STYRACM. 
SvMPTnrnci POSFA (Bedd ) A large shrub, with small rose colored flowers, young branches petioles and inflorescence 
-e^tea a t the ^ 
Xx^ll^'r^ira. ^ co.,, "orol lobes obtuse glabrous, ovary 3 celled, cells 2 ovuled, ovules peodulou, Irui. 
oblong about £ an inch long, puberulous. Bedd. in Linn. Trans. Vol XXV. 
Anamallays, moist woods, 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CXY. 
SYMPLOCOS ANAMALLAYANA. (Bedd.) A small tree, every where glabrous, leaves ovate to sub-orbicular with? 
short obtuse point very coriaceous shining, serrulate iu the upper half, 1| to If inches long by about 1 inch broad, petioles about 1 
line long, peduncles simple axillary solitary or 2-3 together about 1 inch long furnished with 2 bractes at the base of the calyx, flowers 
small white, calyx lobes acute about Jrd the length of the corol, corol lobes rounded, ovary 3 celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each 
cell, fruit narrow oblong $ to f inch long. Symplocos uniflora, Bedd. in Linn. Tram. Vol. XXV. (not Benth.) 
Anamallays, 5,000-6,000 feet elevation. p L A TE No. CXVI. 
Symplocos ACUMINATA. (Bedd.) A small tree or large shrub, young shoots peduncles and bracts minutely hairy 
otherwise quite glabrous, leaves elliptic lanceolate attenuated at the base and furnished with a very long acuminated point subentire 
or with a few very inconspicuous distant teeth in the upper half, about 4 inches long by 1£-1 f broad racemes slender axillary or supra- 
axillary slightly hairy as are the bracts 1-2 inches long, bearing several pediceUed white flowers, calyx lobes rounded or subacute, \ 
shorter than the corol, flowers § an inch in diameter, corol-lobes obtuse, ovary 3 celled with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. 
Wynad, very common on the top of the Brumagherries, elevation 5000 feet, also on the Tirrioot peak at a similar elevation. 
PLATE No. CXVIL 
GENTIANACM. 
EXACUM TfLAVANCORICUM. (Bedd.) A small much branched glabrous perennial about 6-8 inches high, stems 
numerous terete, leaves sessile spathulate incurved, and slightly acute at the apex very thick and fleshy, convex on the under surface 
3 veined, (veins quite obscure) 1-lf inches long by about £ an inch broad, peduncles axillary solitary about 2 inches long each bearing 
a single large light blue flower, each flower being 1-1 \ inches in diameter, calyx winged on the angles, lobes 4 with very long acute 
points about J as long as corol, corol lobes rounded. 
Travancore hills, abundant on the Attraymallay in grassy places and on rooks at an elevation of SOOO foot; a most lovely 
plant of which the draw,eg only shows I branch; it forms a dense globular plant, covered wilh sometimes nearly 50 beantifol 
cobault colored flowers. 
PLATE No. CXVni. 
• r t EX i CD8 ! f 1 *™UREUM. (Bedd.) A giabroua erect plant, annual 1 stem, terete, leave, sessile and stem ** 
ength of the corol, flower, about 2 inches in diameter, oU very deep Mu^c or.1 lobe. .lightlytZ^nUoWong 8 - 
_ CYRTANDRACR®. 
DlDYMOCARPUS REPENS. (Bedd.) A creeni™ * 
rooting at intervals along their whole length, leaves long petioled S oTorV^ ™ h ^7 liX 
pointed at the apex, coarsely crenated with the crenatnres again SernTd CWdat> ^ StS* 
lengths, the longer ones being jointed, 4-5 inches each " Withnamer ° US ««very hairs of M 
petioles, few flowered at the apex, flowers blue, calyx lobes acute about 1 ^ ^ l0Dg VCry hairy ’ P edanc,es rather lar 8 er tha “ * 
lobes small obtuse and scarcely spreading, filaments of the fertile stamens br^W ^ C ° To1 ** * t0 1 inch l0Kg "'TL 
slightly clavate at the apex. broadly dilated except at the apex, sterile filaments short©! 
pass, nearly allied to D. Zeylanica R. Bn^ctytol ^* myancore fore8t9 > 1,000-3,000 feet elevation, very abundant in the Ayen Coil 
PLATE No. CXX. 
