986. SMITHIA BLANDA (Wall) suffruticose, diffuse, 
every where except the upper surface ofthe leaves and 
corolla hairy: leaves abruptly pinnate 3 paired ; 
leaflets linear, elliptic, obtuse, mucronate ; glabrous 
above, hairy beneath : racemes, axillary and ter- 
minal: flowers congested towards the apex: calyx ` 
2-lipped, upper lip bifid, under 3 cleft; without 
pellucid glands or dots. R. W. MSS. 
Pycarah in wet swampy ground rare. Inthe accom- 
panying figures, No. 3 showing a magnified view of 
the bracts, calyx and stamens, is from a flower picked 
from the specimen represented. No.6 showing the 
ealyx and pod belongs to another species, and is in- 
troduced partly to show the form of the pod of the 
genus,partly to indicate a specific distinction, the one 
being perforated with transparent glands which are 
wanting in the other. The glandular one is probably 
S. racemosa but of this I am uncertain, as I have not 
authentic specimens of either it, or of S. blanda for 
examination, and the character under consideration is 
not indicated in the published definition of either 
species. 
987. FLEMINGIA PROCUMBENS (R.W.) herbaceous, 
diffuse, procumbent, hairy: leaves palmately trifolio~ 
late; middle leaflet obovate, lateral ones ovate, 
slightly unequal at the base, hairy above, nearly gla- 
brous, except the veins, beneath: peduncles longer 
than the leaves: flowers capitate: calyx deeply 5» 
eleft, divisions linear, lanceolate, acute, about the 
length of the corolla : ovary two-seeded : stigma ca- 
pitate hairy: legume shorter than the calyx usually, 
by abortien, one-seeded : seed oval. 
Pyearah in pastures, frequent. A very diffuse plant 
lying flat on the ground and spreading all round, ex- 
tending from 12to 18 inehes from the root, leaves 
about an inch long and 8 lines broad, under surface 
sprinkled with minute garnet coloured glandular 
points, flowers dark dull purple. 
988. Fracarta ELATIOR (Ehrh.) leaflets some- 
what coriaceous: hairs on the petioles, peduncles, 
pedicels and calyx widely spreading: calyx in fruit 
reflexed : bracteoles similar to the calycine segments. 
— W. and A. Prod. p. 300, 
A very common plant about Ootacamund,producing 
abundance of fruit in May and June, but not limited 
to these months. The fruit is about the size of the 
wood strawberry of Europe, of a pale yellowish white, 
except the side exposed to the sun which is generally 
tinged with a pale rose blush. It is rather insipid, 
but when seasoned with a little lime juice and sugar, 
is much relished by some persons. 
989. Fracarra INDICA (Andrews) leaflets obovate ; 
peduncles axillary, solitary, l-flowered: bracteoles 
patulous, cuneate, much larger and broader than the 
entire calycine segments, deeply 3-5-toothed at the 
apex.— W. and A. Prod p. 300. 
Frequent in shady woods where the soil is some- 
what moist, Unlike the rest of the geuus the flowers 
are yellow. The fruit is a bright red, very tempt- 
ing to the eye, but watery, mawkish and disagreeable 
to the taste. 
990. PorentiLLa LESCHENAULTIANA  (Ser.:) 
covered all over with silky long hairs : stems decum- 
bent at the base : radical and lower leaves pinnated, 
Jongish petioled ; leaflets 5, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, 
incise-toothed, the lower pair smaller than the others : 
upper stem leaves palmately 3-5 foliolate; leaflets 
about equal and similar to the larger leaflets of the 
radiele leaves: stipules large, ovate-lañceolate ; 
lower ones often entire; upper toothed or deeply 
cut: flowers in terminal forked panicles, or corym- 
bose: calycine segments and bracteoles about equal, 
oblang-lanceolate, more or less obtuse: petals (vel. 
low) slightly obcordate, about equal to the calyx; 
receptacle villous: carpels slightly wrinkled.—e; 
stems short; panicles small, corrymbiform.— Jy. 
and A. Prod. p. 301. 
Every where common by road sides and ditches, 
sometimes erect, but oftener diffuse with the ends of 
the branches only ascending. The fruit of this 
species approaches more nearly to that of the straw- 
berry than is usual in the genus, but stillit is a true 
Potentilla. 
991. PaorrsIA Noroxsana (Wall. ?) leaves from 
cuneate-lanceolate to oblong, acute, quite entire or 
witha few inconspicuous scattered teeth: panicles 
large, very compound; ramifications pwberuleus: 
pedicels much shorter than the calyx: cells of the 
ovary spuriously semi-bilocular: fruit glabrous, 2- 
seeded.— ፲፻; and A. Prod. p. 302. 
A considerable sized tree. abundantly distributed 
over the Hiils, flowering during March and April, 
and is then a beautiful object. In June and July 
the fruit ripen and then are of a dull reddish brown 
colour. They possess in a remarkable degree the 
peculiar taste and flavour of those of the mountain ash, 
The figures 8, 9, 10, and 11 of this plate, through 
a bluoder of the draftsman, not detected until after 
the impression was printed off, are inverted. The 
radicle should in all have been inferior not superior 
as here shewn. 
992. COTONEASTER BUXIFOLIA (Wall. List) shrubby 
erect, very ramous: leaves oval or subobovate, 
pointed, glabrous above, tomentose beneath: 
corymbs few flowered, peduncles and calyx tomen- 
tose, 
Frequent about Ootacamund, Kulhuity, Orange 
Valley near Kotergherry &c. 
This is a small,rigid, seraggy looking very ramous 
shrub, rarely attaining the height of six feet. De 
Candolle doubtfully refers this to his C.afinis aHima- 
layan plant, with what justice, I am unable to say, 
Making use of his doubt and the wide geographical 
difference, I have adopted Wallich’s name. A more 
minute description is given in the second part of my 
Neilgherry Plants. A plant of what I suppose to 
be C. affinis, in Lord Elphinstone's garden at Kaitee, 
differs toto celo in habit, the latter being very 
diffuse, spreading flat on the ground, while this is 
always ereet. 
993. PrGEUM ACUMINATUM (Colebrooke) ar- 
boreous : leaves alternate, oblong, acumiuated, entire, 
glabrous: racemes axillary shorter than the leaves: 
flowers yellowish: calyx lobes and corolla indistin- 
guishable, clothed with rusty coloured pubescence: 
filaments attached to the edge ef the tube inflexed 
in æstivation: ovary ventricose, stigma dilated, two 
lipped,drupe dry friable,transversely oblong, glabrous. 
A large tree of rather rare occurrence. ‘The spe- 
cimens from which the drawing was taken, were 
found on the Neilgherries at Kaitee Falls and in the 
woods about the Avalanche Mr. Gardnerand I found 
it abundantly, in fruit, in February: I do nat recol- 
lect any other station in which I have observed it. 
I am uncertain about the species, because it seems to 
me,had this been the species from which Colebrooke’s 
description is takev,he would have described the flower 
as apetalous with a 12-lobed calyx limb. In this 
respect, if the dissection of my figure of Polydontia 
Ceylanica, No. 256 is correct, and I believe it is, 
this can scarcely be considered a true congener, as it 
is represented with distinct calyx and petals, but I 
have not now the specimens to re-examine. Specimens 
of a Ceylon species which I have, correspond with 
this, 
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