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glabrous above, peduncles axillary or above the axils, pubescent, 

 longer than the petioles 3 — 4 folded pedicels pubescent long, calyx 

 and petals pubescent — stamens 12 in a double series, lower series 

 sterile, ovaries 6, densely strigose, 2 ovuled. Carpels oblong red. 

 seed solitary, large, scrobiculate. 



A middling sized tree, very abundant in moist woods on the Ana- 

 mallays, up to 3000 feet, associated with " Cyathocalyx Zeylanicus" 

 (Champion) and " Unona pannosa" (Dalzell), the last mentioned 

 is perhaps the most common of this order here, it is called " Chen 

 naree" by the hill tribes, and its fibre is much used. 



0 : Thomsonii. Leaves ovate elliptic 1J — 2 inch long by 1 — 1£ 

 broad, glabrous with a longish blunt acumination, sepals and outer 

 petals strigosely hairy, inner petals with a long narrow claw slight- 

 ly pubescent especially on the inner surface — stamens 10 — 12 in a 

 double series, ovaries 5 — 6 hairy 2-ovuled, peduncles axillary 3- 

 flowered strigosely hairy — peduncles and pedicels very short, car- 

 pels size of a pea, globose. 



A small tree, Anamallay hills with the preceding, the flowers are 

 smaller than those of O: unifiora ; (H. f. et T.) an allied species 

 which I have found in the Wynaud though I have not detected it 

 on the Anamallays. 



BEGONIACE^E. 

 Begonia. 



Begonia rentformis, stemless, root tuberous, leaves very obliquely 

 reniform, repand, or slightly lobed, long petioled, densely floscose 

 when young, at length glabrous, shining above, beautifully frosted 

 below, stipules large scariose, scapes generally much longer than 

 the leaves, cymes dichotomously branched, many flowered perianth 

 of both sexes 2-petaled, flowers small. 



Anamallay hills, on banks of streams in most woods 3000 feet, 

 very rare, a beautiful plant. 



RUBIACEJE. 



Ophiokhiza. 



Ophiorhiza falcata. SufTruticose, erect, every where glabrous, 

 leaves lanceolate, tapering at both ends, acuminate, very pale be- 

 neath, stipules large subulate to triangular, cymes axillary and ter- 



