EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
VOL, HI.—PART IV. 
1047. Carranıs PYRIFOLIA (Lam,) stipules thorny, 
short, hooked : leaves between ovate and oval-lanceo- 
late, mucronate; the younger ones densely pubescent, 
older ones glabrous: pedicels short and stout, axillary, 
solitary, I-flowered, 2-3 times longer than the petiole : 
ovarium narrow-oblong, glabrous, furrowed.— W. and 
sd. Prod.p. 25. 
A low thorny shrub with spreading branches : it 
rarely attains over two feet in height but the lateral 
branches cover a larger space. The flowers are large 
and handsome, but very fugacious. Frequent towards 
the bottom of the Neilgherries on their Eastern aspect 
flowering the most part of the year, but in greatest per- 
fection during the cool season immediately after the 
rains. 
1048. Capparis 及 oxBURGHII (D. C.) shrubby: 
stipules thorny, recurved, hooked: leaves elliptic-ob- 
long, obtuse, tapering at the base, glabrous: racemes 
terminal, corymbiform, leafless: ovarium obovoid ?: 
berry globose, many-seeded.— W. and 4. Prod. p. 26. 
A large diffuse very ramous shrub: flowering in 
April and May. The only plant I recollect having seen 
grows near the foot of the descent from the Neilgher- 
ries by the Coonoor road. It forms a large straggling 
climbing bush : the prickles on it are always small and 
ofien altogether wanting. Flowers pure white and very 
evanescent—I was not so fortunate as to find mature 
fruit, but judging from the remains of one hanging on 
the bush, they seem to be about the size of small Billiard 
balls. 
1049. Imrarıens MUNRONIT (R. W.) erect spar- 
ingly ramous: leaves crowded towards the summits of 
the branches ovate, slightly serrated, acute, hairy on 
both sides: pedicels axillary, solitary, one flowered, 
about the length of the leaves, furnished near the base 
with a minute bractea, lateral sepals ovate, toothed at 
the apex ; posterior concave helmate shaped, surmount- 
ed by a membranous crest ; lower one terminating in a 
conical hooked very hairy spur: lower lobes of the 
petals a little larger than the upper—R. W. Ilust. 
In. Bot. 1 p. 160. 
Neilgherries in Jungles near Sisparah, February 1845. 
This seems an almost suffruticose species: it grows 
among bushes completely shaded from strong light. 
All those that I saw seemed to have naked stems a few 
straggling branches tipped with a bunch of leaves from 
the axils of a few of which the curious shaped flowers 
spring—Found in flower in February, but apparently 
at that season past its prime. 
1050. Impatiens GARDNERIANA (R. W.) diffuse, 
nearly glabrous, at first procumbent, rooting at the 
joints, afterwards ascending : leaves verticelled in threes, 
short petioled, ovate, lanceolate, acutely serrated, some 
of the serratures bristle pointed : pedicels solitary, longer 
than the leaves, filiform: lateral sepals ovate, acumi- 
nate, shorter than the petals; anterior ovate pointed, 
with a filiform spur as long as the flower and slightly 
gibbous at the point; posterior about the length of the 
posterior lobes of the petals: petals obovate, very 
»obtuse, the upper lobes a little shorter than the larger 
anterior ones: capsule oblong, pointed, small, glabrous. 
Western slopes of the Neilgherries about 5 miles 
below Sisparah in moist pasture, flowering in January 
and February. : Ñ 
I dedicate this species to my friend Geor2e Gardner, 
Esq., superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Ceylon, who accompanied me during the excursion, in 
the course of which we found this and many other in- 
teresting novelties. 
A very slight error of the draftsman has been so 
greatly magnified between the transferrer and printer 
that a plant almost glabrous, or with merely a few hairs 
scattered on its surface, has come cut of their hands 
decidedly hirsute, the character is correct, the figure 
is wrong. 
“ In the plate will be found two sets of diagrams A 
and B elucidating the views of Messrs. Kunth and 
Roeper—A representing the position of the parts as 
understood by Kunth, B as understood by Roeper. In 
these diagrams the dark lines a,a,a,a,a, represent the 
parts respectively called sepals by these savants, and the 
double lines, b,b,b,b,b, the petals, From these it will 
be seen at a glance that, while Kunth allows only four 
petals, united by pairs, and 5 sepals, the upper two of 
them united into one, that Roeper accounts for only 
three sepals constantly present and 2 minute ones only 
occasionally found, but gives the full number of petals 
as always present; the upper or posterior compound 
sepal of Kunth being viewed by him as the anterior 
petal, he accounting for this reversed position of the 
flower on the supposition that the pedicel has got a twist 
in the course of its growth, a view which is supported 
by analogy, a similar disposition of parts being met 
with, in both Tropaolum and Pelargonium two nearly 
allied tribes. And is still further supported by the genus 
Hydrocera which is simply a regular flowered Balsam, 
The two dissected flowers given in the plate are similarly 
marked so as to show by the corresponding letters, the 
parts indicated in the diagrams: the other figures require 
no explanation."— R. W. Neilgherry plants. 
1051. Marore Ispica (R. W.) leaves simple 
obovate cuspidately acuminate, 
Woods near the Avalanche, Neilgherries ; flowering 
and in fruit in February. 
A large shrub or in favourable situations a small tree. 
Of this species two plants only were found, one on the 
bank of a stream in a deep ravine which had attained 
the size of a tree, the other a large very ramous shrub, in 
a jungle by the road side going to Sisparah near the - 
top of the ascent. The leaves are subalternate, petiol- 
ed, glabrous, shining, from 3 to 4 inches long by about 
half the breadth, broader above and tapering slightly 
towards the petiol, ending abruptly in a short acu- 
men. Flowers long peduncled, about 3 together ou 
the apex, pale yellow: calyx 4 sepaled: petais 4: 
stamens 8: ovaries 4, cohering below free at the apex, - 
with 2 ascending ovules in each: styles 4 free below, 
apex and stigmas cohering. As the fruit advances one — 
of the ovules abort and the other becomes pendulous : 
capsules 4, coriaceous, devaricated, dehiscing above: seed 
solitary in each, ovate; testa bright shining, nearly, - 
black, composed of two easily separable coats ; external 
tunic, in the dried specimen, loose and fragile, interior 
hard and bony. Embryo foliaceous, radicle pointing to — SE 
the hilum inclosed m a fleshy albumen. ; 
The other 2 species of this genus are both natives of Er nn 
New Zealand. 1 have therefore given this a geographi- - 
al specific name though a more appropriate one might ` ` 
easily have been found. The genus seems very nearly ` ` 
allied to Zanthorylon, differing principally in the sta- ` 
mens being double the number of the petals, In habit 
and general appearance, they nearly agree, and the seed ` ` 
of this plant accurately corresponds with the descrip- 
tion of those Of فو ملسم‎ > > 
