APPENDIX. 467 



APPENDIX. 



Addendum to 



ROSACE/E. 



PRINSEPIA. F.B.I. 151 VI. 



One species only. 



Prinsepia utilis 7?^^^ ; F.BJ. ii 323, VI I. A spiny 

 shrub : branches green, round and smooth. Leaves 

 shortly stalked, 2 by J^ inch, elliptic acute, entire or 

 finely serrate except towards the base, glabrous. Flowers 

 in the axils of the upper leaves, or of bracts forming 

 racemes along the upper branchlets, on rather stout Yz to 

 I inch pedicels, which may have two or three minute 

 scales. Buds top-shaped, purplish brown in the lower 

 half. Sepals Ye inch, concave, round. Petals Y3 inch, 

 round with crinkled edge, white. Stamens numerous 

 with yellow anthers, from a conspicuous disc. Ovary 

 superior, one-celled ; ovules two, attached to one side, 

 pendulous : style basal, bent below the large flat stigma. 

 Fruit roughly oblong, rounded at each end, with the 

 persistent style attached near the base. Seed one only, 

 erect with thick cotyledons, t. 95. 



Nilgiris : on the Coonoor-Kotagiri road at 7,000 feet, 

 flowering June, apparently wild ! (and if so now first recorded). 

 Used sometimes as a hedge plant. 



Gen. Dist. Dry rocky hills of temperate Himalayas to Sikkim at 

 9,000 feet and Khasi hills at 6,000 feet. 



