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Flora of the [no. 6, new series, 



Apocynace-se. 



Carissa Carandas, 



Ophioxylon Neilgherrense, near Puttoor. 

 Vinca pusilla, fields. 

 Wrightia tinctoria, 

 Alstonia venenata, 

 Ichnocarpus frutescens, 



Eckites sp. slopes near Pulney. 



LOGANIACE^E. 



Strychnos nux-vomica, 



Gardnera Wallichiana, sholas. 



Fagraea Coromandeliana, 



Asclepiace^e. 



Hemidesmus Indicus, 

 Holostemma Rheedianum, 

 Calotropis gigantea, 

 Sarcostigma bre'vispina, 



> j sp. 

 Daemia extensa, 

 Cynanchum pauciflorum, 

 Tylophora mollissima } 

 tenuissima, 

 Hoy a viridiflora, 

 pauciflora, 

 Ceropegia intermedia, 

 ,, acuminata, 



tuberosa, 

 „ juncea, 

 elegans, 



Kookul. 

 common, 

 sholas. 



a rare and beautiful parasite. 



slopes towards Verupatchy. 

 lower slopes. 

 ^"Root fibrous, leavesremote, lanceolate, 

 tapering to a long point, slightly 

 hairy, covered with minute dots, ra- 

 cemes cyme like, axillary, 2 — 6 flow- 

 ered, flowers very large, greenish, 

 upper part of tube and segments 

 speckled with purple, segments of 

 calyx, very narrow and acute, 

 nearly allied to C, Decais?ieana, a 

 bulbous plant. 



