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attached by their whole inner face to the central placenta, 

 bluntly three sided, hilum occupying the whole of one face 

 testa thick deep reddish brown, radicle inverse near the 

 apex between the large fleshy green cotyledons. 



Milnea APIOCARPA, (Thw. En. p. 60.) A'naimalais. 

 AMPELIDEiE. 

 Cissus (Linn.) 



Cissus Anaimalaiensis (R. H. B.) Whole plant glabrous, 

 leaves simple and trifoliate, common petiole 1 to 2 inches 

 long, leaflets on short glandular petioles, ovate lanceolate 

 with a very long acumination sharply serrated, lateral leaf- 

 lets very unequal sided with an oblique base, 3 J to 4 inches 

 long by 2 inches broad beneath prominently reticulated 

 tendril many cleft furnished with minute stipules, inflores- 

 cence loosely cymose, pedicels shorter than* the leaves. 

 A'naimalais, 5,000 feet elevoiion. 



BALSAMINACEiE. 



Impatiens (Link) (Sec. Scapigerse Hooker and Thomson.) 



Impatiens Denisonii, (K. H. B.) leaves ovate cordate 

 with bristly crenatures furnished above with numerous 

 weak hairs below glabrous, petioles generally shorter than 

 the leaves— scapes much longer than the leaves flowers 

 numerous, bracts small ovate, pedicels 1 inch long, sepals 

 small ovate vexillum rather large broadly ovate vaulted, 

 alae with three broad spreading lobes, with a dense tuft of 

 petaloid hairs above the conjunction of the lobes and fur- 

 nished with a long filiform appendage which is entirely hid 

 in the spur and extends its whole length — spur very long re- 

 curved capsule glabrous seeds numerous small. (Plate No. 5.) 

 On rocks and trees—Western slopes of the Nilagiris, 3,000 

 to nearly 5,000 feet elevation, very abundant 



Impatiens orchioides, (E. H. B.) Leaves ovate to or- 

 bicular with a deep cordate base, obtuse, bristly crenate 



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