558 | BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
sions, is perhaps the most pleasing of any to be met 
with on the hills. In every direction large swelling hills 
are to be seen, covered with grass—at this season having the 
appearance of ripe corn—intersected with patches and long 
stripes of verdant woods, the varying tints of the foliage of 
which form pictorial combinations, on which the eye dwells 
with pleasure. There is one tree conspicuous above all 
the others, not only from its abundance, but the peculiar 
light green colour of its leaves. It is as yet a ‘planta 
innominata, forming a new genus belonging to the natural 
order Stilaginacee. Between Pycarrah and the next Bunga- 
low, which is at a place called Neddawattum, we added very 
largely to our collections. On the road-side a fine tall 
species of Artemisia (A. grata), was very common. In 
a wood through which we passed, we saw a fine large 
tree, the top of which was nearly one mass of white flowers. 
It proved to be a Symplocos, and we have since ascertained 
that it is not described in De Candolle’s Prodromus. Here 
we also met with an undescribed species of Coffee, though one 
which Dr, Wight had previously found, and several fruticose 
Acanthacee. The stems of the large trees in the more 
dense parts of the wood, were covered with mosses, ferns, 
lichens, various kinds of Orchidee, and an Æschynanthus. 
One of the Orchidee was a remarkable, and very large 
species of Oberonia. In another wood, a few miles further 
on, Leptanthes Walkeri was richly in flower, as well as a few 
other handsome <Acanthacee. One of them is a striking - 
plant, a large, rambling, climbing shrub, with woody 
stems more than three inches in diameter. It comes near 
the genus Strobilanthus, but is sufficiently distinct to con- 
stitute a separate genus. Dr, Wight has a fine drawing of 
it, and will shortly publish it under the name of Didyplosandra — 
lurida. The spikes come off from the old branches, and 
are from six inches to a foot long; the bracts and 
flowers are large, and both of a lurid brown colour. In _ 
more open bushy places we found Thunbergia fragrans, Im- — 
