98 . NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
well merited by their bright rich colouring and modest look and early blooming. Some of 
them possess properties of considerable activity but which it is unnecessary to notice here. 
LYSIMACHIA. 
Calyx 5 parted Corolla 5 parted subrotate or campanulate longer than the calyx. Stamens 5 inserted 
into the base of the corolla: filaments sometimes united at the base; sometimes as many sterile filaments, as 
fertile ones. Anthers oblong. Capsule globose, 5-10 valved, dehiscing at the apex, many seeded. Herbs, 
usually perennial: leaves alternate opposite or verticelled entire : flowers axillary racemose, spicate or panicled. 
This genus, of which there are now nearly 50 species known, is principally confined to the more tem- 
perate regions of the northern hemisphere. Only 10 species were however known to Linneus, showing that 
the European proportion of species is not so great as might be supposed. Itis in truth a widely distributed 
genus in proportion to the number of its species Europe, Asia Minor, India, Ceylon, China, Japan, New Hol- 
land, Cape of Good Hope and North and South America all claim representatives. Like the N eilgherries, 
Ceylon claims two species both I think distinct from ours though one is certainly very near our yellow flower- 
ed L. deltoidea. They are not generally I believe much thought of as garden ornaments, though some of them 
are not devoid of beauty, as the one here given testifies, but, so far as I am acquainted with the genus, this is 
a favourable example. It is somewhat remarkable that, though always found in its wild state growing in wet — 
marshy ground, it bears transfer to the garden and seems to thrive to the full as well as there in dry soil as in 
its native marshes, 
LYSIMACHIA (EPHEMEDRUM ) LESCHENAULTII ‘tuse, entire: stamens equal exserted: style filiform. 
(Dubyin D.C. Prod. V..8.) erect, ramous, leaves D, C. Prod. 
opposite or ternate Spon sinuate (?)' entire, eilgherries, frequent in low moist or even marshy 
i neral 
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acuminate, glabrous, short petioled: flowers ra- soils and ge ly to be met with in flower. 
ant 
cemose crowded : bractioles linear subulate, acumina- herbaceous perennial from two to three feet in height. 
ted, much r icels : calyx much Flowers on first opening reddish-white, streaked with 
orter than the companulate corolla, divisions linear darker lines afterwards acquiring a rather deep lylac 
lanceolate acuminate, lobes of the corolla obovate ob- tinge. 
ANAGALLIS. 
Calyx 5 parted. Corolla rotate deciduous deeply 5 parted, lobes broad obtuse. Stamens 5 inserted 
into the bottom of the corolla, free or, rarely, more or less united at the base, filaments bearded. Anthers 
attached by the back near the base, more or less nodding, introrse. Capsule globose circumcise membrana- 
ceous, seeds numerous angular immersed in a central placenta. Herbaceous or rarely suffrutiscent plants : 
Jeaves opposite or alternate : peduncles axillary solitary. 
Of this pretty and interesting genus 11 species only are known and it may well be doubted whether 
they all deserve being retained as species. They are, if we may so say, a wandering race and almost always to 
be found in cornfields where European grain is cultivated.’ It is I suspect through that medium we are 
indebted for the very pretty one here figured which is sufficiently frequent about Kotegherry where Wheat 
and Barley are pretty extensively cultivated. Such being the habit of the family it seems more than proba- 
ble that the same species has, under the influence of changing climate, run into varieties of sufficient per- 
manence to lead to their being considered so many distinct species. Linneus described 5 species, the accom- 
panying being one of them, which therefore must have found its way from Europe, most likely with grain-seed. 
But, however it may have come, it is nov thoroughly at home now on the Neilgherries. 
