ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
bus sterilibus fertilia subeequantibus in setas validas 
 apice slendall eras desinentibus.— Wall, Cat. n. 3755. 
Wight et Arn, Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. Or, p. 35. "Wight, 
Cat. n. 16. 
AB. pag in the South of the Peninsula of 
India. Wight 
Scapus subpedalis, Folia 1} poll. longa, !4 fere lata. 
2 RM! ih a (Wall.); foliis late cordato-ovatis 
sinu angusto, Prastek eahcirat amplectente, petalis 
obovatis basi in unguem conspicue uninervem late 
linearem angustatis reacii versus ungueque copiose 
ps spasonan tt laciniis elongatis capillaceo-pinnatisee- 
tis, staminibus sterilibus in setas validas apice glan- 
duliferas desinen cage . 1247. 
AB. yah. Blinkwe rth. 
Scapus pedalis Folia 14 poll. longa atque lata. 
magn 
Flores m 
§ 3. Stamina piece apice breviter sub-5-fida, eg- 
lenges 3 : Bie tala margine ciliato-lacera. 
P. fimbriata. 2 tes — Hook, Bo . Mise. 1. 
rviis ~ retusis et Gece in He eon- 
is tus prominuli a late ovata 
vel oblonga bit retusa sessili, petalis oblongis sepala 
subtriplo ol he aig ungue brevi margine leviter 
dentato, stamin sterilibus dimidio brevioribus 
rh ot eed jobis crassis oblongis obtusis.— Wall, 
oe 
EXPLANATION OF 
20.—DROSERACEA, 
4,1. Drosea Burmanni, natural size—2. A flower 
opened, showing the caly ae apy stamens and a 
por of the branched stigm 
highly magnified; the ictalés bodies, adherent praing 
of pollen—5, A grain - pollen more highly magnified, 
showing its lobed or compound structure—6. The 5- 
valved capsule, after Bhistences a!) more or less mag- 
nifie 
‘é 1. Drosera intermedia—natural si 
2. 1. Drosera India, natura! size—2, Flower opened 
a above—3. Stamens A 
-_— stamen— 4. 
ing the reticulated 
testa—7. Portion of a dei Siaguited—all more or less 
magnified 
D.1. Drosera peltata, natural size—2. Flower—3, 
45 
oh Gossain-Than. Weallich. Kamaon. Blink- 
wo . 
ee plusquam pedalis, Folia 24—4 poll. longa, 
I} lata. In hac atque in speciebus duabus sequentibus 
tria tantum stigmata vidi. Flores culi. 
. Mysorensis (Heyne) ; foliis paar subreni- 
formibus lobis incumbentibus, panes ea cordata Se 
tente, sepalis late ovalibus pe ere apice inc 
dimidio nn sivas, petalis obovali- oblongis angeteds 
margine integerrimis subdenticulatisve sepa 
2}-plo superantibus, staminibus sterilibus fertilibus 
dimidio unteaeyas “1 os is segmentis oblangs 
obtusis crassiuse —He n Wail. Cat 
tI ha et ives Prod, te a h ia Or. "35. 
eS 
a 
ne, 
_Seapus 3= 3 ‘pollicaris, _ 4—54 lin. longa, 3% 
Kotzebuei, cui habita quodammodo 
similie, differt petalis caene longioribus, staminum 
sterilium forma, bractea sessili, ohare umque forma. 
usilla ( Wall.) ; s cordato-ovatis lobis 
divergentibus, bractea ce subpetiolta, sepalis late 
ovalibus peduneuli apicem incrassa uantibus, 
petalis Goran "basi sensim in onguem poi etig equan- 
tem attenuatis integerrimis sepa superanti- 
bus, staminibus sterilibus 8 apice brevitet trifidis fertilia 
ac sepala subeequantibus. pret s Cat. n. 1255 
Has. sain-Than. 
at atin 24—3-pollicaris. Folia 3 lin. tantum longa, 
PLATES 20 and aI. 
Stamens anther burs 
side of a leaf magnifie mnie ont 
or less magnified, 
21.—PARNASSIEA. 
pel a Beppe show | the hapog i one placentr— 
5) natural size—6. The same magnified— 
és Ovary cet aaa? fe Seg "ose he parietal pla- 
eee ron, 
ts . P. Wightiana, natural size—2. Flower magni- 
C. P. Nubicola, flower and pine meee natural size— 
From a Himalayan specimen, 
KNII.—POLYGALEA. 
This order which is very generally preety over the globe, being found in every quarter 
mate, d 
of it, and in almost every kind of soil and c 
abounds in species, but is very limited in 
the number of genera, the latter, standing in the proportion of only about | to 19 or 20 of the 
former, on whole order. Amon 
g its species every form of vegefation is found, from 
minute annual scarcely 3 inches high, up to large sized trees. Man 
the very 
of these are milky plants, 
with round stems, and ex-stipulate, scattered, simple, entire, sessile, leaves, or having the limb 
attenuated into a short petiol. 
e flowers, which are ee solitary, often racemose, with 
the pedicels furnished with bractiz, are hermaphrodite and 
irregular in their form, often small, 
and 1 EReOn Eee but showy in some of the Polygalas, 
