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sli'orter than the pedicel ; capsule long-pedi celled, ovoid, glabrous ; 

 leaves lanceolate, elongated, long-acuminated, generally glaucous 

 beneath, quite entire or serrulated. Wight Ic. 1954, and S. ichno- 

 stachya 1953. Native name "Walloonj" or "Bucha." On the 

 banks of rivulets on the Ghauts, and some way inland ; flowers in 

 the cold weather. 



CXIII. HERNANDIACE^. 



1. SARCOSTIGMA, Wight and Arnott. 



1. S Kleinii, W. and A. — A climbing, branched shrub, leaves 

 alternate, short-petioled, oblong-oval acuminate, coriaceous, glab- 

 rous, prominently reticulated ; racemes paired, axillary, very long,, 

 interrupted, pendulous, the flowers forming numerous sessile fasci- 

 cles ; fruit about the size of a large nutmeg, oval, in long, pendent 

 racemes, of a bright orange colour ; seed exalbuminous. At 

 Chorla Ghaut, and along the Ghauts to the south of this point. 

 The ripe fruit is to be found in April. Wight Ic. 1854. 



CXIV. THYMELACEiE. 



1. LASIOSIPHON, Fresen. 



1. L Speciosus, DeCaisne in Jacq. Voy. p 147, t. 150. — A 

 shrub, with scattered, very shortly-petioled, willow-looking leaves, 

 lanceolate, oblong rather acute ; heads of flowers terminal, sur- 

 rounded by an involucre of oblong, rather hoary, leaflets ; calyx 

 hairy, the lobes ovate-obtuse, with 5 linear bifid scales half their 

 length. Common on the higher Ghauts, as opposite Kandalla, 

 Carlee, &c. &c. ; Syn. Gnidia eriocephala, Graham's Cat. p 1 76.. 



CXV. LAURACE^. 



1. MACHILUS, Nees. 



1 . Macrantha, Nees. — As mall tree with spreading branches ; 

 leaves large, elliptic-acute, glaucous beneath, glabrous, penninerved ; 

 panicles large, pubescent; fruit globose, somewhat depressed, black, 

 size of a large currant. Parwar Ghaut, plentiful. Wight Ic. t, 

 1824. 



2. Glaucescens, Wight Ic. t. 1825. — Leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute at both ends or acuminate, glaucous ; panicles thyrsoid, 

 forming terminal tomentose corymbs ; fruit globose, slightly ' 

 depressed, about the size of a small gooseberry. The Ghauts. 

 Syn. Phoebe glaucescens, Nees ; Wiglit Ic. 1825. 



