

475. Toxocarpus Roxbitbgiiit (W. and A.Asclepias 

 lonzistigma Roxb.) branches clothed with rusty down : 

 leaves broad, oval, acuminated: corymbs on short pe 

 duncles, with divaricate branches, about equal in length 

 to the leaves: flowers almost sessile: throat of corolla 

 hairy : segments ligulate, glabrous : leaflets of corona 

 ovate, acutish, bearing each a short, thick, acute, hardly 

 exserted segment inside, which is equal in length to the 



anthers: stigma beaked, twisted, equal to the tube of 

 the corolla. 



1 Flowering branch 



G. Don, 1. c. page 160. 



2 a di-sected flower. 



476. Taberivjemontana recuhva (Roxb.) leaves 



oblong-lanceolate, undulated, glabrous : calcyne teeth 



ovate: segments of corolla convex, of two forms, crenu- 



lated : cymes divaricate ; flowers drooping.— G. Don. 1. 

 c. p. 91. 



1 Flowering branch. 



477. Tabern^moivt.ana coronarea (R. B.) leaves 

 elliptic or oblong, bluntly acuminated : peduncles from 

 the forks of the branches twin, 1-3 flowered: bracteas 

 deciduous: calcyne teeth very short, rounded: anthers 

 exserted : stigma undivided: follicles torulous.— G. Don. 

 1. c. p. 90. 



1 Flowering branch— 2 dissected flower— 3 follicles 

 one burst— 4 a young seed cut tr. inversely— 5 a mature 

 seed similarly cut— 6 cut longitudinally showing the em- 

 bryo in copious albumen— 7 a seed —8 the same enclosed 

 in its arillus— 9 specimen of a double flower. 



478. ANAPHArlS NEELGERRYANA(D.CProd. 6, p. 272 



Gnaphatium- Wight's contributions) stem shrubby 

 low, very ramous : floriferous branches erect tomento^e : 

 lower leaves close, pressed, retroi sely imbricated, linear, 

 sub obtuse, glabrous ; the upper onesalong the florife- 

 rous branches erect, tomentose, somewhat distant, acute, 

 cap i tula congested into a dense terminal corymb : scale 

 of the involucre oblong-linear, sub-acute, longer than 

 the disk, white, bristles of the pappus pencillate at the 

 point. -DC. 



1 Plant natural size—"l a capitulum before expan- 

 sion— 3 after expansion— 4 sterile flowers and scale 

 detached— 5 fertile flower— 6 the same dissected 7 

 anthers back and front views- 8 a bristle of the pappus 

 7nore highly magnified showing the pencillate ape 



479. Ambkrboa indica (DC. Prod. 6, p. 5~8) stem 

 erect, ramous, sulcately angled, naked towards the apex, 

 and like the leaves glabrous or somewhat rough : leaves 

 lanceolate coarsely dentate, the upper ones, few and 

 distant, linear entire. 



i Flowering plants a detached flower with its scaly 

 unequal pappus- 3 corolla split open to show the sta- 

 mens— 4 detached anthers— 5 pollen— 6 ovary, style 

 and stigma— 7 a pappus scalers ovary cut open show- 

 ing the erect ovule. 



480. Crotolaria lunulata (Heyne) sufFrufescent, 

 erect, much branched, clothed all over with glutinous 

 soft hairs patent on the branches and addressed on the 

 leaves : stipules and bracteas permanent, deeplv cordate- 

 ovate, amplexicaul, reflexed, shining and viscid on the 

 upper side : leaves from oblong-oval obtuse to oval-lan- 

 ceolate : racemes with the lower flowers abortive, form- 

 ing a large panicle : bracteas alternate, more pointed 

 than the stipules : bracteole- similar to the b 



-teas, <>n 

 the middle of the pedicel : calyx deeply 5-cleft, shorter 

 than the corolla : margins of the segments scarcely re- 

 curved : vexillum silky : legume roundish-oblong, about 

 the length of the calyx, sessile, silky, 1 -seeded.— W. 

 and A. Prod. I. p. 183. 



1 Flowering branch —2 dissected flower— 3 detached 

 petals— 4 short st inh-ns—5 long ones— 6 a legume — 7 

 ovary cut open showing the ovules — 8 a legume opened 



9 a seed, cut lengthwise— 10 embryo detached— H 



rtions of leaves magnified. 



