178 
Dr. A haracterd tattain, andi weak 
both. I give below Dr. Arnott’s generic character,* 
/The genus see cease itself into two sections, 
one distinguished by rested petals and projecting 
lobes of the disk, = sar et the petals being without 
a crest, having -angled not 5- lobed disk. 
gl el rsa disk 5-lobed, lobes adnate to the 
5 op the p 
ae 2s Arn. Leaves elliptic, oblong, 
duh htly Wightianum, quite entire, coriaceous, slightly 
rai 
bra 
me —Malabar. 
The villi on the under surface of the leaves, in this 
species is much more sensible to the touch So in a eee 
to the eye, even when assisted with a high m 
Be L. fimbriatum. Leaves ovate, oblong, stietlly acu- 
inated, quite entire membranous, glabrous on both 
aulea: crest of the petals fimbriated. 
Hab, ae —Griffith, 
the former species, 
flowers pet scarcely half the si 
§ 2. Petals not crested, sia oo not lobed, an- 
gles alternate with the peta 
This section ought isin, to form a distinct genus, 
es L. floribundum, R.W. Leave: 
ted, quite entire, ge 
= fa lar ange, diffuse, many-flo 
young capsules (?) acutely eagle me 
Hab Pighli —Griffith. 
__ This is a most distinct Species, and cannot be con 
founded with either of the preceding, but it is still 
oubtful to me, whether it ought to remain in the 
pice 
s linear — acumi- 
mebeee n both sides; 
; flowers small, 
ted, 
EUON ictolte 
E. Goughii, (R. W.) 
pressed : Yeates sinewhat pl nerved shortly jason 
quite entire, oblon : oth e 
nated: peduncles pct Ya t, 1-3 flowered: calyx 
cuellate, 5-lobed: petals . orbicular, fi fimbriated Ae 
Calyx seatalliforisis 4. -5-lobus, lobis 
basis cristis lobulisyue carnosis instructa 
nosus calycis cavitatem omnino implens 
iW Guten focal 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 71, 
Eleoiendrm 
tural si 
er ia expanded flower seen from. 
oe aia bey above, 
| petals removed to bring more clear! 
into fied ois. disk and insertion of the stamens under 
= —— = and front vi 
to the base, per oe storing the oe attached 
Racberghi Flowering branch—na- 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN 
* s beneath; crest of the petals a corrugated mem- 
pittinditia brevibus. Pesala 4-5 sessili 
ersus marginem nuda le 
8, loculicide iiebitscein. 1 locale sub-di 
6. 
two ov th 
own. 
8. Cut tran sversely, Leelled, I seeded, 
ovules pace tigi ee 
vertically, the seed still immature 
and 0 not. ret “filing ae _— of the cell—all more oF 
magni 
BOTANY. 
the margin: stamens5, sorbet on the disk, conneotiia 
of the salen broad, cells placed transversely, dehis- 
cing lengthwise, ovary i ete in the disk, 5-celled, 
with fe ov ules i in each. 
Hab.—Wetigherries,—Gough. 
$ species seems to approach £, grandifiorus, 
(Wall.) in the size of its flowers, but differs in the 
quinary not quaternary number of parts, and in its 
petals being fimbriate on the margin, 
2. fa cutangulus, aa 
acutely senzled, glabro 
Pe] 
and 
nina 
cles about half the length of the ieay es, twice or thrice 
dichotomous: — conical, broad, truncated above, 
tapering downwards, 5-celled, 
Hitighoetie —Gough. 
For — of both these species I am indebted to 
Mr. Gough, who gathered them in the course of bis 
excurion _ se Hills. 
. &. revolutus, R.W. Young shoots, obtusely 4-an- 
ge, aterwads ‘terate : o 
ute 
leaves subse essile, coriaceous, 
revo! Margin, gia entire, from lliptie to 
e  thovatecunmine, th a short blunt acumination: 
petdainea slender, 1-3 maton about 
one-fourth se length ef the leaves; ‘when wered, 
furnished with two minute aienvee above ie middle: 
ealyx 5.1 oe a, lobes rounded: petals 5, orbicular : ovary — 
immersed in the disk, Seelled, she two ovules in each. 
Hab. halide 
) 
» orbicular, sli ichtly alaiees on 0 oe 
margin, cupsule conical, 5-celled, large, 5-angled, tar 
binato at the apex. 
Hab oP ines 
Flowering res rw of this plant were first commu-_ 
nicated t ts me by Co W. 
5, 
oO 
ae 
onge 
nd more acutely serrated. These diffe 
{ be employed as specitc characters to sep 
rate the two forms, 
a orbiculata patentia, supra circa” 
via. Torus discoideus, fete onus ecrassus care 
iscum inse 
tum « Piscs prey imm 
bersistens, 
Semina arillat 
ar 
Stylus brevis 
ispermis, 
ary transversely, showing it 2-celled, wil 
: a each. 
ate = full ee 
; the othes 
