30 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
ScHMIDELIA RUEEDET (R. W.) a diffuse shrub, all stigmas, bey, or, by abortion, one lobed; lobes 
the young parts densely villous or tomentose : leaves vate obtuse, glabrous : cotyledons, fleshy, foliaceous 
they oblong, acute or acuminated, serrated, pu- fo Ided, 
cent above; at first shortly tomentose, afterwards Growing in thickets in hated and on the Neil- 
wives ban neath ; racemes a sillary, solitary or some- gherry hills. T _ ie ipl have not yet found, 
times paired, er longer than the leaves, branched; but presume that itis alike the rest, a red, succulent 
sethis hairy: calyx gla 4 sepaled, sepals bacea. This ts distignntibed He all he other species 
unequal, Seal pair Sriteutat petals 4 ne tales ger seen by the ramvli and under surface of the 
hairy with ‘4 fle shy glands at the base: ovary leaves being tomentose and by the many branched 
minute, style conecbed ending in two ioeeeling racemes, 
XX.—MILLINGTONIACEZ. 
This small order, consisting of a single genus and five or six species, was first esta- 
blished by Mr. Arnott and myself in our Prodromus of the Peninsular Flora. The species are 
all large trees ; and though there are but five known, they are widely distributed over India; 
3 are found in Ceylon, and, proceeding northward, extend as far as Nepaul and Simla, and east- 
wards, to Silhet, Mergui, and Java, how much further I have yet tolearn. Of the five known 
species, two certainly are found on the hills in great abundance, and probably another, 
though I have not yet observed it, which I found on the hills in the Madura district. Both 
the Neilgherry ones grow at great elevations abounding about Ootacamund, and more rarely 
descending so low as Coonoor or Kottergherry, 
The natural affinities of this family associate it in many points with Sapzndace, 
from which indeed it seems scarcely distinct, as shown by the circumstance of 7. Arnottiana; 
which was described from fruit only, being by us referred to that order under the name 
Sapindus microcarpus, in allusion to its small fruit as compared with other Sapind? ; but, at 
the same time, I doubt whether, in tracing its affinities, sufficient attention has been bestow- 
edon the examination of its relationship to Amacardiaceae with which it most strikingly 
agrees in habit as well as in various points of structure. Both the hill species are large 
handsome trees, and, when in flower, very conspicuous, owing to the large panicles of their 
minute white flowers strongly contrasting with the deep green of their foliage. 
One curious circumstance may be noted in regard to this small genus, the occur- 
rence, namely, in it of simple and compound leaves. In families having both forms the 
simple leaved species usually have a jointed footstalks, ‘indicating that it is simple by the 
abortion of some of its parts ; in the simple leaved Millingtonias, no such joint exists ; hence 
they are truly, not apparently, simple, 
As there is but one genus in the order, the ordinal character is substituted for a 
generic one, there being no other with which to compare it to establish distinctions between 
them. The following, therefore, is the character of the order as well as of the genus. 
