78 ILLUSTRATIONS 
tent: calyx segments tapering to a fine point, nearly 
twice the length of the involucel, but shorter than the 
oblong obtuse vigpeets stamens and sterile filaments 
united at the base: capsule tomentose 
M. Rupe aie Wight’s MSS. 
Hab. Woes ss tugged broken rocks in 
the bed of a mo 
grows, partly, 
believe the other is oe 
the 
time and place = Lieut, Campbell of the 50th 
I. who accompanied. me on that excursion. 
Pterospermum obtusifolium RW. Arborious; leaves 
cuniate at the base, very broad truncated at the apex 
sometimes irregularly 2 lobed, or somewhat.obcordate, 
the lobes coarsely toothed ; glabrous above, under side 
. 
OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
covered with mealy wee pubescence, reticulated 
with prominent veins als linear, corella densely 
seratd externally with white stellate pubescence: 
apsules ovate, very obtuse or roundish at the apex, 
oured furfuracious tomen- 
ail 
Habo Coartailum in dense forests, 
This species comes nearest P. rebesielym, fee the 
leaves are so totally distinct, that I ca hink o 
pele them. I only found it in fruit, ihe ‘davert ioe 
lowers is made more per- 
sind than the peter Wins - is therefore imperfect, 
the sggh age I have not seen. 
the same sengies i and P. glabrescens, P, 
Hepbenun and P. rubiginosum. atter, ea 
in the very gecnltay form of its —- whi ch a 
quite characteristic, much re 
pete in it 
gla Bratcel differs from all the ot 
in 
DS inches long and only about ofan inch 
haved peculiarities well represented in Rheede’s figure. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 30, 
_T. Stereulia Balanghas flowering branch, Natural 
ize, 
, flower, showing the divisions of the calyx 
united at the apex, 3. Male flower opened. 4, Sta- 
minal column separated ig the calyx. 5. 
padel showing the ov with the sterile Seat 
e base and the lobed stigma at the apex 
fertile cious cotyledons of the embryo, 
nified. 
6. Ovary cut hee asa showing the 5 carpels 
with 2 rows of se 
7. A seed hs tetheveri oh 
me cut vertically showing the erect folia- 
Ali more or less mag- 
ectisateoet betes OF PLATE 31, 
Pe cone ~ sa flowering branch natural 
: “. fo fall sorts shewing the Ngo 
petals with its sisas shaped appendages. 
same, the petals removed to shew the tube of the i 
» and bearing a single-2-celled: 
and stigma, apex of the 
tretibvertely. ff, 
or less magnified, 
\ 
same with the style broken into its component parts, 
showing that it is composed of 5 slightly adherent 
Styles... 
Ovary cut vertically, 
how bia 5-5 ie 5 car pels. 
—WNatural si capsula on 
Seed one cut STR it all m 
Sens 
XXV.—HUGONIACEMR. Arn, 
Dr. Arn nott was the fi 
scarcely be any doubt on the subject, 
associated either with Malvacee nor Chiena 
republish from the Prodromus Dr. 
ing of a single genus, and so far 
in 
any, whence we may infer, that he talteg ah justly 
associated, and indeed there can 
since, od eg reasons stated by Dr. Nvictt, it could not be 
Ainsits h 
ehick f have verified by span carehally character and — the correctness of 
mparing them with the 
yx without an involucel, persistent, 5-sepaled : sepals diets = acut 
e, unequal ; the two 
exterior lanceolate, densely pubescent on the back ; another dimidiate-ovate, Salle peonighe side 
pubescent, the rounded side testaceous and s 
oh 
hining ; ; the two inner ones roundish ovate and 
