48 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
terior lobes of the staminal crown — shorter, 
the interior ones longer than the gynostegium: folli- 
vad — about two inches long, attenuated at the 
PNeilgherses, in ‘eee ground, but rare. I found 
it more abundant on the banks of the Picarrah river 
than ptecheeery but ena too it ot ane to be closely 
looked for. The specimen figured is a large one of 
lant. 
ROPEGIA cILIATA (R. W.), suffruticose, twinin 
ps tuberous, stems glabrous, leaves short, petiol 
a ovate, lanceolate, aol towards the point, 
tsely pubesce ~~ ” gud aban on the veins 
henesiht, ciliate uncles ey 
the leaves, a constant, though, from the shortness of 
the hairs, not a conspicuous, feature in this plant, ow 
unfortunately been alt together overlooked by t 
artist: in other —— the figure a a esi 
ies of the plan 
Ceropeeia ELEGANS (Wall.), twining, glabrous, 
ete wee or oblong-lanceolate, pisetit ost 
shortly acuminate, acute, somewha culent, 
clot peduncles equaling the petiols, few flower 
ee tube of the 
base, purplish speckled lobes abachola, acumi- 
nate, cohering a apex, often ciliate: exterior 
lobes of the ieocinat: oe ligulate, approximated, 
interior ones longer, i more or less united at 
the points: follicles ers cp slender, ds sub- 
about half the et of | the Tacos Mate, 3 
6- wered: calyx ri Pa Sa tes ann torulose: pollen masses brownish-coloured.—D. C. 
the ventricose base of rolla: corolla glabrous, , 642. 
i Neilgh erries, frequent. The specimens figured 
emarginate, were gathered in Kotergherry, on the Eastern de- 
ciliate, interior ones clavate, recurved at the points: scent. e however met with it in many other 
follicles about 3 inches long, linear, tapering towards places. It varies considerably in the colour of its 
e poin flowers, the limb being i 
clifts of rock at Katie Falls, Neilgherries, flow- pale, the cilie are as often wanting as present, and 
ering = une and July. The ciliation of the margins of seem to separate readily. 
BAZ OLEPIS. 
Calyx 5-parted, corolla wheel-shaped, limb 5-parted, throat furnished with 10, or by cohesion of pairs, 
5 minute scales at the bottom of the sinuses; throat bound with a ring below the scales. Filaments short, 
broad at the base, narrower above, each bearing a flat, bifid, appressed, coronal scale. Anthers cohering 
to the margin of the stigma, terminated by membrane adhering at the apex. Pollen masses ten, oval, 
granular, attached by pairs to the dilated, funnel-shaped limb of the corpuscle. Stigma muticous, depressed, 
5-angled. Follicles divaricated, smooth, 
T shrubs; ramuli pubescent: leaves “sears oval, abruptly acuminate, the younger ones 
‘libel sm Aabtous: shining above, parallelly veined. Cymes interpetiolar, small, ane | divi- 
sions afterwards elongating, spike-like: flowers Aes crowded; calyx and corolla externally hairy: 
segments of the corolla triangular, sea purple within, spreading during the day, eateries partially 
closing, becoming sub-campanulate 
The species here represented is the only one, yet known, appertaining to the genus, and, so far a3 
[ have seen, is only found on the Neilgherries. It is common about Kotergherry and readily recopninedl 
by the very dark green colour of the upper surface of the leaves, and their pale under surface, added to 
the almost whitish, very hairy young shoots and inflorescence which nearly conceals the very small, almost 
inconspicuous, flowers, except, during clear weather, when fully expanded ; they then become conspicuous 
owing to their dark colour, contrasting with the light colour of their supports. The examination of fresh 
specimens enabled me to detect some errors in our original generic character which, however, were 
unfortunately overlooked, when preparing the analysis, which was not made under my eye, and not 
corrected when sending it to the The points requiring alteration were what relates to the pollen 
masses, and coronal scales. The former, in the original character, were stated to be four to each stamen, 
but which in several flowers I examined, I have always found limited to two, of an oval form, attached 
by one eyd to the dilated, cup-like limb of the funnel-shaped corpuscle, the pollen granular. The latter 
seems to have been overlooked in our former dissection, apparently, owing to their lying flat on the back of 
the filament. Another point, requiring emendation, was the character of the inflorescence which, in the 
original specimen, was two young to exhibit it correctly. At first it is truly cymose, but at length, 
through the elongation of the divisions, acquires a spike-like form, or in other words becomes cymoso- 
spicate. The points of the — which adhere so as to form a kind of vault over the stigma, are 
not the true anthers but rather prolongations of the connectives beyond the cells of the anther. 
