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furnished above with numerous weak hairs below nearly, 

 glabrous very long petioled scapes about the length of the 

 leaves 6-1 0, flowered at the apex, bracts ovate pedicels 

 J- to. f of an inch long, sepals small ovate, vexillum ovate, 

 alse with the lower petals produced into two long linear 

 lobes, labellum ovate saccate without a spur, capsule gla- 

 brous seeds numerous brown minutely scrobiculate — flowers 

 brownish-red. Koondahs on trees in moist woods, 7,000 

 feet elevation, rave (Plate No. 6). 



CELASTRACE M. 



Glyptopetalum zeylanicum, (Thw. En. Cey. pi. page 

 73,) Common on the A'naimalais, 2,000 feet elevation. 



RHAMNACE^E. 



Zizyphus wynadensis, (R. H. B.) Arboreous unarmed 

 leaves oblong to lanceolate attenuated at both ends acumi- 

 nate shortly petioled glabrous and shining above, penni- 

 nerved, beneath very finely reticulated and fulvo-pubescent 

 on the nerves — young shoots and inflorescence fulvo-pubes- 

 cent ; flowers in dense axillary fascicles about the length of 

 the petioles, styles 2, ovary 2 celled, disk hairy, petals 3 

 lobed sepals furnished with a prominent ridge down the 

 centre of their inner face, anthers prolonged into a long con- 

 nectivum. (Plate No. 7). Wyndd about Devallikottai, in 

 moist woods, a lofty tree. 



CHAILLETIACEiE. 



Moacurra gelonioides, (Roxb.) A'naimalais, up to 

 4,000 feet. 



LEGUMXNOSiE. 



Grot al aria elegans, (R. H. B. Pulney Cat.) A'naima- 

 lais, Travancore hills. 



Crotalaria lunata, (R. H. B. 1. c.) A'naimalais. 

 Crotalaria acicularis, (Hcern.) A'naimalais, 3 ; 000 feet 



