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cent, adult ones glabrous, parallel-nerved below ; cymes interpetio- 

 lar, often bifid, small, tomentose, shorter than the leaf : corolla 

 hirsute outside :■; flowers small, purple, surrounded with much whit- 

 ish hair. 



Neilgherries about Oonoor and Kotagherry. 



GENUS V. DBCALEPIS. 

 Pentandria Dlsynla. Sex.- Syai: 



Jieriv. From Decas, ten, and Lepis, a acale. 



Gen. Chab. Corolla subrotate, 5-partite : throat crowned with 

 5 oblong-oval mutic scales alternating with the segments : tube 

 fiiruiahed within at the base with 5 linear-obtuse scales, the seg- 

 ments opposite : filaments distinct, inserted at the top of the 

 throat with 5 superior scales and cohering with the same at the 

 middle : anthers agglutinated at the base to the margin of the 

 Bildgma, distinct above, terminated by a somewhat dilated appen- 

 dage, beardless i pollen-masses granulas, solitary, attached to the 

 dilated &ee appendage of each corpuscule : stigma mutic. 



(1) D. Hamiltonii. iW. ^ d.J 



Ident. Wight's Gontrib. p. 64. — Dec. prod. VIII. p. 495. 

 Syn. Apocynum reticulatum. Wall, aselep. No, 139. 

 Engrav, Wight's Icon. t. 1285. 



Spec. Chak. Twining : branchlets thickened at the joints : 



leaves .opposite, obovate-cuneate, retusely acuminate, coriaceous : 



cymes racemose : bracteoles numerous, small, ovate, pubescent ; 



exterior lobes of the corolla pubescent, densely hairy within : fiow- 



' ^rs small. 



3alaghaut mountains, near Madras. 



GENUS VI. STEEPTACAULON. 

 Pentandria Dlsynia. Sex -. Syat: 



Deriv. Prom. Sireptos, twisted, and Kaulon, the stem. 



Gen. Chab. Corolla rotate, 5-parted : throat crowned with 5 

 stort-awned scales alternating with the segments : awns flexuose- 

 ly erect, filiform, straight at the apex : filaments distinct, inserted 

 on the tube : anthers adhering at the base to the margin of the 

 sterna, free above, simple at the apex, beardleSs : poUen-niaBsbB 

 gjranular, solitary, attached to the dilated free appendage of each 

 corpuscule : stigma mutic : follicles cylindric, much diyaricatedj 

 emooth : seeds comose. 



