2057-58. Swinax Zevzanıca (Linn.), stem scan- 
dent, obscurely 4-angled, beset, especially the male, 
with numerous small recurved prickles: leaves from 
cordato-ovate acuminate to sub-orbicular, abruptly 
retusely acuminate, 5-nerved ; the outer pair slender : 
موي دا‎ axillary, usually two, sometimes 3-umbel- 
ed: flowers longish pedicelled, male 6-androus, with- 
out rudimentary pistil: female with 3 rudimentary 
stamens opposite the outer sepals: berry globose, 
3-seeded. Š 
Neilgherries, Eastern slopes, frequent at an eleva- 
tion of from 4 to 6 thousand feet, climbing to a great 
extent over trees, In flower and fruit from Septem- 
ber until November or December. 
2059. Smirax MACULATA (Royle), shrubby, scan- 
dent, angular, armed with numerous small prickles : 
leaves broad sub-reniform-cordate at the base, taper- 
ing to a blunt point, 7-nerved, racemes, male and 
female, axillary, flexuose, with the flowers fascicled 
on the flexures, short pedicelled : female with six 
rudimentary stamens. 
Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries, climbing exten- 
sively on trees. Berries red when ripe. 
2060. DroscoreA ACULIATA (Linn.), herbaceous, 
twining, glabrous, branches piped, 4-winged: wings 
narrow membranous: leaves opposite, deeply cor- 
date, 7-nerved, acuminate: male panicles axillary, 
branches fascicled, spiked, 4 to each pair of bracts, 
flexuose, with a single sessile flower on each flexure : 
interior sepals smaller, all obovate: ovary 3-celled 
with 2 superposed ovules in each, capsule 3-winged, 
seed winged. 
Malabar. My specimens are from Malabar where 
I gathered it in flower and young fruit in June. 
The representations of the mature capsule and seed 
in the plate are those of D. oppositifolia, those of D. 
aculiata not being sufficiently ripe. 
Roxsurcrra. (Driander.) 
Gen. Cuar. Perianth: sepals 4, linear lanceolate, 
acute. Stamens 4, opposite the sepals; filaments 
short, dilated; connective produced far beyond the 
anthers, anther 2-celled, introrse ; cells large, dehiscing 
their whole length, each enclosing a pollen bag (endo- 
thecium), nearly as long as the cell: pollen bags fur- 
rowed along the suture; persistent after dehiscence, 
the apex of each produced into a long flattened thread, 
which, converging and cohering with its fellow, forms 
a thin membranous lanceolate point (the nectary of 
Roxburgh), pollen farinaceous or, more correctly, 
something between waxy and farinaceous. * Germen 
(ovary) superior, cordate, compressed, 1-celled : 
ovules numerous, attached to the bottom of the cell, 
cordate. Style none, stigma pointed, capsule ovate, 
compressed, one-celled, 2-valved, opening from the 
apex. Seed 5-8, pedicelled, inserted on the bottom 
of the capsule, cylindricalstriated: pedicels surround- 
ed with numerous small pellucid vesicles." Roxb. 
The description here given of the male organiza- 
tion of this genus is somewhat different from any 
hitherto proposed if Irightly understand them. Ac- seed, 
cording to this description, the stamens of Roxbur- 
hia represent, among monocotyledons, the Asclepia- 
deal structure. There the anther is two-celled with 
the pollen enclosed in a bag, the endothecium or lining 
of the anther cell. There, as here, the endothecium 
is prolonged: forming in them the connection between 
the corpuscle and pollen mass. So far the analogy in 
the male structure of the two familiesis clear, but here 
they diverge, the endothecium of Asclepiadeæ seperat- 
ing entirely from the cell, and being removable with 
the pollen, while here it continues attached to the bot- 
tom ofthe cell. In Asclepiadeæ the pollen of two 
anthers converge to form the geminate pollen masses, 
here those of the two cells of the same anther are 
united. The remainder of the character I have taken 
from Roxburgh who examined and described the 
flower with most elaborate care, but evidently mis- 
understood its structure, a circumstance not much 
to be wondered at, considering the then imperfect 
knowledge of structural botany. Sir J. E. Smith 
gives the best description of the anthers I have seen: 
* Stamens, filaments 4, pene the petals and nearly 
as long, awl-shaped, fleshy, with a double cell at 
their inner side near the base; anthers 2-lobed, 
oblong, lodged in the cells of the filaments, each 
crowned with a simple lanceolate appendage." This 
description differs from mine in his viewing the con- 
nective as a 2-celled filament and the pollen as the 
anther. 
This view of the structure of the stamen of this 
genus may perhaps lead to the determination of its 
affinities, a point as yet very imperfectly understood. 
When I wrote the above Í had overlooked Griffith’s 
paper in the Calcutta Journal, whose views nearly, I 
think, coincide with mine, a point I cannot now as- 
certain the volume being packed up and out of reach. 
2061. RoxBURGHIA GLORIOSOIDES (Driander). 
Pulicat Hills at an elevation of about 2000 feet, flow- 
ering in August and September. The season at 
which I visited the station was a little too early, so 
that only a few flowers had opened and no fruit. 
2062. ASPHODELUS PAUCIFLORA (R. W.), leaves 
fistulous, long tapering, subulate-pointed : stems nak- 
ed, ramous: racemes terminal: flowers small, short 
pedicelled : filaments filiform, glabrous, scarcely dilat- 
ed at the base: stigma subcapitate, undivided: seed 
somewhat triangular, ovate, blunt pointed. 
The station of this plant, the only Indian repre- 
sentative of the genus I have at hand, is not marked, 
but most probably was obtained from the light sandy 
soils of the sea coast. 
2063. URGENIA Inpıca (Kunth, Scilla Indica, 
Roxb.), bulb tunicated: leaves narrow, and taper 
from the base: racemes simple, longer than the 
leaves: flowers remote, solitary, long pedicelled, 
drooping. Roxb. 
Sea coast, Tutichorin, March and April. : 
Bulb white, about the size of an apple : leaves radi- 
cal, ensiform, flat, glabrous, from 6 to 18 inches long. 
When in bloom the plant is perfectly destitute of 
leaves. Scape erect, round, naked: raceme long, 
erect, flowers remote, long pedicelled, drooping, pedi- 
cels filiform, bract most minute, caducous: sepals 
linear, equal, filaments filiform. Capsules, elliptic, 
eri =k seed compressed, orbicular, broadly 
winged, bright shining black: embryo length of the 
axile. 
The above description of the plant is taken from 
Roxburgh, that of the capsule and seed from speci- 
mens now before me. 
2064. URGENIA CoromANDELIANA (R. W., Scilla 
Coromandeliana ? Roxb. ?), leaves linear, tapering to 
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