may appear as at present limited, it is remarkable that 
NEILGHERRY PLANTS, 39 
are objects of considerable beauty, as regards flowers, and as ornamental shrubs are really very handsome 
well deserving a place in every shrubbery. They are rich looking bushy plants, abounding in bright green 
foliage and flower freely in their seasons : §. pulchra, departs from the usual character of the genus, in its 
diffuse rambling habit, but is truly most beautiful. It grows near streams, below Sisparah. The figure gives no 
idea of the beauty of the flowers, as seen on the growing plant. SS. Gardneriana, is a pretty tree with a fine 
spreading head which, during the flowering season, (February,) appears almost a mass of flower. It occurs in 
the small woods between Pycarrah and Nediwuttum. S. microphylla, forms a very pretty ramous shrub, about 
6 or 8 feet high, also flowering in February, Mr. Gardner and I found it near the tops of the Hills behind the 
Avalanche Bungalow, on the banks of streams. S§. obéusa, is not unfrequent in the woods or Shollahs about 
Ootacamund. The specimen figured was taken from a tree growing in one of those Shollahs behind Kelso 
Cottage. It is truly a beautiful tree, when in full flower, being covered from the base with ascending branches, 
loaded with its numerous short racemes of pure white flowers. 
SYMPLOCOS PULCHR (R. W.) shrubby, ramous glabrous : leaves elliptic, obtuse, serrated, 
use: ramuli, leaves, Sauiiéles and bracts clothed coriaceous, glabrous, or with a few hairs on the costa 
with long Ashowaiah hair: leaves peda oblong acumi- beneath : racemes 3 axillar ry about twice the len of 
nate, slightly cordate, setosely serrated : peduncles the petiols, pilose : bracts ovate, obtuse, and like the 
axillary filiform, wit flowered (i ty ao lobes cili- calyx pubescent, lobes of 4 calyx arr gegs, cili- 
ate, corolla glabrous, ovary pubescent, 3 celled. ate, corolla scarcely longer than the s 
Sispara on the We ices slopes ar ‘the a Sry Neilgherries, high on Bibs: hills behind t is derail 
on the dais of streams, rite ic Se in Febr Bungalow on the banks of small streams, flowering in 
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SYMPLOCOS MICROPHYLLA (R. W.) fruticose flowering during the dry season, April an 
OLEACE 4—OLIveE-TRIBE. 
In this tribe, the Flora of the Hills is rather rich, seven or eight species being 
found on them, belonging to three or, ¢ according to De C andolle’s view, 4 genera. This 
order, though as a whole, not a large one, including, however, nearly 150 species, is yet 
as embracing within its circle, several rather unusual combi- 
alous flowers, with only two stamens, which is rare : 
in two sections of the same family, 
one which is very interesting, 
Nations ; here we have regular monopelt 
here we have an apetalous genus in the Ash: and here, i 
we have the plants of the one distinguished by having pendulous ovules and albumenous 
seed, while those of the other, have ascending ovules [that is, ovules attached nearer the 
base than apex,| and exalbumenous seed, Yet in spite of these discrepancies the whole are 
held together by what seems an indissoluble family tie—the facility of grafting on = 
other. On this subject, De Candolle forcibly remarks ; however heterogenous the Oleacer 
the species will all graft upon each 
