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and tapered into a long subulate bristle. They are 3-keeled above, 

 the margins furnished at intervals with short bristles. Other 

 Palms might be named, but they belong more to the mountains 

 than to the alluvial plains. 



Finally a few of the common trees may be mentioned. They 

 are Randia densifolia, Memecylon plebeium, Gironniera celtidi- 

 folia, Symplocos pedicellata, Rourea splendens, and several species 

 of Elceocarpus which the natives here call Jelei. 



The undergrowth includes one or two remarkable plants. One 

 is Haloragis disticha, a showy little shrub something like Box 

 only that its leaves are pointed, while the branches spread out in 

 distichous sprays of a neat and graceful form. No one would take it 

 to be a Haloragis, though this is one of the non-aquatic genera in an 

 order principally composed of water-plants. It is met occasionally 

 on the mountain sides. Leea sambucina, a member of the vine 

 family without tendrils, and a shrub, is conspicuous for the deep 

 crimson colour of its younger leaves, whose stalks are dilated at the 

 base so as to enclose the plant in a kind of sheath. It extends to 

 the tropics of Australia, and perhaps is identical with a common 

 African form. Trema virgata and T. amhoinense are frequently 

 seen, mingled occasionally with more than one species of Uvaria, 

 having clusters of fruits like a bunch of yellow grapes on which 

 the monkeys are said to feed. UvaricB are climbing plants, 

 beautiful looking with their golden fruits, and showing under the 

 microscope most interesting stellate hairs. The LEGUMiNOSiE 

 have many representatives, such as species of Indigofera, Tephrosia 

 Candida, Crotalaria striata, several species of Cassia, Derris, and 

 Alhi%%ia. The ornamental shrubs include Ixora, Gardenia cam- 

 panulata, Clerodendron velutinum and other species, Pavetta 

 indica, differing but little from the Ixoras except in having the 

 corolla twisted in the bud, Dracoina angustifolia, Dianella ensi- 

 folia, several species of Costus, with the large and luxuriant 

 Alpinia nutans. Amongst the useful plants may be mentioned 

 one highly valued through the east as far as Japan. This is 

 Delima sarmentosa {Tetracera), widely distributed in tropical Asia. 



