500 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Sonerila. 



A very pretty fleshy undershrub with purple flowers, some- 

 times paler, the small leaves prominently ribbed. 

 9. SONERILA PULNEYENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1919, 226. 

 "VV. Ghats, in the Pambar Ravine, Pulneys (Bourne). 

 A straggling fleshy plant rooting from the stems, the 

 flowers not known. 



10. SONERILA RHEEDII, W. & A. 321. 



W- Ghats, Coorg to Malabar and Wynaad, at about 3,000 



ft., on wet rocks. 



A small short-stemmed or stemless plant with violet 



flowers. 



11. SONERILA WALLICHII, Benn. ; F. B. I. ii. 538. 



W. Ghats, from Wynaad to the Anamalais, at 3,000 ft. and 



upwards. 



A stemless plant with bright pink or mauve flowers. 



12. SONERILA SCAPIGERA, Dalz. ; F. B. I. ii. 538. 



W. Ghats, Bababudan Hills of Malabar (Law). 



A stemless glabrous plant with mauve flowers in many- 



flowered racemes. 



13. SONERILA ROTUNDIFOLIA, Bedd. ; F. B. I. ii. 538 ; Bedd. Ic. 

 t. 169. 



W. Ghats, Malabar Hills, Nilgiris and Anamalais, on 

 rocks at 4,000-6,000 ft. 



A small stemless plant with rather large mauve flowers in 

 few-flowered racemes, the peduncles bright red. 



6. Memecylon, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees, glabrous. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, sessile 

 or shortly petioled, nerves inconspicuous, joining a usually incon- 

 spicuous iiitramargmal nerve. Flowers usually axillary (in axils 

 of same year's leaves) or lateral (in axils of fallen leaves on old 

 wood), fascicled or in simple or panicled cymes or urnbellules ; 

 bracteoles 2 or more, at or near the base of the pedicels. Calyx- 

 tube above the ovary campanulate or saucer- shaped, limb truncate 

 or shortly 4-lobed, often coloured, enclosing a frequently rayed 

 disk. Petals 4, blue or white, rarely reddish. Stamens 8, equal ; 

 filaments long; anthers short, opening by slits, the connective 

 thickened at the back, ending in a spur or horn. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 ovules 6-12, on a central placenta; style filiform, simple. Fruit 

 a globose or ellipsoid berry, crowned by the calyx-limb, normally 



