APPENDIX. xli 



Appendix, No. VIII. 



A List of Plants gathereA on the Neilgherries, particularly in 

 the environs of Ootaeamund. Sy the Hev. Mr. Schmid* 



1. — HedycHum ? ? According to Persoon'a " Systema," it ranks next to 



Ma/raMa. 



Diandria Monogynia. 

 2-5. — Jasminmn 1, very similar to Jasminum Tdrmtwm, (See Edwards' 



Botanical Eegister, toI. i. p. 18.) 



2, very similar to the above, but leaves very soft, bairy. 



3, leaves smooth, small shrub. B. B. vol. i. p. 19. 



4, similar to Jasminum revohitiim, Bot. Eeg. vol. iii. p. 176, and 

 to hiimile, Bot. Keg. vol. viii. p. 350. 



6-8. — Phillyrea, 3 species ; one very similar to Ph. panioulata. 



9. — Circaea, most undoubtedly a new species. Never higher than 3 



inches. 

 10, 11. — Paederota ? mimma, and another larger species. 

 12. — Gratiola. 

 13-15. — Utricularia ccerulea ? 



2, Ijiiea, and a third larger blue species. 

 16-25. — Justicia, 10 species at least. 

 26-28. — Kt^oo, native name of a large forest-tree J 3 species; ranks m 



Persoon's system next to LitTiopMla. 



29-32. — Piper ; and 3 species of Peperomia. 



JHcmdHa Ifonocfynia. 

 33-35. — Valeriana ; 3 if not 4 species. 

 36-41. — CommeUna ; 5-6 species, 2-3 of them most probably new ; the 



others have not been examined. 

 42-43. — Sonerilla, 2 species ; different from those lq Roxburgh's Flora. 

 44. — ^Xyris ? ? a new genus with a nectary ; Xyria has none. 

 45. — ^A tree, KanusJwo in the language of the original momitaineers. 



* A vaat addition to this List has been made by later explorers of the 

 rich field of Botanic productions of the hills ; the Memoirs of which the 

 Editor has failed to obtain in time to include them in this volume. — ^Ed, 



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