"8 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
has opposite leaves, but no stipules; had they stipules, they must have been united, there 
being no other point of structure to separate them. Apocynee in like manner has oppo- 
site leaves without intermediate stipules, but combined with a superior ovary (a good cha- 
racter, but not unexceptionable, as there is a Cinchonaceous genus with a superior ovary,) 
Loganiciee has stipules; but they are supra axillary and sheathing, and combined with a su- 
perior ovary. They agree, however, so well with Rubiacee, that they have been designated 
« Rubiacew with a free ovary.” Rubiacee are considered by many Botanists nearly allied to 
Composite, this relationship does not strike me as near, though it certainly exists. 
To this order we are indebted for that, to India, most valuable of medicines Bark, and 
its derivative Quinine also, for Ipecacuana with many others of minor note. ‘The roots of 
Morinda tinctoria and of Hedyotes (Oldenlandia) umbellata supply very permanent red dyes, 
especially the latter, which is the basis of the bright Modina red so highly prized among 
natives of India—and last, but not least, to this family we owe that most delightful and whole- 
some beverage, Coffee and a few esculent fruits. A few species yield ‘inoftl timber, such as 
our bastard cedar, the produce of our Hymenodyction excelsum, Nauclea cordifolia, and one or 
two other species of the same genus, which attain a large size in the Malabar _ also 
supply timber, but of inferior quality and of a yellow colour. 
HEDYOTIS. 
Calyx-tube ovate or globose: limb 4-toothed or 4-cleft, the teeth or segments persistent, without smaller 
Corolla somewhat regular, infundibuliform, tubular, or rotate, 4-cleft, the segments im- 
Stamens 4, inserted into the mouth of the tube, or a litttle below it : anthers 
roundish, oblong, or shurt linear ary crowned with afleshy disk. Stylefiliform. Stigma bifid or 2-lobed, 
rarely entire. Capsule obovate, ovate or globose, crowned with the limb of the calyx, 2-celled, dehiscing at 
_the apex within the calyx, ina direction transverse to the dissepiment, at length sometimes splitting to the 
middle or to the base, and either loculicidal or scepticidal. Seeds usually minute, numerous and angled, 
rarely few or solitary in each cell—Herbaceous, suffrutescent, or shrubby plants. Stems 4-angled or terete: 
branches sometimes compressed. Stipules cohering with the petioles, usually fringed with several bristles, 
Inflorescence various.—W. and A, Prod. p, 405. 
intermediate ones. 
bricated (not twisted) in zstivation. 
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rarely entire. 
It is well remarked in our Prodromus, that this is a polymorphous genus not only in habit, but also in 
characters, for it certainly is such. But though this is the case, they are generally readily recognized. Some 
certainly have so much the habit of Spermacocee, that dissection of the ovary or fruit, is required to detemine 
to which of the two tribes they belong. 
The species of this genus are numerous on the Hills, and many of them most unlike each other; some 
being large handsome flowering shrubs, and others minute, almost inconspicuous herbs. Here they are found 
in nearly all situations, and flowering atall seasons. The larger shrubby species are in greatest perfection. 
about the beginning of the year, February and March, and then they are truly most conspicuous objects, 
when growing in somewhat moist, sheltered situations. 
TIS LAWSONI@, (W. and A.: shrubby, 
Hepyor woods about Ootacamund and e Isewhere, not very 
neheven’ branches 4-angled : leaves oblong-lanceo- Hills. 
rare on the The flowers which in fine plants, 
hie represented, 
te, acuminated at both ends, petioled ; nerves few an 
— curved; stipules deciduous, triangular-ovate, 
minated, the point thickened and demeanor 
the margin entire: panicle spreading: calyx-lim 
; the concrete slightly 
protrad ile: “Considerably protruded : capsule 
obovate, dicoccous.—W. and A. Prod. p. 407. 
A handsome but fiche spud, found in es 
form much larger clusters than thos 
are so much of the lilac colour, that introduced into 
shrubberies, = some care Pretty i i 
tion, it might become a passing good s 
the lilac. In pr exposed sitaations where 
: Boor, it rarely exceeds two or three feet in Pe ight 3. 
shady woods with moist andrich soil, it rises 
o rae or even eight feet, and fis cased with blos~ 
soms is really a ecinifl object. The upper ae: 
