Wall) Buffrutifiose, diffuse every where. xcept the upper surface of the leaves and corolla hairj ; leaves abruptly pinnate 3 paired ; leaflets linear, elliptic, obtuse, mucronate ; glabrous above, hairy beneath : raceme., axi.lary and l^r- minal : flowers congested towards tlie apex : talv x "lijped, upper lip bifid under 3 clef, ; without iielluciil ehiuiis or ilots. K.\^.Mas. ^ pjcarafi in wet swampy ground rare. Intheacconv pain ing figures, No. 3 showing h magnified view o the bra^ls^calyx and stamens, is from a flower picked f?om the Jpeomen represented No. 6 ^''-'"f '^e calvx and pod belongs to Knother species, and is n t" duced partly to show the form of the pod of the genus,parlly to indicate a specitic distinction the orie being perforated with transparent glands .-l>'^h ^ ^ wanmwin the other. The glandular one is probably S racemosa but of this I am uncertain, as 1 have no authentic specimens of either it, or of S. b anda for examination, and the character under consideration is not™ d.cated iu the published definmon ot either species. 987 Flem.ngiA PEOCtTMBENs(R.W.) herbaceous, diffuse, procumbent, hairy : leaves palmalely tnloho^ l" te middle leaflet obovate, lateral ones ova e, sli-htlv unequal at the base, hairy above, nearly gia- SoVexcep't the veins, beneath: P^^"-l- 'l"^- than he leaves: flowers capitate: calyx deeply 5- cleft, divisions linear, lanceolate, acute about the 1 ng h of the corolla : ovary two-seeded : s.igma cn- pitfte hairy: legume shorter than the calyx usually, bv abortion, one-seeded : seed oval -Pycarah in pastures, frequent. A very diffuse plant lying flat on the ground and spreading all ■"ound, ex- tending from 12 to 18 inches from the root, leaves llout 'an inch long and 8 lines broad, -der snr ace sprinkled with minute garnet coloured glandular points, flowers dark dull purple. 988. FeagarIA eLATIOR (Ehrh.) leaflets some- what coriaceous : hairs on P^'^'^^' P/^""; , ; pedicels and calyx widely spreading: ca^x in f uit vJflexed : bracteolos similar to the calyc.ne segmeuts. — f^F. and A. Prod. p. 300, . A^ery common plant about Ootncamund,producing abundance of fruit in May and June, but not l.tnited ,o these month.. The fruit is about the s.ze of he wood strawberry of Europe, ot a P^'l^'f ' " ' f' except the side exposed to the sun which i genera y ILe^d with a pale\ose blush. It is rather insip.d, but when seasoned with a little lime juice and sugar, is much relished by some persons. 089. FRAaAKiAlND.cA(Andrews) l^^A^ts obovate peduncles axillary, solitary, ^ -A^^^^ = patulous, cuneate, much /J'^" ' intire calycine segments, deeply 3-.vtoothied at the i^ocx—W.aud A. Prod p. 300. . Trequent in shady wood* where the sod is some- wba Toist. Unlike the rest of the genus the flowers Tre yellow The fruit is a bright red. very tempt- ing to the eye, but watery, mawkish and disagreeable to the taste. 900. PoTENTiLLA Leschenaultiana (Ser. :) covered all over with silky long hairs : stems decum- bent at the base : radical and lower leaves pinna ed Lgish pctioled; leaflets 5. cuneate-obova e, obtu.e i„c-L -too,hed, the lower pair smaller t han the o 1 ers „pper stem leaves palmately 3-5 '^^^ about equal and similar to the larger leaflets o he radicle leaves: stipules large, ovate-lanceolate ower ones often entire; npper toothed or dee,^y cut - flowers in terminal forked panicles, or corv m- bose: calycine segments aud bracteoles about equal. oblon" lanceolate, more or less obtuse : petals (yel- low) sTightlv obcordate, about equal to the calyx: receptacle Villou-. carpels slightly wrinkled.- - ; steins si.ort ; panicles Bmall, corrymbiform.- H . and A. Prod. p. 301. Everv where common by road sides and ditches, sometimes erect, but oftener diffuse with the ends of the branches only ascending. 1 he truit of this species approaches mor- nearly to that of the straw- berry than is usual in the genu*, but still it is a true Poteulilla. 991 PiiOTiNiA NoTOMASA (Wall. ?) leaves from cuneate-lanccolate to oblong, acute, quite entire or with a few inconspicuous scattered teeth : patiicles lar'^e very compound; ramitications puberuleus : pediJcls much shorter than the calvx : ceils of the ovarv spuriously serai biiocular : fruit glabrous, 2- seeded.- TK. and A. Prod. p. 302. A consi.lerable Mzed tree, abundantly aistributed over the Hills, flowering during Ma.ch and April, and is then a beautiful object. In J une and July the fruit ripen aud tlien are of a -lull redui^h brown colour. Thev pusses in a remarkable degre- the peculiar taste'and flavourof those of the mountain .sh. The figures 8, 9, 10, and 1 1 of this plate, through a blunde^ of the draftsman, not detected until after the impression was printed off. are inverted. Ihe r .dicle should in all have been inferior not superior as here shewn. 992. CoTONEA'^TER BOsiFOLiA ( Wall. List) shrubby erect, very iamou>: leaves oval or subobovate, Doiiited, glabrous above, toraentose beneath ; corymbs few flowered, peduncles and calyx lomen- '°F,vqupnt about Ootacamund, Kulhulty, Orange Valley near Kotergherry &c. This is a small.rigid, scraggy looking veiy ramous shrub, larelv attaining the height of six feet De Candolledoubtfullv refer* this to his Ca^tm^ aliitna- layan plant, with what justice, 1 am unable to s.iy. Makin.^ use of his doubt and the wide geographical d.fference, 1 have adopted Wallich's name. A more minnle description is given in the second part of my Neil"herrv Plants. A plant of what I *uppose to be C. affinis, in Lord Elphinstone's garden at Kaitee, differs Toto cslo in habit, the iatier b^-ng "ry diffuse, spreading flat on the ground, while this is always erect. 993 PyoEUM ACVMiNATOM (Colfbrooke) ar- boreous : leaves alternate, oblong, acuminated entire, Rlabrons: racemes axilUry shorter than the leaves : flowers yellowi.h: calyx lobes and corolla ludistiu- guishable, clothed with rusty coloured Pubescence: filaments attached to the edge »f the t^^e inflexed in ,t,stivatioD : ovary ventncose, stigtna dilated two lipped,drupe dry friable,transver..ely oblong, glabrous. \ lar^e tree of rather rare occurrence. 1 he spe- cimens ftom wiiich the drawing v.as taken _were found on the Neilgherries at K.itee Falls and in he ,^■oods about the Avalanche Mr. Gardner and 1 found it ubundantW, in fruit, in February : 1 do not reco - ect any other station in which I have observed t. I am uncertain about the species, becan.e it seems to me.had this been the .pecies from ^^1'"^^? Colebrooke 9 desWip.ion is taken.be would have descMbed the flower a.s apetalous with a l->.loberi caUx ''"^b. 1' th^ respect, if the dissection of my figure of Polydont a Ceylanica, No. 256 is correct, and 1 believe it . this can scarcely be considered a true congener, a it is represented with distinct calyx and petals, but i a e'l o now the specimens to re-examlue. Specin^ene of a Ceylon specie; which I have, correspond with this. ( 9 ) i I ii I il i ttim mm ?>94. CoNocARPUs LATrFOLiA (Roxo. :) leaves without glands, elliptical or obovate, obtuse or emarginate, glabrous : peduncles branched, bearing several heads of flowers, or very >hort with the heads densely ascregated.— u ; peduncles coiiispicuous. — W. and A~. Prod. p. 316. A large and haii.fsome tree frequent on the Eanforn slopes of ttie Neilj^herries, also in most of the subal- pine jungles, along the whole of that mountain r^inge from the Northern Circars to the southern extremity of the Peninsula. 995. SoNERiLA GEANDiFi-oRA (R. Br.) erect?, glabrous: le.ives elliptic, attenuated at both ends, bristle-serrated, 3-nerved at the base : peduncle terminal (always ?), about the length of the leaves, flattened at the apex and there beaiing a slightly curved raceme of several unilateral large flowers : petals ovate, pointed : style as long as the slamen^ : stigma simple : capsule glabrous, 3 sided, scarcely the length of the pedicel.— W. and A. Prod, p Zi-2. A beautiful plant, and, as conipared with the other species of the genus, well named. I have only met witU it in one station on the Neilgherries in Long Valley about mid way between the Avalanche and Sisparah. There it occurs in considerable abundance on the banks of a stream by which the valley is intersected. The flowers are of a deep pink, congregated on the ends of the branches. It is :in erect sufFrutecose plant, from 12 to 18 inches high, the leaves betwren 2 and 3 inches long and about 1 broad, three to five nerved, the outer pair of nerves often very slender, hut in luxuriant plants, such as the one represented, distinctly 5-nerved, 995-2, SoNi!RrtA speciosa. (Zenker) stem erect, subdichotomous at the base, somewhat foursided : leaves petioled S-neived, broadly ovate, acute, mucro- nately serrated, glabrous; petioles hairy near the apex : peduncles terminal, dichotomus ; branches afterwards elongating ; flowers secund : calyx and mid rib of the petals, below, covered with short rigid glandiili- ferous hairs: petals ovate, obtuse, mucronate : style and sfamena about equal. Kaitie Falls tare, on moist sides of ravines in the woods above the Avalanche Bungalow, very abundant, flowering in February. This when seen in perfec- tion is a very handsome species. Flowers pink, rarely more than two or three open at OMce on each branch ofthe cyme. 995-3. SoNEBiLA BLEGAN8 (R. W.) herbaceous, erect, ramous, hairy : leaves petioled, penuinerved, from ovate cordate to cordate, acuminated, serrulate : peduncles terminal, cymosely dichotoinous ; branches afterwards elongatin<; : flowers numerous, secund : calyx pubescent : petals ovate pointed : anthers long beaked : capsule hirsute, conical, 3-sided, crowned with the limb of the calyx : .seed hairy. Sisparah, very abundant all along the road side, in flower and ripe fruit in February. A most conspicu- ous species, at first a few pale pink flowers open, these are followed successively by others as the br.iuches elongate until at length each branch is se- veral inches long, covered along the upper edge with a row of capsules and two or three fl owt-rsat the extre- mities : the branches in the mean limo tending hori- Zoiitallv backwards? and sligh.ily approacliing each other, present somewhat the lorm of the letter V as shown iu ihe drawing. 99G. OsBEEKiA LE=CHENAri.TiA;:A (D.C. :) shrub- by : branches 4 angUd, be^et with stiff hairs : lenves sessile, ovate, someubat acute, approximate, S-nerved villous on both t-ides : flowers sessile, bracieaied, about 3 together, capitate: calyx tube j^lobose, covered with palmalelv ciliated short scales; seg- ments 4, laiiceoUie. (D. C.) petals obcorda;.-, blunt- ly mucronate : stamens 8 ; anthers clavate, truncated, curved : ovary crowned With a tuft of biistles. (R.W. Mfs.) Frequent about Kotergherrj, flowering during Ihe autumnal months. Flowers small, compared with those of most of the other species of the genus, and in pro- portion to the size of the plant, which often attains « heightof between two and three feet. They are nearly white dashed with crimson spots. It associates with O. truncnta in its beakless anthers and^ small flowers, l,ui is in all other respects amply distinct. The fluwers in De Candulle's specimens seem tohave been imperfect, as he lias not alluded to the petals or stamens. 997. OscEEKiA GARnNEBiANA (R. W.) a large erect ramous shrub, all the young parts clothed with long bristly hairs : leaves sessile, ovate, S-nerved"; usually with two short slender lateral ones near the base, pubescently hairy on both sides : flowers ter- minal capitate : calyx lube short, campanulate, closely covered with ligulate and towarils the apex clavate adnressed scales, furnished with numerous long dark red or rusty coloureil bristles ; limb 5-cleft, divisions linear, lanceolate, obtuse, more than twice the length of the appendages, both covered with bristles : petals 5, orbicular : stamens ]0, aiuhers recurved, correiga- ted on the inner edge, shortly beaked. This, which is the largest and most conspicuous species found on the hills, is very abundant in the woods about Oolacnniuiid extending westwards as far as Sisparah. In favourable situations it becomes a large bush 8 or 10 feet high, though genei ally about 4 or 5 ; flowering in profusion durin? Febru- ary and March. It is nearly allied to O. Wigh(iay\ti but is abundantly distinct in natuie, though, as re., gards technical characters, the difference it not so clearly seen. I have dedicated it to my friend George Gardner, Esq. Superintendant of the Royal Botanical Garden of Ceylon, as a memorial of many Agreeable hours spent in his company while explor- ing together the wilds of these Hills. 998. OsBECKiA WtGHTiANA (Benth.) shrubby: branches herbaceous, scabrous with short bristles : leaves nearly sessile, ovate, slightly acute, quite entire, 5-7 nerved; upper side covered with adpres- scd somewhat shining hairs; under hirsute on the nerves and shortly tomentose between them : flowers (large) terminal, at first densely capitate and brac- teated, afterwards often solitary : calyx campanulate, denselv covered with short adpressed capitate scales, bearing, a tuft of long bristles at the apex ; segments 5 deciduous ; appendages deciduous, covered with bris- tles: anthers 10, linear -oblong, scarcely beaked: style clavate.— TF. and A. Prod. p. 323. This species is rare about Ooiacamund but about Coonoor and Kaiiie Falls it is ccmmen. It is readily diRlinguished from the preceding by the short ridg- ed shining adpressed hairs with which the 5-nerved leaves are covered and by the calycine bristles being nearly white, while in it they are a deep Dioffuiib red. ( 10 ) I I i I il I 909, Eugenia (S.) Arnottiana (R. W. 111. Ind. Bot. Syzyaeuiu densiflonim Wall.) leaves elliptic, obkng, acuminated, folded, corinceoiis, dotted : cyme dense, corymbose; peduncles lat-ral, general and partial stout, the partial ones bliort and bearing at the apex an umbel of'8-12 almost sessile flowers subtended by oblong-linear caducous brac- teas; calvx shortly turbiuate ; limb cup-shaped, shortly and bluntly 4-toothed orlobed: petals ex- panded before falling off.— and A. Frod. p. 3'29. Abundant in the jungles about Ootactiiiund and generally met with in the woods on the higlier hills. It it a beautiful tree, generally of low growth, with wide ppreading branches forming a fine umbrageous head. It is in its greatest perfection in February and March when covered with thousands of large clusters of fl)wers. In May and June it is covered willi myriads of its oblong dark purple succul^-nt austere tasted fruit. The Cotyledon* are thick and fleshy placed horizontally one above the other with a sin.ill radicle between. The fruit is eat to a considerable extent by the natives, though, owing to its astringency, by no means palatable 1000. Eugenia (S) calophylifolia (R. W.) arboreous, ramuli, 4-sided : leaves approximated towfards the ends of the branchlets, from oval, very obtuse, to obovate-orbicular, coriaceous ; veiidess above, penninerved beDeatii, when dry, slightly revo- lute on the margin, not dotted : cynis terminal, corymbose, short peduncled, many flowered : calyx repandly 4 toothed : petals 4, orbicular, separaling as one : fruit drupaceous, oval, oblong, succulent, dark purple when ripe. A low spreading tree, very abun lant in the wooils about Ootacamund. The flowers are exceedingly numerous but make no show so few in each cluster opening at the same time. The tree itself however is a very beautiful one, with a fine round umbrageous head. It is to be mat with in fl.)wer at all seasons, but is in greatest perfection in March and April. The fruit is so like those of E. Arnottiaua that the same description will serve for both. 1001. SeiipiCula hirsuta (W. & A.) stems hirsute : leaves oppositcuneate-oblong or oval, tooth- ed towards the apex, slightly hairy particularly on the under side : male flowers 8 androus, on hairy pedicels twice the length of the lea/es.— a; leaves oval, slightly cuneate at the base. — W. and A. Prod, ■p. 331. A low creeping procumbent plant very common in moist pastures, especially in the vicinity of springs and water courses. 1. verticel of flowers— 2 fertile flower showing the 4 styles--3. m de flower unopened — 4. the same opened— 5.anthers—G. pollen - 7. young fruit front view— 8 side view —9. stigma —1 0. ovary split open showing the 4 pendulous ovuK s.— 11. full grown fruit— .12 cut vei tically— 13. transversely— 14. embryo detached. 1002. HydUocotylr conferta (R.W.) procum- bent, rooting : every where clothed with long hairs : leaves long petioled, orbicnhar remform, obscurely 7-lobe l,serrately toothed : flowers all fertile : umbels globular, many flowered, always sessile: fruit turged ecoslate. Frequent in dense woods: where the soil is moist it grows with great luxuriance extending several feet from the original root. This species is nearly allied to both B. Nepalensix and capilala, but seems, so far as I can judge, Hinpl) distinct Ironi both in its con- stantly sessile umbels and bisexual flowers. 1003. Htdrocotyle polyckphala (\V. & A.:) stems rooting, scabrous or nearly glabrous ; branches petioles and peduncles, and the leaves spariiiyly on both sides, scabrous from short stout hairs : leaves attached bv the margin, oi bicular-ieniform, 7-lobed; lubes scarcely acute, coarsely crenated : peduncles hoarv, numerous (6 is) an I umbellate in the axil of the uppermost shortly petiole i leaf, almost as long as the leaf: flowers all fertile, numerous (20-:J0 together), at first capitate and almost sessile, afier- w^rds (in fruit) on sliort glabrous somewhat per- manent pedicels : fruit diiymous, slightly 2-ribbed on each side, smooili and flat betvreeu the ribs.— IV. (md A- Prod p. 366. Frequent in low woods in rich moist soil ; in such situations verv luxuriant, completely covering large patches of ground, I have found it in many and distant stations in similar situations, both ou the Continent and in Ceylon. 1004. Sasiccla elata cHam-O stf" dicho- tomous at the apex: leaves 3-partite or ternate, glabrous; segments sessile, ovate, acute, lobed and serrated, cuneate at the base, the lateral ones often bipartite : umbels usually 3-fid, few-tlowered : flowers ]iolvgaraous, the males pedicelled. — W. and A. Prod. p. 367. Common in almost every wood about Ootacamuiid, flowering during the rainy season. It often atiaiua a large size, three or four feet in height. 