50 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
Ceylon as the station of the two species seen by him, 
but I am informed by Colonel Walker, who communi- 
cated the specimens, that that is an error, as he got 
them both in the neighbourhood of Colombo. 
XANTHOPHYLLUM. (Roxs.) 
I. X. angustifolium. (R. W.) Leaves narrow 
lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, longer than the axillary 
i es: ovary l-celled, 4-ovuled, two 
ascending from the base, and two pendulous from the 
apix of the cell: Fruit. ‘ : : 
ourtallum in thickets. The leaves of this species 
which are hard and coriacious do not turn yellow in 
drying but are ofa palebrownish colour. 
2. X. undulatum. (R. W.) Leaves elliptic, ob- 
long, acuminated, undulated on the margin, coriaci- 
ous: Ovary 1-celled, 4-ovuled, ovules transverse. 
urta i i o much in the 
ll as in the 
he ovary, with the preceding that I 
ropriety of separating them, but 
the undulated margin, the long pointed acumen, and 
the muc r size, in all its parts, of the one than 
the other, fully warrant me, ink i ing so, 
. X. Roxburgianum. Leaves broadly 
elliptical, acuminated ; racemes axillary and terminal, 
shorter than the leaves, subsecund: Ovary 1-celled, 
4-ovuled, two ascending, and two pendulous ; Fruit, 
EXPLANATION OF 
22.—POLYGALA. 
A. |. P, Wallichiana— natural size. 2. Flower open- 
ed, showing the calyx and corolla. 3. The same, the 
tyle. 4, Astamen. 5. Style and stigma. 6, Capsule. 
7. The same split vertically, showing the seeds in situ, 
8. Seed. 9. Embryo. 10, Seed of Polygala Heyneana, 
evel | the pendulous lobes of the carunculus. 11, 
12. Back and front views - Javana, showing the 
two large lobes of its carunculus—aill more or less 
magnified. 
B. 1. Salomonia obovata~-natural size, 2. Calyx 
and corolla. 3. The same, the petals and stamens 
showing the ovary, style and stigma. 4, 
- 5. The same opened, showing the seed. 6. 
seed-—all more or less magni 
C. 1. Salomonia cordata—natural size, 2. A leaf 
INDIAN BOTANY. 
Courtallum and Shevagerry hills in woods and 
thickets. 
This species which differs very widely from the 
preceding in appearance, seems, judging from the 
i iffuse or scandent shrub, 
The leaves retain their green colour in drying. 
; rnotitanum. (R. W.) leaves elliptic ob- 
long, with a short blunt acumination : under side with 
two pores at the base: racemes axillary and terminal: * 
l 
Ovules 8—12; attached by pairs 
cente: fruit globose, one seeded. 
X. flavescens W. and A. Prod. not Roxburgh. 
Woods about Courtallum and elsewhere. 
to two lateral pla- 
e under surface : 
PLATES 22 and 23. 
magnified. 3. Flower opened, and the petals and sta- 
mens removed to show the ovary, style and stigma. 
4. Capsule. 5. Capsule opened. 6, Seed. 7. The same 
cut transversely. 8. Embryo removed---all more or less 
agnified. 
23.--XANTHOPHYLLUM. 
X, angustifoliam-—-natural size. 2. Flower. 3. 
5 
Petals removed, showing the stamens. 4. Stamen 
separated. 5. Ova 
XIX.—TAMARISCINE A. 
This is a small order, composed of very ramous shrubs, 
someti i 
racing the stem, and lapping over each other, like til 
lar, hermaphrodite, generally ranged in terminal race 
soe: simple, entire, sessile, minute leaves ; 
small bractea 
The calyx is free or slightly adherent at the base 
estivation, 
e torus is either ob 
margin. The 
solete, or expanded into a small disk 
mber of the sepals, and 
or small trees; with ex-stipulate, 
mes, in Tamarix, scale-like, closely em- 
es (imbricating. ) The flowers are regu- 
mes or spikes ; pedicels furnished with a 
*» persistent, of 5 sepals, imbricated in 
, glanduliferous on the 
eden without falling off. The stamens 
ra 
Bes le 
