821. ANTIDESMA PUBESCENS. (Roxb. Willd.) leaves 
oblong entire downy: stipules subulate : spikes terminal 
panicled. R. Fl. Ind. 3, p. 770. 
A small tree flowering about the beginning of the rains. 
The berries of this species are eaten by the natives, 
822. 1180170118 ramosa. (Blume—Oldenlandin ra- 
mosa Roxb.)diffuse ramous : leaves narrow lanceolate : pe- 
duncles axillary with from one to several flowers. Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. 1, p. 424. 
Native of Pegue apparently very nearly allied to ۰ 
umbellata which it much resembles in habit and appear- 
ance. 
823. Dittenra speciosa (Thunberg.) : leaves oblong, 
serrated, glabrous, appearing with the flowers: peduncles 
solitary, terminal, one flowered: stamens all equal in 
length: styles and carpels about 20: seeds hairy. W. $£ 
A. Prod. pg. 5. 
Southern provinces and Malabar cultivated about 
Madras as an ornamental tree. 
Several figures of this plant have been published, that 
of Rheede (Horl. Mal.) is very characteristic, but none of 
these have analyses of the flower. The accompanying 
figures will therefore, it is hoped supply to some extent 
that desideratum. ‘They represent outside and inside 
views of the flower natural size, a transverse section of 
the entire ovary showing the 20 carpels or cells, of which 
it is composed, magnified. A portion of the same more 
highly magnified showing the two rows of placenta in 
each cell—and, at that early stage, the 2 ovules each 
bear—also a vertical section of the ovary, showing the 
conical form of the receptacle and position of the car- 
pels on its surface. The larger figure represents the 
fruit in a further advanced stage, at which period one of 
each pair of ovules has aborted, leaving two not four rows 
of seed im each cell. Below that is a portion of a mature 
fruit showing the hairy seed in sifu, also a seed dis- 
sected, showing the minute embryo, at the base of a 
very copious albumen, immediately under the hilum, and 
Jastly, the embryo itself detached, 
Through an oversight the figures in this and several 
following plates were not numbered which renders the 
above explanation less explicit than could be wished. 
824 CoccuLus PLUKENETII. Z 9 (DC.) stem twin- 
825 f ing, glabrous; young branches pubescent : 
leaves ovate, mucronate, sometimes slightly cordate 
at the base, rarely retuse at the apex, glabrous; when 
young the nerves on the under side, and long petioles 
hairy: racemes spike-like, longer than the leaves; pedi- 
cels short, with a subulate bractea at their base, of males 
2-3 together, of females usually solitary: petals cuneate- 
oblong, emarginate, obtusely 2-toothed near the base ; 
in the male about equal to the stamens, somewhat mem- 
branaceous above, below fleshy, and embracing the fila- 
ments; in the female fleshy, and internally warted : anther 
cells approximated : ovaries 3: drupes solitary; nut reni- 
form. W. $ A. Prod. 1, p. 13. 
In these two plates I have represented the male plant 
in flower the female in fruit from specimens collected in 
the vicinity of Madras. The berries when ripe are pulpy 
and ofa fine purple colour, 
826. CANTHIUM LESCHINAULTI, (W. & A.) shrubby, 
elimbing? quite glabrous : old branches armed with 
short supra-axillary thorns; young shoots long, slen- 
der, often unarmed : petioles shortish, twisted : leaves op- 
posite or 3-4 verticillate, oblong, much acuminated, acute 
at the base : cymes axillary, short-peduncled, few- (3-5-) 
flowered : calyx minutely 5-toothed : corolla in æstivation 
acuminated ; tube campanulate, with a ring of reflexed 
hairs internally ; segmentsof the limb 5, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminated, reftexed : stamens 5; anthers exserted, after- 
wards reflexed: style thickened about the middle and 
hairy downwards: stigma mitriform, bifid to about the 
middle: drupe obrordate. ፲፻, $ A. Prod. pg. 426. 
The specimen here figured was obtained at Courtallum 
but the species is not confined to that station. 1 haye 
repeatedly met with it in subalpiue jungles, 
827. Ixora rancroLaria. (Colebrooke.) shrubby: 
branches slender, drooping, glabrous: leaves short- 
petioled, spreading, approximate, narrow or oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminated; upper surface dull, glaucous, 
glabrous; under pale, glabrous or pubescent; corymbs 
small, few-flowered, sessile, trichotomous, open: flowers 
(white) lax: calyx-segments linear-oblong, much longer 
than the tube, connivant in fruit: tube of the corolla 
(about three-squarters of an inch long) slender; lobes 
spreading, linear- oblong, obtuse, a little falcate, slightly 
pubescent: ovary crowned with a series of fleshy spha- 
celate bristles round the inside of the limb of the calyx : 
filaments shortly exezrted ; anthers long-linear, the base 
bifid and ending in 2 subulate spine-like processes ; style 
much exserted; divisions of the stigma lovg-linear, 
spreading: berry somewhat didymous—a; leaves nar- 
row-lanceolate, much acuminated, quite glabrous. JW. 
& A. Prod. Pg. 420. 
The specimen fignred was obtained from Courtallum, 
so far as | have observed this is a rare plant. 
828. PsYCHOTRIA LœviGara. (W. & A.) shrubby, 
erect, glabrous: leaves very shortly petiole’, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminated, cuneate or tapering at the 
base: stipules lanceolate, acuminated, twice the length 
of the petioles: corymb terminal, longish-peduncled ; 
primary rays and those on the central primary one in fives, 
subtended by four bracteas ነ the other rays in threes and 
subtended by two bracteas; bracteas all lanceulate-acu- 
minated, connate at the base: flowers aggragated at the 
extremeties of the partial rays, intermixed with broad 
lanceolate acuminated bracteas: calyx-limb 5-cleft, lobes 
ovate, slightly ciliated : tube ofthe corolla much bearded 
in the throat, scarcely longer than the segments of the 
calyx: filaments longish, exserted; anthers oblong: 
stigma short and thick, bilamellate, scarcely exserted: 
berry ovate, with four deep furrows: albumen flat on 
the inner side, with two deep dorsal furrows and a broad 
obtuse rib between them. W. عق‎ A. Prod. pg. 433. 
Ihave to regret the want of more perfect analysis for 
this figure owing to the plants not being in fruit when the 
specimens were gathered at Courtallum in July 1835. 
829. VERNONIA conyzorpes. (DC. Prod. 5, W. & A. 
Contributions) stems herbaceous erect striated, shortly 
pubescent ; leaves ovate or oblong lanceolate acuminated, 
narrowing into a short petiol, serrated, glabrous above, 
beneath villously pubescent : corymbs compound many- 
headed naked: scales of the involucrum linear lanceolate 
acuminate, villously pubescent. DC. in Wight’s contribu. 
tions, vg. 5. 
Neilgherries frequent but not limited to that station, 
( 2.) 
