NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 81 
Hills—a very ramous shrub: Ieaves from 2to4inches about the size of a pea, succulent, blue. The lon 
long by about half as much broad, of a light picks g meth of J at of this species, is very characteristic, 
green colour, sometimes acuminate, oftene uspi- inflor is essentially cymose, but the pe- 
ate, Flowers pale yellow or cream eelouted, diitites dines ns reorient reduced to one flower 
CANTHIUM, 
Calyx-tube ovate ; limb short, 4-5 toothed. Corolla with a short tube, bearded in the throat; lobes 4-5, 
Bpreading. Anthers 4-5, inserted into the throat, scarcely exserted. Style filiform exserted. Stigma thick, 
ovate-globose or mitriform, undivided or bifid at the apex. Drupe globose or compressed, crowned with the 
{sometimes inconspicuous) calycine teeth, fleshy, 2-celled. Seeds solitary in each cell, inserted near the apex, 
inverted, incurved. Albumen fleshy. Embryo central: radicle long, superior —Shrubs, with branches un- 
armed or thorny, Leaves opposite, somewhat coriaceous. Stipules interpetiolar, solitary on both sides, Pe- 
duncles axillary, short, several flowered. 
The plants composing this genus are for the most part thorny shrubs; the one here represented, however 
does not partake of that character, and is, I believe, the largest and handsomest species of the genus : so far 
as the flora, this part of India is concerned, it certainly is. There is another species very like this in every 
thing except one point, the inflorescence, which is sufficiently abundant on the plains of India, this I have 
never seen except as an Alpine plant. The other, C. didynum, differs from this in having a loose cyme . flow- 
ers in the axils of the leaves, while here all the branches which go to form the cyme in that, are united into one, 
forming together a thick, short peduncle, the somewhat dilated apex of which is covered with longish jadietod 
flowers, forming a simple umbel, whence the name. 
The genus itself is not considerable, including only about 24 or 25 species, and of these not one of any 
note. It belongs to the Coffea section of the order, distinguished by having a two-celled ovary with a single 
more or Jess pendulous ovulein each. ‘The flowers of this genus possess a peculiarity not elsewhere met with, 
‘so far as I am aware, the throat is full of hair, the lower series of which, in place of being directed upwards 
towards the surface, nae downwards like a curtain within the tube. In the flowers of our plant, this is not so 
species, and requires to be looked for, to be properly seen, and has evidently 
eacupel the observation of the artist, who has not done justice to that part of the analysis. ‘The stigma of all 
the species is large, more or less mitriform. These are the only points of any note, and in truth, may almost 
be said to constitute the character of the genus, which seems so little distinguished from several others in its 
vicinity, each consisting of few species, that one can scarcely avoid thinking some of them might have been 
dispensed with by merely giving a slight extension to the character, among which Damnacanthus, Plectronia 
and Psydraz may be mentioned ; Dondisia, D. C. has been already referred here. 
CaNTHIUM UMBELLATUM (R. W.) shrubby or also founditin great abundance on the tops of the 
subarboreous, unarmed ; young branches four-side Hills at Shevagherry in full ean ~ September. It 
leaves short petioled, oval acuminated glabrous, oar very nearly allied to C. m from rico - 
aceous : flowers axillary umbelled on a short thick scarcely differs except in the “s aaaroabg anc su 
peduncle: calyx limb my —: tube of the = when th habit of the plese generally : the mea 
the low: 
&. 
corolla hairy gia e $ pointing down- when the two are compared are found much larger 
wards: stamens 5: style exerted ; stigma mitriform, and more coriaceous in this, but its most striki 
2- Te ei obovate didymo' ee is the union of all the branches of the 
1 er ater on the Neilgherries cyme intoa single stout peduncle from the dilated 
ear the seven of Kotagherry, whereintheOrange apex of which, the flowers rise on short pedicels— 
Valley I found it forming a moderate sized tree. I Flowars white. 
: GRUMILEA.—PSYCHOTRIA. 
Grumiura (Gert.) Calyx-tube obovate, very short; limb i en 8 truncated and 5-toothed. Co- 
rolla infundibuliform; tube short, villous in the mouth: limb 5-partite, segments incurved at the point ; wsti- 
vation valvular. Stamens 5, inserted upon the tube: filaments a anthers oblong, exserted. Style filiform, 
the length of the tube or of the corolla, surrounded at the base by a short cylindrical or 5-lobed fleshy disk. 
Stigma bipartite (occasionally 3-partite); divisions thick. Berry crowned with the converging limb of the 
