is distinguished from the preceding by its minute sti- 
pules, glabrous calyx, and the want of hairs within the 
tube of the corolla. 
LAWIA (R. W.) 
Gm. Cuar.—Calyx limb 5-6 parted. Corolla tu- 
bular gibbous at the apex; limb 5-6 cleft. Stamens 
5-6 attached to the very base of the corolla, filaments 
very short. Ovary 5-6 celled ; ovules numerous ; pla- 
centas free attached by a short pedicel to the inner 
angle of the cell. Seeds numerous, small, irregularly 
shaped, (resembling grains of gun powder) black. 
Herbaceous plants, puberulous all over; leaves long- 
ish petioled, oblong-oval, acuminate at both ends, 
membranaceous, transversely veined ; deep green above, 
glaucous beneath. Stipules triangular acute. Cymes 
terminal twice or thrice trichotomous lax ; each division 
embraced by two connate membranaceous bracts : flow- 
ers yellow pedicelled, small : calyx tube short campa- 
nulate ; limb deeply cleft into 5 or 6 narrow somewhat 
subulate divisions : corolla tubular about the length of 
the calyx 5-6 cleft, somewhat hairy within, yellow : sta~ 
mens very short, apparently scarcely attached to the 
corolla ; style short : stigma large 5-6 lobed, segments 
acute. 
In dense jungles about Courtallum and Shevagherry, 
flowering and bearing ripe fruit in August and Septem- 
ber. I have dedicated this very distinct genus to my 
valued correspondent J. 8. Law, Esq., of the Bombay 
Civil Service ; an enthusiastic Botanist, who in the 
midst of the fatiguing duties appertaining to the office of 
a Collector, still finds some leisure for the prosecution 
of his favourite pursuit, and bas made many valuable 
additions to my collection, from that side of India, of 
plants not found to the Eastward of the Ghauts. This 
genus seems clearly referable to the tribe Hameliee of 
D.C. and is the only one so far as | know belong- 
ing to the Flora of the Indian Peninsula. 
1070. Lawıa acuminata (R. W.) 
Courtallum and western slopes of the Shevagherry 
mountains, flowering in August.— See Calcutta Journal 
of Nat. History, vol, 6. 
1071. ScnTEA RHEEDIANA (R. W.) shrubby, armed 
with a few scattered recurved prickles : leaves suboppo- 
site approximated, from broad ovate to orbicular, tipped 
with aminute point, conspicuously, parallel-veined, 
bright green above subglaucous beneath : ovary 2 cell- 
ed ; fruit 2 celled : seed compressed. 
Neilgherries abundant near Kaitie Falls, apparently 
in flower at all seasons. 
This seems very distinct from S. Indica, When nam- 
ing it I thought it Rheede’s plant, to which it bears a 
considerable resemblance, but he represents the fruit 
with 5 seed, in both his figures, a form I have not yet 
met with, and, if that part of his figure is correct, I doubt 
whether his plants belong to this genus. This I have ne- 
ver seen with more than two. It is at once distinguished 
from S. indica, by the venation of the leaves, which in 
this is prominent on the upper surface, running in pa- 
rallel curved lines from the costa to the margin ; while 
in that, it is barely conspicuous and at irregular dis- 
tances : the leaves in this are besides ovate, or approach 
that form, while in that they are cuniate or obovate : 
this is nearly unarmed, while the ramuli of that are 
constantly furnished with numerous stout recurved 
prickles, 
1072. 了 PoLANISIA BURTPORENSFS (Murro) stem 
together with the leaves thickly covered with prickly 
hairs : leaves simple! oblong-lanceolate acuminated ; 
radicle ones attenuated into a petiole ; cauline sessile د‎ 
Stamens 10-12 : siliqua linear, not compressed, sessile, 
about the length of the peduncle. 
Plains of Roobass near Bhurtpore, flowering in Sep- 
tember. Flowers rose coloured.— Munro Hort. Ag- 
rensis p. 35. 
I am indebted to Captain Munro, H. M. 39th foot, 
for the drawings and characters of this, and the two 
following plants. 
1073. CorcHorus HUMILIS (Munro) perennial 
prostrate : leaves ovate crenate long petioled : peduncles 
2 flowered : capsules linear, oblong 6-8 times longer 
than broad, nearly glubrous, 4-5 celled, 4-5, valved ; 
septa nearly obostate.— Munro, I. c. 
“ A small prostrate plant growing in very hard dry 
soils. This may be C. prostratus. Royle who, however, 
gives no claracter."— M. 
MONSONIA CHUMBALENSIS. (R. W. Erodium 
Chumbalense, Munro). 
1074. (Eropıum CHUMBULENSE Munro.)—Annu- 
al, with a short decumbent stem covered with glandu- 
lar hairs : leaves long petioled, oblong, cordate, cre- 
nated : peduncles one flowered, thicker towards the 
top, jointed near the base, furnished at the joint with 
two bracteas : sepals pointed : carpels including the 
awns nearly 2 inches long.— Munro, ۰ 
Chumbul, near Agra in ravines. ** I believe it is the 
first instance of an Erodium having been found on the 
plains of India."— M. 
As this is certainly a species of Monsonia, I have 
changed Captain Munro's generic name but for the 
present retain the specific one, though I suspect it is 
identical with Geranium Lawianum of Graham's cata- 
logue, because the drawing differs somewhat from s 
cimens of that plant communicated by Mr. Stokes of 
Bombay, under the name of Monsonia Lawiana a full 
description of which will soon appear in the Calcutta 
Journal of Natural History under the following specific 
character, 
M. Lawiana (Stokes) densely clothed with lymphatic 
glanduliferous pubescence ; leaves ovate-cordate, acu- 
minate, dentate : stipules and bracts herbaceous : pe- 
duncles axillary 1 flowered: carpels obliquely trun- 
cated at the apex hispid. 一 The peduncles are long, 
jointed near the base, and when in fruit, twice bent, 
somewhat resembling the long form of the letter f in- 
verted thus ۰ 
1075. VocELIA Inpica (Gibson M.S.S.) leaves 
ovate obtuse roundish at the base perfoliate.—R. W. 
Found by Dr. Gibson of Bombay, near Heura, to 
whom I am indebted for the specimens from which the 
drawing was taken. The station given is “ Humicul 
Ghavt” leading down to Sungunnure in the Deccan. 
A large shrub from 6-10 feet high with cylindrical 
rimuli and ovate obtuse coriaceous glabrous perfoliate 
leaves. Inflorescence paniculately spicate ; flowers close- 
ly congested on the extremities of the branchlets forming 
aconical spike. Calyx five sepaled ; sepals lanceolate 
corrugated on the margins. Corolla tubular 5 cleft 
zstivation convolute ; lobes reflexed obcordate mucro- 
nate. Stamens included. Ovary superior one celled 
with a solitary ovule pendulous from the apex. Style 
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