1005. PiMPiNELLA Leschf.nacltii (DC.:) bien- nial ?: stem slightly branched, glabious or minutely pubescent: radical Jeaves petioled, orbicular, cordate, entire, toothed, firm and hard, many-nerved at the base, glabrous on the upper side, pubescent on the under; cauline ones few, divided, small and almost reduced to the sheaths: umbel with 5-10 pubescent ravs ; partial ones with many rays : involucres and involucels wanting: styles 'diverging : fruit ovate- acuminated, c;lnbrous.— W. and A. Frod. p. 369. Generallv distrilnited over the higher ranges of the hills in'dry pastures, flowering during the rainy season. From the naked exposed situations in which it usually grows, though in itself little striking, it becomes very conspicuous. The roots are perennial and strike deep iuto the soil. 1006. BUPLEURUM DtSTICHOPHYLLtJM (W. & A. :) perennial: stems ereet, simple and twiggy below, flexuose and almost simply branched upwartisfi''d that one of these sp-'cies must be reduced. B. v i rg atum steius also too nearly allied to these. 1008. Pastinaca SprIngex>iana (R. W. Hera- eleum SprengeLianum W.ans and enclosures, peihaps in other situations among thickets in moist rich soil : of this however I am not quite certain, as I find there are two species closely resembling each other, which 1 have hitherto confounded. 1009. Pastinaca E1GRN3 (K. W. Heracloum rigens Wall D. C. W. and A.) stem slightly branched, furrowed, pubescent or hirsute: leaves ternate ; divisions roundish, somewhat cord.ite at the base, toothed, upper side more or less seabrous with short hairs, under densely pubescent or tomentose, lateral ones on a short, tenninal one on a long petiole, the latter bluntly 3-lobed or ternate ; leaflets of the involucel ovate : petals equal : fruit obovate ; TittcE on the hack linear, much shorter than the fruit, the lateral ones in pairs, and close to the intermediate ridces : vittae on the commissura 4, acute, unequal, the^two outer the shorter.— W. and A. Prod. p. 373. Frequent in pastures, flowering duiiug tlie rainy autumnal mouths. The radical leaves are usually pinnated and lie on the ground. The specimens selected for representation is a small one, but as com- pared with many of the others, this is a small species, though larger than the next. 1010. Pastinaca HooKERiANA, (R. W. Heracleum Houkerianiim. W. and A ) Stem nearly simple, fur- rowed, coarsely pubescent or somewhat hirsute with short glutinous hairs ; leaves nearly radical, 3-lobed, toothed, sparingly pubescent or hairy on the upper side, shortly tomentose on the under ; lobes roundish, toothed, the terminal one the largest and often 3- lobed ; upper stem-leaves few, and sometimes almost reduced to the mere sheaths; umbels long-peduncled, with 0-10 rays: leaflets of the involucre persistent during flowering, afterwards deciduous, lanceolate- subulate : of the involucel oblong lanceolate, longer than the flowers : petals (whitish with a tinge of red) unequal : fruit (very immature) sprinkled with a few short hairs ; commissura with 2 \ht.x.— W. and A. Prod. p. 337. Like the preceding this frequents pastures, on the Elo).es of the hills, and during the rainy season, is equally abundant : it is readily distinguished by its naked stems, the leaves being all radical aud lying flat on the ground. Beiiig unable to discover any characters, by which these species and several others in iny collection, may be distinguished generally from Pastinaca, the older genus of the two, 1 have been induced to refer them all to that genus in preference to retaining both it aud Heracleum in the Indian Flora. It is my impression that there is no difference between the two genera but I leave that for those who have better means of d eter- mining the point to decide. So fnr as_written charac- ters go there is no difference but there may be in habit, with which I am unacquainted. 1011 & 12 Hedera (P.) obovata (R. W.) arbore- ous, glabrous, leaves digitate; leaflets about 5 petio- led, obovate, cuiiiate, very obtuse ur sometimes obcor- date, coriaceous : thyrses numerous, .aggregated to- wards the ends of tlie branches, ebractiate : umbela numerous, solitary in each peduncle, flowers pedicel- led : petals, stamens and stigmas from six to eight ovary 6-8-celled. A rather \\idely distributed tree, of small size, occurring in aliiiiie jungles. I have specimens from Counallum; ShevaL^lierry Hills; Hills near Coim- batore, and from the jungles about Coonoor.^ The specimen from which the drawing was taken is from the latter station, where it flowers in April and May. 1013 14. Hebera(P.) rosteaTA (R. W.) arbor- eous, glabrous: leaves digitate ; leaflets 5 to 9 lon- gish petioled, ovate lanceolate acuminated, serrated : thyrses solitary, terminal, at first furnished with sevs- rai sheathing cuspidate bracts : (abortive leaves) lateral peduncles bracteated, from one to three uni- belled : flowers numerous pedicclled : petals 5, dehis- ing before fallit^g : stamens and styles 5, esserted, cohering and forming a beak, persistent in the fruit : ovary and fruit 5-cellcd. A consiiierable tree frequent in woods near Nedawuttem and Sisparah on the Neilgherries. The serrated leaves and long beak-like st\le at once dis- tinguish this species. The branches of the thyrse, in the specimen Irom which the drart-ing was made, seem all to have borne solitary umbels,uiy specimens, however, in some instances, have three umbels on one branch. '1 his species seems to go far towards reducing the genus Gilibertia. 1015. Hedera (P.) racfmosa (R. W.) arbore- ous, leaves digitate : leaflets about 7 form oblong, lanceolate acuminated, undulate on the margin, to elliptic cuspidate : thyrses pauicled, usually lateral (from the previous yeaVs wood) branches racemose, flowers pedicelled, furnished at the base of the pedicel with a small somewhat subulate bractea: petals and stamens 5, styles 5 short ; stigmas distinct obtuse: fruit 5 -celled. A lar^e tree of rather rare occurrence. A tew lioe trees ro^ov SO feet high, and large in proportion are irrowiu" in the woods behind Kelso land in Ootaca- mund °I have met with it in several other places, but no where abundant The very peculiar luflores- cence at once distinguishes it from the rest of the genus. The leaflets vary a good deal in form aiid size ; iu some of my specimens they are scarcely waved nearly elliptic with a short cuspidate point, under 4 inches long, and U broad, in otheri they are 6 or 7 inches long and about 2-broad, much waved. Flowers June and July. ( 12 ) i I Ob9. In our Prodromus it is remarked that Para- jropia appears a natural genus, having the leaves digitate and umbels of tiowers arranged in racemes forming thjrses, &c., bein^ now imi)resMed with con- viction that, so far as characters derived from the fructification are concerned, no generic difTerence ex- its between Hedera and Paratrnpia, I have referred all these species to the former, but have retained ihe latter as a very natural and characteristic subgenus, on account of their digitate leaves ami thrysoid in- florescence ; these, in tlie absence of structural differ- ence of the reproductive organs, not beuig held of sufficient weight to entitle them to generic value. 1016. ViscuM ounicuLATUM (R. W.) monoicous, branches foursided, angled : leaves opposite, orbicular, much waved on the margin, slightly' 3-5 nerved : flowers sessile, axillary, aggiegated, male and feniale mixed : anthers sessile on the lobes of the calyx, fiat, composed of numerous little cells, hemes oval, obloQg, obtuse at both ends. , . , , A very rare slirub ; the plants from which the drawing was made being the only ones I have seen ; they were growing on the branches of Agapetes ar- hovca. The Draftsman has not correctly represent- ed the anthers, the other parts of the tigure are unex- ceptionable. 1017. VrscuM EAM09I5STMUM (Wall :) entirely or almost leafless, much branched : stem and branches terete vertioiliate or opposite, younger branches usually long and slender : leaves (when present) narrow, oblong, 3-nerved : flowers usuallyS together, axillary, sessile or nearly so : berries almost globose. — W.andA.?rod-,r- ''i^^- . . , This like the preceding is monoicous, and is fre- quently met with in all parts of the eountry. 10!8. ViscuM MONiLiFORME (Blume) leafless : stems terete at the base; branches opposite or fascicled, compressed: articulations obovate-oblong, taperiuiy- coloured sraies: leaves elliptic^il, acu- minated at both ends, coriaceous, quiie entire with the margin slightly recurved, gl.ibrous : upper side shining, under covered with minute shining rusty- coloured dots: corymb terminal. Urge, tricholoinous, often larger than the leaves : stigmas sessile : berry oval oblong.— and A. Prod., p. 388. A common and widely distributed species, but rarely, if ever, met with at the elevation of Ootaca- mund, at Conoor, and for two or three miles belov/ that place, it is very common and when in flower, a very handsome shiiib. I have specimens from several other alpine stations, but have never seen it under three or four thousand feet of elevation. In some situations it may almost be called a small tree generally it is a large raraous shrub. 102-2. Viburnum capitellatcm, (W. & A. :) free from scales, quiie glabrous except in the axils of the nerves: leaves oval-lanceolate, with a few distant wavy teeth, atteninted at the apes into a rather fine point, under side with the axils of the nerves woolly : cymes compound, somewhat umbel- shaped, 3 -e-parti'te; flowers umbellate, several toge- ther, nearlv sessile at the extremity of the ultimate divisions : flower-buds viscous and shining : stigmas sessile : berries oval .oblong.— IT^. and A. Prod., p. 388. The specimens from which the accompanying drawing was made were found in the neighbourhood of Kutcrgherry. I have other specimens from the Pulny range, found at a nearly similar elevation : but 1 do not recollect having observed it about Ooia- camund. It is a handsome shrub, very nearly allied to the next, but evidently distinct. Ploweis during the autumnal months. 1023. Viburnum hebanthum, (W. & A. :) branches, petioles, and general peduncles glabrous ; leaves elliptical or obovaie, shortly acuminated,obtu«e or acute at the base, slightly sinuate-toothed on th« lower half, coarsely so toward the apex, woolly in the axils of the nerves on the under side, otherw se alabrous : partial peduncles of the corymb pubescent: corolla tubular campanalate, softly pubescent, limb very small, nearly erect, 4-5 times shorter than the tube: style very short and thick.— IP. and A. Prod., A verv common shrub or small tree all over the higher ranges of the hills. The specimen from which the figure is taken does not convey a favourable impression of the inflorescence, but can searcely be said to be unfavourable, as in that respect it is cer- tainly the least striking of the Neilgherry species. It begins to show its flowers in February, but is not in perfection until March and April. ( IS ) * 1 I 4 ■>■• 1, I ill mm 1024. ViBUEN'uM WiGnTiANCM, (Wall.) branches, petioles, peduncles, pedicels, and flowers K'^brous : leaves oval, shortly acumiuHteii, obtusi? at the hase, quite entire on the lower half.'iharpl}' serrated towards the apex ; upper side glfibrous ; under slightly puberulous wtten youii;.', nearly glabrous when old, the nerves densely pubebct^nt and their axils woolly : corymb shortly peduticled, somewhat panicle- shaped: bracteas linear, pubescent and ciliated- corolla hvpocMteriform ; limb spreading, conspicu- ous, abi)Ut 4 times shorter than the tube: ovary linear: style very short and thick.— TF. and A. Prud. p. 388. A moderate tree or large shrub frequent in the woods about Otitacamund, flowering in April and May, but generally to be met with at other seasons. The fruit in this, like those of the preceiiinj^, is au oval succulent drupe red, and subacid when ripe. _ Obs. It will be remarked from an examination of the dissections of the ovary of all these species that it is one-celled with a single pendulous ovule. This structure led me at one time to suppose these formed a genus distinct from the European genus Vibernum, but on comparii/^j the ovary of 2 European species — F. Opnlus and V. Laniana, I found the same structure, though, judging from the descriptions of the most recent vrriters, I was led to expect them 3-celled. 1025. Lr^NICERA (X.) LIGUSTRlNA, (Wall.) Rt(?m somewhat erect and bushy; branches slender, slight- ly twining, younger ones hairy or nut)escent : leaves shortly petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute, obt.ise at the base, quite entire, shining, sprinkled on the margin and when young on the midrib beneath with spreading hairs : peduncles a little longer than the petioles, slightly drooidng at the apex, 2-flowereJ, axillary and solitary ; bracteas, a subulate one at the back of each ovary, and one cup-shaped closely surrounding and containing both ovaries: calyx; limb constricted in the middle, the margin 5-tootbed teeth oblong, short : corolla puberulous, infundibnli- form ; tube rather short, gibbous on one side at the base; berrii^s distinct, both covered by the common bractea.— IF', and A. Prod., p. 3S9. This a verv common plant about Ootacamund, and like the privit is much used as a fence about gardens for which purpose it answers well, forming a very compact one. The flowers are too small and too few in proportion to the quantity of leaves to admit of its being considered an ornamental flowering shrub, but so far as general form is concerned, were shrubberies more in vogue on the hills, it would well merit a place in them. 1026. Hedyotis (D.) Lawsoni^, (W. & A. :) shrubby, glabrous: branches 4-angled: leaves oblong- lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, petioled ; nerves few and distant, curved : stipules deciduous, triangular-ovate, acuminated, the point thickened and glandular-lobed ; the margin entire: panicle spreading : calvx-limb cup-shaped, 4-toothed: co- rolla externally glabrou-, villnus in the mouth and on the segments slightly protruded : style considerably protruded: capsule obovate, dicoccous.— W. anrf ^. Frod. p. 407. A handsome but neglected shrub, found in the ■woods about Ootacamund and elsewhere, not very ran; on the Hills. The flowers which in fiue plants, form much larger clusters than those here represent- ed, are so much of lilac colour, that introduced into shrubberries, and some care bestowed on its cultiva- tion, it might become a passing good substitute for the lilac, 1027. Hedyotis. (D.) stylosa (Brown :) shruby, glabrous: branches somewhat terete or obtusely 4- augled : leaves from oval to ob'onii-Ianceolate, acu- minated at both ends, petioled ; the nerves on the under side stroug, armed, slightly branched: sti- pules sometrhat permanent, triangular-ovate ; their margin pectinately pinnatitid, the segments long, filiform, hirsute : panicle spreading : caiyx-limb ciip-sha[)ed, 4-toothed : corolla externally glabrous, , villous in the mouth on the segments: filaments considerably protruded : style much protruded : capsule ovoid, dicoccons. — W. and A. Prod. p. 389. This is a much more abundant shrub than the pre- ceding, and the clusters of flowers being larger ;t is really a showy plant, but I have not once seen it in cultivation though abundant in the woods. The flowers are nearly white, and it i» in flower at nearly all seasons. 1028. Hedyotis (D.) AHXictTLARia (Brown :) shrubby, glabrous : branches terete or obscurely 4- angled: leaves approximated sessile, narrow, oblong- lanceolate with the margins recurved, coriaceous, minutely papillose; nerves on the under side stria- forni, close, simple: stijniles ovate-lanceolate, the opposite ones connate at the base ; ih-f inargins divided into several filiform rigid segments : panicle coarctate : caiyx-limb cup-shaped, 4 toothed : corolla externally puberulous, villous in the niouth and on the segments: filaments protruded; anthers oblong- linear: style scarcely longer than the lube of the corolla : capsule oblong-obovate, dicoccous. — W, and A, Prod, p- ;JS9. A common flowering shrub on the hills and to be met with in nearly all situations, especially whea the soil is somewhat humid. It is usually a dry scraggy looking plant, almost always to be met with covered with flowers and dry yellow sickly looking capsules. Judging from its appearance in the wild state there is little in its appearance to recommend it to the attention of the Amateur. 1029. Hedyotis (D.) verticellaris (Wall Hed. planiaginifoUa Am pug '^■) perennial herbaceous, leaves nearly all radical, linear-lanceolate, nerved, plaited between the nerves gl.ibrous, overlapping at the base ; those of the scapes linear lanceolate : scapes as long or longer than the leaves leafy ; lower pairs distant opposite ; upper ones appro- ximated verticelled : stipules between the distant jiairs bristle toothed : flowers sessile, capitate and terminal, or verticelled in the axils of the upper leaves : heads from the axils of the low- er pairs peduncled : calyx segments linear lanceo- late as long or longer than the tube of the corolla : corolla iufundibulilorm, hairy in the tliroal : stamens more or less exserted or included. Verv abundant in marshy soil on the banks of the river at Pycarah, also all along the road from a mile or two beyond the Avalanche to Sisparali, and is ge- nerally distributed in marshy grounds over the Koodahs. When in full flower it is certainly a beau- tiful plant. I can sse no difference between this and H. planfaginifolia Arnott, and feel confident this last has been added to the list of described species owing to Dr. Arnott not having a specimen to com- pare, and our description having been made from a scape only not a perfect plant. The proper steins of both are under ground rhizoms, the leaves and scapes are the same ia both -and so are the flowers aud seed. ( 11 ) ; muam 1030. HiDYOTis (A.) ArFlKis (W. & A.) herbace- ous, procumbent, rooting : stems flexuose, branched, branches villous, particularly near the extremities : hairs on the branches and leaves flat and jointed : leaves deltoid-ovate, acute, tapering slightly at the base into a petiole about one-third of the length ot the limb, sprinkled with hairs on both sides, paler on the under : bristles of the stipules 2-4 on each side, much shorter than the petioles: corymbs shortly hirsute, terminal, peduncled, tnchotomous : calyx-segments cuneate-lanceolate, becoming larger andBomev9hat foliaeeous immediately after flower- ing : corolla infundibuliform ; tube slender, i-o times longer than the calyx-segments: filaments exserted and the style short, or filaments sliort and the style elongated : capsule with 6-8 seeds in each cell— W. ond ^. Pr-orf. p. 411. , ., ^, . This is a very common plant on the Neilgherneg, especially on the banks of water courses and in pas- tures where the soil is somewhat humid. 