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tube glabrous, in fruit funnel shaped. Petals M inch, 

 elliptic acute. 



By streams near Sispara, etc. Also Pulney and Anamalai 

 hills, at 6,000 feet. 



Soncrila clegans Wight ; F.B.L ii 535, X 22. Her- 

 baceous. Leaves ovate-acuminate, 2 to 4 inches, penni- 

 nerved. Peduncles terminal, bifurcating cymosely into 

 long one-sided racemes. Petals J^ inch, ovate-acute. 

 Capsule scabrid. Seeds with prominent raised points. 

 Wight Ic. t. 995/3. 



Nilgiris : Sispara, 6,000 feet. 



Sonerila versicolor Wt. ; F.B.L ii 535, X 23. Herba- 

 ceous. Stem round, slightly ribbed. Leaves ovate-acute, 

 unequal at the base, penni-nerved. Peduncles terminal, 

 racemes one-sided, very short, so that the flowers are 

 nearly umbellate. Petals Yz inch, pink, one side darker 

 than the other. [G.F.M.F.] 



Nilgiris : 3,000 to 6,000 feet below Sispara. 



Sonerila rotund if olia Bedd. ; F.BJ. ii 535. A 

 small stemless plant. Leaves round, deeply cordate, up 

 to I inch diam. Peduncles bright red, ij^ to 3 inches, 

 with I to 4 flowers. Flowers mauve, capsule short hemi- 

 spherical, glabrous. 



Nilgiris and Anamalai hills, 4,000 to 6,000 feet. 



Sonerila pulneyensis Gamble-, Kew Bulletin, 1919, 

 p. 226. Stem fleshy, creeping, rooting. Leaves fleshy, 

 ovate, with spine-tipped serrations, acute at both ends, 

 ^ to 2 by J4 to I^ in., with 5 basal nerves. Cymes 

 axillary of 2 to 5 flowers on pedicels % in. long on a 

 common peduncle of iJi to lJ4 in. Flowers unknown. 

 Capsule campanulate, H to 2/5 inch, pale. Seeds sur- 

 rounded with conspicuous raphe. 



Pulneys : in the Pambar Ravine. Bourne 1341. 

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