‘561 
Srzc. Car. Fruticose: branchlets pubescent: leaves coriaces 
ous, shining, glabrous, puberulous on the nerves, lanceolate, acumi- 
nated at both ends, mucronately cuspidate at the apex: stipules 
tubulate, pubescent: flowers axillary, somewhat sessile, 2-3-togeth- 
er: bracts inconspicuous: calyx hairy, 4-cleft : segments triangular, 
obtuse: corolla 4-cleft, glabrous, hairy within: style equalling the 
tube, scarcely exserted: stigma 3--4-cleft : ovary 8—4-celled. 
Pulney hills. 
(11) M. parvirotia. (RK. W.) 
Ident. Cale. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI. p. 512.—Walp. Annal. IT. 
p. 762. . 
Sesc. Cuar. Fruticose, glabrous: leaves obovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, attenuated at the base, glabrous on both sides: veins ele- 
gantly reticulated: flowers axillary, sessile, aggregated, 2~3-to- 
gether: bracts small or wanting: calyx 4-lobed: corolla 4-cleft : 
‘throat and segments hairy; anthers éxserted: ovary 3-4-celled : 
fruit pea-shaped. 
Courtailum. 
(12) M.rxtens. (RW). / 
Ident. Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI. p. 517.—Walp. Annal. IT" 
p. 763. - oi do 
Spec. Cuan. Fruticose or subarboreous: leaves ovate-elliptia, 
acute or subacuminate, attenuated towards the base: stipules mi- 
nute, cuspidate :\ peduncles axillary, jointed; bibracteate and 1-flow- 
ered at the joints: bracteoles twin at the base or the ealyx: corolla 
4-cleft, funnel-shaped: stamens inserted on the tube: anthers not 
exserted: style equalling the corolla: stigma somewhat club-shap- 
ed, 2-lobed : ovary 2-celled with 2 erect ovules. 
Neilgherries. 
“GENUS XIX. EUPYRENA. 
Pentandria Monogynia,. Sex: Syst: 
e 1 
Deriv. From Eu,.well, and Pyrene, the stone of a fruit, in allu- 
sion to the hard distinct nuts of the drupe. 
Gey. Cuar. Calyx-tube obovate; limb persistent, 4-toothed ; 
the teeth triangplar-aeuminate:. corolla funnel-shaped, hirsute ex- 
ternally : tube slender: limb 4-cleft: cestivation valvular: anthers 
Ainear, attached by the middle of their back to the throat of the 
‘corolla: ovary 6-12-seeded with one ovule in each cell: style 
“shorter than ‘the tube with a simple stigma: drupe globose, 6-12- 
furrowed, crowned at the apex with the calycine téeth, and contain- 
ing 6-12 slightly curved 1-seeded bony distinct nuts : seeds cyline 
dric : albumen fleshy. 
