A handsome ramous leafy shrub, varying from 6 to 
12 and even in favourable situations, 20 feet high, 
found growing in shady woods usually near water. 
Flowers yellow racemose，racemes erect or scarcely 
drooping ; seeds enclosed in a large scarlet caruncu- 
lus, leaves deep green from 4 to 6 inches loug, and 
about 2 broad, acuminated, strongly nerved, glabrous 
or sightly puberulous beneath. 
947. STELLARIA MEDIA (Smith) stems procum- 
bent with an alternate line of hairs on one side: 
lower leaves ovate, upper ones lanceolote: petals 
deeply divided: stamens 5-10: capsules deeply 
divided, scarcely longer than the calyx.— W. $ A. 
Prod. p. 42. 
Thisis a very common plant about villages and corn- 
fields but [suspect has been introduced with European 
seed along with the following and with Spergula ar- 
vensis which is now as common a weed in Ootacamund 
as in European corn fields. 
918. CERASTIUM VULGATUM (Linn) stems, leaves 
and calyx, covered with a roughish viscid pubescence: 
stems flaccid, angled : leaves ovate or oblong, lanceo- 
late, with n short mucroniform attenuation : flowers 
much shorter than the pedicels, in a small compact 
somewhat dichotomous panicle : petals scarcely lon- 
ger than the oblong-acutish sepals: capsules ovoid, 
scarcely so long as the calyx; teeth 10, rolled back- 
wards, their margins flat.— W. £ A. Prod. p. 43. 
Like the preceding as commona weed inthe gar- 
dens of Ootacamund as in those of Europe. 
939. ARENARIA NEILGHERRENSIS (W. & A.) 
stems elongated, much branched, procumbent, with 
an alternate line of hairs on one side : leaves distant, 
obovate, mucronulate, glabrous, with minute whitish 
points, l-nerved; margins thickened, nerve-like, 
ciliated towards the petiole: flowers axillary, or in 
terminal sub-dichotomous panicles: pedicels viscidl y 
pubescent all round, longish, slender: sepals oblong, 
acute, with I dorsal hairy nerve : margin membran- 
aceous: petals longer than the calyx: styles usually 
3 (sometimes 2 or 4): capsules ovate, nearly the 
length of the caly x.— W. ድ A. Prod. p. 43. 
950. Marva NEILGHERRENSIS (R. W.) annual hairy 
all over ; brauches diffuse somewhat angular: leaves 
long petioled suborbicular cordate, 5-lobed ; lobes 
ovate obtuse doubly serrated : flowers numerous, 
densely aggregated in the axils of the leaves : invo- 
lucel of three narrow linear lanceolate acute leaflets, 
shorter than the calyx: calyx somewhat inflated 5 
elf, lobes ovate acute 8 nerved : coralla rose coloured, 
nearly twice the length of the calyx, petals deeply 
emarginate, carpels about 10, corrugated on the 
angles, pubescent, ; 
Kottergherry, in eornfields and about villages, in 
the rich soil surreundiog the latter very luxuriant : 
fiowering during the rainy season. The larger leaves 
are from four to six inches across, pubesceut above, 
hairy beneath, supported on a hairy petiol from four 
to six inches long. Flowers very numerous, small in 
proportion to the size of the plant, forming dense 
clust+rs, or short racemes in the axils of the leaves. 
Involucral leaves slender, clothed with long hairs， 
acute, calyx considerably inflated, cleft about half 
way doun, hairy, lobes ovate, obtuse, three nerved 
and, viewed by transmitted ligbt, finely reticulated 
between; after drying translucent and chartaceous : 
capsule white, triangular, corrugated along the ex- 
terior angles, pubescent. These last points are not 
shown in the drawing, the figures having been taken 
from tov young specimens. 
This species, comes nearest to M, verticellata a 
Chinese plant, but, so far as can be made out from 
written characters, seems amply distinct, 
951. ABELMOscHUS (HyMENOCALYX) ANGULOSUS 
(Wall :) stems herbaceous, not prickly: leaves on 
long petioles, cordate, 5-lobed, unequally toothed; 
lobes ovate acuminated ; upper side pubescent with 
short softish hairs, under slightly tementose: pedi- 
cels rigidly aud horizontally hairy, abont as long as 
the petioles: involucel 3-5 leaved, leaves cohering 
splitting spath-like: calyx much shorter, and con- 
cealed within the involucel, membranaceous : capsule 
ovoid, acute, very hispid.— W.and A. Prod. P. 53. 
This is a considerable, erect growing, shrub, fre- 
quent in moist soil in clumps of Jungle on the Neil- 
gherries : in favourable situations, as on the banks 
of streams, attaining the height of from 10 to 15 feet. 
It is to be met with in flower at all seasons, but per- 
haps in greatest perfection during the earlier months 
of ıhe year, contrary to the general character of the 
genus the flowers are white or very pale yellowish. 
I have altered that part of our specific character 
which refers to the involucel and calyx which, as 
given in the Prodromus, is incorrect, 
952. Monocera Munron (R. W. IU. Ind. Bot.) 
glabrous, leaves ovate lanceolate, acuminated slightly 
serrulate on the margin, without glands on the under 
surface: racemes about the length of the leaves 
many flowered, flowers drooping: sepals lanceolate 
acute: petals not unvolute on the margins : anthers 
glabrous, apex, at length reflexed : ovary elevated on 
the torus very hairy: fruit about the size of an olive. 
On the slopes of the large ravine below Coonoor 
flowering in November and December, covered with 
fruit in February, apparently nearly full grown, A 
large and handsome tree, which I should estimate at 
not less than from 60 to 80 feet in height, with a fine 
umbrageous head, every branch of which, when I 
gathered the specimen here represented, was covered, 
like it, with pure white flowers, forming a rich con- 
trast to the deep green foliage. Captain Munro first 
found it in Coorg and sent me the specimens from 
which the above character was taken. It is certainly 
very closely allied to M. glandulifera, but differs 
in technical characters, and as I have never seen that 
tree in such a state as to admit of their accurate com- 
parison, I am still uncertain whether or not they 
ought to be united, 
953-54. GOMPHANDRA POLYMORPHA. (R. W) diæ- 
cious glabrous, leaves petioled, membranaceous, glau- 
cous beneath, from oblong to obavate lanceolate ac. 
uminated: cymes axillary, solitary or in paris, about 
the length of the petiol ; male, many flowered, female 
2 or 3 flowered: calyx entire, minutely 4 or 5-tooth- 
ed: petals 4 or 5 united below, glabrous: stameus | 
projecting: fruit oblong, crowned with the persistent 
stigma. : 
This large shrub is found in the dense clumps of 
jungle about Coonoor, the Avalanche and elsewhere, 
fiowering in March and April, and, usually, the female 
at the same time bearing ripe seed, showing that it 
js in flower most part of the year. The plant here 
figured approaches most nearly to my variety G. an» 
gustifolia. Ill. Ind. Bot. p. 103, but does not seem 
quite identical. I cannot, however, find characters to 
distingaish itas a species. Itseems rather to be an 
intermediate form between that variety and G. coria- 
eia, differing from the latter in being pentandrous, 
not tetrandrous, but in other respects, agreeing, upon 
the whole, better with coriacia than polymorpha. 
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