ferent species before us, a point which can scarcely 
be determined until our respective specimens are 
compared. 
In its woody structure this plant presents a close 
affinity with Peppers, transverse sections of the two 
being almost undistinguishable. 
1956. TETRAMELES GRAHAMIANA (R. W., Anicto- 
clea Grahamiana, Nimmo in Graham's catal.), leaves 
long petioled, cordate, short acuminated, serrated: 
male flowers panicled, panicles terminal, cory mbose, 
females racemose ; racemes long pendulous. 
Courtallum, Malabar, Ghauts, &c. 
Ihave followed Mr. Nimmo in the specific name, 
though I suspect this is not distinct from T. nudiflora, 
Brown. The specimens from which the drawing was 
made were gathered at Courtallum, but I received 
others from Mr. Graham of Bombay, but all with- 
out leaves. 
1957. Artocarrus (Jaca) HIRSUTA (Lam, Roxb.), 
leaves elliptie, obtuse, or rounded at both ends, glab- 
rous above, hairy, especially on the nerves, beneath : 
male catkins long cylindrical, about the thickness of a 
quill, at first ascending or erect, afterwards becoming 
pendulous: females oval, about the size of an egg: 
fruit globose, echinate. 
Malabar, on arid red soils, also in forests where 
it attains a great size, the trunk being large enough 
for canoes, for the formation of which the larger ones 
are principally used. The drawings embodied in the 
plate were made at different times: the figure of the 
tree and full grown fruit were taken from a tree grow- 
ing near Trevandrum in May; that of the flowering 
branch was executed at Tellicherry by the same artist 
(Rungia), but not under my inspection. I, however, 
believe them correct, though at variance with Rox- 
burgh's description and Rheede's figure, as regards the 
direction of the male catkins, the difference being 
referable to the difference of age. The tree figured 
is not a very good specimen, and I now suspect the 
likeness is not very good, but being the first I had 
seen I thought it well to have a sketch. 
1958. Antıarıs SACCIDORA (Dalzell, Lepurandra 
saccidora, Nimmo in Graham's Cat.)  arboreous: 
leaves ovate, oblong, acuminate, entire, glabrous 
above, slightly villous beneath: capitula axillary, ag- 
gregated ; peduncles about the length of the pedicels. 
Malabar, Ceylon, flowering during October. The 
specimens from which the drawings were made were 
obtained from Coorg. 
The above specific character will require to be 
modified when we become better acquainted with 
the whole genus. 
1959. CoxocpPHALUS NIVEUS (R. W.), arboreous, 
erect, ramous : leaves ovato-lanceolate, acute or acu- 
minate, quintuple-nerved, acutely serrated, somewhat 
bullate above; prominently reticulate and white be- 
neath, strigosely hispid on both sides; inflorescence 
axillary, cymose: fruit capitate, drupaceous, drupes 
small, yellow, globose. š 
Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries, uent, com- 
mon also in many sub-alpine jungles. It extends 
as far south nearly as Cape Comorin in the jungles 
along the lower slopes of the hills. On the Neil- 
gherries it is met with at an elevation of about 5000 
feet. This small tree seems so much to resemble 
Roxburgh's Urtica herima that, for a long time, 
Ithoughtit that plant. It does not, however, seem 
to have been known to Roxburgh, as it does not cor- 
respond with any of his descriptions. 
Fruit capitate, made up of an aggregation of small 
globose drupes. Sarcocarp fibrous, pulpy, studded 
over with minute resinous translucent tubercles ; 
testa ovate, hard ; albumen copious ; embryo straight, 
as long as the albumen, radicle pointing towards the 
apex of the seed. Albumen oily: filaments straight 
in sstivation. 
1960. CUDRANIA JAVANENSIS (Tricul, Annal des 
Sciences), leaves oblong lanceolate, entire, rounded 
at the base or acute, acuminate at the apex, mucro- 
nate, glabrous on both sides. 
The specimen from which the drawing was made 
I received from the Calcutta Botanic Garden, labeled 
Morus scandens, a Chinese plant and may not, though 
it agrees pretty well with the character, be the true 
C. javanensis. 
1961. Epicarrurvs ORIENTALIS (Blume, Trophis 
aspera, Willd., Roxb.), arboreous, leaves alternate, 
short petioled, obovate, cuspidato-acuminate, serrated 
towards the apex, very rough above: male flowers 
capitate, heads axillary, aggregated, short peduncled : 
females axillary, 1 or 2 together, longish pedicelled : 
fruit drupaceous, l-seeded: testa crustaceous: Co- 
tyledons very unequal-sized, exalbuminous ; radicle 
pointing towards the apex of the seed. 
A common small rigid stunted looking tree, com- 
mon all over India. Blume has mistaken the struc- 
ture of the seed, which he describes as albuminous 
with a curved inverted embryo and cochleate coty- 
ledons, in place of which itis composed of one very 
large cotyledon split half through and a very small 
one completely inclosed in the slit and concealed by 
the larger one. To bring it into view, it is necessary 
to tear off half the larger one as shown at figure 12, 
when the true structure at once becomes obvious. 
Figure 10 shows the seed as described by Blume, 
where the smaller cotyledon assumes the appearance 
of a small embryo with cochleate cotyledons. 
1962. Erıcarrurus SPINOSA (R. W., Trophis 
spinosa, Roxb. not Willdenow), arboreous, thorny: 
leaves oblong lanceolate, coarsely serrated towards 
the apex, glabrous: male flowers in the 
axils of the leaves and thorns: female flowers 1 or 2 
together, axillary ; calyx deeply 5-parted, lobes lan- 
ceolate, acute, much longer than the fruit. 
Courtallum, Ceylon. This seems a very rare plant 
in the Peninsula, as I do not recollect having seen it 
in any other station, and there it was a low thorny 
The plant figured in the left hand corner of the 
plate is a new species of Epi from Ceylon, 
communicated by Mr. Thwaites with the following 
character, since published in Hooker's Kew Garden 
Miscellany, vol. 4, page 1. 
EPICARPURUS ZEYLANICUS (Thwaites, Arnott). A 
ramous shrub, sparingly armed : leaves rhombio-lan- 
ceolate acuminate, glabrous, remotely spinuloso-ser- 
rate: male flowers densely capitulate, heads oblong : 
females racemose : fructiferous pedicels thickened at 
the apex and elongated. 
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