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minal long peduncled with about 3 renexed secund divisions, 2 of 

 which are generally 2-parted bracts large falcate, calyx minute^ 

 flower buds angled, corol gibbous at the base and contracted below 

 the segments, glabrous outside, hairy in the jaws above the anthers. 



Anamallay hills, in sholas 3-4000 feet growing with 0 : Roxbur- 

 ehiana (Wight.) 



LABIATE. 



Coietjs-. 



Coleus Anamallay ensis, herbaceous, stem erect, glabrous 4-sided 

 leaves elliptic, serrated from near the base, petioled, covered with 

 minute asperities, racemes terminal, verticillasters with 2 renexed 

 small bracts at the base 6-flowered — pedicels, calyx, and corol 

 minutely pilose, tube of the corol 2J times longer than the calyx, 

 glabrous within — upper lip 3-lobed, middle lobe emarginate, lower 

 lip cymbiform entire narrow and longer than the upper one, fila- 

 ments 3 — 4 times longer than the corol, (the inferior longest) in 

 cestivation rolled up — style a little longer than the filaments. 



A very pretty annual, moist places in the Teak forests of the 

 Anamallays, in flower June and July. 



AUR ANTT ACE^E . 



COOKIA. 



Cookia ? dulcis, a small tree, leaflets 7 — 9 pairs, obliquely ovate, 

 unequal sided, ending in a longish blunt acumination, punctated, 

 margin waved, ciliated with minute tufts of hair— peduncles, pe- 

 tioles, and nerves of the leaves slightly scabrous, panicles a little 

 above the axils shorter than the leaves, bracts of the lower branches 

 of the panicle pinnate, conform to the leaves, but small petals 4, 

 stamens 8, fruit globose, size of a large cherry. 



Calyx 4-toothed, petals 4, flower buds angled — stamens 8 dis- 

 tinct fi laments subulate above and attached to the middle of the 

 anthers dilated below (as in " Clausena") ovary sessile (no torus) 

 glands of the ovary without hairs, 4-celled ovules 2, superposed in 

 each cell, style 4-angled, thick, (as if 4 styles were consolidated 

 into one) stigma 4-lobed. Fruit globose, filled with balsamic fluid, 

 covered with a thin rind (whitish) punctated with pellucid dots 

 1—4 celled 1 — 4 seeded, seeds covered with a thin white testa, co- 

 tyledons glabrous, radicle covered with fuscous stellate tufts of hair. 



