384 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Txora, 
. Teling. Tadda-pullu. 
Among the mountains of the coast of Coromandel this spe- 
cies grows to be a ‘pretty large tree; in the low lands it is 
much smaller, seldom exceeding fifteen or twenty feet in 
height. Flowering time February and March. 
Bark dark-coloured, scabrous. Leaves opposite, short- 
petioled, linear-oblong, pointed at the base, often ‘cordate; 
smooth, shining, firm, entire, from three to four inches long, 
and from one and a half to two broad. Stipules as in I. coe- 
einea. Panicles ovate, terminal, erect, cross-armed ;\ divi- 
sions always three-forked. Bractes at the principal divisions 
stipulaceous, with four subulate processes ; the rest are small, 
one below each ramification. Flowers small, white, fragrant. 
The style is hairy. Berry generally two-seeded, somewhat 
two-lobed, size of a pea, black. 
11. I. barbata. R. ny 
Tube of the corol long; mouth bearded. Leaves opposite, 
short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, shining ; floral leaves, 
round cordate, sessile. Panicles open. 
__ This elegant, densely ramous, large shrub, or small tree, I 
have found only in the Botanic garden. Flowering time the. 
hot season, | . te 
Trunk scarcely any, branches numerous, opposite. Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, and shining 
on both sides, from six to nine inches long. Stipules within 
the leaves as in the other species. Corymbs, or rather pani- 
cles terminal, decompound, large, diffuse, always trichoto- 
“mous, smooth in every part. Bractes, the lowermost pair em- — 
bracing the base of the common peduncle, large, and cordate, 
(they may be called floral leaves ;) the rest gradually de- 
crease in size till they become very minute at the ultimate 
divisions. Calyx as in the genus, with acute divisions, Tube 
_ of the corol long and slender, its mouths crowned with long 
‘White haee.. Styl the length of the col Stig : 
