54 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
A small erect densely ramous scraggy looking shrub, nate atthe point. Flowers small, wate! es is clusters 
rather frequent about Ootacamund, also on the road- of three or four: calyx tomentose : pet und gla 
sides to Kotagherry and Kulbutty, flowering March brous Sep. feet ould or bee ve ‘wo carpe 
a pril—also very apenisns in Gestion valley, where hairy, at first scarcely immersed in the calyx ; ¢ 
I found it in flower in August and September. It rare- afternards enlarging and enclosing them. Fruit ae 
ly attains the height of six fot | is full of little branches the size of a pea, succulent, a harsh eh taste : 
orming a dense compact mass of vegetation. e seed foi, as sending t sta ay radicle infe 
leaves are small, rarely attaining the ength of$an ‘This rie rs bs C. affinis to which D.C referred 
inch, and little more than half the breadth, glabrous doubtfully to it, in its erect not préeunibiell habit, 
above, clothed beneath with soft white hair; usually smaller leaves and fewer flowered corymbs. 
oval or tending to obovate, attenuated below, mucro- 
PYGEUM. 
Tube of the calyx cup shaped limb 6-cleft : corolla 6-petaled inserted on the throat of the calyx: stamens 
12-13 inserted with the petals ; filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled deluscing longitudinally : ovary sessile 1- 
celled ; ovules 2-collateral, pendulous; style terminal stigma dilated : drupe dry transversely oblong subriniform 
contracted in the middle, one-seeded : seed inverse exalbuminous cae very thick, radicle very short, 
superior. Trees with alternate oblong entire leaves often with 2 glands at the ~~ racemes axillary and 
lateral, solitary or several, often tomentose, flowers small 1 bractiate. Fadl. gen. pla 
yGeumM acuminatum? (Colebr.) “a tree with presented with distinct calyx and petals, a ° have not. 
alternate oblong, acuminate entire, glabrous leaves: now the specimens to re-examine. Specimens ole 
racemes axillary: flowers yellowish.”—Polyodontia Ceylon species eee I have, ‘correspond * with th 
arborea Blume. hould this apres a distinct species, the following ch 
ns from which the drawing was made, racter might serve to disti nguish it from the other 
were gathered at Kaitee falls in July. I since, in com- cies of the gen 
pany with Mr. Gardner of Ceylon, found it in great Arboreous : “eaves sd oblong, acuminated, 
abundance ou the Avalanche in fruit, in Rebraae ary. nial aig ace axillary shorter than the 
It is a large tree producing a fine spreading umbra- leaves: flow alt ello owis a calyx lobes and corolla in- 
geous head, with large ovate acuminate entire gla- distinguishable. clothed with rusty coloured pubescence: 
brous leaves, without ag a glabrous, racemes filaments sete - —- =e ie = tube regen? in 
and slightly hairy calyx vary hairy with gla- estivation a dilated, two lip- 
brous ele and 2-lobed dilated pe igma. ped, drupe 5a “fable, toees ek ey pisbronte 
The e character is so brief and general that it is genus seems imperfectly gee it was first 
fiipdebibis 0 say he eine be: is Colebrooke’s pla a established by Mr. Colebrooke on an pesilank plant. 
but as it agrees, ‘a6 far as it goes, I have adopted his Blume afierwards found a species w ‘whi ch he described 
name, with a doubt, helices nothing further to ns under the name of Polyodontia arborea, which Wal- 
me re nhis ‘ ‘Repertoriuin, ” has referred as a synonym 
I am une certain about the — because it seems 3 Colebros ke’s plant, but I sonpes erroneously, if this 
to me, had this been the one from which Colebrocke’s oan is correctly n named. As regards the an nalysis of 
character was token, he would have seeeribe the flow- the SS figure, which: was prepared in 
er as apetalous with a 12-lobed calyx limb. In this absence, I have some misgivings as to its accuracy, 4 
respect, if the dissection of my dive of Polyodo ntia sake 4 on which I have not at present the means of sa- 
Ceylanica, No. 256 is correct, and I believe it is, this tisfying myself. 
can scarcely be considered a true congener, as it is re- 
XXVIII.-—MILASTOMACE. 
This is a large, and for the most part, a Tropical family, the number of extra-tropical 
species being small when compared withthe great number of equinoctial ones, and those 
found in the warm latitudes immediately adjoining. Many of the tropical species however 
possess the transition character assigned to Balsaminew, that is, they are found in Alpine 
regions, and only make their appearance during the cool and rainy season of the year, oT 
immediately after the rains are over. Such is the character of the Neilgherry ones, nearly 
all of which are in their greatest perfection in January and February. 
By far. the greatest uumber are natives: of, America, extending as far south as Brazil, 
jn which country they are numerous, From that continent there are now nearly 1000 
