BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 563 
the next part of Wight's ‘Icones, under the name of 
Bursinopetalum arboreum; the fruit is the size of a small 
Plum, and the calyx is adherent, as in Alph. De Can- 
dolle’s new genus Hypocarpus. By the margins of jungles 
grew a very curious new Hedyotis—a shrub about six feet 
high, but of which we only obtained one or two miserable 
specimens in flower; anda very pretty small fruticose species 
of Impatiens (I. Munroi, R. W.) On the upper parts of the 
mountains there was but little herbaceous vegetation, our 
visit being at the end of the dry season. One of the most 
remarkable plants which these rocky places afforded was a 
new shrubby species of Anisochilus. 
By far the most abundant harvest we reaped in this 
quarter was on the day devoted to an excursion about 
six or eight miles down the pass. The road leads through 
one continued forest. From the greater amount of 
moisture which this slope of the chain receives, vegetation 
here exhibits itself in its most luxuriant state. I shall 
enumerate some of the more remarkable or beautiful plants, 
taking them in succession as they occurred. Our first 
acquisition was a little caulescent Dorstenia, growing on 
Shady banks by the road side, Impatiens cuspidata, Lobelia 
nicotianefolia, Torenia Asiatica, the large-flowered variety, 
a new Isonandra, a new Symplocos, three species of Mephiti- 
dia, a new species of Choripetalum, a new species of Blume’s 
genus Bulbospermum, a fine Euonymus, two kinds of Hedera, 
one of them with large pinnated leaves, and a large-flowered - 
Ceropegia. We were now about three miles down, and 
having arrived at a place where there is a large, rocky, moist, 
and rather steep part of the side of a high hill, destitute of 
trees, but covered thinly with shrubs and herbaceous vegeta- 
tion, Dr. Wight informed me that the previous year he 
found on these rocks a species of Anémia; and this being 
a genus to which I have paid a good deal of attention, — 
and which was considered till within a few years: ago, 
to be peculiar to tropical America, when a solitary species 
: 2m TO. 
