1(52 Notes on Indian Botany. 



rate Gisekie a pupil who contributed largely to make known 

 his masters ideas regarding the Natural System of Botany, by 

 the publication of notes taken down from his lectures. The 

 plant seems hardly worthy of the name it bears, but still, it 

 serves as well as the most magnificent tree of our tropical 

 forests, to keep in remembrance the name of the Botanist who 

 conferred that service on the science, but who, so far as I am 

 aware, contributed nothing further to its advancement. 



From that time until the present, no second species has 

 been discovered, I therefore feel much pleasure in being made 

 the medium of bringing another to light. Of this, apparent- 

 ly rare plant, I am indebted to Mr. E. J. Stokes, of the 

 Bombay Medical Service, for a single specimen, a figure of 

 which accompanied by one of the original species, is now in 

 course of publication in my Icones. The two species may be 

 thus briefly distinguished. 



G. pharnacioides, (Lin.) procumbent, very diffuse : leaves 

 succulent, obovate-lanceolate, obtuse : flowers axillary, aggre- 

 gated, short, pedicelled. 



G. molluginoides, (R. W.) erect or ascending : leaves 

 linear lanceolate : corymbose, axillary, peduncles about the 

 length of the leaves, flowers longish pedicelled. 



Hab. — Deesa. Stokes. 



Obs. — In habit this plant resembles Mollugo stricta, whence 

 the name, but seems more erect. Annual, ascending, ramous : 

 leaves narrow, lanceolate, bluntish, glabrous above, clothed 

 with short closely appressed hairs beneath. Inflorescence 

 corymbosely panicled, peduncles axillary, about the length of 

 the leaves, slender ; pedicels filiform. Calyx 5-sepaled ; sepals 

 obtuse imbricating membranous on the margin. Corolla 

 none. Stamens 5, alternate with the sepals : filaments dilated 

 at the base, subulate : anthers adnate. Ovary of 5, 1 -celled, 



