Notes on Indian Botany. 19 



M. (Olopetalum) Lawiana (Stokes 5 MS.) densely cloth- 

 ed with soft lymphatic, glanduliferous pubescence : leaves 

 ovate- cordate, acuminate, dentate ; stipules and bracts her- 

 baceous : peduncles axillary, one-flowered, carpels obliquely 

 truncated at the apex, hispid. — The two halves of the leaves in 

 this species, show a tendency to close, like those of Dionea. 

 Is this peculiarity limited to this species, or is it common in 

 the genus ? 



Geranium Lawianum, Nimmo, in Graham 5 s Catalogue of 

 Bombay Plants, last page. 



Hab. — On hilly grounds in the Baikur district N.E. of 

 Deesa. Stokes 5 MS. 



Root fusiform ; stem ramous, semi-decumbent, clothed all 

 over with soft glanduliferous pubescence of a pinkish tinge ; 

 stipules minute, subulate, deciduous, leaves opposite, one 

 smaller (from whose axil the peduncles and branches spring), 

 cordate, acute, serrated, villous. The two halves of the 

 blade have a tendency to collapse like those of some of the 

 sensitive plants. Peduncles longer than the leaves, one- 

 flowered, axillary, solitary, jointed below the middle, fur- 

 nished at the joint with two subulate bracts, straight when in 

 flower, afterwards, as the fruit advances, bent acutely down- 

 wards at the joint, and equally acutely upwards immediately 

 below the carpels. Flowers rather large for the size of plant, 

 pink. Sepals 5, obovate-cuniate, aristato-mucronate, pubes- 

 cent, membranaceous and translucent on the margin. Petals 

 five, unguiculate, 3-veined, imbricated in aestivation, limb 

 crumpled, very fugacious. Stamens 15, monadelphous at 

 the base, dividing above into five 3-stamen fascicles, the 

 lateral anthers smaller and folded behind the middle one 

 in aestivation ; anthers adnate. Ovary of 5 carpels, at- 

 tached to a central axis : styles as many, the length of the 

 axis and adhering to it, all softly pubescent when young, 



