NEILGHERRY PLANTS, 23 
of the citron is not winged, while here it is, which is considered an important character. This, 
therefore, seems to be an intermediate form, if not, indeed, a distinct species ; but the limits 
between the species of this genus are so imperfectly defined that I could not help hesitat- 
ing before adding to the difficulties which attend their investigation by adding one to the 
number, which more extended acquaintance with its forms might afterwards require me to 
reduce. Towards the base of the Hills several other Aurantiacious plants occur, such as 
Limonia, Glychosmis, Murraya &c. The beautiful and fragrant, but very evanescent flowered, 
Murraya paniculata is even occasionally found at an elevation of nearly 5,000 feet. Iam 
uncertain whether either of these species of citrus would thrive at Ootacamund, but the ©. 
Limetta certainly does very well when transferred to the gardens at Kottergherry and forms 
a most ornamental shrub. The other I have not myself met with in its native place, (the 
specimens from which the drawing is taken, having been brought in by a native Collector) 
and cannot speak of its fitness as a garden ornament. 
CITRUS.— Orange Lime fe. 
Flowers usually in aquinary proportion. Calyx urceolate, 3-5-cleft. Petals 5-8. Stamens 20-60: 
filaments compressed at the base, and there more or less united and polyadelphous: anthers oblong. Ovary 
many-celled : ovules 4-8 in each cell, one above the other in a double row, pendulous. Style terete. Stigma 
hemispherical. Fruit baccate, 7-9-celled : cells with several seeds, filled with a fleshy substance composed 
of numerous irregular pulpy bags or vesicles, which are mere cellular extensions of the sides of the carpels. 
— Trees or shrubs with axillary solitary spines. Leaves reduced to one terminal leaflet jointed with the apex 
of the petiole: petiole often winged 
This genus is so universally cultivated and its species so well known under the various names of 
Shaddock Pumplemose,Orange, Citron,Lemon and Lime,that any remarks on its habits and peculiarities seem 
quite unnecessary here. 
Cirrus vuLeAris (Iisso). Leaves pet a As above remarked, I am doubtful cee this is 
les 
or sera ama slightly wd te _petiol e or the true C. vulgaris, some points of the — is 
winged, flowers large white : fruit itor: algal, at variance with the figure but none o ‘aieh mpor- 
Fowidish or slighly elongated or depressed rind with tance = without better Cpe were for compariton 
vesicles of oil pulp, acid or bitte of the true C. vulgaris than I possess, I could n 
Ne eliphersies on abs ira ai Kottergherry and vantite: re found a distinct Saossy on these differ- 
Coonoor in the of t ector quite wild ences. 
r 
it sol eng ied ron aad accidentally deed: by 
Cirrus Limetta (Risso) leaves oval or oblong wild. Al ow, very ramous sere thorny, bush cover- 
often toothed : petiol more or less winged or margin- ed during the flowering seaso with a profusion of 
ed: flowers small white: fruit pale govt ovoid or beautiful fragrant white flowers very ornamental 
roundish, a i knob: rin ith coneave shrub, well deserving a place in the shrubbery, when 
vesicles of oil : pul tery acid or Senet: occasi- judging from what I saw at Kottirgherry, it grows 
onally slightly tes de Gua 4 valley, near Kotter- free 
gherry flowering August and September certainly 
XVL—HYPERICINEZ.—Torsan Trise. 
This is as much an extra-tropical family as the oranges are a tropical one. They 
abound in Europe and north America, and the Indian ones are all alpine. Five only have 
yet been found on the Indian peninsula, all of which are natives of the Neilgkerries : two 
