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shorter than the pedicel ; capsule long-pedicelled, ovoid, glabrous ; 

 leaves lanceolate, elongated, long-acuminated, generally glaucous 

 beneath, quite entire or serrulated. Wight Ic. 1954, and S. ichno- 

 stachya 1953. Native name " Walloon] " or " Bucha." On the 

 banks of rivulets on the Ghauts, and some way inland ; flowers in 

 the cold weather. 



CXIII. HERNANDIACE^l. 

 1. SARCOSTIGMA, Wight and Arnott. 



1. S KLEINII, W. and A. A climbing, branched shrub, leaves 

 alternate, short-petioled, oblong-oval acuminate, coriaceous, glab- 

 rous, prominently reticulated ; racemes paired, axillary, very long, 

 interrupted, pendulous, the flowers forming numerous sessile fasci- 

 cles ; fruit about the size of a large nutmeg, oval, in long, pendent 

 racemes, of a bright orange colour ; seed exalbuminous. At 

 Chorla Ghaut, and along the Ghauts to the south of this point. 

 The ripe fruit is to be found in April. Wight Ic. 1854. 



CXIV. THYMELACE/E. 

 1. LASIOSIPHON, Fresen. 



1. L SPECIOSUS, DeCaisne in Jacq. Voy. p 147, t. 150. A 

 shrub, with scattered, very shortly-petioled, willow-looking leaves, 

 lanceolate, oblong rather acute ; heads of flowers terminal, sur- 

 rounded by an involucre of oblong, rather hoary, leaflets ; calyx 

 hairy, the lobes ovate-obtuse, with 5 linear bifid scales half their 

 length. Common on the higher Ghauts, as opposite Kandalla, 

 Carlee, &c. &c. ; Syn. Gnidia eriocephala, Graham's Cat. p i 76. 



CXV. LAURACE^E. 

 1. MACHILUS, Nees. 



1. MACRANTHA, Nees. As mall tree with spreading branches ; 

 leaves large, elliptic-acute, glaucous beneath, glabrous, penninerved ; 

 panicles large, pubescent; fruit globose, somewhat depressed, black, 

 size of a large currant. Parwar Ghaut, plentiful. Wight Ic. t. 

 1824. 



2. GLAUCESCENS, Wight Ic. t. 1825. Leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute at both ends or acuminate, glaucous ; panicles thyrsoid, 

 forming terminal tomentose corymbs ; fruit globose, slightly 

 depressed, about the size of a small gooseberry. The Ghauts. 

 Syn. Phrebe glaucescens, Nees; Wight Ic. 18*^5. 



