14 Notes on Indian Botany. 



The following brief description of Mr. Nimmo's plant, I 

 extract from the Bombay Catalogue. 



"Epicharis exarillata, N. Boorumb. A tree, leaves pin- 

 nate, leaflets two or three pairs ; flowers in December and 

 January ; small, white, in axillary racemes : they rarely ex- 

 pand, and are generally destroyed by insects. Fruit, size of a 

 pluin, pear-shaped, indehiscent, abounding in a white, resinous 

 juice. This tree requires examination; probably it will 

 turn out the type of a new genus. Kandallah hills about 

 Nagatnah, the Parr Ghaut, &c. 



This description, though brief and imperfect, seems, so far 

 as it goes, sufficiently applicable to the specimen before me ; 

 especially when taken in conjunction with the character of 

 the order to which it is referred. The numerous stations 

 mentioned in the Catalogue, strengthens the supposition of 

 their identity. 



I have felt it necessary to give a new specific name, even 

 though almost certain, that the two names refer to the same 

 plant ; as in that case, the want of an arillus will, in all pro- 

 bability, form an important part of the generic character, and 

 then becomes inapplicable as a specific designation. 



LAWIA, R. W. 



N. O. Rubiacese, § Hamelieae. 



Gen. Char. — Calyx : limb 5-6-parted. Corolla tubular 

 gibbous at the apex, limb 5-6-cleft. Stamens 5-6-attached 

 to the very base of the corolla ; filaments very short. Ovary 

 5-6-celled: ovules numerous, covering the placenta on all 

 sides. Placentae free, attached by a short pedicel to the inner 

 angle of the cell. Style short: stigma 5-6-lobed. Seeds 

 numerous, small, black, irregular. (Somewhat resembling 

 grains of gunpowder.) 



Herbaceous plants, puberulous all over. Leaves longish, 

 petioled oblong-oval, acuminate at both ends, membrana- 

 ceous ; transversely parallel veined ; deep green above, glaucous 



