Malabar. I first met with this tree, or one that 

 I believed to be it, but not in flower, in the pass 

 between Quilon and Courtallum. I have since re- 

 ceived specimens from the western slopes of the 

 Neilgherries and from Coorg. Several years ago 

 Captain Munro sent me a specimen from the latter 

 statio.i with the following note attached: "^. J5ru- 

 nonis. I send a specimen of this as requested. I respects it much resembles A. monophylla. 



Ootacalmundagum, near Colmbatore. Flowering 



during the rainy season, October and November. 

 The flowers of this species are much larger than 

 those of the other two : the ovary, which is some- 

 what cylindrical and 4-celled with a single pen- 

 dulous ovule in each, is prolonged downwards con- 

 siderably beyond the base of the cells. In other 



found the plant in great abundance at the foot of 

 the Sumpayjee Ghaut in Coorg, but I could only 

 find two specimens in flower, I send one. I have 

 also found it on the (name illegible) Ghaut in Canara, 

 and on the Koonda Ghaut, Neilgherries." The spe- 

 cimen figured is from Coorg. 



1607-8. HuMBOLDTiA Vahliana (R.W.), branch- 

 lets solid, equal: leaflets 4 pairs, ovate, oblong, acu- 

 minated: back lobe of the stipules nearly equal 

 sided, round at both ends, petals 5, nearly equal, 

 scarcely equaling the calyx lobes, caducous. 



Neilgherries. In jungles about Coonoor. 



This species is very distinct from both the others ; 

 from the first it differs by its solid branchlets, and 

 from the second by its pentapetalous flowers, 4- 

 paired leaves, and very different shape of the leaf- 

 lets. The spikes are usually geminate, secund. 



1609. Bryonea Mysorensis (Klim. Herb. Mad.), 

 stems glabrous smooth: tendrils simple: leaves 

 cordate, repand-toothed, usually 5-angled or lobed ; 



1612. Osbeckia hispibissima (R.W.), suffiruti- 



cose, erect: branches 4-sided, thickly covered with 

 strong inflexed bristly hairs, leaves sub-sessile, oval- 

 lanceolate acute at both ends, 5 nerved, hispid 

 on both sides, especially on the veins beneath: hairs 

 thick and wiry like those of the stem : corymbs 

 terminal, few-flowered: calyx stellato-hispid, 4-cleft, 

 lobes ciliate, petals 4, large, spreading: stamens 8, 

 anthers prolonged into a longish beak- 

 Mysore, Cleghorn. I am indebted to Dr. Cleg- 

 horn for the drawing and specimens, from which 

 the plate and specific character of this very distinct 

 species were prepared. 



It is at once distinguished from all those of both 

 India and Ceylon, with which I am acquainted, 

 by the extreme hairyness of its stems, which is 

 not adequately brought out in the figure, and the 

 texture of the hairs with which the leaves are 

 covered: the larger leaves on my specimen are 

 about 7 inches long and two broad, 5 nerved, with 

 a more slender one binding each edge. The flow- 



sliffhtlv scabrous : male flowers m a simple or pro- , j i ■ ^ *u i i • * 



Bii^iiu^ auouiuuo. lu iciavw i. ^^,t,,„ ers are large, dark crimson, anthers prolonged into a 



hferous umbel at the apex of a Ion«r slender pedun- , ^ u i *u^ ^ A i \.^ ^ JT^* ^^^^ 



.1.. f.^.i. ,...„ .\.J.\.r r..A..r..^Z^ c^ih^r/nftpn loHg cuTved beak ; the fruit I have not seen. 



cle; female very shortly peduncled, solitary, often 

 in the same axils with the males, rarely several 



1613. "Sc^voLA uviFERA (Stocks), shrubby, 



umbellate at the apex of a ««g P^^f ^^^^ = <;*|yf branches decumbent at their origin, axils almos 

 tube and ovary narrow oval : berry long h oval, ^ ^^^1 ^^ obovate, like' the branches, 



glabrous, copiously marked before ma tur ty w th ^^^ ^^^^^^^ . g^^^^^ .^' ^^^^^ ^^^ 



small shallow pits: seeds smooth, surrounded with ^ ^ 



a zone quite flat on the sides. 



Mysore, climbing on hedges, &c. This species 

 is so nearly allied to B, Hookeriana that I formerly 

 expressed my belief of their being but varieties 

 of the same plant differing merely in the shape of 

 the berr3% It having since then been suggested 

 that the difl^erence forms a good specific distinction, 

 I have thousrht the best course to follow, to rectify 



my error, if such it be, is to give figures of both. 

 This one can be compared with No. 758, w^hich 

 is the form described under B. Hookeriana. 



1610. DiCHROCEPHALA ScHAIIDII (R.W.), prO- 



cumbent, diffusely ramous, glabrous : leaves obovate 

 cuneate, slightly dentate at the^ apex: capitula 

 globose, sessile, axillary and terminal. 



"Neilgh^erries, on the banks of dry ditches near 

 the dyke of Ootacamund lake, and also on the 

 margin of a tank near BelHcul. Schmid." I am 

 indebted to the Rev. Dr. Schmid for my specimens 

 of this very distinct species, which I have much 

 pleasure in dedicating to the discoverer. In the first 

 named station he found it several years ago, but lat- 

 terly it seems to have disappeared from that locality. 

 The specimens sent were obtained from the other. 



1611. Atalantia floribunda (R.W ), shrubby 

 or subarboreous, very ramous, spinose: thorns straight, 

 about 6 lines long, axillary: leaves oval, emarginate 

 orsubovate: racemes axillary, short, many-flowered, 

 flowers longish pedicelled: ovary stipitate 4-celled 

 with 1 ovule in each, orange about the size of a 

 nutmeg. 



length of the leaves, peduncles a little compressed, 

 bracts fleshy, linear: border of the calyx entire or 

 5-6-crenate : lobes of the limb of corolla fimbriate 

 at their base : filaments smooth, anthers with the 

 connective ending in a hooked tip: ovary with 10 

 streaks, style hairy at the base: stone of the purple 

 fruit pear-shaped and rugose on the surface. 



Hab. Mouths of the Indus, and sand-hills by the 

 sea at Kurrachee. Flowers white, scentless. A 

 large epygynous gland in the line of the stamens 

 and opposite the anterior or odd lobe of the cor- 

 olla. Lobes of stigma right and left of the axis. 

 Cells of ovary anterior and posterior. 



The indusium, undeveloped in the youngest buds 

 (figure 5), grows rapidly over the lobes of the 

 stigma which remain stationary in their develop- 

 ment (figure 6), but soon take on growth and the 

 pollen is shed on them before the flower opens 

 (figures 7 and 8), and even after this they continue 

 growing and project beyond the Indusium (figure 9). 

 Seed erect with albumen. 



1. Flower. 



2. Anther. 



3. Ovary. 



4. Ovary cut vertically. 



5. Stigma in very young bud. Its lobes are 

 uncovered by the Indusium. 



6. Stigma and Indusium in buds further ad- 

 vanced. Mouth of Indusium open. Lobes of stigma 



small. 



7. and 8. Stigma and Indusium just before the 

 expansion of the flower. Mouth of Indusium closed. 

 Lobes of stigma well developed. 



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