JAN. — MAR. 1858.] 



Pulney Hills. 



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Caralluma ? 



Boucerosia diffusa, 



iEginetia pedunculata, 



Oligopholis tubulosa, 

 Campbellia sp. 



Gentiana verticellata, 

 Ophelia elegans, 



Griesbachiana, 



Halenia Perrottetii, 

 ExaGum tetragonum, 

 Perrottetii, 



fStem filiform, with a few narrow 

 linear leaves near the apex, hardly 

 two lines broad, flowers bell shaped, 

 drooping, purple. (Poombary val- 

 ley.) I unfortunately lost the only 

 specimen that I found of this curi- 

 ^ ous little plant, 

 on rocks. 



Orobanchace^:. 



! flowers of a most lovely deep blue, 

 parasitic on the roots of a grass. 

 Kodakarnal shola. 

 Tandigoody sholas. 



Gextianace^:. 



higher ranges, 

 most abundant 

 in the 'grass. 



nov sp. 



,, pedunculare, 

 Canscora diffusa, 



Solanum sp. 



glands on the petals 

 very hairy. 



borders of sholas common 



abundant near Poombary, a very 

 beatiful species. 



^herbaceous, erect, glabrous, leaves 

 opposite, broadly ovate, stem clasp- 

 ing, 5 — 7 nerved, suddenly acumi- 

 J nated, 2 bracts about the centre of 

 i the peduncles, flowers very large of 

 J a deep blue. Poombary and Koda- 

 karnal. (Introduced into gardens at 

 ^ the latter place.) 



Solanaceje. 



Shrubby, erect, leaves petioled, ovate 

 lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, 