1 long con- sidered it the Hed. delloidea and it was only recently, when arranging the whole of my collections ot the genus, I ascertained that the one here represented was more correctly referable to affinis than to del- ioidea ; the two species might, I think with advan- tage, be united. II. Leschenaultiana might how- ever be retained as a good species, distinguished by its sessile, cordate, ovate, somewhat amplextcaul leaves. 1031. HiDTOTis rA ) MONOSPEKMA (W. and A. :) herbaceous, procumbent, rooting: stems and branch- es slender, glabrous below, hairy towards the extre- mities : leaves petioled with the petioles more than one-half the length of the limb, deltoid-ovate, acute ; upper side thickly, under thinly sprinkled with fiat iointed hairs: stipules with 2-4 hairy bristles on each Bides : corymbs somewhat terminal, simple, small, few flowered ; corolla shortly infundibuliform, the tube about twice the length of the calyx-segments : capsule compressed-globose, crowned with the dis- tant spreading calyx-teeth ; seeds solitary ! in each cM.—'^.andA.Vrod. p.i'iO. , , , This is a common and widely diffused plarit, my specimens being derived from Courtallum, bheva- oherry, Malabar and the Neilghernes, &c. As a species it is very distinct from all the rest of the genus, unless by the way I chance to have confound- ed two or more species, having a similar structure, which seems not improbable as viewed as one, it seems rather polymorphous, but this point still re- mains for closer examination than I have yet, naa leisure to bestow. 1032 Lasianthus venoloous (R.W. Santia venu- losa W. & A.) shrubby, glabrous : stipules triangular hairy : leaves coriaceous, short petioled, elliptic-ob- lono-, cuspidate or acuminate, glabrous above ; vmus prominent on both sides beneath sprinkled with hairs: eymes axillary, short peduncled few (3-5) flowered : bracteas small hairy : calyx 4-5 parted, diviMoiis subulate, as long as the tube of the corolla : corol a 4-5 cleft throat and lobes hairy : stamens 4-5 : style as long or often longer than the corolla 3 5 lobed : cells of the ovary equalling the lobes of the stigma ; a single erect ovule in each. Common in the woods about Ootacamund, and generally distributed over the higher ranges of the Hills — a very ramous shrub : leaves from 2 to 4 in- ches lon'T by about half as much broad, of a light yellowish green colour, sometimes acuminate oftener cuspidate. Flowers pale yellow or cream coloured, berries about the size of a pea, succulent blue, ihe long teetk of the calyx of this species, is very charac- teristic. The inflorescence is tssentlally cymose, but the peduncles are sometimes reduced to one flower. 1033. WendlAndiA NoTONiAsA(Wall. :) arboreous, ■with the young shoots hirsute: leaves petioled, ob- long, sliglitly tapering at both ends ; upper side gla- brous, under somewhat glaucous, more or less min- utely pubescent, often nearly quite glabrous except on t"he nerves and veins : stipules triangular-ovale- hirsute at the base ; the upi'er part glahrous, recurv: ed : branches of the panicle hirsute, somewhat erect , flowers crowded and forming interrupted spikes: calyx hoary, the ttetli triangular, acuminated : corolla glabrous, 6-8 times longer than the limb of the calyx, tube widened at the mouth; divisions of the limb oval, obtuse, recurved ; anthers nearly sessile: cap- sule sprinkled with short hairs.— W. and A. Frod. p. 403. A large and very beautiful shrub frequent about Coonoor and Kotergherry, but not ascending to the elevation of Ootacaniund. It also occurs abundantly and in great perfection about Kaitie Falls flowering ia February and March, wlien it is most ornamental often attaining a height of from 10 to 15 feet with every branch terminated by a large pauicle of reddish white flowers. 1034. Canthtum umbellatum (R. W.) shrubby or sub irboreous, unarmed ; young branches four- sided : leaves short petioled, oval acuminated gla- brous, coriaceous: flowers axillary umbelled on a short thick peduncle : calyx limb obtusely 5-lobed : tube of the corolla hairy within, the lower hairs pointing dounwards ; s'ameus 5 : style exserted: stigma raitri- form, 2 lobed, fruit oborate didyinous. An alpine plant rather rare on the Neilghernes about the elevation .^f Kotergherry, where in Orange Valley I found it f irming a moderate sized tree. I also found it in gieat abun. lance on the tops of the Hills at Shevagherry inf.. II flower in September. It is very nearly allied to C. didymum from which it scarcely differs except in the inflorescence, and subarhoreoua habif of the plant generally : the leaves when the two are coinpnred hie found much larger and more coriaceous in this, but its most striking characierinic, is the union of all the branches of the cvme into single stout peduncle from the dilated apex "f which, the flowers rise on shurt pedicels- Flowers white. 1035. PaveTta BRr.viFtoRA (D. C.) leaves oval acute at the base, acuminated, short petioled, sub- membranaceous glnbrous: paniclts corymbose many flowrred, its opposite br.aiches, lamuli, and flowers glabrous: tube of '.he corolla scarcely longer than the lobes.— Tube of the corolla about 3 lines long: stvle 4 hnesclavate at the apex : stipules broad nieni- branaeeous : plant turning black lu drjing— i;. C. Vrnd. 4. ;j. 401. A shrub not uncommon in the woods about uota- cainund flowering in March and April. The leaves which are thin and translu.-ent when held between the eye and the light are seen marked with numer- ous dark glandular points. DeCandoUes specimens VN-Pre from the Ntilgh.rries, and as this is the only species 1 have seen there, presnme tins is his plant though he h,.s failed to notice the ciliate margins ot the calvx lohes.There are however two forms one with the calyx lobes, minute, glahrms, the other witti them larger and ciliated, but beyoud that I can see no other point of diff-ereuce of any importance, 1 have therefore united them as mere varieties, lu tUe analyses of the plate both forms are given. ( 15 ) iUillBH 1036. Grumelia eloncata (R. W.) sliruLby glabrous : leaves shcrt petiol^d, obovate obloii<:;, cus- pidatety acuminate; peiiniiierved becomintj yellowiih in drying : stipules caducous, ovale oblong,broad poin- ted cymes elongated, panicle-shaped, compact wl'en iti flower, enlaif^iiig somewhat in fruit : calyx limb minutely 5-toothed : lube of the corolla short, throat closed with hairs : style unibraced at the base by a thick convex fleshy disk, stigma exserted, dilated 2- lobed. In woods about Ootacamund but rather sparingly. I also possess specimens from several other stations, Courtalluin, Shevagherry &c. It is unquestionably very nearly allied to the uexi, but is, I think, an abun- dantly disiinct species, as well by character as habit; the two bushes, even when growing side by side, ge- nerally flowering at different seasons. The flowering season of this is the autumnal months, of that the spring ones. 1037. GaUMELtA coNGESTA (W.&A.) erict : leaves short petioled, oblong, acuminated at both ends, penninerved becoming yellowish by drying : stipules broadly triangular, cuspidate, caducous : corymbs sessile, at first compact and scarcely longer than the stipules, afterwards larger but also compact or rarely spreading when in fruit, naked calyx-limb somewhat bluntly 5-toothed : tube of the corolla short, scarcely longer than the calyx-limb : berry ovoid, not furrow- ed. - W and A. Prod. p. 432, With the preceding and much resembling it. 1038. PsYCHOTRiA SAEMiiNTosA ? (Blume) stem climbing rooting ; leaves short petioled lanceolate; acuminated at both ends, slenderly veined, coriaceous, glabrous ; sti[)ules connate : corymbs termin.al deva- ricately-trichotomous : tube of the cnroila funnel- shaped : drupes elliptic, globose, furrowed by drying. — D. C. Prod. 4-522. Malabar about Calicut : also in Ceylon. The drawing is taken from a Malabar specimen, I have others from Ceylon. Though this plant corresponds well with De Candolle's character, so far as it goes, I am doubtful of its being Blume's plant. Tlie tube of the corolla of my plant can scarcely be said to be funnel-shaped, and no notice is taken of the very hairy throat; but still these differences are too slight to justify me in describing it as distinct while niVtU-quainted with the original species. 10.39. PsYCHoTEiA BisuLCATA (W. & A . :) shrub- by, diffuse, glabrous : leaves with a short petiole slightly dilated at the base, oblong-lanceolate, taper- ing at the base : stipules triangular-acuminaied, caducous: corymb terminal, peduncled, small, few» flowered, trichotomous or with the primary rays in fives, with minute acute bracteas subtending the ramifications: calyx-limb 5-lobed ; lobes roundish- ovate : tube of the corolla bearded in the throat, about twice the length of the e ilyx.limb : filaments exserted; anthers oblong: stigma nearly in( hided, short and thick, bipartite : berry ovate, 4 furrowed by drying: seed and albumen flat on ihe inner side, with two deep dorsal furrows and an intermediate broad blunt ridge.— W. and A. Prod. p. 434. In woods about Ootacamund but rather sparingly. The leaves are of a light lively green, and dry almost unchanged in colour. Obs. These two genera Grumelia and Psychotria ought to be united as they are truly one in every thing except the ruminated albumen of the former ; a character, which, however good in a mere carpolo- gical system, is too limited for a vegetable one (which requires its generic characters to be taken from more organs and structures than one) as it can only be made out from ripe seed; if both are preserved then, 1 believe, 1 may almost predict that probably half Ihe present genus Psijcholua must ultimately be transferred to Grumelia and then, without speci* mens furoished with ripe fruit no man can tell whether an unknown specific belongs to the one or otiicr genus. Our P. bracliatu I feel certain will, when the ripe seed is luund, prove a Grumolia : Wallich's P. truncala I am ail hut certain is a Gra- ffie/i'a, and I think identical with our G. congesta — Genera in a natural system ought not to rest on a solitary character, ',ince only tlie most artificial can be so limited and still less so wlien that is derived fioin the ripe seed wliich, as ilistinct from Vsychutria, is certaiidy tlie case wiih Grumelli. 1040. CoFFKA ALPESTRis ( R. W.) filuubby, glab- rous : leave-i lanceolate, cuueaie towards the base, pointed, coriaceous : peduncles axillary, confined to the upper leaves, lunger than the petioles, aggregated forming terminal corymbs : corolla five cleft ; divisions much longer than the tube, lanceolate obtuse: anthers exserted style gibbous, ntar the base, hairy: stigma clavate, glabrous : berry oval S-seeded. Ootacamund in woods flowering March and April. A low very ramous shrub the branches nearly naked, the rarauli covered with closely approKimated cori- aceous shining leaves : peduncles cOM6ned to the terminal axils, generally about 3 flowered ; flowers white with a hairy throat and line of hairs extending alone; the segments of the corolla. 1041. CoFFEA GromelioIdes (R. W.) shrubby or subarboreous glabrous : leaves obovate cuneate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, coriaceous : peduncles axillary, con.fined to the upper axils, about 3 flowered forming terminal corymbs: corolla 5 cleft, throat hairy, divisisQS oblong elliptic obtuse; anthers ex- serted: style not gibbous: stigma clavate, slightly cleft at the apex: berry ovoid, crowned with the per- sistent calyx. A large shrub or small tree, in low woods by the road side going to Pycarah, flowering in February. This seems to be a rarer species than the preceding and is confi led to a lower range of elevation. Though in many respects like C. alpvslris this is certainly a distinct species. 1042. Galium REQctEsiAXuM (W. & A. :) perenni.il: stems diffuse, ascending, brancheii, and the branches 4-ans;led, clothed with much soft spreading or deflesed hair, when old more glabrous : leaves in fours, roundish-obovate, mucronaie, 3- nerved; upper sides sprinkled with hairs; under more copiously hairy, particularly on the nerves and m-.irgin : peJiiucles axillary or termiiial, few-flowered, trichotomous, liairy : divisions of the corolla round- ish-ovate, slightly hairy on the outside : fruit roundish, hispid with hooked bristles. — TF. and A. Prod. p. 443. This is a low growing procumbent plint which, but for the large patches it forms, would be but little conspicuous from the grass among which it grows. I believe it is in flower the greater part of the year. The late Mr. GrifBth was of opinion that the Stellate division of Rubiaceae were misunderstood and erroneously described in calling the yellow petaloid part of the flovver, a corolla. That ha once stated to me in a letter, he consi Isre i merely the coloured dilated Cilyx limb. 1 have since often examined the flower with reference to that view of its structure, but have scarf elv been abl:^ to satisfy myself that there is not both a c ilyx and corolla. The Draftsman seems here to have settled the point in Mr. Griffith's favour. He knows nothing of Botanical opinions or theories, but sets down what he sees, and here he has assuredly given no corolla, an i [ think he is right; in which case this section must, as Lindley has done, be ele- vated to the rank of an order and will stand in the same relationship to Spermacoceee that Nijclaginia does Plumbaifinece. P. S. subsequent es;i:niaatioa has left no doubt on my mind on this paint. (16) I I 1043. Valeriana. BauNONtANA (W. & A.:) her- baceous, glabrous or very slightly puberulous : stems erect, with 1-2 pairs of leaves near the root, and another small pair about the middle, slightly hirsute on the knots : leaves somewh.it fleshy ; lower ones quite entire, ovate, bluntly ai-urainated, long- pefioled, the radical one often eraarginate at the base ; u()perinost or small pair somewhat sessile, narrow oblon,i, entire or toothed along the nurgin ; corymb terminal, trichotomuu*, panicled, with a piir of foliaceous bracteas similar to the uppt'rmost leaves subtending the principal brancln's : corolla 5 cleft : fruit linear-oblong, glabrous.— TF.«firf/4 Pro.:/, p 413. Common ill pasture lands on the Hill sides hU over the hills, flowering during the rains. It generally attains a larger size than the specimen represented: 111 the figure the pubescence is a little too distinct but it varies in that respect. 1044. Valeuiana LESCHBtVAULTir (D. C.) herbace- ous : stem erect, simple, with the knots hairy, ottier- wise glabrous : radical leaves petioled, ovate, obtuse, crenated, hirsute on both sides; stalk-leaves remote, small, sessile, the uppermost cut in a pinnated man- ner into 3 5 linear glabrous lobes, the odd one the longest: corymb cuntracted : fruit yUIous. — W, and A. Prod, p. 444. This, like the preceding, grows in pastures, but prefers richer soil and shade, being met with about the skirts of W(Jods in moist soil : though nearly allied, it seams distinct from the other both in cha- racters and habit. In ray specimens the leaves and petioles are ciliate. The fruit in this is pentangular, in that compressed, furnished with 3 hairy nerves on one side and one on the other. I04o&6. Valeriana Arnottiava (R.W ) her- baceous, erect pul)eiuhius: radical leaves on long petioles, unequ.iUy pinnated ; about 2 pairs and aa odd one; Inwer pair of leaflets alternate, upper pair opposite, all ovate or ovate-cor date, grossly, creuate- serrated, the odd one much the largi'st ; cauline ones unequallv pinnate about 3 pairs ; leaflets ovate or cord.ite, crenately dentate, obtuse, slightly acuminate : panicle large diffuse, divisions dichotomous : corolla 5-cleft, fruit compressed, 3 ribbed on the one side, one on the other, very hairy between. In woods near Slsparah, on the Neilgherries, also on the Pulney mountains, flowering April and Sep- tember. This appears very distinct from T'. Houher- iana the species to which it most nearly approaches. 3SS22PIiA.Bf ATIOM OP F£A.TES< VOL. III.— PART IV. 1047. Capparis pyrifolia (Lam.) stipules iborny, short, hooked : leaves between ovate and oval-lanceo- late, niucronate; the younger ones densely pubescent, older ones glabrous: pedicels short and stout, axillary, solitary, I-flowered, 2-3 times longer than the petiole: ovarium narrow-oblong, glabrous, furrowed.— H-'. and J. Frod. p. 25. A low thorny shrub with spreading branches : it rarely attains over iwo feet in height but the lateral branches cover a larger space. The flowers are large and handsome, but very fugacious . Frequent towards the bottom of the Neilgherries on their Eastern aspect flowering the most part of the year, but in greatest per- fection during the cool season immediately after the rains. 1048. Capparis "Roxbup.ghii (D. C.) shrubby : stipules thorny, recurved, hooked: leaves elliptic-ob- lous, obtuse, tapering at the base, glabrous : racemes terminal, corymbiform, leafless: ovarium obovoid?: berry globose, many-seeded.— and A. Prod. p. 26. A laroe diffuse very ramous shrub: floweruig in April and May. The only plant I recollect having seen grows near the foot of the descent from the Neilgher- ries by the Coonoor road. It forms a large straggling climbing bush : the prickles on it are always small and often altogether wanting. Flowers pure white and very evanescent— 1 was not so fortunate as to find mature fruit, but judging from the remains of one hanging on the bush, they seem to be about the size of small Billiard halls. 