999. EUGENIA (9.1 ARNoTTIANA (R, W. Ill. Ind. 
Bot. Syzygeum densiflorum Wall) leaves elliptic, 
oblong, acuminated, folded, coriaceous, dotted : cyme 
dense, corymbose; peduncles lateral, general 
and partial stout, the partial ones short and 
bearing at the apex an umbel of 8-12 almost sessile 
flowers subtended by oblong-linear caducous brac- 
teas; calyx shortly turbinate; limb cup-shaped, 
shortly and bluntly 4-toothed or lobed: petals ex- 
panded before falling off —JF. and A. Prod. p. 329. 
Abundant in the jungles about Ootacamund and 
generally met with in the woods on the higher hills. 
It is a beautiful tree, generally of low growth, with 
wide spreading branches forming a fine umbrageous 
head. It is in its greatest perfection in February and 
March when covered with thousands of large clusters 
of flowers. In May and June it is covered with 
myriads of its oblong dark purple succulent 
austere tasted fruit. The Cotyledous are thick and 
fleshy placed horizontally one above the other with 
8 small radicle between. 
The fruit is eat to a considerable extent by the 
natives, though, owing to its astringency, by no meaus 
palatable. 
1000. Eucenta (S) cALOPHYLIFOLIA (R. W.) 
arboreous, ramuli, 4-sided : leaves approximated 
towards the ends of the branchlets, from oval, very 
obtuse, to obovate-orbicular, coriaceous; veinless 
above, penninerved beneath, when dry, slightly revo- 
lute on the margin, not dotted : cyms terminal, 
corymbose, short peduneled, many flowered: calyx 
repandly 4 toothed : petals 4, orbicular, separating as 
one : fruit drupaceous, oval, oblong, succulent, dark 
purple when ripe. 
A low spreading tree, very abundant ia the woods 
about Ootacamund, The flowers are exceedingly 
numerous but make no show so few in each cluster 
opening at the same time. The tree itself however 
is a very beautiful one, with a fine round umbrageous 
head. It isto be met with in flower at all seasons, 
but is in greatest perfection in March and April, The 
fruit is so like those of E. Arnottiana that the same 
description will serve for both. 
1001. SerricuLa HIRSUTA (W. & A.) stems 
hirsute : leaves opposit cuneate-oblong or oval, touth- 
ed towards the apex, slightly hairy particularly on 
the under side: male flowers 8 androus, on hairy 
pedicels twice the length of the leaves.—a ; leaves 
oval, slightly cuneate at the base.— W. and A. Prod. 
p. 331. 
A low creeping procumbent plant very common in 
moist pastures, especially in the vicinity of springs 
and water courses. 1. verticel of flowers—2 fertile 
flower showing the 4 styles--3. male flower unopened 
—4, the same opened—S5.anthers—6. pollen — 7. young 
fruit front view—8 side view —9. stigma —10. ovary 
split open showing the 4 pendulous ovules. 一 11. full 
grown fruit—12. cut vertically—13. transversely—14. 
embryo detached. 
1002. HypRocoryLs CONFERTA (R.W.) procum- 
bent, rooting: every where clothed with long hairs: 
leaves long petioled, orbicular reniform, obscurely 
7-lobed,serrately toothed : flowers all fertile : umbels 
globular, many flowered, always sessile: fruit turged 
ecostate. 
Frequent in dense woods: where the soil is moist 
it grows with great luxuriance extending several feet 
from the original root. This species is nearly allied 
to both ZZ. Nepalensis and capitata, but seems, so far 
asI can judge, amply distinct from both in its con- 
stautly sessile umbels and bisexual flowers. 
1008. 11108060017۷۶6 POLYCEPHALA (W. & A.:) 
stems rooting, scabrous or nearly glabrous ; branches 
petioles and peduncles, and the leaves sparingly on 
both sides, scabrous from short stout hairs: leaves 
attached by the margin, orbicular-reniform, 7 lobed; 
lobes scarcely acute, coarsely crenated: peduncles 
hoary, numerous (6-18) and umbellate in the axil of 
the uppermost shortly petiole4 leaf, almost as long 
as the leaf: flowers all fertile, numerous (20-30 
together), at first capitate and almost sessile, after- 
wards (in fruit) on short glabrous somewhat per- 
manent pedicels: fruit didymous, slighily 2-ribbed 
on each side, smooth and flat between the ribs. — 
W. and A. Prod. p. 366. 
Frequent in low woods in rich moist soil ; in such 
Situations very luxuriant, completely covering large 
patches of ground, I have found it in many and 
distant stations in similar situations, both ou tlie 
Continent and in Ceylon. 
1004. SANICULA ELATA (Ham.:) stem dicho- 
tomous at the apex: leaves 3-partite or ternate, 
glabrous; segments sessile, ovate, acute, lobed and 
serrated, cuneate at the base, the lateral ones often 
bipartite : umbels usually 3-fid, few-flowered : flowers 
polygamous, the males pedicelled,— W. and A. Prod. 
p. 367. 
Common in almost every wood about Ootacamund, 
flowering during the rainy season. It often attains 
a large size, three or four feet in height. 
1005. PimpPINELLA LEsCHENAULTII (DC.:) bien- 
nial ? : stem slightly branched, glabrous or minutely 
pubescent : radical leaves petioled, orbicular, cordate, 
entire, toothed, firm and hard, many-uerved at the 
base, glabrous onthe upper side, pubescent on the 
under; cauline ones few, divided, small and almost 
reduced to the sheaths: umbel with 5-10 pubescent 
rays; partial ones with many rays: involucres and 
involucels wanting: styles diverging: fruit ovate- 
acuminated, glabrous, — W. and A. Prod. p. 369. 
Generally distributed over the higher ramges of 
the hills in dry pastures, flowering during the rainy 
season. From the naked exposed situations in which 
it usually grows, though in itself little striking, it 
becomes very conspicuous. The roots are perenniai 
and strike deep into the soil. 
1006. BuPLEURUM DISTICHOPHYLLUM (W. & A. :) 
perennial: stems ereet, simple and twiggy below, 
flexuose and almost simply branehed upwards: leaves 
distichous and usually crowded near the base of the 
stem, more distant upwards, somewhat ereet, from 
narrow-linear and much acuminated to linear-subu. 
late, very sharp, amplexicaul, striated on the under 
side : general umbel with 5-8 rays; partial with 10-13 
flowers : leaflets of the involuere and involucel abeut 
5 ot 6, linear acuminated and very sharp ; the former 
about twice as sharp as the rays, the latter usually 
longer than the fruit : fruit prominently ribbed, 
rather shorter than the pedicels ; interstices flattish, 
”with single vitte.—W and A. Prod. p. 370. 
Common on the higher ranges of the hills in pas- 
tures. The figure represents an average sized plant. 
It is oftener smaller, more rarely it exceeds that size. 
Flowering during the rainy and cool season. 
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