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petioles 4 lines long, pedicels long slender (12-16 lines long) 

 axillary solitary, or from short peduncles which are axillary 

 or supra-axillary, pedicels and calyx puberulous, 2 small 

 bracts at base of calyx, petals 4 ciliate twice as long as the 

 lobes of the calyx white, ovary 2 celled ovules 6-9, fruit ob- 

 long about the size of a sparrow's egg. 



A small tree : Anaimaktis, banks of streams, 3,000 to 

 4,000 feet 



Eugenia Wynadensis (R H. B.) : leaves oblong lanceolate . 

 with a long blunt acumination, when old quite glabrous on 

 both sides, young leaves and ramali and inflorescence densely 

 fulvo-tomentose, peduncles supra axillary much longer than 

 the petioles; calycine lobes 4 lanceolate acuminate a little 

 longer than the corol. bracts 2 linear much longer than the 

 sepals, leaves 3-3 J inches long by 1-1 \ broad, petioles 3-4 

 lines long peduncles 6 lines long. 



Wynad in moist woods, 3,500 feet elevation, a shrub or 

 small tree. 



CUCURBITACEiE. 



Trichosanthes Linn. 



Trichosanthes Anaimalaiensis (R H. B.) : leaves 3-5 

 lobed very scabrous above, pubescent beneath, irregularly 

 and deeply serrated ; 4-5 inches each way, female flowers 

 racemed furnished with large glandular lacinate bracts? 

 sometimes solitary or 2 and then axillary with a lanceolate 

 bract, stigma 3-4 cleft, sterile filaments 3 towards the base 

 of the tube. Male flowers with a larger and more lacinate 

 calyx, filaments 3 (rarely 4) distinct inserted on the gib- 

 bous part of the tube, anthers united corol very hairy on 

 the inside, tendrils 2-3 cleft, flowers white berry globose, 



A'naimalais, moist woods up to 4,000 feet. 