1049. Impatiens Munronii (R. W.) erect spar- ingly ramous : leaves crowded towards the summits of the branches ovate, slightly serrated, acute, hairy on both sides : pedicels axillary, solitary, one flowered, about the length of the leaves, furnished near the base with a minute biactea, lateral sepals ovate, toothed at the apex ; posterior concave helmate shaped, smmount- ed by a membranous crest ; lower one terminating in a conical hooked very hairy spur: lower lobes o the petals a little larger than the upper.— it. W- lUust. In Bot. 1 p. 160. Neilgherries in Jungles near Sisparah, February 1845. This seems an almost suff"ruticose species : it grows among bushes completely shaded from strong light. All those that I saw seemed to have naked stems a tew strag'^ling branches tipped with a bunch of leaves from the axils of a few of which the curious shaped flowers spiing— Found in flower in February, but apparently ai that season past its prime. 1050. Impatiens Gardneriana (R. W.) diffuse, nearly glabrous, at first procumbent, rooting at the joints, afterwards ascen'ling : leaves verticelled in threes, short petioled, ovate, lanceolate, acutely serrated, some of the serraiures bristle pointed: pedicels solitary, longer than the leaves, filiform : lateral sepals ovate, acumi- nate, shorter than the petals ; anterior ovate pointed, with a filiform spur as long as the flower and slightly gibbons at the point ; posterior about the length ol the posterior lobes of the petals : petals obovate, very obtuse, the upper lobes a little shorter than the larger anterior ones : capsule oblong, pointed, small, glabrous. Western slopes of the Neilgherries about 5 miles below Sisparah in moist pasture, flowering in January and February. I dedicate this species to my friend George Gardner, Esq., superiutendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Ceylon, who accompanied me during the excursion, in the course of which we fouud this and many other in- teresting novelties. A very slight error of the draftsman has been so greatly magnified between the transferrer and printer that a plant almost glabrous, or with merely a lew hairs scattered on itssurlace, has come cut ot iheT hands decidedly hirsute, the character is correct, the figure is wrong. " In the plate will be found two sets of diagrams A and B elucidating the views of Messrs. Kunih and j^oeper — A representing the position ol the parts as understood by Kunih, B as understood by Keeper. In these diagrams the dark lines a,a,a,a,a, represent the parts respectively callec sepals by these savants, and the double lines, b,b,b,b,b, the petals. From these it will be seen at a glance that, while Kunth allows only four petals, united by pairs, and 5 sepals, the upper two of them united into one, that Keeper accounts for only three sepals constantly present and 2 niinute ones only occasionally found, but gives the full number of petals as always present; the upper or posterior compound sepal of Kunth being viewed by him as th-^ anterior petal, he accounting for this reversed posiiion of the flower on the supposition that the pedicel has got a t^vist in the course ol its growth, a view which is supported by analogy, a similar disposition of parts being met with, in both Tropaolum and Fdar«unium t«o nearly allied tribes. And is still further supported by the genus Hydvocera which is simply a regular flowered Balsam. The two dissected flowers given in the plate are similarly marked so as to show by the corresponding leiterf, the parts indicated in the diagrams : the oihc- figures require no explanation."— E. W. Neilglieny plants. 1051. Malope Indica (R. W.) leaves simple obovate cuspidately acuminate. Woods near the Avalanche, Neilgherries; flowering and in fruit in lebruary. A large shrub or ill favourable situations a small tree. Of this species two plants only were found, one on the bank ol a stream in a deep ravine which had attained the size of a tree, the other a large very ramous shrub, in a jungle by the road side going to Sisparah near the top of the ascent. The leaves arc subalternate, petiol- ed, glabrous, shining, trom 3 to 4 inches long by about half the breadth, broader above and tapering slightly towards the petiol, ending abruptly in a short acu- men. Flowers long peduncled, about 3 together on the apex, pale yeflow : calyx 4 sepaled : petals 4: stamens 8 : ovaries 4, cohering below free at the apex, with 2 ascending ovules in each : styles 4 free below, apex and stigmas cohering. As the truit advances one of the ovules abort and the other becomes pendulous ; capsules 4, coriaceous, devaricated, dehiscing above: seed solitary in each, ovate ; testa bright shining, nearly, black, composed of two easily separable coats; external tunic, in the dried specimen, loose and fragile, interior hard and bony. Embryo foliaceous, radicle pointing to the bilum inclosed in a fleshy albumen. The other 2 species of this genus are both natives of New Zealand. I have therefore given this a geographi- cal specific name though a more appropriate one might easily have been found. The genus seems very nearly allied to Zanthoxylon, diflering principally in the sta- mens being double the number ot the petals. In habit and general appearance, they nearly agree, and the seed of this plant accurately corresponds with the descrip- tion of those of Zanthoxylon. ttmm MICROTROPIS. Calyx 5 parted imbricated . Corolla 5-petaled perigy- nous inserted into the outer edge of an annular disk, SEStivation imbricated. Stamens alternate with the petals rising from the edge of the disk. Anthers inlrorse, de- hiscing longitudinally, sometimes alternating with short epipelatous scales (squamulffi 5, breves, epipetalee sta- minibus alternates. Am.) Ovary semi-superior 2-celled with 2 dependent collateral ovules in each : style short, conical : stigma obtuse, obscurely four-lobed. Capsule superior 1-celled, two-valved, but usually dehiscing on one side only. Seed solitary, rarely paired, erect : testa thin, succulent, coloured. Embryo erect, enclosed in a copious firm tenacious albumen. Cotyledons foliace- ous. Radicle cylindrical. Shrubs or trees, leaves entire opposite, exstipulate, glabrous, shining, coriaceous. Cymes axillary or from the scars of fallen leaves, either furnished with longish peduncles or subsessile, forming dense capitulse on the older branches. Flowers small white, sepals and petals orbicular concave, very coriaceous. Fruit capsular, oval oblong pointed with the persistent base of the style ; capsule corticose, (resembling bark in colour and tex- ture) testa thin, friable, somewhat resembling semi-in- durated pulp, and, in all species I have seen, deeply coloured : albumen tenacious, translucent, easily sec- tile : cotyledons, when fresh, green. This genus was named by Dr. Wallich, but without a character, in his List of Indian plants. Lindley adopted it in his Natural System but without defining it. Drs. Meisner and Arnott having got specimens, both published characters quite independent of each other. Their generic characters are both good so far as their imperfect materials enabled them to go, but both admit of alterations. The materials in my hands being more perfect than those they had, has induced me to endea- vour to render more perfect their characters. The part 1 have described as the testa of the seed, Roxburgh has called an arillus {" Semina solitaria arillo tenia succu- lento involuta." Arnott from Roxb.) I do so from finding no other part corresponding to that organ, from its completely investing the seed, without any opening, which a true arillus must have, and from its being dis- tinctly vascular, showing that it cannot be merely in- durated pulp. I have not observed in any of the Hill species the epipetalous scales mentioned by Arnott. In Arnott's character the ovules are said to be ascending, in all the Neilgherry species the ovules are pendulous, the seed erect, and the radicle inferior. How this change of position is brought about still remains for investiga- tion. When Dr. Arnott published his remarks on this genus, he doubted whether it belonged to this order, a point on which there cannot, I think, be any longer a doubt, even supposing the corolla gamopetalous. This it cer- tainly is not, but polypetalous, the petals attached to a disk. This structure is most easily made out in the unopened flower bud. 1052. MicROTROPis DENSiFLORA (R. W.) leaves short petioled broad oval obtuse, somewhat attenuated towards the base, coriaceous, ylabrous : cymes axillary, erect, compact, many flowered ; much shorter than the leaves : capsule slender cyclindrical, pointed, 2 valved : seed like the capsule, testa crimson coloured. On the western slopes of the Neilgherries below Sis- parah in dense jungles, flowering and bearing ripe fruit in February. This seems a very distinct species from any of those previously figured, it forms a large straggling shrub or small tree. The dense almost capitate clusters of flow- ers combined with the Ion? slender fruit, are very characteristic and the outline of the leaves is besides very different from that of all the others. 1053. EuoNYMUS ANGULATUS (R. W.) arboreous, ramuli prominently 4 angled and furrowed between : leaves ovate lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, glabrous : cymes axillary, dichotamous, lax : flowers long pedicel- led : calyx fimbricated on the margin, petals orbicular : cupsules turbinate 5 celled : cells by abortion 1 seeded, seed partially enclosed in an arillus accompanied by the remains of the aborted ovule. Slopes of the Neilgherries below Sisparah on the banks of streams. The flowers, owing to the size of the cymes, are more conspicuous than in any of the others I have seen. They are of a dull purple colour, the specimens were gathered in February ai.d as they were accompanied by ripe fruit, the tree is probably in flower most part of the year. 1054. Edwardsia Madraspataxa (R. W.) leaflets about 25, glabrous, from elliptic to.sub-ovate obtuse, mucronate, or frequently retuse at the apex : racemes axillary or terminal, very slightly pubescent, many flow- ered : calyx cup shaped, slightly oblique, 5 toothed : legumes villous. Balaghaut mountains near Madras. My collectors brought me seed of this plant some years ago, which were transmitted to the Calcutta Bota- nic Garden and there vegitated. From these plants the specimen represented was taken. Owing to some error whether of the Draftsman or Lithographer or both, (I have not the original drawing by me to ascertain the point,) the petioles and flower bearing branches are re- presented densely hairy, while the specimens are so slightly purbescent that a magnifier is required to detect its presence. I suspect the error is principally attribut- able to the transferer, but be that as it may it is an error as the plant might without much impropriety be described as glabrous. I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Wallich for the drawing from which the figure is taken, as my specimens were not in flower. I possess a somewhat imperfect specimen of what appears to be a new species from China, it is not in fruit, but the calyx and flower are unquestionably those of an Edwardsia it may be thus defined. E. parvifolia (R.W.) every where glabrous ; leaflets about 7 from ovate attenuated towards the apex, to elliptic, mucronate : racemes axillary, congregated to- wards the extremities of the branches, many flowered : flowers secund : calvx cupshaped obtusely 5 toothed, glabrous ; filaments about the length of the corolla free to the base, ovary slender glabrous, ovules about ten. The flowers so far as I can judse from indiff'erently dried specimen are well represented m the accompany- ing drawino- of E. Madraspatana. I am indebied for the specimen to Asst. Surgeon Dorward of the Madras Establishment, who during a short residence collected a considerable number of plants which he kindly com- municated. 1055. Taverniera cuneifolia (Arn.) leaves pe- tioled 1-foliolate, from the almost constant abortion of the lateral pair; leaflet fi-om orbicular to obovate- cuneate, recurvedly mucronate, thickish, glabmus or pubescent: peduncles short, from the exds of leafless stipules bearing, towards the apex, from 1 to 4 shortly pedicellate flowers : legumes with the interior joint abortive stipitiform, the superior one unequally, obo- vate, echinate, with rigid hooked bristles.-^ ' pugil- ^ 'The^ drawing, for which I am indebted to Dr.Wal- ( 2 ) 4 lich was taken from plants raised in tlie Calcutta Botanic Garden from seed communicated by Dr. Gib- son. It is a native of Mysore extending northwards m the direction of tlie Western Ghauts. 1 have never met with it in the Southern provinces. 1056. NicoLSONiA coNGESTA (R. W.) suffruticose, very diffuse, procumbent, all the young parts except the upper surface of the leaves pubescent or hairy: leaves 3 or by abortion 1 foliolate, leaflets elliptic or subor- bicular, niucronate : flowers congested on the extremi- ties of the branches: calyx 5 parted ; segments subulate hairy, longer than the corolla: stamens diadelphous : ovary with a single ovule : (always?) legume 1 seeded. Pycarrah, Neilgherries, on the banks of the river, abundant— I have also met with it at Gotacamund but very rare. This plant has the appearance of being a true Nicolsonia notwithstanding the descrepancy between the generic character and ,my plant as regards the leoume ' conslans articulis plurimis' as I find on re- ferring to D. C.'s figure that his specimens had one or two, and an ovary with 3 ovules. In my plant the ovary (fig. 6) is represented with a single ovule whether or not that is always the case I am unable to say. 1057. SoNERiLA VERSicoi-OR (R. W.) herbaceous ; stems erect roundish hairy afterwards glabrous, marked with a slight decurrent rib from the insertions of the leaves : leaves opposite ovate or slightly unequal at the base, acute or somewhat acumenated, crenulate, pu- bescent on both sides ; penninerved : peduncles axil- lary and terminal : racemes curved seeund many flowered : calyx glabrous : petals obovate cuspidate : anthers cordate at the base, rostrate : style equalling the stamens : stigma obtuse : capsule clavate, trigonous, with a prominent nerve between the angles. Western slopes of the Neilgherries below Sisparah among grass and low jungle. „ , , The under surface of the leaves is usuady dark crim- son or purplish, flowers pink ; in the earlier stages the whole plant is sprinkled over with scattered hairs but afterwards the stalks are nearly glabrous. It seems nearly allied to S. Bninouis but is at once distinguished by its penninerved leaves, and obovate petals ; it seems still more closely allied to the following form which it is distinguished by its long curved many flowered race- mes; the form of its petals, and more copious pubes- cence. 1058. SoNERiLA AXILLARIS (R. W.) hcrbaceous erect sparingly sprinkled all over with hairs: stenis terete: leaves opposite or subalternate, long pitioled, ovate or subcordate at the base, acuminate, sparingly hairy above, nearly glabrous beneath : peduncles axil- lary erect, about tlie length of the petioles, few flowered : calyx limb 3 lobed, lobes pointed deciduous : petals elliptic mucronate: anthers rostrate : style the length of the stamens : capsule clavate, somewhat triangular, 6 nerved, glabrous. Western slopes of the Neilgherries two or three miles below Sisparah: frequent by the road side, flowering December and January. My specimens were gathered in February, but I only succeeded m obtaining one or two in flower. It seems a very distinct species, its nearest neighbour being, apparently, the preceding. 1059. SoNERiLA Brunonis (W. & A.) herbace- ous : stems (about a foot high or more) erect, branched ; branches acutely 4-angled, glabrous: leaves long-peti- oled, ovate, bristle-serrated, 5-7-nerved at the base, hairy or at length glabrous : peduncles terminal, longer than the leaves : flowers unilateral, longish-pedicelled. racemose : calyx glabrous : petals lanceolate, pointed : anthers ovate, short-pointed : style about the length of the stamens : stigma capitate : capsules turbinate, 3- sided strongly and prominently 6-ribbed, three of the ribs forming the angles, the other three on the sides.— W. and A. Prod. p. 321. The specimens from which the figure was taken were gathered atCourtallum in 1836, in general habit and in the form of its capsule, it approaches both the preced- ing, but is amply distinct from both. 1060. EUGEKIA (SyZYGEUM) MONTANA (II. '^^'•)— arboreous, young shoots acutely 4 angled the sides depressed or concave between : leaves coriaceous from obovate bluntly acuminate to suborbicular, short pitioled: cymes terminal corymbose many flovvered, each extreme division terminating in a fascicle of three flowers : floweis small : petals adhering and separating as one : calyx obtusely 4 lobed persistent, crowaiug the fruit : fruit globose about the size of a currant jjurple: Neilt'herries not unfiequent in woods, sometimes at- taining" a large size. This species is very nearly allied ill many respects to Moons, £. sylvestrts but is certain- ly distinct. Its most characteristic feature is the lorm of the young shoots which are prominently 4 angled with concave sides between. In the specimen figured the leaves are represented as occasionally alternate. This form, however, is of rare occurrence, and, though it certainly does occasionally present itself, cannot be admitted as part of the specific character. 1061. Haloragis oligantha (W. and A.) herbace- ous'', glabrous, procumbent: leaves aliernate, narrow- linear, tapering at both ends, serrated towards the apex : flowers minute, axillary, solitary, sessile : calyx-tube marked with four projecting angles : petals linear-lan- ceolate, obtuse, much longer than the segments of tlie calyx : stamens 4 : sligmas 4, large, sessile, pappulose: nut muricated, 1-celled, l-seeded.— W.and A. Frod.p. "^^This plant occurs in great abundance in shallow water in the lake at Gotacamund and in marshy ground along its borders. I have also seen specimens from Ceylon, but more abundantly covered with fruit. 