NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 58 
and splendens. Many others are in cultivation, but these are the principal Indian ones that have found their 
way to Europe 
PoTENTILLA LESCHENAULTIANA (Ser. :) co- to the calyx: receptacle villous : : carpels slightly 
vered all over with silky long hairs: stems ecumbent wrinkled. —a ; stems short ; i icles small, corymbi- 
at the base: Sage and lower leaves pinnated, longish form.— and rod. 
petioled ; leaflets 5, cuneate-obovate, o bee incise- This is a very commo ei ing found almost on 
toothed, t wer pair smaller than the ot upper every road or ditch side, as a's as spreading amon 
stem leaves palmately 3-5 foliolate ; leaflets about equal the grass on all sid 8 cri or rather is gene- 
and similar to the la rally sah een but also urs as here ented, 
s often entite; erect. The fruit in ae species approaches more nearly 
wers in gener alforked to that of the denokertne than is common in the genus, 
panicles, or corymbos cave ne segments and brac- owing to the large cise for spongy texture of the re- 
teoles about equal, es galt lanceolate, more or less ob- ceptacle, but still it is a true potentilla. 
tuse: petals (yellow) slightly obcordate, about equal 
PHOTINIA, 
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Calyx 5-toothed. Petals reflexed. Ovary half-adhering, villous, 2-celled, 4-ovuled. Styles 2, glabrous. 
Pericarp bilocular (rarely from abortion unilocular and 1-seeded), inclosed within the fleshy calyx. Testa of 
the seeds cartilaginous.—Trees. Leaves simple, coriaceous, evergreen. Panicles corymbose, terminal. Fruit 
small.— W.. and A. Prod. p. 302 
This genus includes 12 recorded species, but some of these doubtful, two of the 12 are natives of the 
Neilgherries, both common, both beautifully flowering trees, and the fruit of both about the size of peas, and 
possessing the taste of the fruit of the mountain Ash so exactly, that any one on tasting them would at once 
pronounce them the fruit of that tree. Between the two genera Photinia and Pyrus, the difference seems slight, 
if indeed a truly essential difference exists. In Pyrus the ovary is usually 5 or 3 celled, and here it is two, but 
two also occurs in Pyrus. Exclusive of this, the other points of distinction mentioned in the characters of the 
two, seem differences but not distinctions, as they are not of a nature to be permanent in a number of species. 
The essential character of this is styles 2, ovary 2 celled, while that of Pyrus is, styles 5 or 3-ovary 5-3 celled. 
In this. tribe as already mentioned, the ovules are erect, the seed ascending, and the radicle inferior. In the 
plate the draftsman has reversed the position of the seed and represented the radicle superior, a blunder which 
trusting to his general accuracy, I did not detect until I came to examine ter of the tribe, with a 
view to the preparation of these notes. 
TINIA Noronrana (Wall.?) leaves from cu- 
cluster of white, ae to rose coloured, flowers. In 
aeiis. lanceolate to oblong, acute, quite entire or with June the frui 
and then are of a dull redish 
afew Ww inconspicuous scattered teeth : A capes large, very brown colour. Seeds poe four, each enclosed in 
compound ; ramifications puberu : pedicels much its own proper cell ascending e arg e succu- 
shorter than the calyx: cells of the ovary spuriously = a rail interior ig t possess in a re- 
Bemi-bil pegs fruit glabrous, 2-seeded.—W. and A. kable degr e peculiar sour, austere taste of 
od. ree ak rl mountain As “i 
This is a acceiath he bon gael poner Figu and 11 of this plate are all in- 
over the Hills. It flowers g March and Apr sae > “The dt etek in all have been inferior 
and when in full flower is a bebe thang oe cae superior, as shown in the plate, 
branch being terminated as here shown, by a large 
COTONEASTER, : 
Flowers often polygamous: calyx turbinate obtusely five toothed: petals short erect: stamens aboyt the 
length of the teeth of the calyx, styles glabrous, shorter than the stamens carpels 2-3-partially, enclosed in the 
ealyx 2-ovuled. Shrubs with simple entire leaves wholly beneath: corymbs lateral patent, furnished with 
deciduous subulate bracts : petals small persistent —D. C. Prod. 2—632, 
CoroneasTER BUXIFOLLA (Wall. List) meine | 
‘rect, very ramous: leaves oval or subobovate, point 
glabrous above, tomentose beneath : ‘emt gee few flow- 
ered ; peduncles and calyx tomentose, 
