The specimen represented is somewhat different scarlose, reticulated with coloured veins; upper one 



from his, but this is partly owing to luxuriance and broad, 2-lobed, the lobes ovate, obtuse ; lower the 



perhaps a little to the ingenuity of the artist, but largest, cymbiformj lateral ones much smaller than 



among the specimens brought from the Hills, from the others, cordato-ovate. 



which the figure was made, many were equal to this The specimens from which the drawing was made 

 though different. 



1592, Serr^ea livcANA (Cavan), leaves petioled, 

 cordate, 3-lobed, denticulate, whitish: peduncles 

 shorter than the petioles: petals dark purple at the 

 base. 



Scinde, Stocks* 



As this genus has not yet been met with in 

 India, but may yet be found, I have introduced this 

 plant for the purpose of making it known to Indian 

 Botanists. The following is Decaisne's revised 

 generic character, very slightly modified. 



Involucel 3-leaved ; leaflets broad, cordate, con- 

 cealing the calyx, valvate in aestivation. Calyx 

 tubuloso-campanulate, 5-cleft. Petals convolute in 

 aestivation. Tube of the stamens columnar, adnate 

 to the base of the petals, 5-toothed at the apex, sta- 

 miniferous its whole length. Style filiform, 5-cleft, 

 longer than the staminal tube, reflexed, obliquely 

 truncated at the apex, stigmatose. Ovary simple, 

 5-celled; cells 2-ovuled; ovules attached to the 

 inner angle. Capsule loculicido-5-valved, cells some- 

 times 1-seeded by abortion. Seed reniform, villous. 

 Dece. Annal. des Sciences, vol. 4, page 70 — with 

 full description and remarks. 



1593. TuRRJEA viLLosA (Beuuet, Plant. Jav. Rar.), 

 leaves ovate, sub-acuminate, somewhat pubescent 

 above, ferrugineo-villous beneath: teeth of the 

 staminal tube obsolete : stigma globose-urceolate, 

 crowned with a broadish disk, long exserted. 



Travancore hills. The date on which the speci- 

 mens were collected is unfortunately not noted, but 

 I think it was March or April, The figure seems 

 to agree so well with Mr. Bennet's description, as 

 scarcely to leave room to doubt that this is really his 

 plant, though the stations, from which the specimens 

 were obtained, are remote. 



1594-95. Garuga ponata cf and 9 (Roxb.). 



Coimbatore district, flowering during the hot sea- 

 son. This being the only species of the genus can 

 have no specific character. In this district it is a 

 considerable tree, growing in jungles near the foot 

 of the neighbouring hills. It comes into flower when 

 the tree is destitute of leaves. The male figure 

 shows it in that state. The female one shows it 



were obtained from Coorg or Mysore, the station 

 not mentioned. In the dissected flower, one of the 

 smaller lateral lobes of the calyx is badly repre- 

 sented, so that it appears in the place of the large 

 2-lobed upper one (that opposite the figure 3-). The 

 petal with the hastate base is the vexillum, the 

 others the wings and keel. It is a rare plant in the 

 Southern provinces. 



1598. CoFFEA WiGHTiANA (Wall.), shrubby, 

 bushy, rigidly and shortly branched with occasion- 

 ally short axillary abortive or spinescent branch- 

 lets: leaves ovate, glabrous, stipules subulate, rigid 

 and spinescent ; flowers usually solitary, sessile, axil- 

 lary or at the apex of short 2-leaved axillary brangh- 

 lets: limb of the calyx with about 10 minute teeth 

 not increasing after flowering : corolla 5-cleft, pube- 

 scent or viscous on the outside, glabrous within ; 

 segments linear oblong, obtuse : anthers attached 

 by the middle of their back to the tube of the cor- 

 olla, linear, entirely included : style not half the 

 length of the corolla; stigma bipartite, lobes linear: 

 berry somewhat didymous. W, and A. 



Coimbatore district, not unfrequent in arid plains 

 near the foot of the hills, flowering March and 

 April. In similar localities it extends southwards 

 to Courtallum. 



In this district the flowers are exceedingly deci- 

 duous, the first crop making their appearance before 

 the leaves. It is difficult to make good specimens. 



1599. BoucEROsiA DIFFUSA (R. W.), ramous, dif- 

 fuse, procumbent, tetragonal: floriferous ramuli as- 

 cending; angles subacute, dentate, teeth minute; 

 umbels terminal, simple, many-flowered: flowers 

 sub-sessile: calyx small, 5-parted, lobes subulate: 

 corolla tubular, limb delicately transversely rugous, 

 fimbricated on the edge. 



On arid rocky mountains near Coimbatore, at an 

 elevation of about 2,000 feet, flowering April and 

 May. Flowers dark purplish brown, varigated 

 within with fine almost inconspicuous whitish lines. 

 • The larger detached umbel, fig. 10, is taken from 

 specimens which flowered in rich soil in my garden. 

 The very diffuse habit, a single plant covering 

 many square feet of surface, the minute cauline 

 teeth; small calyx lobes, and distinctly tubular cor- 

 olla of this plant, combine to mark this species as 



with the fri4t considerably advanced towards matu- very distinct from any of its Indian congeners, 

 rity and the tree clothed with foliage. 



1596. Neurada procumbens (Linn,). 



Scinde, Stocks. I am indebted to Mr. Stocks for 

 my specimens of this curious plant. Having been 

 found so close to our confines I think it probable it 

 may ere long be found on the left bank of the Indus. 

 The figure in Lamark is a very indifferent one, not 

 by any means well calculated to convey a correct inflexed, rough on the inner angle : seed elongato- 



1600. MiTREOLA PANicuLATA (Wall.), stem sub- 

 quadrangular, glabrous ; branches roughish pilose : 

 leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, narrowing at the 

 base into the petiol; margin and veins roughish 

 pilose: bracts and lobes of the calyx lanceolate, 

 margin and back slightly pilose: corolla about the 

 length of the calyx: capsule lunate with the lobes 



idea of the habit of the plant, a point on which 

 I think my artist has been more fortunate. 



1597. Ctlista scariosa (Aiton), racemes shortly 



compressed. 



Mysore, Cleghorn. I am indebted to Dr. Cleghom 

 for the drawing and a specimen of this plant, from 

 which last I was enabled to add the analysis of the 



peduncled, about as long or a little longer than the flower. I am indebted to Mr. Law of Bombay for 



leaves : calyx twice as long as the corolla; tube 

 short, campanulate; segments very large, thin and 



a specimen, but in fruit only, of which appears to be 

 M. oldenlandioides. It looks different irom this one 



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