NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS. 237 



Kubiace^;. 



Anotis Prainiana, Talb., sp. nov. Herb. No. 2995. 



A densely-branched pilose herb, branches filiform, interlaced, hairs 

 flat, silvery, shining. Leaves small, membranous, petioled, rhomboid al- 

 ovate, acute; blade *25 in.; petiole flat, nearly as long as the blade. 

 Stipules inconspicuous. Flowers solitary, terminal, rosy-white, nearly 

 •5 in. long. Calyx short, hairy, tube flattened, limb with 4 erect lobes* 

 Corolla with a long, slender tube, glabrous at the mouth, limb 4-lobed, 

 lobes each with two parallel pink lines. Anthers dorsally affixed, 

 included ; filaments short. Ovary 2-locular; style filiform, 2-branched ; 

 ovules 3-4 in. each cell, affixed near the base of the ovary. Capsule 

 hairy, didymous, crustaceous, laterally compr* ssed, loculicidally 2-valved, 

 seeds 7-8, angled, with a very minutely granulate testa. 



This pretty ornamental plant grows in cushion-like masses in quite dry 

 places, under overhanging rocks but in a very moist atmosphere, on the 

 Bababuden hills of Mysore at about 5,000 feet elevation, it belonged 

 to the section Euanotis, and comes nearest to A. Leschenaultiana, W. & A., 



Psychotria octosulcata, Talb., sp. nov. Herb. No. 3556. 



An erect, stout, smooth-barked shrub v\ ith green, glabrous branched 

 Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, shining above, pale 

 beneath, thin ; blade 3-6 by 1-2 in.; petiole "2 — '5 in. long ; lateral nerves 

 7-10 pairs, prominent, parallel, usually with small, saccate glands in the 

 axils. Stipules connate at the base, long or shortly acuminate, deciduous. 

 Flowers white in short terminal corymbose cymes 1-2 in. long, branches 

 opposite. Calyx minute, cup- shaped, 5-toothed. Corolla "1 in., tube hairy 

 at the mouth. Fruit obovoid, straight or slightly curved, 8-ridged, black 

 and succulent when ripe, but soon drying and becoming regularly ridged 

 with a flattened top. Seeds 2, black, rough, dorsally 4-ridged, ventrally 

 flat, *5. in. long ; albumen equable, horny. 



A large shrub 10-20 feet high with a stem 1-2 in. in diameter at the j 

 base. Common in some of the evergreen forests of the Siddapore and 

 Sircy sub-divisions of North Kanara. 



Composite. 



Vernonia bababudensis, Talb. sp. nov. Herb. No. 3189. 



A low shrub with stout, spreading, tomentose branches. Leaves ovate 

 acute, sharply serrate, scabrid above, -rough hairy beneath, blade 3'5-2 by 



