508 Notes on Indian Botany. 



Obs. — This species is most readily distinguished by its large 

 calyx, as compared with the rest of the flower, the laminae 

 of the limb are much longer than the tube, lanceolate entire, 

 and glabrous ; the whole flower however scarcely exceeding 

 the very short petiole. 



12. Lasianthus venulosus, (santia venulosa, (W. A.) 

 Prod.) shrubby : glabrous, leaves coriacious, short petioled, 

 elliptic oblong, cuspidate or acuminate, glabrous above : veins 

 prominent on both sides, beneath sprinkled with hairs: cymes 

 axillary, short peduncled, few flowered : bracteas small, 

 hairy : calyx 4-5-parted, divisions subulate, as long as the tube 

 of the corolla : corolla 4-5-cleft, throat and lobes hairy : sta- 

 mens 4-5 ; style as long, or often longer than the corolla : 

 stigma 3-5-lobed ; cells of the ovary equalling the lobes of 

 the stigma : a single erect ovule in each. 



Santia venulosa W. and A. Prod. p. 422. Mephitidia 

 venulosa, R. W. Icones, No. 1032. 



Hab. — Common in woods about Ootacamund, on the 

 Neilgheries. 



Obs. — A very ramous shrub : leaves from 2 to 4 inches 

 long by about half the breadth, of a light yellowish green 

 colour, sometimes acuminated, oftener cuspidate : flowers 

 pale yellow : drupes about the size of a pea, blue. The 

 inflorescence is essentially cymose, but often one-flowered, 

 peduncles seem to spring direct from the branch. In the 

 following nearly allied species the cymose structure is fully 

 developed. 



13. Lasianthus dichotomus, (R.&W.) shrubby: branches 

 glabrous terete except at the joints, which are compressed 

 leaves short petioled, elliptic, ovate, or slightly cordate at 

 the base, cuspidate, glabrous, except the short petiole, and 

 a few scattered hairs on the veins : stipules lanceolate, 

 about the length of the petiole, pointed : cymes axillary, soli- 

 tary, longish peduncled, once or twice dichotomous 5 divisions 



