NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 39 
TURPENIA. 
Flowers polygamous or bisexual. Calyx 5-partite, persistent. Petals 5. Torus discoid, with a free 
10-crenulated margin. Stamens 5, inserted under the margin of the disk, alternate with the petals: anthers 
ovate, dehiscing longitudinally. Carpels 3, follicular, at first distinct or separable, soon combining into one 
ovary, lower part immersed in the disk : ovules 2-8 in each ecarpel. Styles 3, separable. Stigmas patent, 
flat, cuneate. Fruit baccate, 3-celled {or with fewer cells by abortion), Seeds 1-3 in each cell, bony 
and shining, truncated at the hilum, fixed along the axis or to its apex. Albumen fleshy.— Trees 
or shrubs. Leavesopposite, unequally pinnated ; leaflets coriaceous, glabrous, stalked, ovate or oblong, 
acuminated, serrated. Flowers white, panicled: branches of the panicle alternate (in the American species) 
or opposite (in the Indian).— W. and A, Prod. p. 156. 
nly 5 species of this genus are yet known, one of which, is a native of Mexico, two 
inhabit Jamaica, and two India, One occurs at Newera Ellea in Ceylon, apparently distinct from, but very 
nearly related to, ours; both are moderate sized, very,amous trees, the leaves pinnate, with from 3 to 5 leaflets, 
and corymbose inflorescence. 
Turrinia NEPALENSIS (Wall.:) leaflets 3-5, oblong © A very common tree on the Hills, and to be foun 
lanceolate, acuminated, coriaceous: branches of the more or less perfectly in flower atall seasons, but in 
panicle opposite : styles almost quite distinct : ovules greatest perfection in ay and June. 1t seldom 
3, or occasionally 2, in each cell: berry (immature) attains a considerable height ; but its branches when 
scarcely fleshy, marked on the outside above the ‘it has room to spread, extend on all sides forming 
i ainsofthe a fine head, 
styles), about 3-seeded: seeds pendulous: radicle 
superior.—W, and A. Prod .p. 156, 
EUONYMUS.—Spindle tree. 
Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, sessile. Torus a fleshy orbicular disk. Stamens 4-5, inserted on 
the surface of the disk, between the margin and ovary : base of the filaments persistent, and forming glandu- 
lar projections on the torus: anthers with a thick connectivum at the back, opening transversely or longitu- 
dinally, Ovary immersed in the disk, with as many cells as petals : ovules 2 in each cell. Style short and 
thick, Stigmas united into one, obtuse or lobed. Capsules 4-5-celled, 4-5-valved, locuticidal. Seeds 1-2 
in each cell.—Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing by means of roots thrown out by the stems. Leaves 
opposite. Peduncles axillary, Flowers occasionally with a fourth or fifth part additional.—W. and A. 
Prod. p. 160. 
This is a large genus inhabiting Europe, Asia and America, and generally found in the more tem- 
perate regions of those tropical countries where it occurs. ‘There are now nearly 50 known species. They 
are not easy of discrimination, the genus being a very natural one, with astrong family likeness running 
through the whole. Three, probably more, are found on the Hills, namely, the one delineated, by far the most 
abundant; another very like, but abundantly distinct, occurring on the western slopes below Sisparah, which 
like this, attains the size of a tree, the third, #. Goughit, 1 have not myself found, and E. Jndia ? 
Evonymus crenvunatus (Wall.:) leaves elliptical, very handsome shrub, on account of its numerous 
obtuse, short petioled, crenulate-serrated towards ascending branches covered with abundance of bright 
ee : ; 6 ; 
5 plant, are but little conspicuous being small and hid 
twice dichotomous, few-flowered : petals 5 (or ocea- by the profusion of leaves. They are of a dull pur- 
ple colour, and not generally se numerous as on the 
torus free: specimen selected for representation, In the above 
character of the species, the seed are said to be with- 
ted: capsules turbinate, 5-celled, lobed at the apex: out an arillus. This is not quite correct. _ The 
seed solitary in each cell ; hilumtruncate, without an arillus is present but much smaller than usual in the 
- p.161. ous. One of the ovules only in each cell usually 
This plant often attains the size of a considerable matures, the remains of the other is shown in figures 
tree ; but more commonly it occurs as alarge andoften 8 and 9, sometimes, however, they both ripen. 
