12 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
DROSEREA.—Sun Dew. 
Sepals 5, persistent, equal: zstivation, imbricative. Petals 5, hypogynous. Stamens hypogynous, 
distinct, withering, five and alternate with the petals or ten: anthers bilocular, bursting longitudinally, 
Ovary one: styles 3-5, slightly connected at the base or distinct, bifid or branched. Capsule 3-5-valved, 
oculicide, 1-celled, or spuriously 3-celled, the dissepiments being formed by the placentas meeting in the 
axis. Seeds without an arilles : testa sometimes loose and distinct from the tegmen. Embryo straight 
erect, in the axis of a fleshy or cartilaginous albumen.—Leaves alternate, furnished with glandular hairs, with 
a circinate vernation. Stipules in the form of ciliz at the base of the petioles.— W. and A. Prod. 
Of this genus there are now above 60 species described, but none of them possessing much interest 
except tothe Botanist as they are generally inconspicuous plants of difficult cultivation, if indeed they can 
be cultivated at all. D. peltata. One of the two species found on the Hills is also a native of New Holland, 
The one figured is very common in the swampy grounds about Ootacamund, but requires to be looked for as 
it is eh concealed by the herbage among which it grows. 
Drosera Burm Vahl :) stem gets : leaves flower at all seasons, but in greatest perfection dur- 
all radical. Guovatee vassals, seule, veins reticulated; ing the summer months. The clump of plants oe 
scapes erect, and the calyx g labrous : om mets not sented were selected to show the _ manner of 1 
arilliform.— W, and A. Prod. p, 34. growth,but unfortunately were 2S ev oem not take 
at the best season, and do no ttherefore show it to 
A low growing stemless plant, inhabiting swampy the best advantage, she it conveys a good idea of 
ground. On the hills it is usually to be met with in its habit as seen growing 
PARNASSIA.—Grass of Parnassus. 
Stamens 10 ; 5 fertile; 5 sterile, opposite the claws of the petals. Stigmata 3-4 sessile. Capsule 
4-valved.—Quite glabrous, herbaceous, bog plants. Leaves radical, petioled. Scape with one sessile 
foliaceous bractea or rarely naked, dilated immediately under the flower.— W. and A. Prod. 
e European Parnassia palustris is supposed to be the plant referred to by Dioscorides as the 
grass of Parnassus, hence the name has been retained for the genus which now includes about 12 
species, five of which are natives of India. Dr. Zinker has published a figure of this plant under the name of 
P. Schmidelii in his figures of Indian plants, not being aware at the time that it had been already described. 
The genus is readily recognised by the yellow glandular bodies situated between the stamens, and 
by sessile the ea leaf situated on the middle of the flower stalk, 
Parwassia Wigutrana (Wall.:) leaves broadly almost every swamp which, during the rainy season 
miei eRe He or slightly reniform ; sinus slightly they ornament with their numerous rather showy 
rounded : bractea like the leaves, embracing the flowers, in general appearance somewhat — 
scape : vl obovate-oblong, their lower half hav- Butter cups bat aiiering : in having the flowers pur 
ing the margin cut into numerous slender linear sim- white in place of yellow , the prevailing colour of 
ple or forked segments resembling a fringe; unguis Ranunculus. In Parnassia palustris there are four 
very short, broade and cuneate: sterile stamens about stigmas and 4 lines of seed within the ovary, in this 
as long as the fertile, cleft upwards into 3-5 stout there are only three, this, independent of other 
horn-like ee that are glandular at the point. marks, affording a certain and easily observed dis- 
.a@ rod, p. tinction between these otherwise very nearly allied 
low growing potholes plant, abounding in species. 
IX.—POLYGALEZ Murx-worr Trise. 
This is a large and rapidly increasing family ; within the last 20 years the num- 
ber of its species has been nearly doubled : like the preceding it is truly cosmopolite in its 
distribution, species in some form being met with in all climates. Of the increase, the genus 
