NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 85 
tuberculate, or rarely smooth. Cotyledons thick, radicle inferior, short. Shrubs or under shrubs, stems 4- 
sided; leaves opposite or verticelled, simple or feather-nerved, rugous; peduncles axillary, usu: usually single ; 
capitula compact, usually elongating during flowering; calyx as corolla seecaame alah white, 
orange, red, purple and often changeable. The odour of the plants of this genus is very peculiar, something 
between the heavy smell of musk and a rather agreeable fragrance. 
This is a large and to the Botanist most intractable genus. Schauer defines 54 species. Fortunately 
for Indian Botanists, only one or two are Indian. I suspect we may safely lay claim to two, if any confidence 
is to be placed in the colour of the flowers and fruit. The one common in some parts of the country on the 
plains has invariably white flowers and fruit, and is the true L. alba, according to Schauer, and the one here 
represented, which is not unfrequent on the Neilgherries below Kotergherry, which is Roxburgh’s L. Indica. 
With the exception of the colour of the flower and fruit, they seem very much alike, but in the hands of a 
Botanist thoroughly conversant with the distinguishing features of this very natural genus, which I am not, 
it seems not improbable they might be found truly distinct. 
The genus is one which so readily naturalizes itself, wherever it is introduced, that it is still a question 
with some Botanists whether the white-flowered one, which is spread all over India, is truly a native. Dr. 
Wallich, if [ mistake not, is one of those who question its right to be considered a native. Dr. Royle I know 
does or at all events did believe it a truly Indian plant. 
xburgh received his plants, corresponding with ours, from Mysore. In Coimbatore, and also in some 
parts of Mysore, the white-flowered one, which has also white berries, not purple like the Hill one, is very 
common, and very variable. Growing in open ground, it is a low spreading stunted shrub, but if among 
bushes or in hedges it rises to the height of 10 or 12 feet. This, I have no doubt, would in a circum- 
stances e Bye same, though I am not sure that I ever saw it assuming those gigantic proport 
Th e here represented seems well worthy of a place in gardens, and as it thrives Keeuaaneryt in 
Calcutta, 1 presume it would do the same in Madras. 
Lantana Iypica (Roxb.), shrubby, straight, 4-sided, 
hairy: leaves opposite, cordate, serrate, rugous: pe- lous beneath: i. uncles axillary, rigid, owning 
duncles solitary, axi rter than the leaves : pe eA above: capi hemi rical, spicato- 
heads ovate: bracts ovate, lanceolate: nut 2-ce elon : bracts ovato-roundish me septs nrvetes 
Rox. aa ea _ ws Jen of wg exter 
A co cchaci plant, widely diffused over the Indian 
Peninsula, flowering during the rainy and cool sea- 
sons. 
The plant here i og is certainly agree ot 8, 
I have therefore ned his name and chara 
But since the oh * wat printed, I have re rie 
D. rod. Vol. XI. in which I find it reduced to a 
synonyme of LZ. alba by Schauer, with the following 
c 
L. alba (Miller, &c.), straight, branches virgate 
and with the peduncles ese d, rough strigose : 
leaves opposite, short petioled, "elliptic, or roundish, 
ovate, or sub-cordate ; aceuiieate, coarsely crenato- 
ones involuera 
n 
e pro- 
of pur ite flowers 
if the higher ies of the: Neilgherries, the rite 
rs are usu oured, and look so different fr 
the plant of the plains, ope one is ciueat led 6 
doubt their identity, but on comparison, I could 
not discover specific mar he by which to distinguish 
them. 
CLERODENDRON. 
Calyx campanulate, rarely tubular, sometimes 5-angled, or somewhat inflated, 5-cleft or toothed, seldom 
truncated. Corolla funnel-shaped or somewhat salver-shaped, tube usually conspicuously exceeding the 
calyx, sometimes very long; limb five-parted, the two 
dynamous ; won 2-celled, cells 
tudinally. Ovary 4-celled, cells with one pendulous ovule: i 
on the tube of the corolla, much exserted, sub-di 
upper divisions a little larger. Stamens 4, inserted 
Drupe within the enlarged, persistent calyx, baceate, 4~ or by vader 1-seeded, ged 24-lobed, nuts 
woody, smooth. Seed solitary, pendulous, cotyledons oily, radicle short, inferior. bs, 
ves opposite or ternate, simple, entire, or rarely lobed: cymes trichotomous, axillary or collected into a 
leaves 
terminal panicle. 
or small trees, 
Of this genus, Schauer enumerates 87 more or less perfectly described species, and 5 Indian ones of 
which he only knows the names. Forty-nine of these he had either examined or had no doubt about; of 
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