A diffuse tree, growing on banks of streams near Coo- 
noor also in similar situations at Sisparah. Flowering 
during the rainy months. This species in general 
appearance is allied to both G. Rordurghé and G. 
Cambogia (the G.Kydia W. aud A. Prod. not Roxb.) 
but differs from both in the style, the form, and the 
peculiar nipple-like prolongation of the fruit, whence 
the name. This last structure seems confined to 
this plant and to Roxburgh’s G. Kydiana, avery dis- 
tinct species, where it exists in a less degree. 
961. Mesua speciosa (Cnorsx) leaves long linear- 
lanceolate subacute: flowers shortly peduncled : petals 
exunguiculate roundish, regular, mature fruit, four- 
seeded. Choisy, in D. C. prod. 
This very handsome tree I found on the Eastern 
slopes of the Neilgherries, 3 miles below Coonoor, 
probably at an elevation of about 5,000 feet above the 
Sen, 
It is not easy to distinguish the species of this 
genus. I formerly published a figure of the Ceylon 
plant underthe name of M. ferrea and up to the pre- 
sent time thought this distinct, A closer examination 
however leads meto doubt whether the continental 
one is different from the insular tree, the more so as 
the original M. ferrea is an Eastern tree, while the 
M. speciosa is trom Western India. The distinctions 
between the two as given by Choisy are that in M. 
ferrea, the petals have a claw or ‘unguis’ which is 
wanting in this, and that the fruit in that is one-seed- 
ed, while in this four is the usual number, 
962. Saracıa macrosrerma (R. ነኛ) a diffuse, ram- 
bling shrub; leaves oblong, elliptic, acuminated, coria- 
ceous, glabrous: flowers numerous, fasicled, short pedi- 
celled: calyx 5-lobed fringed with rusty coloured 
hairs : petals ovate, obtuse, broad at the base: ovary 
3-celled with 2 superposed ovules in each: fruit 
irregularly ovate, few-seeded : seed ovoid conferu- 
minate without a conspicuous radicle. 
Jungles about Sisparah flowering, and at the same 
bearing full grown fruit in April. 
This species seems nearly allied to my $, verrucosa 
but wants the warty stems, and bas a ciliated, in 
place of glabrous, calyx. The plants, besides, when 
compared, seem quite distinct, though the differences 
are not easily stated in words. ‘Ihe structure of the 
anthers and ovary amply distinguish it from my ۰ 
multiflora ; in this the anthers open longitudinally, in 
that transversely : here the ovules are two super- 
posed in each cell, there they are numerous, forming 
two rows. 
963. HIPPOCRATEA OBTUSIFOLIA (Roxb :) glabrous : 
leaves elliptical, ebtuse or acute at the base, obtuse 
or shortly and obtusely acuminated at the apex, 
” slightly serrated or almost quite entire, very coriace- 
ous: panicles axillary and terminal, thyrsoid, longer 
than the leaves, terminal ones sometimes much elon- 
gated and compound from the abortion of the upper 
leaves: flowers pretty large : petals lanceolate, much 
longer than the calyx: ovules 6 in each cell: carpels 
obovate, emarginated; striated —W. and A. Prod. 
. 104. 
È The specimens from which the accompanying figure 
was taken were gathered on the eastern slopes of the 
Neilgherries by the road side from Kottergherry to 
Matypolium in the beginning of March, but no fruit. 
964. SCHMIDELIA RHEEDEI (R. W. S. Cobbe partly 
W. & A.) a diffuse shrub, all the young parts densely 
villous or tomentose: leaves elliptic, oblong, acute or 
cuminated, serrated, pubescent above ; at first short- 
ly tomentose, afterwards villous beneath: racemes 
axillary, solitary or sometimes paired, often longer 
than tbe leaves, branched; rachis hairy: calyx glab- 
rous 4 sepaled, sepals unequal, lateral pair orbieular ¢ 
petals 4 spathulate hairy with 4 fleshy glands at the 
base: ovary hairy, minute, style compressed ending 
in two spreading stigmas, berry two, or, by abortion, 
one-lobed; lobes obovate obtuse, glabrous: cotyle- 
dons. fleshy, foliaceous folded. 
Growing in thickets in Malabar and eastern slopes 
the Neilgherries also on the hills near Coimbatore. 
The ripe fruit [ have not yet found, but presume that 
it is like the rest, a red succulent bacca. This is 
distinguished from all other species I have seen by 
the ramuli and under surface of the leaves being to- 
mentose and by the many branched racemes, 
961-2. SCHMIDBLIA 00888 (D. C.) leaves trifo- 
liate ; leaflets stalked, ovate or oblong, acute, serra- 
ted 4 younger oues more or less pubescent above, 
villous beneath ; older ones more glabrous, but al- 
ways more or less pubescent : racems axillary, solita- 
ry, simple, or sometimes bifid; rachis pubescent: 
petals cuneate, emarginate, with a scale bearing a 
tuft of hairs above the slightly hairy claw, limb gla- 
brous : stamens glabrous: ovary hairy, 2-lobed: 
style as long as the ovary, glabrous: fruit baccate, 一 
W. and A. Prod. p. 109. 
This figure of what I esteem the true S. cobbe 
is introduced to show by comparison how perfectly 
distinct this species is from the preceding with which 
it has long been confounded. The specimens 
from which this is taken, were gathered in Malabar 
and simelar ones in Courtallum. 
964-3. MILLINGTONIA PUNGENS (Wall) leaves 
simple, coriaceous, lanceolate, acute at the base, 
quite enire, glabrous on both sides, nerves beneath 
with a rusty pubescence: panicle rigid, densely 
covered with a rusty pubescence; rachis terete ; 
flowers on the ultimate branchlets of the panicle ag- 
gregated : calyx with 3 bracteoles ; sepals unequal, 
glaudularly ciliated: outer petals roundish, concave ; 
inner ones cleft beyond the middle, equal to the fila- 
ments.— W. and A. Prod. p. 115. 
A large tree very abundant in the woods about 
Ootacamund—flowering during the warm season— 
Leaves thick and leathery; Panicles large, terminal, 
flowers white, the branches of the panicle and the 
cilyx clothed with short, matted rusty coloured hair. 
Fruit about the size of a pea, dark brown, nearly 
black, when ripe. 
965. Viris (AMPELOPSIS) NeILGHERRENSIS (R. 
W.) leaves coriaceous, palmately trifoliolate, slightly 
mucronately dentate, middle one, broad oval acumina- 
ted, lateral ones unequal sided, like the centre one 
ending in a slender straight acumen: cymes terminal 
peduncles, longer than the leaves: flowers pentan= 
drou tals distinct. i 
"This spesies I found at Kottergherry and Nedda- 
wuttum, but at neither place have been so fortunate 
as to find it in fruit. The under surface of the leaves 
are sometimes coloured of a deep crimson: those 
from which the drawing was made were pale whitish 
beneath. : : 
Dr. Royle has described a nearly allied species 
from the Himalayas, but whieh differs in the form of 
the leaflets, as well as their being deeply serrated, and 
in having small, short pedancled, cymes. The vena- 
tion of the leaves also differs considerably and shows 
at once they are distinct species. These distinctions 
are drawn from comparison of specimens. - 
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