481 Crotalarta pulcherrima (Roxb.) shrubby, 

 erect branched, covered all over with fulvous shinin- 



sott hairs: stipules none : leaves cuneate-obovate, ob- 

 tuse : — ■ " ■ 



viscous 



racemes elongated, terminal, on panicled axillary 

 l -Meaved branches; lower flowers abortive: bracteas 

 alternate, cordate, acuminated, reflexed, upper surface 



bracteoles on the middle of the pedicels, simi- 

 lar to the bracteas : calyx deeply 5-cleft, shorter than 

 the corol!a,and like the vexillum silky with fulvous hairs : 

 segments oblong-lanceolate, the margins scarcely recurv- 

 ed : legumes sessile, oblong, glabrous, hid in the perma- 

 nent calyx, lew-seeded.- W. and A. Prod I. p. 184. 



1 Flowering branch— 2 expanded flower, natural size 

 6 the same dissected— 4 and 5 stamens- 6 petals 



/ ovary opened— 8 legume and persistent 

 9 Legumes opened— 10 a seed-U cut longitu- 

 dinally to show the embryo-12-13 upper and under 

 surfaces of the leaves slightly magnified to show the pu- 



detached 

 calyx 



? i' - Ga " ctea 'ongefolia (R. W.) slightly pubes- 

 cent, leaflets linear-lanceolate, cordate at the base, pe- 

 duncles axillary , slender, nearly as long as the leaves, 

 tew-flowend, calyx pubescent, campanulate at the base, 

 5-cleft segments subulate, legume slightly pubescent. 

 Ualaghaut hills near Madras. 



This species seems intermediate between G. ternu* 

 flora and villosa but amply distinguished from both by 

 its leaflets which are from 3 to 5 inches long and scarcely 

 4 lines broad. J 



1 Flowering branch natural size— 2 detached petals 

 3 stamens— 4 calyx and bracteoles— 5 ovary with the 

 remains of the stamens— 6 ovary divided lengthwise— 7 

 a ripe legume after dehiscence -8 a seed— 9 the same 

 cut transversely-^ 10 cut lengthwise— 11 embrvo de- 

 tached, " 



48 





Pa rocbetus major (Don) leaflets obovate, re- 

 tuse, crenulated.— W. and A. Prod I. page 252 



1 Flowering branch— 2 a detached flower- 3 detach- 

 ed petals— 4 calyx, ovary and stamens— 5 stamens de- 

 tached- 6 anthers back and front— 7 ovary opened— 8 

 a legume opened-9 a portion more highly magnified to 

 show the position of the seed- 10 a seed— 11-12-13 the 

 same dissected. 



484. Notonia corymbosa (D.C. Prod. G pao-e 442) 

 leaves broadly elliptic, obtuse, floriferous branches naked, 

 bearing a many headed bracteated corymb on the apex 

 capitula longer than their pedicels. D.C. (I am doubt-' 



idifli 



1 



Flowering branch 



B. W.) 



~2 a young flower before the 

 separating of the stigmas— 3 another flower somewhat 

 further advanced but let* magnified — i corolla detached 

 d split open to show the stamens— 5 detached stamens 

 —6 style and stigmas— 7 ovary opened showing the 

 erect ovule— 8 ovary -9 a bristle of the pappus. 



485. Cocculus cordifolius (D.C) twining; bark 

 corky, slightly tubercled : leaves roundish cordate with 

 a broad sinus, shortly and sharply pointed, glabrous : 

 racemes axillary or lateral ; of male flowers longer than 

 the leaves, pedicels several together; of female scarcely 

 so long as the leaves, pedicels solitary : petals umraicti- 

 late ; unguis linear, slightly margined upwards ; limb 

 triangular-ovate, retiexed : stamens 6 ; filaments thicken- 

 ed at the apex; anther- cells divaricating ; ovaries 3: 

 drupes 2-3, globose : embryo small, cotyledons orbicular, 

 approximate, fleshy.— W. and A. Prod. 1 page 12. 



1 Male plant natural size— 2 a detached flower -3 the 

 same, one of the petals thrown back to show the inner 

 series and stamens— 4 a stamen with its attached scale 



5 detached anthers back and front views. 



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