1963. PrecosPermum sPINOSUM (Tricul, Batis 
spinosa, Roxb., T'rophis spinosa, Willd.), sub-arbore- 
ous, diffuse, branches armed with long, sharp, some- 
what reflexed spines: leaves obovate, oblong, glabrous, 
shining : male flowers capitate, distinct ; female ones 
aggregated, immersed in a fleshy head: styles long 
filiform : cotyledons unequal, folded, the larger one 
enclosing the smaller. 
A rather common plant in thick jungles near the 
coast, it also occurs in the interior, but less frequently. 
1964. DoRsTENIA INDICA (R. W.), herbaceous at 
first, procumbent and rooting, afterwards ascending, 
erect: stem and petiols pilose: leaves penninerved, 
elliptic or elliptico-lanceolate, unequally serrated to- 
wards the apex, sparingly hairy above, more thickly 
ou the veins beneath: peduncles axillary, solitary, 
cernuous or drooping: receptacle peltate, variously 
lobed on the margin. 
In moist shady woods on the Pulney Mountains, 
Courtallum, Neilgherries. 
The plant found in these various localities seems 
to be quite the same species, though it varies a little 
in its habit and aspect; in some specimens the fruit 
is more erect than those shown in the figure, which 
seem to me rather too decidedly drooping as if the 
drawing was made from plants beginning to soften 
and wither; but with that exception, the figure cor- 
rectly represents a rather luxuriant form of the 
species. 
1965. PoGoNOTROPHE MACROCARPA (Miquel), ar- 
boreous, climbing : ramuli, petiols and under surface 
of the young leaves pubescent: leaves long petioled, 
ovate-equal, or somewhat unequal-sided, abruptly 
narrow acuminate, rounded at the base, 3-5-nerved, 
2-3, costulate, fugaciously puberulous above: recep- 
tacles glomerate, globose, pubescent, spotted. Fruit 
green, white spotted, size of an orange. 
Pulney Mountains, in woods climbing on other 
trees, in fruit during October. ; 
Miquel, when he referred this plant to his y 
Pogonotrophe, had not seen the drawing of the fruit, 
nor had he dissected it, whence I infer his reference 
of this plant to that genus is a mere guess. The 
drawing from which my plate is taken was made on 
the spot, but most unfortunately without an analysis 
of the contained flowers, whence I am unable to deter- 
mine with certainty its genus, but infer from its habit 
and general aspect that it is more properly referable 
to Covellea than Po he and, as such, seems 
very nearly allied to the following. 
1966. CovELLIA GUTTATA (R. W.), arboreous, scan- 
dent, the branches afterwards ascending: ches 
glabrous and smooth, young ramuli pubescent : leaves 
ovate cordate, acuminate, 3-nerved, entire, smooth 
and glabrous above, villous beneath : receptacles glo- 
merate on the older branches, pubescent: perianth 
six-lobed, lobes lanceolate, equaling or exceeding the 
length ofthe ovary : stigma dilated, ciliate, umbilicate. 
Orange Valley near Kotergherry, Neilgherries, on 
the banks of the stream, flowering August and Sep- 
tember. In the receptacles, cut for examination, no 
male flowers were found, hence this appears a dioi- 
cous species. It seems very distinct all those 
defined by Miquel. 
1967. UnosriGMA RELIGIOSUM (Gasparrini, Miq.), 
leaves long petioled, ovate cordate, narrow acuminate 
(acumen j the length of the leaf) entire, or repandly 
undulate towards the apex: sinus at the base broad 
or truncated. 
A common tree all over India, and so much re- 
spected by the natives that they will not willingl 
injure or cut it down, even to clear a line for a road, 
and Ihave known them rather work round one than 
cut it down. There are two nearly allied species 
with which it is liable to be confounded, but I believe 
the one represented is the genuine form. 
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1968. HoLoPTELEA INTEGRIFOLIA (Planch. Annal. 
= سرت‎ Nat. Ser. 3. v. 10, Ulmus integrifolia, 
oxb.). 
A considerable tree not uncommon along the foot 
of the Hills and pretty generally, though sparingly, 
distributed over the Coimbatore district. Leaves dis- 
tichous, entire, alternate, ovate, or cordato-ovate, ob- 
tuse, shining : flowers fascicled, appearing during the 
spring months when the tree is nearly destitute of 
leaves, male, female and hermaphrodite flowers, mix- 
ed in the same fascicles. Calyx 4-8-parted, hairy : 
stamens 7-9, scarcely longer than the calyx: ovary 
pedicelled, oval, compressed; styles two, nearly as 
long as a ا‎ fruit compressed, winged all round, 
seed —— 
The specimens represented are too young to show 
the mature fruit, to do justice to which would require 
a separate plate, neither were the available fruit suf- 
ficiently mature to admit of the seed being properly 
analysed. 
This tree has been removed from the old genus 
Ulmus, by M. Planchon, principally on account of its 
polygamous flowers and deeply parted calyx, added 
to some differences in the structure of the seed. As 
yet it stands alone in the genus. The analyses of the 
ovary and fruit are less perfect than I could have 
wished, but in other respects the figures are good. 
1969. Cezris Wicaru (Planchon, 1. c. p. 307), 
leaves oblong, abruptly acuminate, somewhat acute 
at the base, quite entire, 3-nerved; lateral pair of 
nerves extending from the base to the apex : stipules 
produced below their point of insertion (that is, some- 
what peltate): cymes polygamous (male and herma- 
phrodite), about the length of the petiols or some- 
times twice as long: berry ovate; shortly rostrate, 
smooth. 
An extensively distributed small tree or shrub; 
frequent in the sub-alpine jungles covering the slopes 
of the hills, and on the Neilgherries ascending to an 
elevation of from 4000 to 6000 feet. Flowers pale 
bluish, flowering September and October, or probably 
nearly throughout the year. 
1970. CELTIS SEROTINA (Planch. 1. c. p. 301), leaves 
obliquely ovate, acuminate, acute at the base, serrated 
from the apex to below the middle, glabrous ; inflor- 
escence axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves : 
fructiferous pedicels usually 3 together, one free the 
other two united at the base: berry nearly oval, 
glabrous. 
A eonsiderable, and when in full leaf, a handsome 
tree, lowering during the spring months while the 
young leaves are developing. It is extensively dis- 
 tributed over the plateau of the Hills, but some of 
the finest specimens I have seen of it are growing 
on the bank in front of Stonehouse. The specific 
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