rigid subulate: racemes leaf opposed lax about the 
length of the leaves : bracts subulate : calyx campanu- 
late suboblique slightly 5-toothed : ovary 3-4 ovuled : 
legume villous, 2-4 seeded attenuated at the apex 
much contracted between the seed : seed 2-4 oval 
bright shining red. 
Neilgherries, in Jungles below Neddawutem. Flower- 
ing during the rains and maturing its seed in October 
and November. The Neilgherry plant differs from the 
Ceylon one, in having the leaflets more oblong and 
pubescent on the under surface; to neither of which 
characters I attach much importance. 
The Linnean specimen of this plant seems to have 
been a very indifferent one. Arnott’s character in his 
Pugillus is much more correct. 
The above is principally applicable to the Neilgherry 
plant and was in great part communicated, along with 
the flowering specimen of the drawing, by Captain 
Munro who first found it on the Hills. The legumes 
were added from specimens I collected in October 1845. 
1156. DALBERGIA LATIFOLIA (Roxb.) W. and A.— 
arboreous: leaflets 3-7, generally 5, alternate, orbi- 
cular, emarginate ; upper side glabrous; under when 
young minutely pubescent : panicles axillary, branched 
and divaricating ; flowers on short slender pedicels : 
calyx-segments oblong, more or less obtuse: stamens 
9 (or 107), all united into a sheath open on the upper 
side: ovary stalked, about 5-ovuled, glabrous: style 
slender, nearly as long as the ovary: stigma small: 
legume stalked, oblong-lanceolate, usually 1-seeded. 
Paulghaut jungles, flowering during the rainy season. 
A most magnificent tree from which the well known 
Malabar blackwood is obtained, planks of which I 
have seen nearly four feet in breadth, after the removal 
of all white wood and these are not the largest ob- 
tainable. S 
My figure differs from Roxburgh's, in the smaller 
size and undulation of the leaves, it however seems to 
be the same species, only less luxuriant, according to 
description it seems to be more justly referable to 
Roxburgh's D. emarginata than to latifolia, but the 
wood of the former is not black, which I think fatal to 
their identity. Itis possible however that the Malabar 
tree may be specifically distinct from the Bengal one, 
a point which my specimens does not enable me to 
determine. 
1157. ACACIA LATRONUM (Willd.) W. and A.— 
somewhat arboreous, armed; thorns numerous, sti- 
pulary, very large, terete, tapering, united at the base: 
leaves bipinnated ; pinne 3-5 pair, with a gland on the 
petiole; leaflets 6-15 pair, very small, narrow linear, 
obtuse, without any glands between the pairs: spikes 
axillary, usually in pairs, peduncled, cylindric, longer 
than the leaves, many-flowered : corolla 4-5-cleft : 
stamens numerous, distinct : legume flat, thickish, oval- 
falcate, 3-4-seeded. : - 
Coimbatore frequent in sterile stony soils and in 
such situations always a scraggy thorny shrub. When 
in full lower in July and August, it exhales a most 
fragrant scent not unlike honey-suckle, quite perfum- 
ing the air for some distance round. In this district 
I have never seen it as a tree. 
1158. KaLaNcHor LACINIATA (D. C.) W. and A.— 
leaves decomposed and pinnatifid, the segments oblong, 
acute, coarsely toothed; upper ones nearly entire : 
sepals lanceolate, acuminated, spreading, cyme panicled. 
Frequent about hedges and low jungle about Oota- 
kalmund, near Coimbatore, flowering during July and 
August. Tn favourable situations it frequently attains 
the height of 3 or 4 feet with large spreading much 
divided leaves, the lobes of which are succulent and 
nearly cylindrical : flowers yellow. It is the glabrous 
form which is principally found here. 
1159. HYMENODYCTION OBOVATUM Wall. not Wight’s 
Icones, No. 80) arboreous : leaves obovate, abruptly 
and shortly acuminate, glabrous, finely reticulated be- 
neath with coloured veins; thickly congested near the 
ends of the branches : stipules ovate glanduliferous on 
the margin very deciduous : racemes axillary spicate 
with one or two short branches: tube of the corolla 
contracted limb campanulate 5 cleft: stamens inserted 
on the throat, filaments much longer than the anthers. 
In dry and stony soils about Matecarry near Coim- 
batore, flowering during May and June, seed ripen about 
the close of the year. 
This plant agrees so well with Dr. Wallich's deseri 
tion of his, H. obovatum that I cannot hesitate as to the 
propriety of giving it to that species, and considering the 
plant figured table 80 of this work a new species to which 
lhave given the name H. utile with reference to its 
extensive use, in this neighbourhood, in cabinet making 
under the English name of Bastard Cedar, It may be 
thus distinguished from the above to which it is closely 
allied, 
Hymenopyction UTILE (R. W. H. obovatum 
Wight’s Icones No. 80.) leaves roundish ovate ab- 
ruptly acuminate, glabrous above, villous beneath : 
stipules broad ovate obtuse, glanduliferous on the mar- 
gin: panicles terminal loose, branches racemose ; flowers 
pedicelled, bractiolate, fascicled : corolla subrotate, tube 
about the length of the calyx-limb filaments inserted on 
the throat a little shorter than the oblong ovate anthers. 
—H. excelsum Wight's Cat. No. 1264 and W.and A. 
prod. not of Roxburgh and Wallich. 
Common in the Paulghaut jungles, often attaining a 
large size. The wood is nearly the colour of maho- 
gany but of a loose texture soft and very hygrometric. 
1160. ARGOSTEMMA CouRTALLENSE (Arn.) stem 
repent, extremities erect simple pubescent : leaves glab- 
rous verticelled somewhat irregular, or two approximat- 
ed pairs towards the apex : stipules obsolete, umbel 
peduncled 2-6 flowered shorter than the larger leaves : 
pedicels and calyx pubescent : flowers quaternary : fila- 
ments bent, anthers distinct, dehiscing by a double pore 
nearthe apex. Arnott. Annals of Natural History, 
vol. 3. p. 22. 
The drawing was made in 1835 at Courtallum ; where 
only I have met with the plant. Limb of the corolla 
white, tube yellowish green. 
1161. GREENIA ٧۷6571۸5 ۸ (W. and A.J)—leaves 
almost quite glabrous on both sides except on the 
midrib and nerves. 
Mergui—The specimens represented were received 
from the late Mr. Griffith and quite correspond with 
our original specimens, whence I suspect this is not a 
Peninsular but Tenasserim plant. SE 
tioles, peduncles and nerves, the underside of the leaves 
pubescent : leaves ovate or roundish ovate aeutish: | 
glabrous and green above, pale beneath: peduncles 
terminal corymbose, and dichotomously branched at 
the apex.—Root creeping—G. Don, dict; 3 一 523. 
Courtallum—Flowering during the rainy season. 
1162. OPHIORRHIZA HARRISONII (Wall.) stem, pe- 
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