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beneath. Stipules triangular, acute, cymus terminal twice or 

 thrice trichotomous, lax, each division embraced by two con- 

 nate membranaceous bracts. Flowers pedicelled, small, yel- 

 low. Calyx : tube short, campanulate, deeply cleft into 5 or 6 

 narrow, somewhat subulate divisions, corolla tubular, about 

 the length of the calyx, somewhat ventricose at the throat : 

 limb 5-6-cleft, tube slightly hairy within. Stamens very short, 

 apparently scarcely attached to the corolla, but springing 

 directly from the disk. Style short : stigma large 5-6-lobed, 

 lobes acute. 



Lawia acuminata, (R. W. Icones, No. 1070; unpub- 

 lished.) 



Hab. — Courtallum and western slopes of the Shevagherry 

 mountains, in dense jungles, flowering and bearing ripe fruit 

 in August and September. 



This genus which is clearly referable to the tribe Hame- 

 liece of Rubiaceae, is, so far as I am aware, the only genus of 

 the Indian flora referable to that tribe, I therefore dedicate it 

 to my valued correspondent J. S. Law, Esq. of the Bombay 

 Civil Service, as an appropriate tribute to one, who stands 

 nearly alone in his order, as an enthusiastic lover of Botany, 

 and who, in the midst of the harassing and fatiguing duties of 

 a collectors office, still finds some leisure to devote to his 

 favourite pursuit. 



A short time before the late Mr. Griffith left Calcutta for 

 Malacca, I sent him drawings of two, and specimens of 

 several other species of Podostemon, as materials towards a 

 monograph of the Indian species of the order, which he then 

 contemplated undertaking. Among those sent was one from 

 Mr. Law, which we considered the type of a new genus, and 

 which was to have been dedicated to its discoverer. Unfor- 

 tunately the monograph, so far at least as I have heard, was 

 never written ; I therefore took advantage of the opportunity 



