955. STEMANURUS FETIDUS (R. W.) leaves elliptic 
oblong acuminated venous, pubescent beneath : flow- 
ers terminal, small, cymose-panicled, every where 
clothed with short hairs: stamens glabrous : style 
about the length of the ovary : drupe succulent olive- 
shaped, purple when ripe, nut thin. 
Neilgherries in woods, and thickets: flowering 
during the rainy season, but may generally be met 
with in both flower and fruit. 
This, when growing iu favourable situations, be- 
comes a large umbrageous tree; the leaves are of a 
deep green colour, and when young marked with pro- 
minent veins to au extent lar beyond what the drafts. 
man has here represented. From what cause, I am 
unable to state, the flowers are often all males, for a 
long time I had specimens of this tree in my herbarium 
before I got them in sufficient perfection to enable 
me to make out itsgenus. ‘The leaves vary greatly in 
size, I have seenthem upwards of seven inches long 
and three broad, but the usual size is from 4 te 6 by 
about 2 broad. The flowers are very numerous small, 
yellow, clothed with short hairs both outside and in, 
and during the heat of the day exhaling the most 
abominable smell of carrion. The fruit is abont the 
size and shape of an olive, pulpy when ripe, and the 
stone so thin and soft that it can be easily cut with 
a knife, 
BURSINOPETALUM (R.W.) 
Flowers bisexual superior, Calyx 4-toothed. 
Petals five, furnished at the apex with an inflexed 
bidentate process, estivation valvate. Stamens 5, an- 
thers 2-celled introrse. Ovary adherent, one-celled, 
witha single ovule pendulous from near the apex. 
Drupe ovvid umbilicate, one-celled, one-seeded, 
endocarp deeply inflexed so as neartly to divide the 
cell into two compartments. Embryo small, eccentre, 
immersed in the apex of the fleshy albumen ; radical 
very long superior, 
A large umbrageous tree with very dark green, al- 
most purplish foliage: leaves alternate, long petioled, 
oblong elliptical, acuminated at both ends, from two 
to three inches long by about one and a halfbroad ; gla- 
brous coriaceous. Flowers,terminal eymosely panicled, 
small in proportion te the tree, calyx conical, adhering 
to the ovary, limb short, cup-shaped 5-toothed : pe- 
tals five, ovate pointed, very coriaceous (whence the 
name, leatherv petals) each furnished within at the 
point with a little bidentate hook. Stamens five al- 
ternate with the petals, filaments short compressed, 
anthers large, cordate ovate, obtuse two-celled in- 
trorse attached nearthe base. Ovary enclosed with- 
in the tube of the calyx and adherent, covered by a 
thick fleshy disk : style short : stigma obtuse. Fruit 
drupaceous, about the size of a small plumb, ovoid, 
the apex marked by a broad scar where the flower had 
separated. Putamen hard, deeply inflexed on one 
side. Embryo small, eccentric, immersed near the 
apex of acopious fleshy albumen, the radicle, very 
long, in proportion to the cotyledons, pointing to- 
wards the bilam or apex of the seed. : 
This genus differs from all the rest of the order in 
its peculiar seed, and from each by many characters. 
It will form with Alph. De Candolle's genus Hypo 
earpus, a new section of the order distinguished by 
their inferior ovary. 
956. BURSINOPELALUM ARBOREUM (R. W.) 
On theslopes of the hills at Sispara in dense forests 
flowering in April and May, at tlıe same time bearing 
ripe fruit jn February, when coming into leaf and 
several weeks before the expansion of the flowers, the 
foliage is of a lively green colour, afterwards it deepens 
so much as almost to to acquire a purplish tint. 
957. Cirrus vurcarts (Risso) Leaves elliptical 
acute or acuminated, slightly toothed: petiol more 
or less winged, flowers large white: fiuit orange co- 
loured, roundish or slighly elongated or depressed: 
rind with concave vesicles of oil, pulp acid or bitter. 
Neilgherries, on the slopes below Kottergherry and 
Coonoor ; in the opinion of the Collector quite wild 
but possibly raised from seed accidentally dropped by 
travellers. 
I am doubtful whether this is the true C. vulgaris, 
some points of the character are at variance with the 
figure, but none of much importance and without 
better specimens, for comparison, of the true C. 
vulgaris than I possess, I could not venture to found 
a distinct species on these differences. 
958. Cirrus Limetra (Risso) leaves oval or 
oblong often toothed: petiol more or less winged or 
msrgined : flowers small, white: fruit pale yellow 
ovoid or roundish, terminated by a knob: rind with 
concave vesicles of oil: pulp watery acid or sweetish 
occasionally slightly bitter. 
Orange valley, near Kottergherry, flowering August 
and September certainly wiid. A low, very ramous 
erect, thorny, bush covered during the flowering sea- 
son with a profusion of beautiful fragrant white 
flowers; a very ornamental shrub, well deserving a 
place in the shrubbery, where, judging from what I 
saw at Kottergherry, it grows freely. 
959. Hypericum Hooxerranom (W. & ላ.:ን glabrous, 
shrubby, diffuse : stem terete ; young branches com. 
pressed : leaves opposite, somewhat distant, oblong, 
obtuse with a mucro, contracted at the base with a 
kind of very short petiole; lateral nerves arching, 
and anastomosing ; pellucid dots round and oblong, 
black dots none : flowers (large) clustered at the ends 
of the branches : sepals roundish-obovate, obtuse,en- 
tire, without black dots: petals not detted : stamens 
very numerous : styles 5, distinct, overtopping the 
stamens,shorter than the ovary : stigmas obtuse : cap- 
tule 5-celled.— W. and A. Prod. p. 99. 
Neilgherries in swampy ground, flowering in Feb., and 
March,a shrub with long slender branches, distichous 
ovate obtuse leaves, perforated with numerous pellucid 
points, the branches terminated by clusters of large 
yellow flowers, which, when they first open are nearly 
saucer-shaped from the overlapping of the edges of 
the petals. lt is at once distinguished from H My- 
sorense by the form and direction of the leaves 
which are distichousin this, and decussate, or cross- 
ing and spreading in four directions, in that. 
960-1. GARCINIA PAPILLA (R. W.) dicecious leaves 
short petioled, obovate, obtuse: flowers axillary, nearly 
sessile, eggregated in the s:ameniferous, solitary or 
three together in the fructiferous plant: stamens nu- 
merous, filaments united, forming a thick short andro- 
phore without a sterile style ; anthers 2-celled dehiscing 
longitudinally: ovary globose 8-celled : style a thick 
short fleshy body, crowned with 8 spreading star- 
like persistent stigmas, enlarging with the fruit : fruit 
ovate, oblong, furrowed, 8 or, by abortion 4 or 6 celled 
crowned with the greatly enlarged style: seed some- 
what triangular, covered with a thin culoured mem- 
branous testa, 
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