NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
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Madras. The O. Neilgherrense is always an erect, ramous shrub, seldom exceeding three or four feet in 
height; rare, if it occurs at all, about Ootacamund, but frequent at an elevation of about 6000 
As it is not improbable, the other two new Continental species may be found on the Mysore 
the sea. 
feet above 
slopes of the Hills, I subjoin their specific characters as given in the Icones. 
xyton NerieneRrense (R. W.), shrubby, 
erect, glabrous, rather sparingly ramous; the leaves 
confined to the termi i 
apex, acute at b 
neath: corymbs axill 
: corolla 
nate at the < 
purple when ripe: seeds oblong, tapering at bo 
ends, bony, smooth 
may be met with at most seasons ers pure 
white, and usually accompanied by full-grown fruit. 
Fruit about the size of a sm ] 
preceding species. These two may be thus desig- 
nated and defined. 
1. Ophiorylon macrocarpum (R. W.), shrubby, glab- 
rous, leaves broad obovate elliptic, abruptly acumi- 
nate acute, corymbs axillary, lax: calyx lobes linear, 
subulate: nuts obovate, slightly compressed, tuber- 
cled: corolla 5 
This species is nearly allied to both the preceding 
its large tuberculated nuts i 
but differs in its | lines 
long and 2 broad—which are fully twice the size of 
those of either of ve, 
2. O. Belgaumense (R. W.), shrubby, erect, glab- 
rous: leaves elliptic, oblong, obtuse or acuminate: 
corymbs long, peduncled, compact, many-flowered : 
owers longish pedicelled: calyx 5-cleft, lobes dilat- 
ed, imbricating: tube of the corolla long, slender, 
before expansion involutely imbri- 
cated, forming a round capitulum: stamens inserted 
about the middle of the tube. 
My specimen of this, which is a very indifferent 
one, was communicated by Mr. t is allied to 
the alpine group, but quite distinct from the three 
very. numerous capitate alabastra and broad imbri- 
catin , somewhat truncated, lobes of the calyx. The 
fruit [ have not seen. 
LOGANIACE. 
This is a small but curious and complex order, apparently held together by nega- 
tive rather than positive characters, made up of a series of genera, nearly all of which 
have at different times been referred to other families, but from which they are removed 
because they would not. properly associate with them, and sent here as a temporary 
measure, until further discoveries enable future Botanists to group them into more clear- 
ly defined orders. Here we find associated. under one family name, plants the most 
unlike, goodly trees and minute herbs, not three inches high ; plants with and without 
stipules; flowers with valvate, imbricate, or twisted zestivation ; corollas regular and 
irregular; with one or as many as 12 stamens, five being the predominating number. 
These again are either alternate or opposite the lobes of the corolla. The stigma is more 
uniform and wants the glandular apparatus found in Apocynacee, which Lindley con- 
siders the true distinguishing feature between the two families. : 
The plants selected to illustrate the order are perhaps among its most genuine hoe 
presentatives. Another genus, Strychnos, is found on the lower ranges of the _— ut 
rarely extends higher than Coonoor, and rare there, but common on the lower s ve 
he nux yomica is common at the foot of the Hills. The properties of some of the 
plants of this family are intensely venomous, of which the seed of the well pete ae 
vomica affords a good example. But while the seed, in even small doses, is = y 
tructive of animal life, the wood is intensely bitter and is preseribed the case of inter- 
