66 ILLUSTRATIONS 
Hibiscus trionum—This species I found in consider- 
able abundance in very dry gravelly soil near Cudda- 
pah, in 1834. [have not since met with it in any 
other locality. 
elmoschus angulosus W. and A. 
Hymenocalyx variabilis, Zenker’s Neelgherry plants. 
Had not this plant been previously named angulosus 
Dr. Zenker’s specific name would have been most ap- 
from numerous specimens collecte 
mountains tha 
tinct species did they not agree well in every other 
respect. 
Abutilon Neelgerrense (Munro’s M.S.S.)—Suffruti- 
cose, sub-glabrous: leaves roundish, deeply peltato- 
cordate, acuminated, 
OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
Neelgherries not unfrequent—Specimens of this fine 
species were communicated by Lieut. Munro, who 
found them in several localities 
flowers and 5-carpelled fruit. 
This appears avery handsome species, the larger 
leaves exceeding in their smaller or transverse diame- 
ter7Z inches. The fruit altogether resembles those of 
] g fewer and less 
the stamens is glabrous, where- 
as in that, the filaments are very hairy and the corolla 
glabrous. 
In addition to the preceding I have received a spe- 
Abelmoschus. It was sent along with several other 
lants from Goomsoor, by W. G. Davidson, Esq. but 
unfortunately so much injured in the drying as to be 
unfit for more minute examination and description. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 27. 
1. Branch of Gossypium acuminatum, showing the 
flower and full grown capsule. 
. Staminal column, formed by the union of the 
le. 
oper calyx, (enclosing the ovary) style, and 
stigma; the involucel leaves and corolla being re- 
moved to bring these parts into view. 
4. Ovary cut vertically. 
5. Mature pod open. 
6. Seed and cotton. 
. of firmly adherent seeds, 
All natural size except the cut ovary, which is a lit- 
tle magnified. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 28—a. . and c. 
1. Gossypium Barbadense—natural size. 
2. Two detached stamens showing the one-celled 
anthers— magnified. 
3. Ovary, style, and stigma, the calyx partly re- 
moved td show the ovary—natural size, 
Ovary cut transversely—magnijied. 
Plate 23 6. Sea Island cotton. Sameas the pre- 
ceding, except—9. The cotyledons removed and un- 
rolled, radical inferior, and seen in the plate pointing 
towards the figure 9, 
late 28.¢. Upland Georgian cotton, the same as 
if the di —8. iely— 
- Ripe capsule as it appears on first bursting, and . peice eg imeee a 
before the valves have fully opened, ae 
XXII.—BOMBACEA. 
ombaceae form a distinct order intermediate between thes | 
* nm s * . . . e€ t 
Botanists, the task of determining which is right. i 
