672 NEW SONERILA FROM BOMBAY. 
Figure and description of a new SoNERILA from Bombay ; dis- 
covered by N. A. Daizez, Esq.; by W. J. H. 
(Tas. XXIII.) 
Sonerila is a genus of extremely elegant East Indian plants, which 
had been much neglected, and for a long time little understood. The 
first known species was described and figured by Rheede, in Hortus 
Malabaricus, under the name of Soneri-ila ; and upon this and three new 
species, Roxburgh characterized and established the genus in his 
valuable Flora Indica ; remarking, however, that ** in its tibus charac- 
ter, it agrees very exactly with Burmannia ; but, further observing that 
the ovula are attached on their respective receptacles of the cells exactly 
as in Osbechia Chinensis.” Dr. Wallich properly referred it to Melasto- 
macee. "The history of the genus is fully given by Mr. Bennett, in the 
Plante Javanicæ of Dr. Horsfield ; and to him we must refer also for 
a full character of the genus, and of the thirteen species with which he 
was acquainted. Many others, we have reason to believe, yet undes- 
cribed ones, exist in the Herbaria of others as well as in our own col- 
lection. Our present object is to figure and describe a new species 
lately received, with many other interesting plants from Bombay, and 
which, as far as we can ascertain, is unique in having no stem : hence 
we name it, 
SONERILA SCAPIGERA, n. Sp. ; 
Glaberrima acaulis, foliis radicalibus cordatis serratis longe petiolatis 
heteroneuris,* scapis folia æquantibus, pedicellis umbellato-racemosis, 
pedicellis flore longioribus, calyei tubo glaberrimo infundibuliformi ob- 
scure trisulcato ; limbo trilobo lobis triangularibus acutis, petalis obo- 
vatis oblique acutis, staminibus stylum æquantibus, stigmate depresso- 
globoso. 
Has. The Ghauts, near Bombay ; found in the rainy season. NA 
Dalzell, Esq. 
The affinity of this is with S. maculata, Roxb. (and Bennett, PI. 
Javan. Rar. p. 215) ; but this plant is smaller in every respect, really 
stemless, quite glabrous, not even ciliated at the margin of the leaves, 
the leaves themselves quite cordate, scarcely at all ineequilateral. 
Tab. XXIIL Fig. 1, Flower-bud ; f. 2, expanded flower ; f. 3, trans- 
verse section of an ovary. 
_* See Mr. Bennett, L c. for the application of this term. 
