1837.]' 



Contributions to Indian Botany, 



311 



A small rather rigid ramous shrub. Leaves truncated cuneate. Sti- 

 pules petiolar subulate. Flowers solitary on the ends of the branches. 

 Fruit flattened,, somewhat depressed. 



IX truncatus.—U. W. 



Hah. Frequent in waste grounds about Madras. 



Melochia truncata Willd : sp. 3. page 601—Sprengel, Syst : 3. p. 29^ 

 Riedleia truncata De C. Prod :■ Syst. i. p. 491. — Wight and Arnott. 

 Prod : Fl. Peninsul. Ind. Orient : vol. 1. p. 66. 

 Sida cuneifolia. Roocb. FL Ind, vol. 3d. p. 170. Hort. Beng. p, 50, 

 Sida retusa. Roxb. in E. I. C. Mus. tab. 341. 



References to Plate 19. 

 jk A branch natural size. 

 2* A leaf, and stipules adhering to the petiole. 



3. Flower. 



4. Calyx, ovary, style, and stigmas. 



5. Ovary cut vertically. 



6. : — transversely. 



7. Anther. 



8. burst, with grains of pollen. 



9. Carpel separate, showing its reticulation. 



10. ,cut vertically, showing the embryo and erect radical itk 



situ. 



11. Embryo removed from the enclosing albumen, the foliaceous, 

 cotyledons drawn aside to show the radicle, which points towards the 

 apex of the seed^-all more or less magnified. 



12. Carpels united into a 5-celled capsule«— natural size. 



NIMMOIA.-R. W. 



Nat. Ordei 1 Saxifrage/e.— Lin. Syst. Tetrandria Monogfxia-. 



Among a small collection of Bombay plants, recently communicated 

 by Mr. Nimmo of that place, was one, the general appearance of which 

 struck me as peculiar ; it seemed to differ from any Indian plant I had 

 hitherto met with. This circumstance induced me to examine it with 

 care, and I was much pleased to find it form the type of a new genus 

 of a family nearly unknown in Southern India,* though frequent 



* Vahliais the ouly known peninsular jenus of tins order 



