Notes on Indian Botany. VJ 



Medical Service, a very promising pupil of Dr. Lindley, lately 

 come to India, additional specimens and a full description of 

 the species. As he knows the plant, while I have only seen 

 specimens, I gladly substitute, with a few verbal alterations, his 

 description of it and some remarks on the genus, for those I 

 had previously prepared, as being on the whole more correct ; 

 the specimens from which mine was taken, having been injur- 

 ed by damp in the course of transmission. I have only fur- 

 ther to add, that I hope soon to see Mr. Stokes a regular 

 contributor to your pages, and, judging from some of his ma- 

 nuscripts, now before me, we may anticipate many interesting 

 communications from his pen. 



Vogelia Indica. (W. and G. V. perfoliata, Stokes* MS.) 

 leaves ovate, perfoliate, coriaceous, glabrous. 



Hab. — Baikur near Deesa and Aboo. Stokes. Humicul 

 ghaut. Gibson. 



Shrubby, 6-8 feet high, with weak straggling branches. Stem 

 round, finely striated in the younger parts. Leaves bifarious 

 auricled, and by the union of the auricles perfoliate, very thick 

 and coriaceous* smooth above, below covered with scurf, con- 

 sisting of lepides, arising from pits in the epidermis. Lower 

 leaves 5 inches long by 3 broad, waved. Calyx tubular and 

 angled at the base, cleft half way down into 5 divisions, seg- 

 ments membranaceous, filmy, with a thick middle vein and 

 transverse ruge (or plaits) on each side, persistent. 



Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, tubular ; tube 

 yellowish orange, streaked with red ; limb five-cleft ; lobes 

 smallish, emarginate, with a minute mucro in the cleft, mar- 

 descent. Stamens five, attached to the very fcase of the 

 corolla, hypogynous ; filaments glandulose at the base, as long 

 as the tube, slightly adherent, opposite the lobes. 



Ovary angular, 1 -celled with a single pendulous ovule; 

 style slender, bearded at the base, as long as the stamens ; 



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