JAN.— MAR. 1858.] 



Putney Hills. 



189 



Caralluma ? 



Boucerosia diffusa, 



^Stem filiform, with a few narrow 

 linear leaves near the apex, hardly 

 two lines broad, flowers bell shaped, 

 drooping, purple. (Poombary val- 

 ley.) I unfortunately lost the only 

 specimen that I found of this curi- 



^ ous little plant, 

 on rocks. 



OltOBANCHACE^E. 



JEginetia pedunculata, ( flowers of a most lovel y dee P blue » 

 ( parasitic on the roots of a grass. 



Kodakarnal shola. 



Tandigoody sholas. 



Oligopholis tubulosa, 

 Campbellia sp. 



Gentianace^:. 



Gentiana verticellata, 

 Ophelia elegans, 



„ Griesbachiana, 



Halenia Perrottetii, 

 Exacum tetragonum, 

 „ Perrottetii, 



glands on the petals 

 very hairy. 



borders of sholas common 



higher ranges, 

 most abundant 

 in the grass. 



nov sp. 



pedunculare, 

 Canscora diffusa, 



Solanum sp. 



abundant near Poombary, a very 

 beatiful species. 



^herbaceous, erect, glabrous, leaves 

 I opposite, broadly ovate, stem clasp - 

 I ing, 5 — 7 nerved, suddenly acumi- 

 nated, 2 bracts about the centre of 

 the peduncles, flowers very large of 

 a deep blue. Poombary and Koda- 

 karnal. (Introduced into gardens at 

 'v. the latter place.) 



SoLANACEJE. 



Shrubby, erect, leaves petioled, ovate 

 lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, 



