2A ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
with in India, it affords no room for remark, T may however observe, that, think there is a 
new species of Berberis on the Pulney mountains, referable to the section Mahonea, with pin- 
nated leaves. I speak doubtfully, because I did not find flowers or fruit, and judge from habit 
alone: the Pulney plant being a diffuse shrub, with long, somewhat scandent branches, and the 
Neilgherry one an erect, sparingly branched tree. In all other respects, so far as I was 
enabled to judge, they are much alike, with this exception, that the Pulney one is met with at 
an elevation of about 5,000 feet, the Neilgherry one, to the best of my recollection, not under 
7,000 feet of elevation. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 8. 
1, 2. Branches of the Berberis tinctoria, one in 9. The same cut vertically, to show the seeds—al/ 
flower, the other in fruit, but not yet mature—natural more or less magnified, 
Size. he square figures inthe corner represent three 
3. Bracts, sepals and ovary. samples of cloth, dyed of similar colours, from the 
4. Petals and stamens, petals, each with two glands wood of this shrub 
the base. BSERVATION.—The detached stamen was taken 
°. A detached petal. from a young, dried, flower bud, and did not present the 
. Back and front views of the stamens characteristic valvular dehiscence of the order; a de- 
cut vertically, showing the erect ovules, fect, unfortunately, overlooked, until the impression 
se “yh ona short pedicel, been printed off. 
. A mature fruit. 
at 
VII.—NYMPHG@ACEA. 
leaves : widely distributed over the northern, but very rare in the southern hemisphere ; more 
age for the beauty of their flowers, and peculiarities of structure of their seed, which 
S given rise to mach discussion among Botanists as to their- affinities and station in the 
y their humerous imbricated sepals, and tals, passin 
gradually into each other, nt anally distinguished, by the former ee lia Pe ata the 
; | owers.. Lhe petals, and stamens, are inserted into a large 
' sk er surrounds, and more or less covers, the pistil, and pass ‘imperceptibly into each 
° made Ly Homers are numerous, and inserted into the disk above the petals; the filaments 
re pe . oid, the anthers adnate, bursting inwards by a double longitudinal cleft. 
oka po “ipa many celled, with numerous stigmas, radiating from a common centre form- 
§asort of cup. The fruit is many celled, indehiscent, with numerous albumenous 'seeds, 
d in a gelatinous aril. Albumen farinacious. 
albumen, enclosed in a membranous bag. 
Arrinitizs. I have already obse iversi 
as to the affinities of this Ha p Haid vay ney * dinersiky de 
ably stated by him in his Natural System of Botan 
order, and, consequently, as to its affinities, ae a eanists as to the real SePe ee oF se 
of the embryo, which is not naked, as in most plants, bu 
chard 
referred to End ens, or M 
then athe an of eho ene 
rane ae kat. rs. Mirbe r 
a 2lobed embryo, wherefore thee ear a his je llowars denominate Nome Ga nee 
it worth citine a 1 oF in Exogens, or Dicotyl : ; 
ng all the arguments that have been adduced on each aie the mee Botasute 
