176 wight's botanical letters. 



fruit of another from Courtallum; they certainly agree in 

 having interior processes to the shell of the fruit which is a 

 rare and curious character. 



\st October. — I have told you that I have been twice at 

 Courtallum, and must now say something about my acquisi- 

 tions there, premising however that I have not yet got all 

 home, and that, of those that I have got, there are three 

 large parcels still unopened. 1 liope Greville will give you 

 some information regarding my doings there, as I wrote him 

 a long letter on the subject, which I requested him to show 

 you, and even to publish in Hooker's Companion to the Bota- 

 nical Magazine, if thought worthy as an illustration of Indian 

 Botany.* 



From that you will see that I have discovered several fine 

 AnnonacecB, I do not yet know how many, but I believe there 

 may be as many as all I had before ; and no doubt there are 

 many more there if I could only revisit the place and search 

 for them. There are also many new species of Balsaminea ; 

 one so remarkable, that I intend constituting of it a genus in 

 an early number of the Madras Journal. I have a species of 

 Argostemma, Wall. {Court. Coll. n. 75), very like liis A. ver- 

 ticillaris, but tetrandrous. I have also another tetrandrous 

 plant [Court. Coll. n. 756) of the same order, nearly allied, 

 but differing much in habit; that genus I sometimes think, 

 is allied to Campamdacece, near WaJdenbergia, a species oi 

 which with blue flowers like the St Helena one, I have 

 also got on these hills. Another very desirable addi- 

 tion to the Flora is a species of Aikinta, differing very 

 slightly in its generic character from the original species ; 

 neither the sterile nor fertile anthers are forked as in it? 

 although in other respects it agrees, as well as in habit; it 

 was unfortunately not in fruit. Of Didymocarpus or Cyr- 

 tandra (I forget at present the difference) there are I think 

 four species, besides one or two other plants of the same 

 order. I have two species of JEginetia, one A. pedunculata; 



* It is there published, Vol. i. p. 327. 



