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along its margin (staminodia 1) ovary connate with the tube near the summit 
; or almost basal glabrous except at the base longer than the stamens. Entosi 
Wynad, in moist woods at an elevation of 2,000-3,000 feet, commo 
very hairy 2 celled, cells 1 ovuled, ovule erect, style lateral 
iphon Indicus, Bedd. in Mad. L . Sot. Jour. 
in on the Carcoor ghat. 
PLATE No. C1X. 
BEGONIACEiE. 
i- . 8rna11 p,ant aboufc 4 incbes Bigb, leaves radical rhomboid ovate to cordate of 
•lightly trilobate aouminate, bristly eremite, long petioled, fumiehed above with a few week hairs, beneath glabroes, pellucid dotted, 
BeqONIA MINIMA. (Bedd.) A 
1J to 2 inches long, 1-15 broad, petioles 1-2 inches long, scapes dichotomonsly branched longer than the leayes, with 1 leaf 
base, branches several flowered, bracteated, male perianth 4 petaled, 2 inner petals narrower than the 
■ female perianth 5 petaled, capsule 3 winged, placentas double. 
, stamens definite about 8, 
t woods near Devallicottab, elevation 2,500-3,000 feet; it belongs to Dr. Lindley’s section Diploclinium. 
PLATE No. CX 
I Begonia FLOCCIFERA. (Bedd.) Stemless with large scariose very membranaceous bracts at the apex of the root 
leaves densely covered with woolly tomentum on both sides when young, at length nearly glabrous above, obliquely semi-cordate to sub- 
g orbicular (not peltate) variously sinuate but not lobed, generally broader than long, 3 inches long by 4 broad, but very variable in size 
and shape, petioles about 2-2* inches long very woolly, scapes very long branched, with the branches again dichotomonsly branched and 
flnpradecompound, flowers very numerous, male perianth 2 petaled, petals nearly orbicular, stamens indefinite, female perianth 4 petaled 
petals lanceolate acute, placentas single. 
Travancore and South Tiunevelly hills, at an elevation of 3,000 feet. 
PLATE No. CXI. 
mt CyPRIPEDIUM DruRII. (Bedd.) Rhizome shortly creeping with thick succulent fibres, leaves radical narrow oblong 
mthick coriaceous slightly unequal at the apex, 8-12 inches long by about 1* broad, scape 7-10 inches long pubescent, bearing a single 
large yellowish flower streaked and blotched with reddish purple, with a sheathing bract at the base, upper sepals 1* or a little more 
long and about 1 inch broad acuminate pubescent on the outside, lower ones united in a single broadly ovate sepal, petals narrow 
I oblong nearly 2 inches long by about J an inch broad slightly hairy at the base, labellum broadly inflated about 1J inoh long. 
Travancore bills at 5,000-6,000 feet elevation, first discovered by Colonel H. Drury on the Aghusteer hill, and I afterwards 
f found it very abundant on the top of the Calcad hills, in flower in January. 
PLATE No. CXII. 
MYRSINACEiE. 
ArDISIA SERRATIFOLIA. (Redd.) An erect shrub, young branches under side of the leaves and petioles densely rufo- 
f tomentose, leaves nearly glabrous above, narrow lanceolate attenuated at the base and with a long aeumination at the apex very 
1 aharply serrated serratures quite at right angles with the margin of the leaf, lateral veins numerous diverging from the midrib very 
f prominent beneath, 6-9 inches long by l*-2* broad, petioles * to * inch long, peduncles axillary about 2 lines long several flowered 
(pedicels slender about * inch long glabrous, calyx pubescent, petals gland dotted, style long slender. 
Anamallays, in moist woods up to 3,000 feet, Coimbatore hills at similar elevations. 
PLATE No. CXIII. 
RHAMNACEiE. 
1 ZlZYPHUS WYNADENSIS. (Bedd.) A lofty tree, unarmed, young shoots and inflorescence fulvo-tomentose, leaves 
(elliptic lanceolate glabrous and shining above beneath very finely reticulated and slightly hairy on the veins furnished with hairy 
L glands in the axils of the main veins, 1* to nearly 2 inches long, £ to § of an inch broad, petioles a little less than * inch long, 
flowers in dense axillary fascicles about the length of the petioles, sepals furnished with a prominent ridge down their Inner face] 
l P etals 3 lobed, connective of the anthers prolonged into a long blunt point, ovary 2 celled immersed in the haiiy pentagonal disk, styles 
IS diverging. 
Wynad, in dense forests about Devalicottah, elevation 3,000 feet. 
PLATE No. CXIY. 