1062. Hedera ACUMIN.4TA (R. W.) arboreous, glabrous ; leaves unequally pinnate many paired leaf- lets oval-obloiig acuminate short petioled : ihyrses numerous elongated, peduncles, involucrate at the base with minute snbulatp bracts : flowers very numerous, short pedicelled, fbrming subcapiiate umbels, each hav- incT a minute caducous bractiole at the base : calyx 5 lobed petals expanding : styles 5 free at the apex: ovary 5 celled with a pendulous ovule in each : fruit-- Cortallum and on the western slopes of the INeil- gherries about 2 miles below Sisparah. Apparently a small erect growing tree. The plant from which the specimen represented was taken had been injured and six or eight tall, erect, luxuriant branches had sprung from the stump. The wood appears very soft; the larides witli soft short villi. This seems the only difference : in his the calyx is des- cribeil as very minute " dentibus tnangulis oblusis" which is the case here. Tliere is no station assigned to Roth's plant, Neilgherries is appended to this — but I have other specimens from Malabar and Mysore, the lat- ter being the country, wliere most oflieyne's plants were collected. The similarity of the two plants, to eaeh other did not strike me when naming the drawing, other- wise I think, I should have given this the older name. 1066. IxoRA polyantha (R. W ) shrubby, every where except ihe inflorescence glabrous, leaves elliptic oblong obtuse or sometimes bluntly acuminate: stipules acuminate or subulate, pointed : corymbs terminal, contracted, many flowered, branches and tube of the calyx densely hairy : scariose bracts and ovate lanceo- late acuminate lobes of the calyx glabrous : calyx limb 4 parted, divisions subulate pointed : corolla glabrous, tube long, slender, limb 4 cleft, segments obtuse reflex- ed : style exserted, stigma 2 lobed. Calicut, Malabar, flowering in March. I have not seen the growing plant, but judging from a coloured drawing and specimens it seems to be a very handsome shrub. The larger leaves exceed a foot in length and are about 6 inches broad. The very dense hairy corymbs, scariose bracts, and large 4 parted limb of the calyx, at once mark this as a peculiar and distinct species. 1067. Ophiorrhiza eriantha (R. W.) suffruti- cose, erect, nearly glabrous, except the young shoots and inflorescence : leaves elliptic, lanceolate acuminate, tapering lit the base : stipules about the length of the petioles subulate : bracts long fililorm and with the calyx and corolla hairy : corolla funnel shaped, tube glabrous within, much longer than the dilated 5 cleft limb : stamens and style included : stigma deeply 2 cleft. Western slopes of the Shevagherry mountains under the shade of brush wood. Leaves from 5 to 6 inches Ions:, and from 1 ^ to 2 broad thin and membranous, terminating in a slender acumen: cymestermiiial compact hairy : anthers linear blunt : seed irregularly angled. 1068. Ophiorrhiza Roxburghiana (R W.) suf- friiticose erect or somewhat diffuse ; young shoots and corymbs villous : leaves from ovate to oblong-lanceo- late, acuminate, glabrous, except the veins, on the under surface: Stipules lanceolate acute, shorter than the petioles : corymbs terminal congested, villous: bracts narrow linear lanceolate and with the calyx hairy ; corolla funnel shaped, tube much longer than the di- lated 5 lobed limb, villous without hairy within : style and stamens included : anthers linear acute : stig- ma dilated 2 lobed. Shevoslierry mountains with the preceding near the base on the western face, August 1836. This though a nearly allied species is quite distinct from the preceding. 1069. Ophiorruiza grandiflora (R. W.) suffru- ticose erect glabrous : leaves ovate lanceolate acuminate : stipules minute triangular: corymbs terminal ulabrous : bracts linear subulate and like the calyx glabrous : corolla funnel shaped, a few hairs near the base, and along the veins ;tube much longer than the dilated limb, glabrous within : style and stamens included : stigma tapering to a point 2 cleft. Shevagherry mountains with the 2 preceding species. The corolla in' this is nearly an inch and half long. It ) i i is distinguislied from the preceding by its minute sti- pules, glabrous calyx, and the want of hairs wiihiu the tube of the corolla. LAWIA (R. W.) Gm. Chah.— Calyx limb 5-6 parted. Corolla tu- bular gibbous at the apex ; limb 5-6 cleft. Siamens 5-6 attached to the very base of the corolla, filaments very short. Uvary 5-6 celled ; ovules numerous; pla- centas free altaciied by a short pedicel to the inner angle of the cell. Seeds numerous, small, irregularly shaped, (resembling grains of gun powder) black. Herbaceous plants, puberulous all over; leaves long- ish pelioled, oblong-oval, acuminate at both ends, membranaceous, transversely veined ; deep green above, glaucous beneaih. Stipules triangular acute. Cymes terminal twice or thrice trichotonious lax; each division embraced by two couTiate membranaceous brads : flow- ers yellow pcdicelled, small : calyx tube short campa- nulate ; limb deeply deli into 5 or 6 narrow somewhat subulate divisions : corolla tubular about ihe length of the calyx 5-6 cleft, somewhat han y within, yellow : sta- mens very short, apparently scarcely attached to the corolla : style short : stigma large 5-6 lobed, segments acute. In dense jungles about Courtallum and bhevagherry, flowering and bearing ripe fruit in August and Septem- ber. I have dedicated this very distinct genus to my valued correspondent .1. S. Law, Esq., of the Bombay Civil Service ; an enthusiastic Botanist, who in the midst of the fatiguing duties appertaining to the office of a Collector, still finds some leisure for the prosecution of his favourite pursuit, and has made many valuable additions to my collection, from that side of India, of plants not found to the Eastward of the Ghauts. This genus seems clearly referable to the tribe Hameliese of D. C. and is the only one so far as 1 know belong- ing to the Flora of the Indian Peninsula. 1070. Lawia acuminata (R. W.) Courtallum and western slopes of the Shevagherry mountains, flowering in August.— 5ee Calcutta Jow7wl oj' Nat. History, vuL. 6. 1071. ScTJTEA Rheediana (R. W.) shrubby, armed with a few scattered recurved prickles : lenyes suboppo- site approximated, from broad ovate to orbicular, lipped with a minute point, conspicuously, parallel-veined, bright green above subglaucous beneath : ovary 2 cell- ed'; fruit 2 celled : seed compressed. Neilgherries abundant near Kaitie Falls, apparently in flower at all seasons. This seems very distinct from S. Indica. When nam- ing it I thought it Rheede's plant, to which it bears a considerable resemblance, but he represents the fruit with 5 seed, in both his figures, a form 1 have not yet met with, and, if that part of his figure is correct, I doubt whether his plants belong to this genus. Tins I have ne- ver seen with more than two. It is at once distinguished from S. indicu, by the venation of the leaves, which in this is prominent on the upper surface, running in pa- rallel curved lines from the costa to the matgin ; while in that, it is barely conspicuous and at irregular dis- tances : the leaves in this are besides ovate, or approach that form, while in that they are cuniate or obovate ; this is nearly unarmed, while the ramuli of that are constantly furnished with numerous stout recurved prickles. 1072. PotANisiA BuRTPCRENsr.s (Mi.rro) stem together with the leaves thukly covered with prickly hairs : leaves simple ! oblong-lanceolute acuminaiod ; radicle ones attenuated into a petiole ; cauliiie sessde : stamens 10-12 : sil.qua linear, not compressed, sessile, about the length of the peuuncle. Plains ot Koobass near Bhuripore, flowering in Sep- tember, flowers rose coloured. — Munro hoit. Ag- rensis p. 35. I am indebted to Captain Munro, H. M. 39th foot, for the drawings and characters of this, and the two following plants. 1073. CorxHORUS HUMiLis (Munro) perennial prostrate : leaves ovate crenate long pelioled : peduncles 2 flowered : capsules linear, oblong 6-8 times longer than broad, nearly glabrous. 4-5 ctsUed, 4-5, valved ; septa nearlv obostate. — M(inio,l.c. "A small prostrate plain growing in very hard dry soils. This may be C. proitrulus. Uoyle who, however, gives no character." — M. MONSONIA CHUMBALENSIS. (R. W. Erodium ChuinbuLenst, Munro). 1074. (EnoDiUM Chumbulense Munro.)— Annu- al, with a short decumbent stem covered with glandu- lar hairs : leaves long pelioled, oblong, cordate, cre- nated : peduncles one flowered, thicker towards the lop, jointed near the base, furnished at the joint with two bracteas : sepals pointed : carpels including the awns nearly 2 inclies long.— ilf("i'0, / c. Chumbul, near Agra in ravines. " I believe it is the first instance of an Erodium having been found on the plains of India." — M. ■ t i As this is certainly a species of Monsoma, I have changed Captain Monro's generic name but for the present retain the specific one, though 1 suspect it is identical with Gemniuiu Unciunian ol Graham s caia- looue, because the drawing diHers somewhat fiom spe- cimens of that plant cummunicaten by Mr. Stokes of Bombay, under the name ol Munsonia Loicuaiu a full description of which will soon appear in the C alcntia Journal of Natural History under the following specifac cliciractGr, M. Laiviaua (Stokes) densely clothed with lymphatic glandulilerous pubescence ; leaves ovate-cordate, acu- minate, dentate : stipules and bracts lieibaieous ; pe- duncles axillary 1 flowered : carpels obliquely trun- cated at the apex hispid.— The peduncles are long, jointed near the base, and when in fruit, twice bent, somewhat resembling the long form of the letter J m- verted thus ?. 1075. VoGELiA Ikdica (Gibson M S.S.) leaves ovate obtuse roundish at the base perfoliate.— K. W. Found by Dr. Gibson of Bombay, near Heura, to whom I am inoebted lor the specimens from which the drawing was takai. The station given is " Ilumicul Ghaul'Meading down to Suniiunnure in the Deccan. A large shrub from 6-10 feel high with cylindrical ramuli and ovale obtuse coriaceous glabrous perfoliate leaves. Inflorescence paiiiculaiely spicate ; floweis close- ly congested on the extremities of the branchlets forming a conical spike. Calyx five sepaled ; sepals lanceolate corrugated on the martins. Corolla tubular 5 cleft estivation convolute ; lobes reflexed obcor.'ate mucro- uate. Stamens included. Ovary superior one celled with a solitary ovule pendulous from the apex, btyle ( 5 ) I i filiform stigma 5 cleft. Capsule 5 valved separating from the seed. Seed ovate, pendulous; embryo folia- cioiis, enclosed in a farinaceous albumen. . I liave lo apologize to Dr. Gibson for not introduc- ing some alterations and corrections wliicii lie sut^gested on the drawing being submitted lo liim lor comparison with growing plants. Tiiis originated in his letter having been mislaid and supposed lost wlien seniling the drawing to tlie printer. Since then I have tound it, and will do what I can towards correcting the firsi error by introducing some extracts here, premising, however, that the outline of the figure correctly represents the specimens first sent and that the errors are confined to some of the details. *' 1st. The leaves are considerably too lanceolate only the younger ones are generally acuminate the older ones rounded and sometimes crenate." " 2d. The leaves have not llie net work of veins shown, but simple cross veins faintly visible ; colour of the leaf light glaucous or sea green texture almost coriace- ous." [The veinous net work is certainly mure distinct in the drawing than the specimen, but being on a white ground that is unavoidable, it however exists in tlie original.] " 3d. Folia majorafirme, semper margine retroversa. " 4ih. The inflorescence is much too panicular it should be more of a spike with a few branchlets, rather converging than diffuse, the inflorescence also is too rounded at ihe ends it should be considerably more conical." [As regards the outline of Ihe inflorescence the figure is correct lor the specimen, which was the most luxuriant of those sent. For the rest I cannot so well speak now as most of the flowers, owing to its hav- ing got wet and injured in coming, fell off almost im- mediately after it was opened.] " 5th. The same remark applies to the petals as drawn previous to expansion : they are pointed, not rounded and ventricose as in the drawing. .ffLstivation is convolute as in ApocynctE." These remarks are introduced in the hope that they will tend, with the aid of the figure, to convey a more correct idea of the varying forms of tlie plant, than even the most correct figure of any one of them could give. 1076. Vernonia conyzoides (D. C.) suffruticose, erect, striated, shortly pubescent: leaves ovate, or oblong lanceolate, acuminnted, attenuated into a short petiole, serrated ; glabrous above pubescently villous beneath : corymb compound, ramous, polycephalous : scales of the involucrurn linear lanceolate, acuminated, pubes- cently villous, shorter than the disk. — D. C. Prod. 5-25. On the plains, tliis is comparatively a small plant; on the Neilgherries, especially, when growing among bushes where it finds support, I have seen it 10 or 12 feet in height. Flowering lime February and March, flowers rose coloured. 1077. Vernonia pecteniformis (D. C.) shrubby, branches teret- smoothish, younger ones angle. C. c. p. 67. This seems to be a widely distributed and variable species. I have specimens from the Southern extremity of the Peninsula and others communicated by Mr. Law, from the vicinity of Bombay. Between the Southern and Northern forms there is considerable dif- ( 6 ) ference but not enough, it appears to mr, to constitute tl.em distinct species llie principal one being derived from liie compyralive size of the capitula which may be accidental and confined to my specimens. 1083 Decaneurum silhetense (D. C.) stem Iier- baceons, erect, ramous: leaves shortly petioled oblong lanceolate acuminuied at both ends, remotely bristly serrated ; above glanduloso-scabrous ; beneath alons the nerves scabrous : capitula at the apices of the branches, usually solitary subcorymbose : interior scales of the involucrum oblong inucronate; exterior ones filiform subulate subpatulous a few scattered on the peduncle. — D. C. I. c. Courtullum-Iehruary 1836.-The remote Geogra- phical station of my plant from that whence the original was obtained made me hesitate for some lime to consi- der them the same but the characters generally corres- pond so well that 1 cannot separate them, though this has white pappus and that red, a difference perhaps depending on accidental circumstances connected with the preservation of tb« specimen. The stems in my plant somewhat resemble the achenia in having prominent nerves and furrows between. 1084 Decaneurum divergens (D. C) stem her- baceous, erect, velutino-scabrous, paniculately branch- ed • leaves short petioled, elliptic, acuminated at both ends, dentate ; glabrous above, reticulated lomentose beneath : branches of the panicle leafy, elongated, diverging and themselves paniculate : capilulse crowded on the extremities of the branches, 7-8 flowered : scales of the involucrum oblong acutely mucronate nearly glabrous: achaenium glabrous, glandulose.— X». C. / c ^' Neilgherries frequent. It may almost be calleil a slirub and does not appear lobe an annual. D, C. inquires, an potms vernonia species V. nmllijlora proxima 1 Ihe plant here represented certainly is not a Vernoniuhui V. multifiora and perhaps V. Nilgherryensis may possibly be Decaneura. The latter is not distinguishable by any mark except the smooth achsenia and it seems to me young specimens only are found to represent it. 1085. MoNosis WiGHTiANA (D. C.) Arboreous, branches terete, velutino tomeniose : leaves petioled obovate subacute, cuniate and obtuse or subcordate at the base, entire, penninerved, glabrous and somewhat velvetty on liie nerves above ; velutino hirsute beneath : panicle very rainous, capitulse sessile at the apices of the subcorymose ramuli : scales of the involucrum ob- tuse, tomeniose on the back.— J). C. c. p. 77. A large tree, abundant on the Eastern slopes ol the Neilgherries below Coonoor. 1086. Elf.phantopus scaber (Linn.) stem dicho- tomous, ramous ; slrigoso villous : leaves scabrous, radicle ones cienate, cuniate, attenuated at the base ; cauline ones lanceolate; floral ones broad cordate acuminate canescent.— D. C /• c. p. 86. A widely diflused plant— found in Malabar, abund- ant lit Couriallum, in Ceylon, Maulmain, Malacca (?) and elsewhere. 1087. Adenostemma latifolium (D. Don.) stem erect ramous puberulously— hirsute towards the apex: leaves petioled, cunialely acuminate at the base, broad- ly ovate- rhomboid or subcordale, scarcely acute; coursely serrated and puberulous on the veins: panicle corymbose hairy polycephalous : scales of the involu- crum subacute, rou gh on the back : achansa muricate- ly tuberculate.— D. C. I. c.p. 112. Neilgherries in low lying humid ground and on the banks of streams frequent. 1088. Adenostemma reticulatvm (D. C.) stem erecl subtetragonous glabrous, the very diverging branches of the panicle glauduloso— puberulous : leaves ovate, coursely toothed, rigid, the prominent reticulated nerves beneath puberulous : scales of the involucrum linear oblong obtuse scarcely pubescent : achsenia smooth. — U. C. /. c. p. 113. This like the preceding is found on the Neilgherries, but I greatly doubt whether they should be kept dis- tinct the only character of any weight is that taken from the seed, and it is of very secondary value. 1089. Callestephxjs Wightian us (D. C ) leaves sessile, oblong linear entire or subserrated, shortly mu- cronate: branches leafy compressed at the apex, minute- ly puberulous : exterior scales of the involucrum toliace- ous, linear oblong, not ciliated, scarcely longer than the interior —D. C. /. c. p. 275. , c i, A rather common plant in many places in the bouth- ern provinces ; about Coimbatore it is not unfrequent, flowering during the cool season alter the rains. 1090 Ericiron Wichtii (D. C.) stem erect shortly ramous : leaves oblong, the inferior ones attenu- ated at the base, subserrated, somewhat obtuse ; supe- rior ones entire, acute, all puberulous on both sides : capitulse pedicelled sub racemose : scales of the invo- lucrum roneh on the back, linear subulate, equaling the disk : ligulae very slender, longer than the disk : achaenia glabrous.— D. C. L c 5. 286 On the Neilgherries not unfrequent in moist pastures, flowering during the rainy season. Ligula pule purple several series, branches hispid plant greyish white. 