Schmidianoi. 



N. O. Ericese. 



TAB. CCXLVI. 



Andromeda Katagherensis. 



Fruticosa glaber, ramis subtriquetris striatisa foliis brevi-petiolatis 

 coriaceis ovalibus serratis acutis obtuse mucronatis reticulatis 

 subtus ad venas fusco-glanduloso-punctatis, racemis axillari- 

 bus solitariis simplicibus, pedicellis tribracteatiSj corolla ovali 

 calycem partentem duplo excedente, ore parvo, antheree loculis 

 sublonge acuminatis, stigmate truncato. 

 Hab. Kataghery, in the Nylgherry hills, East Indies. Dr 

 Schmid. {Sir F. Adam^ Bart) 



I am indebted for this fine new Indian Andromeda to the 

 kindness of Sir Fred. Adam, Bart., late Governor of Bombay, 

 who obligingly presented me with a collection of plants from the 

 Nylgherry hills, made there by a German botanist, Dr Schmid- 

 The species seems to form a rather tall glabrous shrub, with 

 large leaves, 3 inches and more long, evergreen, coriaceous, 



oval, on short petioles, acute at both extremities, serrated at the 

 margin, tipped with a blunt mucro, somewhat glossy above, 

 reticulated on both sides, but more especially beneath, where the 



colour is paler, and where the veinlets are spotted with brown, 

 in consequence of numerous glands, which appear to be x'esinous, 

 but are scarcely at all prominent. Racemes much shorter than 

 the leaves, axillary, solitary, bearing flowers to the very base. 



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Each pedicel has a bractea more than half its length at its base, 

 and two othei*s near the middle. Calyx large in proportion to 

 the size of the flower, of 5 ovato-acuminate spreading segments, 

 more than half the length of the oval corolla, which latter has 

 a very contracted mouth, and a limb of 5 small rounded, reflexed 

 lobes. Stamens 10, inserted on the receptacle, much shorter 

 than the corolla. Filament short, curved. Anthers oblong- 

 ovate, each cell with a long acumen bent back, in which is the 

 elongated opening, or pore. Germen globose, 5-lobed, wrinkled. 

 Style shorter than the corolla, longer than the stamens. Stigma 

 obtuse, truncated. 



Fig. 1- Flower, f, 2. Calyx and pistil, f. 3. Stamen : — mag^ 



nijied* 



