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NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 83 
This, like the preceding, is a large genus, including 100 species, only 10 of which are said to be natives 
of India. Of these I have only seen some three or four, and have only studied two. They appear so un- 
like each other as to lead to the impression that they might be divided into two genera, and actually were 
so formerly, but are now united, showing that they cannot well be kept distinct. The one here represented 
I found in woods below Nedawuttim, climbing among bushes to a great extent, but only apparently in fruit, 
nearly every flower having become the nidus of an insect. The parts still grew, but, on cutting open the 
apparent fruit, they were found to contain minute caterpillars in place of see 
Tovurnirortia RETICOSA (R. W.), shrubby, climb- Western slopes of the Neilgherries, below Neda- 
ing: branches terete and wi e under surface of wuttim, flowering in April, and in Coorg, (Jerdon). 
of brownish purple veins: peduncles leaf-opposed, mination the nidus of an insect. This species opr 
dichotomous; branches airanestnigy a spikes corym- most nearly to approach T. viridiflora, but is qui 
ae circinate : calyx 5-parted, “gt ee hispid: distinct, as sh6wn at once by the comparatively con 
rolla 4 or 5 times longer than the calyx, hairy, ob- flowers and small calyx. 
seis Slobed stamens 9, inserted near the base, in- 
cluded: ee 
CYNOGLOSSUM. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, tube about the length of the calyx, throat closed with 
vaulted scales, lobes very obtuse. Stamens within the tube. Stigma entire or emarginate, nuts imperforate 
at the base, attached round the base of the style, convex or depressed, not furnished with a wing-like 
margin, either echinate all over, or on the margin only, at maturity separating from the base to the apex, 
the apex long adhering to the style. Seed hanging, cotyledons obovate, much longer than the radicle. 
Herbaceous plants: leaves alternate, entire : racemes often spiked, ebracteate or sometimes bracteate: pedi- 
cels one-flowered ; corolla blue, purple or white. 
This, like both the preceding, is a large genus, including, according to De Candolle, about 50 species, 
not one of which, so far as I am aware, is found in the Carnatic, though the accompanying species is com- 
mon on the elevated mountain regions. On the Neilgherties it is a troublesome weed. The same is the 
case on the elevated parts of Ceylon. In referring it to the Nepaul species in perference to the Peninsular 
one, Heynii, I was principally guided by the description of the fruit, which, in this, is bristly all over, in that, 
round the edges, only with short tubercles on the centre. My impression is that they may be the same 
species, only slightly modified, but whether or not this be the case, further consideration now leads me to 
think that I would have acted more judiciously had I adopted the latter name as it seems probable that 
= roe be that species while it may no ot be the one I have ealled it, though it agrees well with the char- 
r and description. When young it greatly resembles a Myosotis, and the flowers might readily be 
rernten? for those of the Forget-me-not, as regards both form and colour. 
CrnocLossum FurcaTtum (Wall.), stems ramous, ibaa Psa yeti very nearly allied to C. 
adpressed, pubescent or tomentose, the hairs on the mi um, from h indeed it seems scarcely 
lower part reflexed: leaves glaucesc nt, adpressed- to afer T I Pee sang . er, this is the true 
pubescent; radical ones petioled, oval-lanceolate, furcatum. If I have not confounded the two aes 
acute at ds ine ones sessile, the up thi an extensive range of geographical dis- 
ones half-stem-clasping, ovato-cordate : ipa pair- tribution, extendin ime on Himalayas os Ceylon, 
ed, slender, ebracteate, secund, hairy.—Flowers pur- =~ is generally. to be met with in alpine regions 
ple, scales of the throat two-lobed. throughout that wide extent of country. 
eilgherries, very common, rising from one to 
three feet high, and in flower at aiaily all seasons. 