1091. Myriactis W16HTI1 (D, C.) sparingly pilose : inferior leaves ovate with a long cuniate attenu- ation at the base, coarsely inciso-serrale ; the s"P"'Of ones oblong entire sessile ; the apices ol the teeth and ot the leaves themselves calloso-mucronate.— X*. t. i. c. p. 5. 308. . ^ , Neilgherries not unfrequent in pastures, minute forms of it growing in arid stony ground sometimes resem- ble the Daisy. Radicle leaves ovate attenuated into the petiole the inferior cauline ones cuniate at the base, spar- ingly dentate, the upper ones subsessile acuminated at bodi ends : capilulte terminal solitary, 4-6 lines in dia- meter : involucrum somewhat hairy reflexed after blooming : ligulse white about 2 series becoming re- volute in drying. — D. C. 1092. Blepharispermum petiolare (D. C.) leaves petioled, ovate— lanceolate acuminated : glomerules se- veral long peduncled.-D. C / c. 5-368, Lourtallum De Candolle in his generic character describes tlie capitula as 2 flowered^in place of 4-viz. 2 male and 2 female, the former central : each flower is furnished with a partial palsa while a shorter common mvolucral one appertains to each capituluin. 1093. Blepharispermum subsessile (D.C.) leaves elliptic, attenuated at both ends subsessile : glomorulus terminal sohtary subsessile, with foliaceous bracteas longer than the capitulus. — D. C. L. c. Bellary in arid stony soils— October 1834. Dr. Arnott proposes to remove this plant from the genus and make it the type of an intermediate one be- tween Blepharisperrmm and Athroisma. 1 am unac- quainted with the latter except by description, but think ( 7 ) 1* this associates belter with it than the former, and I even tliink it might without impropriety be referred there, by which the necessity Ibr a new genus would be avoided. 1094. Sphranthus HIRTUS (Wilid) leaves obo- vate serrated, roughish on both sides, piolojiged into serrated wings : glomoruli ovate globose, peduncles three times as long as the glomoRdi usually furnished with serrately cleft wings. — D. C. I. c. 5, 369. This is a widely distributed plant, generally found in rice fields, flovfering during the cool season. In this species there are 2 or 3 central hermapli flowers, surrounded by about 10 or 12 female ones. The gloraorulus is usually purple of an oval shape, and shortly hairy all over. 1095. DiCHROCEPHALA CHRYSANTHEMIFOLIA (D.C.) erect ramous, the whole plant rough from close set short hairyness : inferior leaves lyrately pinnatifid : the supe- rior ones oblong, cordately seniiamplexicaul, coarsely serrated; the upper ones entire: peduncles much longer than the capitula.— D. C. I. c. 5. 372. Frequent on the Neilgherries about road sides and in neglected places, apparently in flower most part of the year. 1096. DrCHROCEPHALA LATIFOLIA (D. C.) Stem erect, sparingly pilose, leaves obovate attenuated into the petiole, coarsely toothed, often inciso-pinnatifid at the base ; flowering branches ramous nearly naked ; pedicels rigid divaricated longer than the globose capitula.— D C. I.e. 5. 372. Neilgherries very common. The capitula of this are scarcely half the size of the preceding, but the leaves are much larger. This in suitable situations is a lax, luxu- riant growing plant, the other is always an erect rigid one. 1097. Grancea Madraspatana (Poir) stems pro- cumbent or diffuse, the extremities villously pubescent. —D. C. I. c. 5. 373. A common plant near the borders of tanks all over Southern India. 1098. Cyathocline lykata (Cassine) inferior leaves lyrate, upper lobes of the leaves larger, obovate. — D. C. I. c. 5. 374. This so far as my own observation extends is a rare plant. The specimens here represented were gathered on the banks of a stream in Orange valley, sn the Neil- gherries, generally past flower, in August. 1099. Blumea hieracefolia (D. C.) every where hairy : stem herbaceous erect terete simple : leaves callously dentate, the inferior ones obovate obtuse, atte- nuated into the petiole ; the superior ones oval or oblong, acute, sessile or semiamplexicaul : capitula sessile, crowiled, forming an ovate oblong tliyrse : scales of the involucrum linear, acuminated, smoothisli, longer than the disk.— D. C. I. c. 5. 442. Rather frequent on the Neilgherries in moist soil near springs or on the banks of streams and water courses. It is either a variable plant in habit, or there are other species so nearly allied that it seems almost impossible to distinguish them by written characters. The plant represented seems to be the true form, further descnbed by D. C. as follows. " Herbaceous, about a foot high : leaves more hairy beneath : involuci am pur|)lish on the margin: female flowers iiuiutr erable, slender: style exserted undivided ; males 5 in the centre : ovaria pubescent. ( 1100. Blumea pterodonta (D. C.) stem herbace- ous lerfele ramous ; scarcely puberulous ; Mscid towards the exirenuties : leaves elliptic oblong '^labruus, subser- rated, decurrejit, forming a long deeply and acutely dentate or clt-l'i wnig : branches leafy, subpanicled, with one or few capitula at the apex; pedicels naked : exterior scales of the involucrum oblong foliaceous short ; the interior ones scariose linear acute, a little longer than the flowers.— D. C. 1. c. 5. 448. Neilglierries near Kaitie falls, a widely distributed plant occiuring equally on the plains and mouDtains and D. C saw specimens from Madagascar. 1101. Blumea alata (D. C.) stem herbaceous erect ramous and, like the leaves, clothed with short redish pubescence : leaves elliiJiic oblong, dentate, de- current, forming wings along tlie stem : peduncles axil- lary one or few headed, racemosely panicled : capitula suberect : exterior scales of ilie involucrum lanceolate, foliaceous, squarose, pubescent ; interior linear sca- riose as long as the flowers. — Flowers purple males 10 or 12.— U. C. I. c, 5. 448. Neilgherries not unfrequent. Of this species there are 2 varieties referred to by U. C. /3cernua and (y Napaleii- sis the plant represented belongs to the former — " steins herbaceous erect ramous, like the leaves clothed with short redish pubescence : leaves oblong acniniiiate, den- ticulate, decurrent, forming wings along the stem, |)e- duncles axillary 1 or few headed racemosely panicled recurved ; capitula cernuous: exteriorscales ol' the invo- lucrum lanceolate foliaceous pubescent, the interior ones long shining scariose recurved at tlie]ioints, at length patent." This species seems vtry near B. vernonioiJes, are they not varieties of the same species differing in the degree of clothing, the one " iota dense vellutino- hirsuta" the other (V. alata) " pube brevi subrufa pu- bescenti-velutenis." 1102. C^sulea axillaris (Roxb.) D. C. I. c. 5. 482. Mysore in marshy soil, the specimen represented was gathered in the reservoir of a ruinous hill fort. 1 have met with this plant in other places but it is far from common. Tliis may possibly be a distinct species, as it differs from Roxburgh's figure in the fotm oftlie stigma, here it is spathulate included within the tube of the corolla: there filiform exseiied. As however, in all other points, it agrees with Roxburgh's figure, I have referred it to his species under the impression that the slight difference may be attribulal)le to the artist who made the drawing. 1103. SiECESBECKiA orientales (Linn) leaves ovate, cuniate at the base, acuminate, coarsely toothed ; the upper ones oblong hinceolate : exterior scales of the involucrum twice the length of the interior. — D. C. I. c. 5. 495. This is a widely distributed plant in India, it is also found in China, llie Mauritius, Society Islands and in Chili. It is priiuipally interestini; as having been Uiuiied by Liiinseus in derision of the high pretensions ofoneol his coteraporaries who contemned his sexual system. 1104. Xaktheum Indicum. (Roxb.) The fruit bearing involucrum oval, pubescent between the prickles, and at the base of the beaks : beaks hooked at the points.— D. C. /. f . 5 523. A large coarse rank growing plant found amons; rub- bish and dnnghilb. The genus, among Compnsela, is a very abnormal one, and lias by one Botanist been refer- red to Viticacea and by another to Cucurbitacea:. It 8 ) I « I I seems as if it miijUt justly be removed from its present station to form tlie type of a new order. 1105. MooNiA AuNOTTiANA (R. W.) shrubby, erect, riimous ; leaves opposite, unequally pinnatifid, the terminal lobe larger, dee|)ly 3 clefl : piiinjE lanceolate, acuiiiiiiate, conrsely iiiciso-serrated, glabrous : flowers of the ray numerous : achaenia entire at the apex. — R. W. M.S.S. Neilgherries and Pulney mountains in clumps of jungle — on tlie former common near tlie Avalanche Bungalow and in almost every clump of jungle from thence to near Sis])arah. M. hetei ophylla (Anintt) snffruticose ? leaves oppo- site, petioleil, entire or biieriiaiely divided, with mucro- nuie serratures : flowers of the ray about 5 : achania marginate biconiuie at the apex. Ceylon. — Am. pugil. B. C. prod. 7—289. 1106. Wedelia urticefoha (D. C.) herbaceous subscandent : leaves petioled ovate lanceolate coarsely and unequally serrated ; strigosely hispid on botl) sides; acuminate olten incurved at the apex : peduncles solitary 1 cephalous : scales of the involucrum 10 in two series, acuminate, rough on the back : palice of the receptacle much acuminated : achseiiia surmounted by a short den- ticulate calyculus, — D. C. I. c. 5. 539. /3 Wightii peduncles about the length of the leaves : leaves shortly acuminate at the base : sparingly strigose. My specimens of this plant are from the Neilgherries, Pulneys and Shevagherry mountains— showing its Al- pine tendencies. 1107. Wedelia calendulacea (Lessing) leaves oblong — lanceolate, attenuated towards the base, stri- gosely pilose on both sides, with a few serratures at the apex : peduncles 1 cephalous, axillary, solitary, three times longer than the leaves : exterior scales of the invo- lucrum oblong, subacute, longer than the disk : calyculus of the acheenium substipetate, denticulate. — D. C. I. c. 5. 539. A widely diffused plant — varies in the leaves being obtuse or acuminate entire or more or less serrated or eut or even, but rarely, almost 3 lobed. — D. C. 1108. WoLLASTONiA BiFLORA (D.C.) leavcs pe- tioled ovate, at the base shortly nt the apex long acumi- nate, acutely serrated ; above scabrous from scattered liairs, nearly glabrous beneath : peduncles one to three, 1-cephalous ; one lerminiil and 1-2 from the superior axils: scales of the involucrum two series, oblong lan- ceolate ; achaenium bald or with a single arista. — D. C. I. c. 5. 546. 1109. Spilanthes CALVA (D.C.) stem ascending, repentat the base hirsutulous atthe apex: leaves petioled, ovate obtuse, serrated or crenate, nearly smooth, cilia- ted at the base ; iieduncles thrice the length of tlie leaves: capitnla ovate discoid : achsnia glabrous bald. —D. C. I. c 5. 625. A widely distiibuted j^lant very common on the Neil- gherries. This plant is scarcely distinguishable from S. ok'acia except by the achaenia which in this is glubro'.is in that ciliate on the margin The analysis under B in the accompanying plate rue those of 6'. oleracia taken from plants coUecieii in CoiniWatnre, where, in rocoanut plan- tations, it is not unfrequent, slowing that it is truly a native of India which D. C. questions. P. S.— Tlirough some blunder on the part of the transferrer, the dissections of S. culvo have been altoge- ther suppressed. Tliose ou the plate all belong ""to iS'. oleraria, 1110. GLO'.socAPDrA Boswallea (D. C.) a her- baceous difiuse many stemmed annual, with alternate pinnatifid leaves, linear at the base, and solitary capi- tula on short naked peduncles: flowers vellow — D. C. 5. 631. The specimen figured is an unusually luxuriant one and does not give a very good iJeaol the plant, as usual- ly met with, growing in arid sterile pustures « here it lies flat on the ground, spreading all round the root. I believe however that it is simply a luxuriant variety of the same species grown in more fertile cultivated soil. I have not met with it in the immediate vicinity of Coimbafore but it abounds at Ootaculmuiid, a vil'laoe a few miles distant. " 1111. Artimesia glabrata (Wall.) suffruticoae, erect, the ramuli and younger leaves beneath subvillous, radical leaves, and the lower cauline onts stipellately cleft, lanceolate— cuniate, acutely trifid at the apex : racemes slender subsecund forming a panicle : capitulje cernuous pedicelled smallish globose : scales of the in- volucrum ovate, margined, the interior ones with a membranaceous margin. — D. C. I.e. 6. 100. Very frequent on the Neilgherries flowering after the rains. Inferior leaves obovate cuniate deeply and coarse- ly toothed : the middle ones usually 3-5 parted, the mid- dle lobe larger more or less deeply 3 cleft, the outside ones subulate ; the upper floral leaves simple, lanceolate acute : anthers of the male flowers free. 1112. Artimesia Indica (Willd.) snffruticose erect : leaves greyish tomentose beneath ; the lower ones pinna- tifid, the middle trifid, the upper ones undivided and like the lanceolate lobes of the lower ones dentate or incised : capitula ovate racemosely panicled : panicle leafy spreading ; racemula; before blooming pendulous : the young involucrum subtoiueiiloje, afterwards glabrous, the exterior scales foliaceous acute, interior membrana- ceous obtuse : corolla naked. — D. C. I. c. 6. 114. This is a common enous];h plant but, so far as 1 recol- lect, generally seen only about the habitations of men in gardens &:c. apparently never under cultivation, but as if only allowed to remain by sufieraiice, not being con- sidered a weed. The only figure I can find is in Rump. Herb amb. 5. 91 & 2. 1113. Helichrysum buddleioides (D. C.) stem suflVuticose erect ramous woolly towards the apex : leaves sessile ovate lanceolate acuminate entire, 7 — 9 nerved, glabrous above whitish tomentose beneath ; corymbs compound ])olycephalous at the apices of the stems and branches : capitulae ovate, densely crowded : scales of the involucrum oval obtuse, about equal, a little Ioniser than the disk. — D C. I. c. 6.201. A rather common ]ihuit on the Neikherries forming dense clumps or bushes from 4 to 6 leet high. The white stems and undersurfaces of the leaves contrasting with green up|ier ones and large clusters of vellow flowers, render this a conspicuous plant. The leaves are from 3 to 4 inches long, 8-10 lines broad : receptacle alveolate shortly fimbrillate: flower of the outer series female or sterile, the rest hermaphradiie : stvie and stamens included : pappus 1 series pilose scabrous; achaenia glabrous. (9) 1 1114. Gnapiialium hvpoleucum (D. C.) stem erect terete, scabrous below, ramous and tomentose above: leaves linear acuminate, somewhat revolule on tlie margm, rougbish above, niveo tomentose beneath adnate, semi-amplexicaul at the base, subdecurrent • capitula congested on the apices of the branches Mib- sessile glomerules corymbostly panicled : scales of the invohicrum yellow, oval oblong obtuse, a little lon-er than the disk.— i,. C. I. c 6. 222. Neilgherries about Kotergherry and tiie lower slopes, less frequent towards the highest ran-es. Easily dis- tingmshed by the leaves green above a^ld white beneath and the yellow flowers. Females many series, Hermaph. 1115. Gnaphalium marcescens (R. W.) shrub- by, somewhat diffuse at the base, branches ascendino- terete, the lower portions clotlied with numerous persist- ent withered leaves : withered leaves revolute on the edges, linear subulate ; green ones narrow lanceo- late acute, glabrous above, tomentose beneath ; thinly scattered on the flo.iferons branches not decurrent • flonferous branches umbellate at the apex, capitala ao-- gregated on the apices of the ramuli ; scales of the invo- lucrum ovate lanceolate, woolly at the base, nivo-sca- riose towards the apex : marginal florets 2 series : styles not exserted : acliaenia obovoid puberulous : pappus uniform scabrous. Neilgherries.— This species if, to either, belongs to the section Axanthina. It mio.ht perhaps with about equal propriety be referred to either Anapkalis or Gnaphalium or to neither. I cannothowever identifvit with any spe- cies of the former genus and, as it is my belief the two genera are not distinct, I place it here in preference to addingit to a genus which [ think must ultimately be re- duced. I retain that generic name for the following 4 species, not because I approve of it as applied to them, but because It has already been given and because 1 do not think this the place to make innovations except on the surest ground. I therefore so far adopt D. C 's genus though I consider it, as it now stands, untenable. exterior; central ones 16—12: pappus 1 series- achmneum round, subpuberulous : involucrum white flowers yellow.— 1). C. I. c. 6—273. Neilgherries common. A somewhat variable plant especially as concerns the degree of rouahness riaiditv and size of the leaves, dependent of course on ihe vary- ing fertility and moisture of the soil in which it grows. 1118. AxAPUALis? ELLiPTiCA (D. C.) every where clothed with white tomeninm: stem ramous, short fruticutose at the base : leaves elliptic, inucronate, en- tire, with tiie tomentum rubbed off the 5—7 nerves adnate, or shortly decurrent : capitula densely congested' tormmg an ovate terminal corymb, surrounded by leaves • scales ot the involucrum acute, scariose at the apex red- ish white.— D. C. I c. 6-274. ' Neilgherries not unfrequent, found on the hi'^hest range in pastures and by road sides on Dodabetta^and elsewhere. It appears to me that this and A. oblon-ra are different states of the same species. The specimen of .4 elhptica examined by D. C. was in a very youn^ state" that ol cblunga more advanced and perhaps more luxu- riant When full blown the glomerulus is not embraced by the leaves, but is borne on an elongated leafy <=talk the upper leaves much reduced in size and I find on the same specimen some leaves in which only one nerve can be detected and others with three or more- that character is moreover a very difficult one to make out owing to the quantity of tomentum with which in the' recant state they are usually covered and would appear from the above fact, less valuable when made out ilian might a priori be supposed, I think they ought to be united. ° 1116. Anaphalis Notoniana (D. C.) Woolly all over : stem fruticulose leafy to the top, leaves sessile sulidecurrent, broad linear or oblong, obtuse, with the thickly woolly margin revolute : corymbs terminal compound dense : scales of the involucrum many series inibncafed, whitish scariose acute, crisp at the apex' at length stellately patulous.