EXPIsANATION OP PLATCS 



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VOL. IV.— PART I. 



1163. AxANTHES Ceylanica. (R. W.) arbo- 



rencent, ramuli terete or obsoletely 4-sided, glab* 

 rou8 : stipules minute, triangular : leaves lanceo- 

 late, acuminated, glabrous on both sides, finely reti* 

 culated with slender brownish veinlets i inflorescence 

 umbellate, umbels simple, axillary, usually paired : 

 peduncles about the lencrth of the petioles : calyx 

 cup-shaped, entire or slightly toothed : corolla rotate, 

 5-cleft: ovary 5-celled, surmounted by an ovoid, 

 fleshy, disk : style none: stigmas 5 : berry globose, 

 about the size of a rather large pea. — R. W. Calcutta 



Journ. Nat. Hist., Vol, 7- 



Hab. — Ceylon. 



Obs. — I gathered specimens of this in 1836, and 

 afterwards received others from Colonel Walker. £ 

 at first, on account of its bisexual flowers, supposed 

 that this was Blume's A. corymbosa : discrepancies 

 between his character and my specimens induce me 

 now t<j look upon it as a distinct species. It is quite 

 distinct from A. Blumcanay which it much resembles in 

 its general outline, though distinguished by many cha- 

 racters taken from the inflorescence and flowers, but 

 especially by the venation, which in this, resembles a 

 Terminalia, in that, a Lasianthus, 



1164. AXANTHES ELLIPflCA. 



W.') arbo 



rescent? ramuli terete, glabrous, or very sparingly 

 pubescent : leaves elliptic, shortly and abruptly acu- 

 minatpd, glabrous above, paler and villous beneath, 

 especially on tlie somewhat prominently reticulated 

 veins, penninerved : stipules linear lanceolate, longer 

 than the petioles, deciduous : corymbs short, sub- 

 capitate, soHtary or paired r calyx cup-shaped : corolla 

 rotate : anthers apiculate : style exceeding the disk : 

 stigmas 5, connivent, ovary 5-celIed.— B. IV. Calcutta 



Journ. L c. 



Hab.— Ceylon, 1836. 



Obs.—This species I found in Ceylon, and so far as 



1 can make out from ray collection, it has not been met 

 with in any other country. The rigid form, coriaceous 

 leaves, and almost capitate inflorescence, distinguishes 

 it from all the others. The leaves are about five inches 

 long, by from one and a half to two broad- The 

 bisexual habit, a point by which it approaches J. 

 corymbosa, BL, separates it from all his other species. 



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1165. AXANTHES I.ONGIFOLIA. 



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perfect, that mere change of season seems only want-* 

 ing to make it produce fertile flowers. 



1166. DiPSACUS Walkeri. (Arnott.) Stem 

 prickly and towards the extremities hairy : leaves 

 pinnatifid softly pubescent on both sides; lobes ob- 

 long-elliptic somewhat obtuse, serrated, the terminal 

 one lanceolate : leaflets of the involucrum spreading 

 much shorter than the globose capitulum ; paleop ovate 



mucronulate ciliate, shorter than the corolla.— 

 Pugilhis. Walpers 2 p, 332. 



Ceylon in pastures flowering April and May. I 

 gathered it in company with Colonel Walker in 1835, 

 during a short visit to the Island. 



1167- GisKKiA piiARNACioDES. (Lin.) pro- 

 cumbent very (lifl\ise: leaves succulent, obovate lanceo- 

 late, obtuse : flowers axillary, aggregated, short pedi- 

 celled. — K, W. Calcutta Journ. V. 7,p* 162. 



A very common weed growing in pasture ground, 

 and about old walls in flower at all seasons but espe- 

 cially during rainy weather. 



1168. GiSEKIA MOLUGINOIDES. (R. W.) CreCt 



or ascending ; leaves linear lanceolate : corymb axil- 

 lary ; peduncles about the length of the leaves, flow- 

 ers longish pedicelled, — R. W, I, c. 



Deesa. Stocks, to whom I am indebted for the spe- 

 cimen. 



This plant, in habit resembles, Mollugo stricta, but 

 seems more erect, leaves clothed beneath with short 

 appressed hairs r sepals membranous on the margin 

 imbricating; corolla none, filaments dilated at the base, 

 anthers adnata ; ovary of five one-celled carpels 

 with a single erect ovule in each, styles adherent to the 

 inner angles of the carpels : stigma pubescent reflex^ 

 ed : utricles setosely bisped : seed somewhat reni^ 

 form polished black : embryo annular, embracing a 

 copious farinaceous album. 



The dissections through a oversight do not repre- 

 sent a detached seed but as seen enclosed in the utricle. 



1169. Jatropha villosa. (R. W. L peltafa 

 R. W. not Kunth.) fruticose, erect, ramous, without 

 visced glands : leaves peltate, suborbicular, obtusely 

 5-7 lobed, entire, softly villous on both sides : calyx 

 lobes lanceolate entire, villous, valvate in aestivation : 



resent ? ramuli obsoletely 4-angled, glabrous : sti- corolla tubular, hairy withio : stamens 8, filamentf 



pules lanceolate hairy, longer than the petioles : leaves 

 ovate lanceolate, acuminate ; about three times longer 

 than broad, penninerved, glabrous on both sides: 

 corymbs axillary small, dichotomous, bairy, mvolu- 

 crate at the division ; bracts coarsely hairy : calyx 

 cup-shaped: corolla rotate, 5-cleft: ovary sterile, fiat, 

 or somewhat concave above, S-furrowed, surmounted 

 by a filiform style.— iJ. W. Calcutta Journ. I. c. 



Hab.— Mergui, GriflSth. 



Obs.—The inflorescence of this species much re- 

 sembles that of the former, but is much smaller. 



united to near the apex, interior anthers extrorse. 



Arid stony plains, at the foot of the hills near Coim^ 

 batore,in low shrubby jungle,flowering during the hot 

 season (April and May). This is alow nearly naked 

 shrub, except on the ends ofthebranches, where it bears 

 a few alternate peltate leaves and its terminal corymbs. 

 Tt is generally glabrous, except the leaves, which are 

 softly villous on longish exstipulate petioles, somewhat 

 orbicular in their outline, obtusely 5 to 7 lobed and 

 from 3 to 5 inches across. The flowers are pale jeL 

 lowish coloured,the exterior series of anthers introrse. 



h^\rMT under an inch in length, scarcely longer than the interior extrorse, stigma large, 6 lobed. 

 thTleSole the large leavfs ^re from^ nine to ten The want of viscid glands, the valvate (BStivation 

 SchS lon% ^^^^^ and extrorse interior anthers seem to md.catethis a. 



ing acumen, and quite glabrous on both sides. My 

 only specimen is a male, but the ovary is so nearly 



aspect an 



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