TAX, ULIil.VCEX 621 



leaves and fruit are lelid wlieii bruised. Talb. Tiver*, Ijoiiib. ed. 'J, 

 p. lii'J. — Flowers: Aug. -Sept. 



The above description is taken from that of Mr. Talbot (/. c). I 

 have seen only 2 somewhat imperfect specimens which are in Herb. 

 Ivew. 



Kanaka : evergreen foreeta of N, Kanara from Yellapiir southwards to Gairaoppa 

 luJls, Ta//wt ! 



2. Ijasianthus venulosus, W'ujld, in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. v. G 

 (1^;46) p. 508. A large robust nearly glabrous leafy shrub. Leaves 

 light-green, Ig-SI by j^-14 in., elliptic-oblong, acute, acuminate or 

 cuspidate, glabrous above, more or less hairy on the midrib and nerves 

 beneath, base rounded ; main nerves 6-8 pairs, prominent on both 

 sides, the veins between closely reticulated ; petioles j^in. long; stipules 

 small, triangular, hairy. Flowers yellowish-white, sessile, or shortly 

 pedicelled and racemose, on short stout peduncles longer than the 

 petioles; pedicels hairy; bracts hairy. Calyx hairy, i in. long ; teeth 

 4-5, linear-subulate, hairy, ^ in. long. Corolla g in. long ; tube 

 glabrous outside, throat hairy; lobes 4-5, shorter than the tube, 

 villous inside. Stamens 4-5. Style 3-5-branched. Drupe globose, 

 ■^ in. in diam., blue, crowned by the persistent calyx-teeth; pyrenes 

 3-5, with thick walls. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 190 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1032 ; 

 Bedd. For. j\Jan. in Flor. Sylvat. p. cxxxiv-11, t. 17, f. 5. Santia 

 vemdosa, Wight & Arn. Prodr. p. 422 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 114. 



On the Ghdts but very rare, Bahell ^ Gibson. Western Ghats, Be Crespiyny ex 

 Woodroic, 



This is inchuled on the authority of Dalzell & Giljsou (Eo. Fl. p. 114). I am 

 inclined to doubt its occurrence within the limits of the Bombay Presidency. Dalzell 

 says that it is to be found on the Gbilts, and that it is very rare, but tliere are no 

 specimens in Dalzell's Herbarium in Herb. Kew. The only specimen which reached 

 the Poona Herbarium was furnished by Dr, DcCres]iiguy and ticketed " Western 

 Ghats." Neither Woodrow nor Talbot have found the plant, which seems to flourish 

 at higher elevations than are obtainable in the Bombay Presidency. ^Distrib. India 

 (W. Peninsula). 



30. HAMILTONIA, Eoxb. 



Trichotomously branched undershrubs ; branches terete. Leaves op- 

 posite, petiolate, fetid when bruised, many-nerved ; stipules intrapetiolar, 

 short, acute, persistent. Flowers small, in broad terminal trichoto- 

 mously branched panicled or subumbellate cymes, Avhite or blue, fragrant, 

 bracteate and bracteolate. Calyx-tube ovoid ; teeth 4-5, persistent. 

 Corolla infuudibuliform ; tube long, straight ; lobes 5, short, valvate. 

 Stamens 5, inserted in the tliroat of the corolla ; filaments short, sub- 

 ulate ; anthers included, obovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary 5-furrowed, 

 5-celled, the septa soon disappearing ; ovules solitary in each cell, erect 

 from the base, anatropous ; style filiform, with 5 linear arms. Capsules 

 1-celled, from the absorption of the septa, 5-valved, 5- or fewer-seeded. 

 Seeds surrounded by a loose clathrate envelope which splits into 3-4 

 segments from the base ; cotyledons foliaceous, induplicate, cordate ; 

 radicle terete, inferior. — Distrib. Mountains of the East Indies, 1 species 

 in Northern China; species 3-4. 



1. Hamiltonia suaveolens, Boxh. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 15. A 

 small shrub with divaricate more or less herbaceous branches. Leaves 



