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Botany of Southern India. [No. 11, new series. 



I have added this detailed description as this differs slightly from 

 the generic character as hitherto given, the difference however I do 

 not think sufficient to constitute it a new genus. 



A tree with a delicious fruit not uncommon on the Anamallays 

 up to 3000 feet both in the moist woods and in the drier forests — 

 it flowers in April and the fruit begins to ripen at the end of June 

 — the fruit is more grateful to the taste than that of the Whampee 

 (Cookia punctata). The tree is well known to the hill tribes and 

 called " Mor Koorangee." I have often met Kaders carrying home 

 on their backs basket loads of this and the fruit of " Pieraxdia Sa- 

 pida" which is also abundant in these jungles. 



MELASTOMACE^E. 



ONEHILA. 



Sonerila rotundifolia, herbaceous, bulbous — leaves radical very 

 long petioled — rotund, base cordate with the lobes overlapping, 

 7-nerved nerves very prominent beneath, red. glabrous and rather 

 succulent — scapes longer than the leaves with 8 — 6 secund flowers 

 at the apex — pedicels short thick, flowers rather large, petals obo- 

 vate retuse — flowers pink. 



Anamallay hills, moist rocky places 4— 5000 feet. 



AMPELIDEiE. 



Cisstrs, 



Cissus dealbata, glabrous shining, stems quite white with a mealy 

 bloom, obsoletely angled leaves cordate shining, base deeply cordate, 

 acuminated with a short mucro. red. bristle-toothed from shallow 

 serratures — petioles about f rds the length of the leaves— stipules 

 broad truncated, at length reflexed, cymes leaf opposed, pe- 

 duncles generally shorter than the petioles, pedicels about 5 simply 

 umbelliferous or again divided, tendrils bifid always present on the 

 young shoots— fructiferous pedicels much reflexed. 



A specious looking plant with its deep green shining leaves and 

 red bristle teeth, and tendrils, it is allied to " C, glauca" (Roxb.) 

 but is I think quite distinct — it is common about the Anamallay 

 forest, together with " C. discolor" (Dalzell) of this latter plant. 

 Mi\ Dalzell when describing it says u foliis supra intense viridi- 



