Captain Beddome's Contributions, &c. &e. 37 



Contributions to the Botany of Southern India by Cap- 

 tain R H. BEDDOME, Officiating Conservator of For- 

 ests, with Plates. 



ANONACEiE. 

 (New Genus) Atrutegia (tribe Saccopetaleae) 

 Generic Character — Sepals 3 small, petals 6, in 2 series 

 aestivation valvate, outer ones nearly twice the size of the 

 inner ones, ovate acuminated, nerved ; inner ones obovate 

 acuminate firmly cohering by their margins, torus sub- 

 globose, stamens indefinite, anthers sessile, connectivum large 

 attenuated into a blunt point — ovaries numerous oblong, 

 style long attenuated, stigma 2 clawed, ovule erect, solitary. 



Atrutegia Wynadensis (R H. B.) an erect shrub, or 

 small tree ; leaves oblong acuminated, glabrous on both sides, 

 8 to 11 inches long by 3 inches broad, petiole 6 lines long, 

 flowers axillary solitary, or solitary from small knots on the 

 trunk, sepals rounded puberulous, outer petal puberulous 

 on both sides, inner ones puberulous on the outside and 

 glabrous within, but furnished on the inner face with a deep 

 hairy channel round the upper portion torus ovary and style 

 hairy (Plate No. 1.) 



Bare. Wynad, in moist woods, 3,500 feet elevation, in 

 flower in January. 



" Unona pannosa" (Dalzell) is common in the Wynad 

 and on the A'naimalais. " Cyathocalyx Zeylanieus" (Cham- 

 pion) not uncommon in moist woods on the A'naimalais 

 " Guatteria coffeoides" (Hooker and Thomson), or a species 

 closely allied to it, is a common tree in the Wynad : it yields 

 a valuable fibre, as also does Unona pannosa. Orophea ery- 

 throcarpa, described by me from the A'naimalais in a former 

 number of the J ournal, I have also found in the Wynad. 



