994, CoNocaRpus LATIFOLIA (Roxo.:) leaves 
without glands, eiliptical or obovate, obtuse or 
emarginate, glabrous: peduncles branched, bearing 
several heads of flowers, or very short with the heads 
densely aggregated.—u; peduncles conspicuous.— 
W. and A. Prod. p. 316. 
A large and handsome tree frequent on the Eastern 
slopes of the Neil:herries, also in most of the subal- 
pine jungles, along the whole of that mountain range 
from the Northern Circars to the southern extremity 
of the Peninsula, 
995. SoNERILA GRANDIFLORA (R. Br.) erect و(‎ 
glabrous: le ves elliptic, attenuated at both ends, 
bristle-serrated, 3-nerved at the base: peduncle 
terminal (always ?), about the length of the leaves, 
flattened at the apex and there bearing a slightly 
curved raceme of several unilateral large flowers: 
petals ovate, pointed: style as long as the stamens: 
stigma simple: capsule glabrous, 3-sided, scarcely 
the length of the pedicel.— W. and A. Prod. p. 322. 
A besutiful plant, and, as compared with the other 
species of the genus, well named. I have only met with 
it in one station on the Neilgherries in Long Valley 
about mid way between the Avalanche and Sisparah. 
There it occurs in considerable abundance on the 
banks of a stream by which the valley is intersected. 
The flowers are of a deep piuk, congregated on the 
ends of the branches, It is an erect suffrutecose 
plant, from 12 to 18 inches high, the leaves between 
2 and 3 inches long and about 1 broad, three to five 
nerved, the outer pair of nerves often very slender, 
but in luxuriant plants, such as the one represented, 
distinctly 5-nerved, 
995-2, SoNERILA speciosa (Zenker) stem erect, 
subdichotomous at the base, somewhat foursided : 
leaves petioled 5-nerved, broadly ovate, acute, mucro- 
nately serrated,glabrous; petioles hairy near the apex: 
peduncles terminal, dichotomus ; brauches afterwards 
elongating ; flowers secund : calyx and mid rib of 
the petals, below, covered with short rigid glanduli- 
ferous hairs: petals ovate, obtuse, mucronate: style 
and stamens about equal. 
Kaitie Falls rare, on moist sides of ravines in the 
woods above the Avalanche Bungalow,very abundant, 
flowering in February. This when seen in perfec- 
tion is a very handsome species. Flowers pink, rarely 
more than two or three open at once on each branch 
ofthe cyme. 
995-3. SONERILA ELEGANS (R. W.) herbaceous, 
erect, ramous, hairy: leaves petioled, penninerved, 
from ovate cordate to cordate, acuminated, serrulate : 
peduncles terminal, cy mosely dichotomous; branches 
afterwards elongating : flowers numerous, secund : 
calyx pubescent : petals ovate pointed: anthers long 
beaked : capsule hirsute, conical, 3-sided, crowned 
with the limb of the calyx : seed hairy. 
Sisparah, verv abundant all along the road side, in 
flower and ripe fruit in February. A most conspicu- 
ous species, at first afew pale pink flowers open, 
these are followed successively by others as the 
branches elongate untilat length each braneh is se- 
veral inches long, covered along the upper edge witb a 
rew of capsules and two or three flowers at the extre- 
mities : the branches in the mean time tending hori- 
zontally backwards ? and slightly approaching each 
other, present somewhat the form of the letter V as 
shown in the drawing. 
996. OsBPEKIA LESCHENAULTIANA (D.C. :) shrub. 
by : branches 4 angled, beset with stiff hairs: leaves 
sessile, ovate, somewbat acute, approximate, 5-nerved 
villous on both sides : flowers sessile, bracteated, 
about 3 together, capitate: calyx tube globose, 
covered with palmately ciliated short scales; seg- 
ments 4, lanceolate. (D. C.) petals obcorda «, blunt 
ly mucronate : stamens 8; anthers clavate, truncated, 
curved : ovary crowned with a tuft of bristles. (R.W. 
Mss.) 
Frequent about Kotergherry, flowering during the 
autumnal months. Flowers small, compared with those 
of most of the other species of the genus, and in pro- 
portion to the size of the plant, which often attains a 
height of between two and three feet. They are nearly 
white dashed with crimson spots. It associates 
with O. truncata in its beakless anthers and small 
flowers, but is in all other respects amply distinct. 
The flowers in De Candolle's specimens seem to have 
been imperfect, as he has not alluded to the petals or 
stamens. 
997. Os5FEKIA GARDNERIANA (R. W.) a large 
erect ramous shrub, all the young parts clothed with 
long bristly hairs: leaves sessile, ovate, 3-nerved'; 
usually with two short slender lateral ones near the 
base, pubescently hairy on beth sides : flowers ter- 
minal capitate : calyx tube sbort,campanulate, closely 
covered with ligulate and towards the apex clavate 
adpressed scales, furnished with numerous long dark 
red or rusty coloured bristles ; limb 5-cleft, divisions 
linear, lanceolate, obtuse, more than twice the length 
of the appendages, both covered with bristles: petals 
5, orbicular : stamens 10, anthers recurved, correiga- 
ted on the inner edge, shortly beaked. 
This, which is tlie largest and most conspicuous 
species found on the hills, is very abundant in the 
woods about Ootacamund extending westwards as 
far as Sisparah. In favourable situations it becomes 
a large bush 8 or 10 feet high, though generally 
about 4 or 5; flowering in profusion during Febru- 
ary and March. It is nearly allied to O. Wightiana 
but is abundantly distinct in nature, though, as re. 
gards technical characters, the difference is not so 
clearly seen. 1 have dedicated it to my friend 
George Gardner, Esq. Superintendant of the Royal 
Botanical Garden of Ceylon, as a memorial of many 
agreeable hours spent in his company while explor- 
ing together the wilds of these Hills. 
998. OsBecxiA WIGHTIANA (Benth.) shrubby: 
branches herbaceous, scabrous with short bristles: 
leaves nearly sessile, ovate, slightly acute, quite 
entire, 5-7 nerved; upper side covered with adpres- 
sed somewhat shining hairs; under hirsute on the 
nerves and shortly tomentose between them: flowers 
(large) terminal, at first densely capitate and brac- 
teated, afterwards often solitary : calyx campanulate, 
densely covered with short adpressed capitate scales, 
bearing, a tuft of long bristles at the apex ; segments 5 
deciduous ; appendages deciduous, covered with bris- 
tles: anthers 10, linear-oblong, scarcely beaked: 
style clavate.— W. and A. Prod. p. 323. 
'This species is rare abont Ootacamund but about 
Coonoor and Kaitie Falls it is commen. It is readily 
distinguished from the preceding by the short ridg- 
ed shining adpressed hairs with which the 5.nerved 
leaves are covered and by the calycine bristles being 
nearly white, while in it they are a deep brownish 
red. 
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