REMARKS ON 
less pubescent; limb five-cleft, segments 
rounded, ciliated. Corolla gamopetalous, 
tubular, slightly gibbous at the base, cylin- 
= drical upwards, shortly five-cleft, yellowish 
= on the outside, the lobes about a sixth of 
the whole length of the corolla, oblong- 
inside; the tube is split up, from a little 
above the base to the apex, between the 
superior lobe and one of the lateral ones. 
Æstivation valvular. Stamens five. Fi- 
laments cohering with the tube of the co- 
. polla, and opposite the lobes; above the 
tube they are free, erect, glabrous. An- 
thers two-celled, narrow, oblong, erect 
from the apices of the points of the fila- 
ments. Ovary cohering with the calyx- 
tube. Style slender, filiform, protruded, 
a little curved near the apex, glabrous. 
Stigma capitate. Berry oblong, crowned 
with the remains of the limb of the calyx, 
one-celled, one-seeded. Albumen fleshy. 
cese superior 
o brenchis of trees in alpine dis- 
een ` first found this plant at an eleva- 
tion of between three and four thousand 
feet on mountains near Dindygul. I have 
since met with it much lower on the same 
range, but confined to them. Leschenault, 
however, found it on the Nulgherries. The 
specimens figured are from the village of 
Pathoocottah. Like most Peninsular plants, 
this has several native names, so that it is 
quite unnecessary, generally speaking, to 
quote them in botanical works. De Can- 
dolle, on Leschenault’s authority, gives to 
this plant the vernacular name of Vira- 
marum-pila-rivi ; I could mention Cauto- 
velloomechamarum, and several others 
equally barbarous. I may here remark, 
that henault’s names are frequently 
. not to be depended on; from his total want 
of knowledge of the Tamul language, h 
was led to mark down the answers d 
signs or queries as the names; whereas 
e natives mostly told him * I don't know,” 
"1 cannot tell,” “I do not understand,” 
re is none,” or made some such re- 
: ae which he fancied were the names of 
| the 
_ (Tobe continued.) 
THE BOTANY OF BRITAIN, 
REMARKS ON THE BOTANY O 
GEOGRAPHY. 
By H. C. Watson, Esq., F. L.S. 
Tnr publication of the Encyclopedia 
high celebrity, in their respective depart- 
ments, of the individuals whose united 
contributions compose the work, stamp a- 
value upon it, certain to insure a wide cir- 
culation, and cause it to be referred to as 
authoritative. Hence it becomes important 
that such a work should be accurate, even 
in its smallest details, and that no merely 
local peculiarities should tend to mislead 
readers, by bearing the semblance of gene- 
ral laws or facts, applicable to a whole 
country. This consideration may form a- 
sufficient apology for the following com- 
ments on some points relating to the dis- 
tribution of plants within Britain, in regard 
to which my own researches and observa- 
tions lead to different conclusions, or which | 
now require to be modified in consequence ~ 
of recent discoveries, arising out of the 3 
increased attention lately given to local 
otany by others 
Let it not be supposed that I find cause — 
to censure the botanical department of the - 
work in question, or wish to set up my own - 
limited knowledge in opposition to that z 
the botanical sections, and dare 
that they who do so will not feel inclined 
to pronounce their time spent either un- 
profitably o or unpleasantly. But all science 
of others to be altered or to be added ti 
Moreover, it is a much easier matter 
follow, and to correct in trifles, than . 
