wight's botanical letters. 163 



with widely separated cells." I met with it on a hill near 

 Curcumbady, among long grass and low jungle. I have at 

 length nearly determined that Riedleia corchorifolia, and con- 

 catenata are the same, by finding them united on different 

 branches of the same plant ; but I am not quite certain, and 

 cannot finally determine the point here, the species not being 

 natives of this district, so far at least as I have yet seen. I 

 think, however, that I am right, and if so, R. concateiiata is 

 only a more advanced stage of R. corchorifolia. JValtheria 

 indica is a most variable plant, if the varieties we meet with 

 in this country are all the same species : I gathered speci- 

 mens almost silky and white on the same spot, with others 

 of a deep green and comparatively glabrous, and yet I could 

 see no difference except in the quantity and harsher nature 

 of the hairs of the green one. 



I have got a fine new species of Melhania, ("i)!f. rupestris, 

 Nob., leaves cordate ovate crenato-serrated, villous above, 

 whitish tomentose and reticulated underneath ; peduncles 

 about 3-flowered, exceeding the petiole; involucral leaves 

 broad cordate at the base, acuminated, persistent (?) ; sepals 

 lanceolate acute, densely tomentose ; petals oblong, obtuse, 

 longer than the calyx; sterile and antheriferous filaments 

 united by a membrane at the base; capsule (immature) 

 tomentose. — A small shrub with long diffuse branches — 

 In a rocky glen at Talapoodatoor, Cuddapah district.") 



Greivia pilosa, if I have not mistaken the species, is a very 

 curious plant, it is a large scandent shrub with stem and 

 larger branches acutely 4-angled, and grooved between the 

 angles ; in my plant the young shoots, leaves, calyx and 

 fruit, are beset with rigid stellate hairs; stamens a little 

 longer than the cleft petals ; the filaments furnished at the 

 apex with a tuft of erect hairs surrounding the anthers. It 

 is a copious flower-bearer, and is common at Curcumbady, (I 

 liave since met with it two or three times.) At the same 

 place I trot specimens of G. hirsuta ? with pubescent not 

 tomentose leaves. 1 also found an orange in fruit only, with 

 trifoliate leaves, whether a species or variety, I have yet to 



