ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
}. A. Arnottianum. Leaves sprinkled with ae 
hairs: peduncles, procumbent, surculose, many 
e No. 3. 
ered: carpels many seeded. — Plat 
‘ Wightianum. Tee sprinkled with rigid 
hairs, more abundant on the veins: peduncles an 
ainathne in an ae flowered raceme; 
carpels, y abortion, one seede 
Both these species are found on the Malabar 
Coast, the former I also found Courtallum, where 
the accompanying dra awing was made. ey fre- 
seasons 
SCHUMACHERIA—VAHL NoT SPRINGEL. 
_ Se; als 5 persistent ; 2 exterior, 3 interior; estiva 
Petals 5 deciduous, hypogyno ous, Ai 
the wees two with ‘the margin crisp- 
,es Mens imbrica tamens hy pogynous, numer- 
pes all on one side, in avert series, monadelphous, all 
fertile. Fila amenis short, united at the base into a 
short somewhat flattened androphore Anthers ents 
easiod, 2celled; mucronate at the point. 7'or 
none, Ovaries 3, free, villous, | celled, 1 styled, 1 es 
Ied. Ovule ascending from the base, arilled. Styles 
. simple, terminal, filiform, 
INDIAN BOTANY. NW) 
glabrous, oe estivation 
incumbent on t 
] ing shrubs, branches alabrons, round, 
esti te agi Dead young § Shoots somewhat alti 
Lea léiernale, coriacious, eh smooth, 
petioled, ‘eestipulae, repando-serrated, the serralures 
mucron Seather-nerved, nerves paralled, simple. 
Petioles Maniten dilate d at the base, half embracing 
extr leaves, and ‘equalling them in 
— Flowers sessile, secund, bibracteate at the 
b 
S. Castanetfolia.—( Vahl: B Grahamit Pieri sate 
lon in oe te near the banks of rivers. — 
In species here represen a sepa ala 
achieity clothed on both sides with, appressed ahiniag 
si 
Dr. Arnott distinguishes two varieties of this 
plant, a division which I adopt for the present but not 
without hesitation, as I think it probable, for the rea- 
sons already s stated t that Vahl’s Castaneifolia and Ar- 
regret, tha ott did not 
pyeniiets Vahl’s character and description along with 
own, as aeot ding an additional means of determin- 
in oF by comparing other species, known to exist, with 
both the ol ‘is reformed character. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
3d.—DILLENIACER. 
1. Acrotrema Arnottianum, gti size.—2. Flower 
4th.—DitLveniacez, 
1. Flowering branch of Schumacheria castaneifolia 
front view, and opened to show the stamens.—3. ¥, natural size.—2. Flower ieee and seen from a 
ovaries, and st tyles.—4, Anthers, back and front view.— showing calyx, aosotle, stamens, and ovaries, all in 
Si w of an ovary cut vertically, and front view situ.—3. Stamens gs d.—4. Anthers, back an 
ofac own, showi nd pen- front view.—5. Ovary fa showing the sey J 
dulous direction of the seeds. —6, A seed withitsarillus. ovule. --6. Seed ait arillus + Immat e seed, 
Al or less magni vertically, all more or less m . The outline eu 
ow represents a full grown leaf eee size. 
MAGNOLIACEX 
In this order a ternary, cho pieals or quinary arrangement of the parts of the flower prevails, 
and both sepals and petals a e coloured or petaloid, so as to be almost indistinguishable, and all 
are equally deciduous, vaste in number from 6 to about 30, or more, in several rows, all hypo- 
nous. Stamens numerous, distinct, hypogynous, anthers adnate, long, ovaries numerous, 
simple, l-celled, arranged on all sides of an elongated torus, above the stamens, ovules few, or 
numerous, suspended or erect, styles short, stigmas simple. Fruit consisting of numerous car- 
pels, but varying in their character, being either dry or succulent, dehiscent or indehiscent, dis- 
tinct or partially conate, arranged on an wate axis, and sometimes terminated by an elonga- 
ted point or membranous wing. Se tary, or several attached to the inner edge of the 
carpel, from which,when ripe, they are often’ suspended by a long slender umbilical cord, embryo 
minute, at the base of a fleshy albumen. Trees or shrubs, many of the former of great size, 
leaves alternate, not dotted, coriacious, — distinctly articulated with the (ig oe. — 
pint which, tpn young, are rolled together enclosing the leaves Ficus. 
wers large, solitary, many of them sider odoriferous. Scales of the oar pee of 
shoei. either saci face to face or rolled ys 
Arrinities. This order is. nearly allied to Dilleniacee, Soak which it is principally distin- 
guished by the petaloid, deciduous sepals, and the predominance of the ternary, not quinary 
