148 Notes on Indian Botany. 



Obs. — This species I found in Ceylon, and so far as I can 

 make out from my collection, it has not been met with by any 

 other. The rigid form, coriaceous leaves, and almost capitate 

 inflorescence, distinguishes it from all the others. The leaves 

 are about five inches long, by from one and a half to two 

 broad. The bisexual habit, a point by which it approaches 

 A. corymbosa, Bl., separates it from all his other species. 



7. Axanthes hirsuta, (R. W.) arborescent ? young 

 branches terete, densely hairy all over: stipules lanceolate, 

 acute, hairy : leaves elliptic lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous 

 above, pubescent beneath, short petioled : flowers subsessile, 

 aggregated in the axils of the leaves, bisexual: calyx and 

 corolla coarsely hairy : stamens 5 : anthers large : ovary 

 5-celled : style exceeding the disk : stigma clavate, 5-lobed. 



Hab. — Malacca. Griffith. 



Obs. — This species in some points nearly approaches, A. 

 strigosa, Blume, but in others is remote from it, so far as can 

 be made out by the brief and imperfect character he has given. 

 It is not, however, without hesitation that I have defined this 

 as a new species. 



APADYTES. E. Meyer, Bentham, Lin., Tr. 



Flowers bisexual. Calyx small, unchanged. Petals 4-5. 

 Stamens as many, alternate with them, none sterile. Ovary 

 1 -celled. Fruit ovate reniform, sub-compressed, bearing on 

 one side a fleshy appendage. Inflorescence terminal. Ben- 

 tham, Lin. Tr. vol. xviii. p. 680. 



The above generic character was drawn up by M. Bentham 

 for a plant from Port Natal in Southern Africa, and has been 

 introduced here for the information of Indian Botanists, who 

 may not have an opportunity of consulting the original, now 

 that a species has been discovered in India. The genus, if 



