JOO ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



obtained from either R. ponticum or Azalea pontica. On the Himalayas, we are informed by 

 Dr. Royle, the flowers ol Rhododendron arboreum are eaten by the hill people, and made into 

 Jelly by Europeans, neither of which useful applications has yet extended to the Neilgherries, 

 the flowers there being allowed to bloom and fade nnharmed by man, unless when added to a 

 bouijiiet. Neither is the timber employed on the 

 attaining rafficieut capacity, the tree there being generally stunted in its growth. In the Upper 

 Provinces the same high authority informs us the powdered leaves of R. campanulatum is used 

 as snuffl and that the leaves of R. lemdotum are aromatic and stimulant. 



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Remarks on Genera and Species. My acquaintance with the order is too h'mited to 

 admit of my saying much under this head. The old genus Erica has been, by Mr. Bentham, 

 retained in nearly its original integrity, and includes 429 species. The genus Andromeda waS 

 largely sub-divided by the late Mr. Don and others, many of whose genera have been retained 

 by De CandoUe. Endlicher has viewed the matter in a different light, and again reduced many 

 of these. The few Indian ones I have examined lead me to adopt his views in regard to Don's 

 genus Pkris, which I have restored to Andromeda in"the Icones, Nos. 1198, 9, and 1200. 



The order very naturally divides itself into 4 sub-orders or tribes, so far differing in habit 

 as to be easily recognized, namely : 



I. Abutej:. Corolla deciduous: fruit berried, indehiscent. 



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septicidal ^Zlt^JZtl'J^^'^' ^"^^^ '"^'"^"^^ •• '''^' ^^P^"^^'-' ^-"^^^^^^'' - --^^ 



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GauJA^.UTein^l'ndt2 T"^'^^ belong respectively to the 2d and 4th of these groups, 

 uauimerea being Andromedeous, and Rhododendron, Rhodoreous. 



wherfBorseTn IS t'l7 JT'^'' ■? P'?f ""'^ "^ ^^^^^^^^^^ I ^'^^^ "«t observed else- 

 margiis of the carpUIarv Lves 1 iT-'} ^T 1 ^"^^ *^ ««"«"It. The placentiferous 

 form^a sing e aSC pit^^^^^^^ are acutely mflexed, and do not coalesce in the usual way to 

 |>lacenta and ovules Jnt^^^^ "'T"" ^L^^^^^^' though in close apposition, bearing the 



the normal position. TWs curious Z^^ '""ft "^ '^' ^^^^' *^^ "PP^^' °« ^'^S considered 

 Plate 141. In thl genurthe stamlf l"'l ^^^' ^it^m^i.^ to show in Figures 9 and 10, 

 ovary, in some they fre equal butTn nn. ' V /^/ "jost part, twice as many as the cells of the 

 proportion of 15 to 10 that is V^^^' 'f IP^Wished (Icones, No. 1203), they are in the 



number of stamens and celt ofVe ovar^^^^^^ ^^ ''"^- ^^' '^^^'^'^ ^^^^ l>^^-'«^" '^' 



4 ^ A ^ V ^ ^'°"' '^'"^^ ^^ °^«"t farther investigation. 



^en tat thf ^i^^^^^^^ -%-^ B. and C. Plate 141, where it* will be 



succulent, berry^ike, whUe that^^^^^^^^ '""«^«*«. ^^ the calyx of the latter becoming 



ATbute<B io Afkromedece, *'^^^' ^""^^ «<*t; it seems to form the transition from 



^^Xt^^^J!lTS^ fcch. uuie 



EXPLANATION OP PLATE 140. 



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Neilgherry plant beine of a brown 



Neilirh*.rr^ nU^.* • 1*^ speciinen. It differs from thi J^ .* ^^^^^ ^* ^^ conjectured they are distinct species, 



S Tve^^^^^^^ u*^ ^^d^' sSe 0? &e fA "^^i ^^ S"^^^ ^^^<^h ^^^^ bee J respectively assi^- 



leava covered with whitish, fariaaceom iLll}^ ^^^9 them i?. arWaum, for the Himala van tree, and i^- 



erry 