— Pappus rough, white! involucrum white. — D. C. I. c. 6. 273. Neilgherries— rather rare. I have given D. C. cha- racter as I find it, but remark the discrepancy between the involucrum, as correctly shown in the drawing, and the character. The plant named by him in my herbarium IS evidently the same species but in a much younoer state whence perhaps the mistake. The characler should have been " 7-^//s.s< e»,fi-scariosis oblnsis apice subcrispis &c. as shown by the specimen he examined and described. 1117. Anaphalis Wightiana (D. C.) stem suftVn- tieose at the base, erect, leafy to the apex, piloselv scabrous at the base, woolly at the apex : leaves sessile orsubadnate, oblong, linear, obtuse, pilosely scabrous above, whitish woolly beneath ; the nerve beneath often prominent, rough; the upper ones callonslv hooked at the point: corymb terminal truly compound, but most densely polycephalous : scales of the involucrum ob- long, somewhat acute, white, a little longer than the disk.— Receptacle naked, female flowers many series, 1119. Anaphalis aristata (D. C.) stem ramous. sutfruticolose at the base, erect; leafy to thp apex • scabrous at the base tomentose at the apex : leaves lon-^ linear, aristato— mucronate at the apex, revolute on the margin, cordately dilated at the base, shortly decurrent- scabrous above with the midrib subtomentose ; beneath whitish tomentose and the midrib scabrous :' capitula densely congested, forming an ovate compound termi- nal corymb : scales of the involucrum obtuse, white and rose coloured, glabrous. Flowers within the involucrum 15-18, of which 5-6 are hermaphrodite the rest exterior about 2 series femide : leaves about 2 inches long and 2-3-lines broad.— J). C. / c. 6—274. Neilgherries on the Northern slopes near Nedawut- tem not unfrequent by the road side; readily distin- guished when growing by the deep rose colour of the mvolucra, when seem before quite blown. When blown and the seed maturing the lips of the scales become pale or nearly white, the base however retains its colour. 1120. Carpesium Nepalense (Lessing) hirsuto- villous : leaves elliptico-lanceolate, acuminate, den- tate, attenuated into the petiol : capitulje subcernuous, campanulate : interior scales of the involucrum suba- cute.— Petiols and branches villoso-hirsute, leaves pale and more villous beneath : capitula 4 lincb broad — D. C. /. c. 6—281. A common plant in all the woods about Ootaca- mund. 1121. Gynura nitida (D. C.) glabrous; stems thickish terete at the base ; branches elongated, suban- gular, nearly naked at the apex : leaves lanceolate, attenuated at both ends, short petioled, coarselv serrat- ed : corymbs terminal 5—7 cephalous : involucrum cylindrical, a little shorter than the flowers, four times ( 10 ) I as long as tlie subulate brnctioles. — Receptacle nalliaerical, scales linear subulate, ihe inte- rior ones oblong lanceolate muricaiely hispid : ligulae 8-10, narrow oval, about 9 nerved. — D. C. I. c. 6. 322 — Aniull'x puuilliis —Hhiduruclia biiibiu, 1). C. I. c. Neilgherries, &c. flowering cool season alter the rains. Allied to the preceuing, but 1 think quite distinct, 1127. DoRONtcuM Caxdoliaxlm (Am.) suffruti- cose, ramous : branches striated nearly glabrous, lew (1-2) cephalous : leaves whitish, hispidly pubescent, jiinaatifid ; lobes short, oblong acute, occasionally shortly dentate: peduncles minutely bractiolate at the apex : involucrum 1 series, scales lanceolate, whitish, hispid on the back: ligulae 8-10, narrow, oval, 3-5 nerved.— D. C. I. c. 6. 322.— Anwtl'a pugillus—Mad- ai uclis pinitattjida — D. C. 6. 439. Neilgherries frequent in pastures. A very ramous somewhat difluse plant, branches terete glabrous naked towards the base, very leafy about the middle, ending in slender soniewhat leafy peduncles, bearing two or rarely three, nearly naked pedicelled, capitula : leaves oblong, narrow, pinnatitidly lobed, nearly to the base, revolute on the margin, hispid on both sides, but especially the under: peduncles leafy at the base, pedicels furnished with a few minute scattered bractio- les. Scales of the involucrum linear, pointed, coarse- ly hispid on the back : ligulae about 9, lanceolate, acutish, 4 nerved. 1128. DoRONicuM EUPESTRE (R. W.) sufTruticose, erect, ramous ; branches near the base terete naked, above leafy : leaves long petioled ; limb lobed or some- what pinnatifid attenuated into a long slender petiol, nearly glabrous above, nerves beneath bristle hispid : pedicels short leafy at the base, closely beset towards the apex with minute subulate braciioles: involucrum. 1 series calyculate, leaflets linear acuminate, nearly gla- brous on the back : ligulae 8, linear lanceolate, obtuse, 4 nerved. In clefts of rocks Shevagherry mountains flowering August and September. This species is jierhaps too closely allied to the preceding, the more so, as having only once met with it leads to a suspicion ihat it might be a variation produced by local circumstances, as how- ever I got many spe<'imens and find the characters uni- form throughout, and all most readily distinguishable from specimens of i). CundolUuum. 1 think I am quite justified in considering it a species. The Ligulae are nearly twice the size, being much long er and broader : the leaves generally have the outline of a long petioled spalhulate leaf cut lobed at the apex, many however are more distinctly pinnatifid. 1129. DoRONicuM TENuiFOLiUM (R. W.) herbace- ous, erect or ascending, ramous, glabrous ; leaves pin- natifid or bi-pinnatifid ; lacineae linear acute, variously toothed or lobed, glabrous : coryml)S few cephalate : capitula, peduncled, leaflets of the involucrum linear lanceolate acute, glabrous, or slightly puberulous at the point, ligulae about 8, broad oval obtuse, 4 nerved. Neilgherries, &c. This appears a very widely distri- buted plant on both the s'lbalpine plains and moun- tains, of Soutliern India. My collection presents spe- cimens from all quarteis. It is not therefore to be wondered at that so common a plant should vary and should have received different names, viz. Senecio tetiui- /o/iiis Burm.Fl. Ind. Sen.: iiiutifdus Wild, Wall, D,C. 'Sen laciniosus Arnott. Tliese synonyms may I think be depended upon, and as all have referred the plant to ( 11 ) Senecio in place of Boronicum I am enabled to restore Burman's specific name, which ought never to have been superseded. The same circumstance, namely, this being a Doronicum strengthens the suspicion that the two preceding plants, are merely alpine varieties of this, the original species. 1130. Senecio corymbosus (Wall — D. C.) stem scandant, terete araneose (appearing as if covered with cobwebs :) leaves petioled exstipulale, cordately suborbi- cular, shortly acuminated, subserrated ; glabrous above densely tomentose beneath, 5-7 nerved at the base : corymbs axillary and terminal compactly polycephalous : involucrum 8-leaved, bracteolate at the base : ligula; none: achaenia glabrous. — Petiols of the leaves 6-12 lines long, limb about 2 inches in diameter, 10 tubular florets —D. C. I. c. 6. 364. Neilgherries in clumps of jungle climbing to a great extent over the adjoining trees. De Candolle asks is not this rather a Cacalial 1131. Senecio Walkeri (Arnott) stem scandent terete araneose towards the extremities: leaves exsti pa- late, petioled, cordiform, acute, calioso-dentate, gla- brous, above flosculosely araneous : peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves ; corymbosely-polycephalous : capitula discoid 6-7 flowered : scales of the involucrum 8 with a few subulate sqiiamellffi at the base : ligulee none achaenia glabrous. — D. C. I. c. 6. 364 — Arnott's pugiUus— very near S. corymbosus, but seems suffici- ently distinct from the difference in nervation, the want of tomentum on the under surface of the leaves, and fewer florets in the capitula. Neilgherries, &c. and in Ceylon climbing on trees. 1132. Senecio Neilgherianus (D. C.) stem erect suffruticose, roughly striated at the base, leaves linear lanceolate acute, hirsutely tomentose beneath, rough above, the lower ones attenuated at the base semi-pinna- tifid,the middle ones sessile, dentate, the upper auriculate- amplexicaul, nearly entire: corymbs few-cephalate, pedicels bracteolate at the apex ; scales of the involu- crum linear, scarcely acute : ligulse 12-14 flat : achjenia glabrous.— Ligula; 4 nerved, revolute when dry ; pappus very white.— D. C. I. c. 6. 368. Neilgherries in moist pastures near springs and water courses. glabrous, leaves petioled glabrous triangular, acuminat- ed, unequally crenately-dentate: peiiols auricled at the base, with a large reniform stipule : panicles corymbose : bractea linear subulate : pedicels divaricate : capiiulse many flowered : involucrum calyculale : ligulae 12-14 oblong lanceolate obtuse : achenia papilose. ° Neilgherries climbing on trees and bushes near the Avalanche Bungalow, flowering February and March This species seems quite intermediate between ' 5 candtcans and S. Wightiana but is certainly distinct from both. It has the large reniform auricled stipule^ of the former, the glabrous habit of the latter, and differs from botli in its numerous and large sized ligula. 1136^. Senecio Wightianus (D. C.) aJabrous branches scandent, angularly striated : leaves petioled' ovate or elliptic lanceolate, acuminate, serrated • limb obtuse at the base or shortly cuniate; petioles 'with a small auricle at the base : panicle divaricated • pedicels bractiolate at the apex : capitulae small, 8-1 0 flowered ■ ligulae 3-4 small : achenia puberulous.— D C 6. 370. ■ A widely distributed species, like both the preceding native o the Neilgherries, but descends to much lower levels the specimen figured was obtained from the Malabar jungles. 1137, 1138. CiRSIUM ARGVRACANTHl'M (D C ") leaves semi-amplexicaul serrately pinnatifid, ciiiato- spinulose, the lobes ending in strong spines ; beneath and the stem arachnoideo-villous : capitula paniculato- congested: bractea many cleft very prickly : scales of I e^elo^''"™ *^'™'"ali"S i» strong spines.— D. C. Very common on the Neilgherries, about equally so on the Fulney mountains. In moist rich soil it not unfrequently attains the height of 6 or 7 feet. It may be met with at most seasons in flower, but is in perfec tion in August and September. Flowers pale purple 1133. Senecio lavandulafolius (Wall. D. C.) stem erect terete hirsutely striated : leaves crowded, eblong linear, entire, revolute on the margin, tomentose beneath, hairy or hispid above ; the upper ones linear distant: racemes corymbose simple: peduncles brac- lioled, involucrum nearly glabrous 15 leaved calycu- lale: flowers about 40, ligulse 15, long, spreading, 4 nerved : achsenia glabrous. — D. C. I. c. 6. 368. Common in pastures on the hills flowering during the cool season. 1134. Senecio Candicans (Wall) climbing, every where clothed with white tomentum, branches striated : leaves petioled, auricled with renilbrm stipuli, cordate acute serrated, araniose above, afterwards glabrous ; beneath niveous : panicle corymbose : bractese linear subulate : pedicels diverging : involucrum white, cam- panulate, sparingly bractioled at the base : ligulse 6, oblong flat : acha;nia glabrous.— D. C. I. c. 6. 369. ' Neilgherries, frequent in clumps of jungle climbing on the adjoining trees. ^ 1135. Senecio intekmedius (R. W.) scandent 1139. Tricholepis procumbens (R. W) stem short flexicose ramous : branches diff-use procumbent angularly striated, subglabrous : leaves shortly pubes ' cent or subglabrous, those of the stem Ivrate of the branches sinuately pinnatifid, the lobes sninously mu- rronate: mvolucrum ovate; scales ovate at the" base araniose, terminating in a slender prickle-like append- age : stamens a little longer than tlie corolla • sti<^mas exserted diverging at the apex : achenia smooth, pap- pus double, exterior of many series setaceous; interior of 5 lanceolate paleae, nearly equallino- the corolla Bellary ,n arid stony soils flowerin- October and November.— Coimbatore in similar situations flowerino- J anuary. » This seems most nearly allied to our T. Candoliana a figure nnd description of which is published in the Companion to the Botanical JIagazine vol, 1 P 81 it seems however abundantly distinct. The double pappus seems to associate this with Mia-olonchus but the homogamous not heteroo-amous capitula keeps them distinct. ° 1140. DicoMA LANUGINOSA CD. C.) erect verv ra mous, woolly : involucrum ovate, scales exteriorly subglabrous : palere of the pappus serrated, scarcely twice the length of the very hairy fruit.— D. Q. I. c. Found in light gravelly soils flowering durina the rainy and cool seasons rather common about Coirab?,- lOl'G. ( 12 ) ,1 i I * 1141. SoNCHUS ciLiATUs (Lfim. D. C.) stem erect, glabrous, or rarely pilosely glniidiilar towards llie ex- tremities of tlie branches : cauline leaves stem clasping, acutely dentate — ciliale, runcinate or undivided ; the auricles acuminate : iuvolucra and ])edicels nearly glabrous: achenia along, tlie nerves transversely muri- culato — rugous. — D. C. I. c. 7. 185. Widely distributed over India especially among rubbish by wall sides in sheltered places. 1142. SoNCHUS WiGUTiANus (D. C.) root ligni- ous : stem ascending erect, somewhat angular, glabrous : leaves stem clasping, with roundish auricles, ohloug- lanceolate, unequally and acutely dentate, glabrous, glaucescent; the upper ones nearly linear: the laxly corymbose pedicels and involucra glanduloso — pilose : achenia oblong striated, very slenderly transversely — rugose— i). C. /. c. 7. 187. Shady places — In cocoanut plantations at Ootakal- mund near Coimbatore rather frequent, flowering dur- ing the raniy and cool season. In the shaded rich soil of these plantations, iliis plant sometimes though rarely attains a height of nearly 4 feet but seems quite an sinnual. It seems quite distinct from the preceding. 1143. PicEis HiEEACioiDES (Lim) Stem erect, usu- ally rougli with barbed hairs, corymbosely ramous at the apex : leaves semi-amplexicaul lanceolate, coarsely dentate, rough : exterior scales of the involucrum ob- long lax. — D. C. I. c. 7. 128. — r«r 7 Indica. Corymb inucli divaricated. Neilgherries frequent, flowering during the rainy and cool seasons. This seems to be a widely distributed species both in India and Europe, I have specimens from Courtallum, the Pulney mountains and Neilgher- ries and according to D, C. P. Iiamulosa Wall. A Nepaul plant does not differ. 1144. MuLGEDiuM Neilgiierrense (R. W.) stem erect glabrous, somewhat panicled at the apex : cauline leaves runcinately pinnatifid, doubly crenate, dilated and somewhat stemclasping at the base, terminal lobe subrhomboid, attenuated upwards, mucronate, soniewliat hairy on both sides especially on the veins beneath ; floral ones entire lanceolate : pedicels hairy at the apex : capitula ovate, scales of the involucrum imbricate, exterior ones hairy on the back : achenia obovate com- pressed, ending in along beak : pappus double, exterior short paliaceous ; interior long slender setaceous — Plant from two to four feet high, flowers purple. Neilgherries not unfrequent in jungly ground and by road sides flowering during rainy and cool seasons. The double pappus of this species seems to indicate that technically it does not belong to this genus, but as its whole habit is strongly in accordance with it, I with- out hesitation place it here. 1145. MicRORHYNCus GLABER (R. W. Liictuca glabra D. C.) glabrous, stem naked, dichotomously branched about equal or a little longer than the leaves ; leaveselongate-linear, somewhat rigid, acute, eitherentire or dentate : capitula corymbose long pedicelled cylin- drical 7-8 flowered : involucrum calyculate with lanceo- late squamelloe; squamoe 5-6 linear lanceolate somewhat scariose on the margin, thrice as long as the calyculus ; achaenia five angled obscurely beaked. — Denticuli of the leaves sometimes nearly wanting oftener retrorse : leaves 2-3 inches long, 2-4 lines broad. — D. C. I. c. 7. — 135 under Lactuca, Neilgherries rather common to be met with in flower at all seasons but most abundant during the rains from July to December. I have ventured to remove this plant from the genus in which D. C. placed it as the achaenium corresponds accurately with the one and not at all with the oilier. In Lactuca the achaenium is flattened and abruptly lengthened into a long filiform beak: in this it is pentangular and scarcely beaked. 1146. Brachvramphus Hevneanus (R. W. Lac- tuca Heyneunu D. C.) stem erect, glabrous, terete, naked above : leaves rigid subradicle, runcinate, coarsely siio- so-ciliate ; the rest glabrous stem clasping : capitula cylindrical short pedicelled remotely fascicled along the branches: acheenia compressed striated slightly muri- cate, shortly beaked. — Achaenia black scabrous pappus while very soft. — J). C. 7. 140. Coimbatore and elsewhere by wall sides and hedges, flovi'ering during the rainy season. Tlie oblong muricaie achaenia ending abruptly in a short thick beak, not a long filiform one has induced me to remove this also from the genus Lactuca with which itcenaiidy does not associate but sorts well witli Bruclii/raiupfius. 1147. Youngia napifoi.ia (D. C.) glabrous or subhirsute at the base ; stem erect, terete, loosely pani- cled and nearly leafless at the apex : radicle and infe- rior cauline leaves petioled, runcinate — lyrate, lobes oval oblong obtusely sinuate, mucronately dentate, the extreme ones confluent: involucrum 8-phyllus minutely calyculate : achaenia attenuated at the apex. — JL). C. I. c. 7. 193. Coimbatore rather frequent about hedges and in neglected places where it meets with some shelter, flow- ering during the rainy season. 1 leave this as placed by D. C. though according to my own impression erro- neously. DeCandolle suagests that it might almost be placed in the section Mi/celis of Lactuca along with the preceding. To my mind the whole section, and this along with them, would have been more appropriately referred to Urachyramphus, that is, if they all corres- pond with the sectional character " beak two or tlire* times shorter than the achaenium." 