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cdyx red, petals fleshy ovato-rotundate about 1J inches long rose colored. Hoot, ani Smlh. Gm. PI. ml. I 751. MediniUa 1 Walkeri, 
Wight III. x. 217. Pachycentria, Thw. En. p. 107. 
Ceylon, one of the most beautifal plants in the island, covering the trunks aud branches ol trees at 3009-5000 feet elevation. 
PL ATE No. CCLXXI. 
SyMPLOCOS OLIGANDRA. (Bedd.) A small or middling sized tree much branched, gemmae and young parts minutely 
puberulous, leaves coriaceous elliptic shortly pointed or rarely obtuse glabrous on both sides, shining above, pale beneath quite entire or 
with a very inconspicuous tendency to crenatiou near the apex, about 2 inches long by 8 lines broad, petioles 2-3 lines long channelled 
on the upper side aud puberulous, racemes puberulous very short scarcely longer than the petioles 3-6 flowered, calyx puberulous 
a the upper side aud puberulous, racemes puberulous very short scarcely longer__ r _MPL, ****** puoeruious 
scarcely a line long segments unequal, coroi glabrous about twice as long, stamens as long as corol 12 (rarely only 10-11) generally 
e in bundles of 2-3-4 the others solitary, ovary 3-celled, ovules 2, the upper one 
not spon Bedd. FI. Sylvatica p, el. 
hexadelphous in pairs or irregularly pentadelphons, some i 
very small suberect the lower long and pendulous,' ' 
PLATE No. CCLXXIL 
MYRTACE.dE. 
Eugenia Sing am patti an a. (Bedd.) A small dense tree, leaves opposite coriaceous oblongo-ovate to broad ovate 
subcordate at the base retuse or subacute at the apex deep green above, very pale beneath, perfectly glabrous, about 3 inches long by 
lk-2 inches broad, primary veins numerous and forming a continuous loop near the margius, flowers white in expansion about J au inch 
on very short terminal crowded racemes, calyx aud bracts with a slight pubescence, petals 4 distinct, prominently veined and inconspi¬ 
cuously dotted. 
I have only met this tree on the Singampatty hills (Tinnevelly ghats) at 3000 feet elevation in moist forests. 
PLATE No. CCLXXIII. 
EANUNCULACEdE. 
ThaLICTRUM DaLZELLII. (Hook,) Stem erect 1 foot high, leaves 3-foliate rarely 2-ternate slightly sheathing at the 
base, leaflets 1^-2 J inches in diameter reniform deeply cordate 7-9 lobed lobes crenate or toothed, stipules oblong free, panicle subsimpla 
small, flowers white, fascicled at the ends of the branches, filaments clavate about 50, achenes about 38 not compressed sessile, ribbed, 
furnished with long straight beaks hooked at the top. Hook, and Thom. FI. Ind. 10. 
Bababooden hills and Canara ghats, also in the Bombay Presidency (Harrichauder.) 
PLATE No. CCLXXIV. 
RUTACE^. 
PaRAMIGNYA ARMATA. (Thw.) A large soandent shrub, spines deflexed often recurved, leaves 1-foliate ovato- 
oblong to ovate with a sudden acumination, the apex obtuse or mucronulate glabrous or slightly hairy on the under side and the costa 
puberulous, punctate, 1-3 inches long by l-l£ broad, petioles articulated 8-9 lines long, flowers solitary or several together in the axils, 
pedicels slender articulate 3-12 Hues long, calyx small 4-5-triangulari-lobulate or dentato-lobate puberulous, petals 4 oblong punctate 
imbricate. Stamens 8-10, filaments hairy apiculate towards the apex dilated below, anthers oblong, ovary pilose and punctate 3-4-5 
celled seated on a large gynophore, ovules solitary pendulous, style thick punctate, stigma dilated, fruit rotundate about J an inch in 
diameter yellowish green when ripe. AnthromiscuB armatus, Thw. En. PI. Zey. 47. Faramignya, Oliver on Aurantiacece p. 43. 
Common on our Western ghats, Wyuad, Coorg, &c., up to 3-4000 feet elevation, also in Ceylon. 
PLATE No. CCLXXV. 
CAPPARIDEJE. 
CaPPARIS PARVIFLORA. (Hook. t. et Thom.) A spreading much branched large shrub, branches unarmed, leaves 
glabrous subcoriaceous very variable from narrow lanceolate to broad oblong or ovate, attenuate or cordate at the base more or less 