1148. VicoA Indica (D. C.) leaves auricled at the base lanceolate acuminate serrnted or nearly entire, more or less puberulous on both sides : ligulae twice as long as the disk.— D. C. prod. 5. 474. A very common plant to be met with all over India and generally in flower during rainy weather, riowers bright yellow. OLIGOLEPIS (R. W. not Cassini.) Gen. Char. Capitula numerous lieterogamous about 5 flowered. Flowers all tubular : females few (about 4) in the circumference, pedicelled, slender, 3-toothed : hermaphrodite solitary, sessile, 5-tooth- ed subcampanulate. Style 2 cleft in the female, undi- vided in the herni. AcliEenia beakless, of the female terete hairy, of the disk absolately 4 sided glabrous. Pappus none. Glabrous annuals with decurrent subspathulate ser- rated leaves and dense ovate oblong axillary giome- rules. Involucra, usually, one scale to each flower, that of the hermaphrodite much larger, forming a com- mon involucrum to the capitulum, aristato-mucronate ; those of the females linear obtuse mucronate or sorae- ( 13 ) I I Il times truncated, foMed round the flower and adhfrin- to the pedic.1. D,sk flower laro.r sub.ampa-.ulate'; texture fragile, cellular cells quadraugulur (much re- sembling those of the sheath ot a plantain leal.; 1149. Olicolepis amaranthoides (R W Snh- rmUtius amuranUundes Bunn. Flora Ind. D. C prod ) The specimens from which the drawing was made were somewhat deteriorated by age, and the analysis are not so complete as I could have wished, but enoiHrh of No. 1094. They were gathered many years ago in rice fields near the sea coast at Negapatam Figure 4 of the plate is a portion ot tlie disk corolla, slightly magnified. ' i^°ii ^7.^™°":^^^-^ LUTEA (Law's Mss.) leaves nearly allradiclemn,ute(mossy looking) sub-bininnatifid pubescent: stems slender, erect, dichotomously branch- ed, often witli a capitulum in ihe fork, and one to three on the ends of the branches: flowers yellow Tannah district near Bombay, (Lnw.)-The whole plant rarely exceeds 3-4 inches in heioht but often bears 10 or 12 rather large capitula. It is a most dis- tinct species both by habit and colour of the flowers. 1151. (A.) DoRONicuM TOMENTosuM (R. W.) stem herbaceous erect sublomentose, at first simple, leafy afterwards corymhosely branched ; ramuli nearly nak- ed : leaves rou,h, lower ones, elliptic tapering to the base: upper ones subovate-lanceolate, auricled and sub- amplexicaul, coarsely and unequally dentate, rouee(led attenu:ued at the apex much cohiracied between the seed : seed 2-4 oval briylit shining red. Ntilgherrieci, in Jungles below Neddawutem. Flower- ing 8 ■ frulicosa ...738 — - herbacea 738 indica 737 Salaoia macrosperma .962 — muUiJlora 962 ■ verrucosa 962 Sanicula elata 1004 Sanlia oenulosa 1032 Sarusm anceps 760 Satyrium Nepalense. 929 Schinidelia cobbe 964-2 Rheedei ...964 Scindapsus decursivus ....779 . officinalis 778 peepla 780 pertusa ..a.^.o ..781 Sculea Indica 1071 _ Rheediana 1071 Senecio candicans.,.. 1135-1134 Sonerila axillaris.... 105S Brunonis 1057 1059 ■ ■ versicolor 1057 Sonerila elegans ...995-'5 — grandiflora.. .' 995 ■ speciosa ,,,.996-2 Sophora glauca , . . . „ 979 i heptaphylla 1155 robusta(dddend. part 4tb) Sonchus ciliatus.. 114is Wightianus 1143 Sonromatum sessiliflorum , . .800 Spergula arvensis , .947 Spertnacoce 1042 Sphceranthus amaranthoidesll'id hirtus 1094 Spilanthes calva 1109 oleracia 1109 Spinacea tetrandra 818 Stellaria media , 947 Stemonurus foetidus 955 Stenosiphonium Russelianum873 Slilago lauceolarea 765 tomentoaa 767-8 — — — pubescens 821 — — — Bunias 819 Striga Euphrasiodes ........855 Stylocorone cere/era 1064 rigida 1064 Sutera glandulosa 856 Syzygeum densiflorum 999 Taverniera cuneifolia 1055 Thunbergia grandiflora 872 Torenia Asiatica 862 Tosocarpua Kleinii.... ...,886 Tricholepis CandoUana . .\l^7 • procumbens.. 1137' Tropaolum.. .....1060 Turpinia Nepalensis 972 Tylophora faseiculata, ......848 Typhoniiim divarteatum ,..,79(i ■ Jlagelliforme 791 ~ f gracile 793 — — — orixense 801 — — . irikbaUm 80i- 803 if INDEX. Vrlicaeea,. , 1104 Valeriana Arnottiana 1045 . .. I. ■ ■ Brunoniana. . . . 1043 Hookeriana ..,.1045 . Leschenaultii... 1044 Vanda Roiburghii 1)16 spathulata 915 Vandellia crustaces Ii63 Vanilia aphylla 931 Wighlii 931 ■ Walkerium 932 Vernonia cony zoides... 829-1076 -. conyzoides [errata pt. 4th] Candolliari8[errata pt.4lh] -~— Dindigalenses errata part 4th Vernonia multifiora 1084 Neilgheiryensis 1078-84 . pectiniformis . . . . 1077 . sahifolia 1079 Wightiana 1079 Viburnum acuminatum . . 1021 capitellatum .... 1022 hebanthum 1023 M lantaua.. 1024 _ opulus 1024 Wightianum.... 1024 Vicoa Indica 1148 Viola odorata 943 Wightiana 943 Viecum orbiculatum 1016 moriiliforme .... 1018 /8 coialiforme .... 1119 Viecum ramosissimum .... 1017 Vitis (A.) Neilgherrer.Bis .. 965 — — • (cissus) muricata . . . .740 Vogelia Indica ,...1076 Wahlenbergia perotifolia ...842 Wedelia calendulacea .... 1 107 I uiticafolia 1 106 i Wendlandia Notoniana .103-3 I WollaBtonia biflora 1108 Xantheum Indicum 1104 Youngia napifolia 1 147 Zanthoxylony . , 1051 INDEX VOL. III. MALVACE.E. SAPINDACE.E. RAKUNCULACEifi. Anemone Wightiana 936 Clematis Gouriana 933-34 Wightiana 935 Ranunculus Wallichianus . . 937 DILLENIACEJE. Dillenea speciosa 823 MACNOLIACEiE. Michelia Nilagirica 938 MINISPERMACE^E. Clypea Hernandifolia 939 Cocculus Plukenetii 824 BERBERIDE*. Berberis (M.) Leschenaultii. . 940 crucifera:. Cardamene Borbonica 941 CAPPARIDEiE. Capparis divaricata 889 . pyrifolia 1047 Roxburghii 1048 Polanisia Burtporensis . . . ,1072 FLACOURTIANE*. Hydnocarpus alpinus 942 ■III inebrians 942 violariea:. Viola odorata 943 Wightiana 943 DROSERACEjE. Drosera Burmanni. 944 Parnassia Fulustris 945 Wightiana 945 polygale^. Polygala arillata 946 CARYOPHYLLACEffi. Arenaria Neilgherrensis . . . .949 Cerastium vulgatum 948 Spergula arvensis 947 St^llaria media . , . . , .947 j Abelmoschus (H.) angulosus 951 Malope Indica 1051 Malva Neilglierrensis 950 verlicellata , 950 BYTTNERIACEiE. Eriochloena 882 Kydia calycina 879-880 fvalerna 879-880 Roxburghiana 881 ■■I pulverulenta 881 Microchlcenaquinquelocularis 882 Corchorus acutangulus 739 — — humilis 1073 prostratus 1073 Monocera glandulifera 952 — — Munroii. . 952 OLACINEil. Apodates Benthamiaiia. . ..1153 Buisinopelalum arboreum . ,956 Gompliandra anguslif'olia 953-54 coriacia 953-54 polymorpha 953-54 Hypocurpus 950 Stemonurus foetidus 955 AURANTIACEJE. Citrus Limetta 958 vulgaris 957 HYPERICINEjE. Hypericum Hookerianum . , 959 Mysorense 959 GUTTIFERiE. Garcinia cambogia 960-1 Kydia 960-1 — Kydiana 960-1 papilla 960-1 Roxburghii 960-1 Mesua_/m-ea 961 —— speciosa 961 Hippocratea obtusifolia .... 963 Salacia macrosperma 962 . mullijiora 962 i verrucosa , . , . . 962 Sclimidelia cobbe 964-2 Rheedei 964 MILLIKGTONIACE«; Millingtonia pungens 964-3 AMPELIDE*, Leea macrophylla 1154 Vitis (A.) Neilgherrensis,, ,.965 (cissus) muricata 740 Erodium chumbuleuse .... 1074 Mansonia Lawiana 1074 Pelargonium 1050 Hydrocera 1050 Impatiens albida .743 — campanulata 744 — cuspidata 741 — dasysperma 742 fasciculata 748 ■ fructicosa 966 inconspicua 970 rivalis .... . ,75i rosmarinifolia 750 ■■ I "I tomentosa 749 — — umbellata 745 uncinata 747 — — viscida, 746 latifolia 741-970 Leschenaultii 741-970 ■ modesta 968 rufescens 969 scapiflora 967 ■ Gardneriana 1050 Munronii 1049 Kleinii 884 ' oppositifolia 883 ZANTH0XYLACE5;, Zanthoxylon . . . . 1051 PITTOSPOREa;. Pittosporum Neilgherrense ..971 tetraspermum 971 Cassine discolor 761 Enoiiymus angulatus 1053 crenuiatus 973 — ~- garciniJ'oUus 761 TILIACES. GORANIACEjE. ELCEOCARPEa;. BALSAMINE*. HIPPOCRATEACEa;. CELASTRINEjE, ii INDEX. Tilicrotropis densiflora 1052 \ garcinifolia 761 microcarpa 975 ovalifblia 976 ramiflora 977 Turpinia Nepalensis. . ^ 972 KHAMNEf. Gouania leptostachya. . . .978 his Rhamnus hirsuta 978 Scutea Indica 1071 Rheediana 1071 LEGUMINOS^. Acacia latronum 1157 Atylosia candollii 754 Canavalia gladiata 753 Cassia (S.) obtusa 757 Crotalaria barbata 980 formosa 981 — Notonii 752 rubiginosa 885 — — semperflorens 982 Wallichiana 982 Dalbergia latifolia 1156 Desmaiithus triquitrus 756 Desmodiura rufescens 984 — — strangulatum 985 Edwardsia Madraspatana ..1054 ■ parvi folia 1 054 Fleraingia procumbens 987 Indigofera pedicellata 983 Nicolsoniacongesta 1056 Ormosia (addend part 4th) Phasioliis lunatus 755 Smithia blanda 986 racemosa 986 Sophora glauca 979 heptaphylla 1155 robusta (addend part 4th) Taverniera cuneifolia 1055 ROSACE^;. Cotoneaster affinis 992 Cotoneaster buxifolia 992 Fragaria elatior 988 — Tndica 989 Photonia Notoniana 991 Potentilla LeschenauUiana , . 990 Pygeum acuminatum 993 COMBRETACEiE. Gonocarpus latifolia 994 MELASTOMACEiE. Osbeckia Gardneriana 997 LeschenauUiana 996 truncata 996 .. Wightiana 997-998 Sonerila axillaris 1058 Brunonis 1057-1059 elegans 995-3 grandiflora 995 speciosa 995-2 versicolor.. ., 1057 MYRTACE^. Eugenia (S.) Amottiana .... 999 (S.) calophylifolia 1000 (S.) moMtana lOCO sylveslris 1060 Syzygeum densiflorum 999 ONAGRARI^;. Ludwigia prostrata 762 HALORAGEiE. Haloragis oligantha 1061 Serpicula hirsuta 1001 CUCURBITACEa:. Bryonia Hookeriana 758 Mysorensis 758 Cucurbitacea 1104 CRASSULACE^. Kalanchoe lacineata 1158 TJMBELLIFERjE. Bupleurum distichophyllura.1006 raraosissimum 1007 virgatum 1007 Heracleum Hookerianum . . . .1010 — — ■ rigens 1009 Sprengeliuniim 1008 Hydrocotyle conferta 1002 Nepalensis 1002 polycephala 1003 Pastinaca Hookeriana 1010 . rigens 1009 Springeliana 1008 Pimpinella Leschenaullii . . 1005 Sanicula elata . .1004 ARALIACE^. Gilibertia , 1013-14 Hedera acuminata 1062 Jackiana 1062 (p.) obovata 1011-12 (p.) racemosa 1015 (P.) rostrata 1013-14 Faralropia 1015 loranthacejE. Loranthus elasticus 1063 (S.) euphorbia...... 1063 Neilgherrensis 1020 Viscum moiiiliforme 1018 j8 covali forme 1119 orbiculatum 1016 — raraosissimum 1017 CAPRIFOLIACEiE. Lonicera (X.) ligustrina. . . .1025 Viburnum acuminatum. . ..1021 capitellatum 1022 hebanthum 1023 lantuna 1024 cpulus 1024 Wicilitianum 1024 RL'BIACE^. Argostomma Courtallense . .1160 Cunthium didymum 1034 Canlhiura urabellatam .. ..1034 Leschenaullii 826 Neilgherrense 1064 Us Coffea alptstris 1040 Grumelioides 1041 Denldla erecta 842 Galium Requienianum . . . .1042 Gardenia latifolia 759 Greenia Wightiana 1161 Grumelia congesta 1037 elongata 1036 congesta 1039 Hedyotis (A.) affinis 1030 (D.) articularis 1028 deltoidea 1030 (D.) Lawsoniee 1026 Leschenuultiunu 1030 (A.) monosperma .... 1031 plantaginij'olia 1029 ramosa 822 (D.) stylosa 1027 (D.) verticellaris 1029 Hydrophyllax maritima .... 760 Hymenodyction obovatum. . 1159 utile 1159 excelsum 1159 Ixora lanceolaria 827 ■ polyautha 1066 Lasianthus venulosus 1032 Lavvia acuminata 1070 Oldenlandia ravtosa 822 Opliiorrhiza Harrisonii .... 1162 eriantha ..1067 grandiflora 1069 Roxburghiana 1068 Pavetta breviflora 1035 Brunonis 1065 Rothiana 1065 Psychotria bisulcata 1039 bructiutu 1039 sarmentosa 1038 truncata 1039 Psychotria loevigata 828 Santiu venulosa 1032 Sarissvs anceps 760 Spermacoce 1042 Stylocorone cere/era 1064 — '- — rigida 1064 Wendlandia Notoniana . . ..1033 VALERIANEa;. Valeriana Amottiana 1045 Valeriana Brunoniana 1043 Hookeriana 1045 Leschenaultii 1044 COMPOSITjE. Adenostemma latifolium ..1087 reticulatum 1088 Anaphalis aristata 1119 ? elliptica 1118 oblonga 1118 Notoniana 1116 Wightiana 1117 Artimesia glabrata 1111 Indica 1112 INDEX. iii Athroisma ,. ....1093 Blepharispermum petiolare .1092 subsessile 1093 Blumea alata 1 101 1 hieracifolia ..1099 vernon ioides 1101 pterodoiita 1100 Brachyramphus Heyneanus..ll46 Coesulea axillaris .1102 Callestepbus Wightianus . . 1089 Carpesium Nepalense 1120 Cirsium Argyracanthum 1138-39 Cyathocline lyrata 1098 — ^ — lutea 1150 Doronicum Arnottii 1125 — Candolianum. 1127 — Lessengianum 1126 reticulatum 1151 — — rupestre 1128 — — tenuitblium ,1129 — ■■ — tomentosum 1151 Wightii 1124 DecaneuTum Courtallense . .1081 divergens 1084 molle 1082 ' reticulatum 1080 Silhetense 1083 divergens 1078 Dichtocephala chrysanlhemifolia 1095 latifolia 1096 Dicoma lanuginosa 1140 Elephantopus scaber 1086 Emelia scabra 1123 Erigiron Wightii 1090 Glossocardia Boswallea ... .1110 Gnaphalium hypoleucum . . 1114 marcescens 1115 Grangea Madraspatana . . . .1097 Gynura nitida .,.,...1121 Walked 1122 Helichrysum buddleioides ..1113 Lactuca glabra 1 1 45 I Heyneana 1146 Madacarpus Belgaumensis. . 1152 Madaractis glabra 1124 '— pinnatifida ,..1127 Madaractis polycephala .... 1125 scabra 1126 Microlonchus 1137 Microrhyncus glaber 1145 Monosis Wightiaria 1085 Moonia Arnottiana 1105 — — hetrophyUa 1105 Mulgedium Neilgherrense ,.1144 Mycelis 1147 Myriactis Wightii 1091 Oligolepis amaranlhoides . .1149 Picris liamulosa 1143 hieracioides 1143 Senecio candicans . . . .1135-1134 corymbosus 1130 — intermedius 1135 lavanduloefolius 1133 — - laciniosus 1129 mutifidis 1129 Neilgherianus 1132 tenuifolius 1129 — - Walkeri 1131 Senecio Wightianus . . .11 35-1 1 36 Siegesbeckiaoiientalis 1103 Spharanthus amaranthuides . .1149 hirtus 1094 Spilanthes calva 1109 oleracia 1109 Sonchus ciliatus 1142 Wightianus .1143 Tricholepis Candoliana . . . .1137 procumbens 1137 Vernonia conyzoides. ..829-1076 Conyzoides [Errata pt. 4tli CandoUiana [Errata pt. 4th Dindigalenses[Errata pt.4th multiflora 1084 Neilgherryensis 1078-84 pectiniformis 1077 salvifolia 1079 — — Wightiana 1079 Vicoa Indica 1148 Wedelia calendulacea 1107 urticatblia 1106 W ollastonia biflora 1108 Xantheum Indicum 1104 Youngia napifolia 1147 CAMPANALACE.I. Wahlenbergia perotifolia. . . . 842 ERICACEjE. Agapetes arborea 1016 Rlwdodendron arboreum . . ..1018 EBENACES;. Diospyros glutinosa 843 Embiyopteris glutenifera. . . .843 Ferriola buxifolia 763 Maba buxifolia , , 763 ASCLEPIADE.S:. Ceropegiabulbosa 845 elegans 846 Mysorensis 846 Cryptolepis grandiflora 831 Buchanani 831 Cry ptostegia grandiflora . . . 832 Gymnema elegans 830 Hoya ovalifolia 847 Toxocarpus Kleinii 886 Tylophora fasciculata 848 APORYNEiE. Neiium grandiflorum 832 Ophioxylon serpentinum. . .. 849 GENTIANES. Exacum Wightianum 840 CONVOLVULACEJ;. Aneseia calycina 833 — < uniflora 850 Argyreia cymosa ... 839 cuneata 890 kirsuta 891 pomacea 888 speciosa 851 Batatas pentaphylla 834 Convolvulus calycinus 833 bicolor. 835 hi7-ttis 834 — — pentaphyllus 834- Hewittia bicolor 835 Ipomosa pestigridis 836 rugosa 887 Letsomia cymosa 839 Rivea cuneata 890 cymosa .- . , .839 hirsuta 891 pomacea 888 speciosa 851 Shuteria bicolor 835 BOFAGINE.a:. Heliotropium zeylanicum. . . .892 SOLANEfi. Datura alba 852 metel 852 Physalis somnifera 853 Solanum gigantium 893 trilobatum 854 — (N.) Wightii 841 SCROPHULARINE.E. Aeginetia indica 895 Bonnaya hissopioides 857 minima 858 Buchnera euphrasiodes 855 Buddlea discolor 894 Cyrilla aguaiica 861 Gratiola lobelioides 859 lucida 863 Limnophila polystachya . . . .860 racemosa 861 Striga Euphrasiodes 855 Sutera glandulosa , 856 Torenia Asiatica 862 Vandellia crustacese , .863 LABIATX. Anesomales Malabarica . . . .864 ovata 865 Leucas biflora 866 nepetifolia 867 Ocimum Basilicum 868 — ihyrsiflorum 868 VEREENACE.5:. Premna latifolia 869 ARANTHACE.S;. Barleria buxifolia 870 Hexacentris Mysorensis .... 871 Stenosiphoriium Russelianum.873 Thuubergia grandiflora 872 fi INDEX. PLUMBAGINE^:. Plumbaginea 1042 Vogelia Indica 1075 NYCTAGINE^:. Boerhaavia procumbens , . . .874 diffusa 874 stellata 875 scandens 875 Ni/ctaginia 1042 AMARANTACES. Aerua Javanica 876 CHENOPADE^. Basellaalba 896 Salicornia brachiata 738 fruticosa 738 herbacea 738 indica 737 Spitiacea tetrandra 818 ARISTOLOCHIJE. Aristolochia acuminata .... 771 EUPHOEBIACE*. Acalypha indica 877 mappa 816 Euphorbia antiquorum. .897-1063 tortiiis 898-1063 Macarariga ^ ..817 Mappa Moluccana 816 ? peltata 817 Osyrispellata 817 M.icinus mappa 816 AMENTACEjE. Myrica integrifoiia 764 Quercus armata 770 castanicarpa 769 stilagine^;. Antidesma Bunias 819 — - paniculata 820 lanceolarea 766 tomentosa , . . . . 767-8 Stilago lanceolarea 766 ■ tomentosa .767-8 pubeseens 821 Bunias 819 ORCHIDEa;. Dendrobium barbalulum . . . .910 Ileyneanum 909 Dedrobiunfi Prirardi 908 Disparis tripelaloidia 930 Eulopliia virens 913 Geodorum dilatatum 912 Ilabenaria crinifera 926 Ileyneana 923 Lindleyana 922 ■ longicalearata 925 montana 927 rariflora 924 salacensis 922 Liparis atropurpurea 904 — — densiflora 901 — - longepes 906 olivacea 903 Walkerise 905 Microslylis llheedii 902 .. versicolor 901 Malaxis Rlie.edii 902 Peristylus plaiitagiiiea 921 Pholidota imbricata 907 Platan thera lutea 919 Susannoe 920 Saccolabium Wightianum. .. .917 Satyrium Nepalense 929 Vanda Roxburghii 916 spalhulata .915 Vanilia aphylla 931 Wightii 931 Walkerise 932 AMOMEiE. Koempferia Galanga 899 DIOSCORINE*. Dioscorea alata 81o amana 811 — — doemona 811 globosa 812 — oppositifolia 813 pentaphylla 814 tomentosa 815 bulbiera 878 SMILACE*. Smilax ovalifolia. .809 917 914 , 928 918 916 AROIDE.S. Aglaonema oblongij'oliiim .... 806 pictum 804 Amblyglottis emarginuta , . . .918 Ambrosinia ciliata 775 retrospiralis 772 spiralis 773 unilocularis 774 AmorphophaUus bulbifer . . . 783 campanulatus 782-85 margaritifer 795 sylvaticus 802 Arisaem, acurvatum 788 cuspidatum 784 Arlssem gracile 793 ifoxburghii 784 Arum buibifi-rum 783 carapanulatum .. ..782-85 colocasia 786 cuculatum 787 cuspidatum 784 ciirvrttum 788 divaricalum -, 790 flagellitorme 791 fbrnicatum 789-92 gracile 793 iiidicum 794 . margaritiferura 795 moiitanum 796 nymphoeifolium 781 odorum 791 orixense 806 sessiliflorum 800 sylvaticum i>02 trilobatum 803 viviperum 798 Caladium cuculatum 787 nymphaifolium 786 Calla aromatica 805 calyptrata 799 oblongifolia 806 picta 804 rubescens 807 virosa 808 Colocasia antiquorum 786 cuculata 787 fornicata 789-92 indica 794 montana 796 nymphaifolia 786 odora 797 virosu 808 Cryptocoryne ciliata 775 retropiralis 772 spiralisa 773 uniloculris 774 Homulonema uroineticum .... 805 calyptralum 799 rubescens 807 Lasia heterophylla 777 Potlies decwsivus 770 heterophylla 777 officinalis 778 peepla 780 pertusus 781 scandens 776 Pythonium bulbiferum 783 sylvaticum 802 Remusatia vivipera 798-900 Scindapsus decursivus 779 officinalis 778 peepla 780 pertusa 781 Souromatum sessiliflorum .... 800 Typhonium divaricutum 790 flogelliforme 791 t gracile 793 orixense 801 trilobatum 801-803 mrTTTT •iiiTmriiim