DrOSPYROS HIRSUTA. (L.) A middling sized tree, young leaves and inflorescence ferrngineo-tomentose, leaves 
subcoriaceous elliptic or oblong mnre or less abruptly acuminate, slightly narrowed at the base, at length stvbglabrous 3-8 inches long 1-3 
inches broad, petiole tomentoae 3-4 lines long ; male capitula many flowered, calyx 1 line long, 5 parted nearly to the middle, corol 
about 2 lines long, rudiment of ovary small, stamens 5 on the torus round the rudimentary ovary; female flowers 1-3, calyx thick 3 lines 
long 5 parted to beyond the middle, lobes triangular acute margins reflexed, corol a little longer than the calyx, sterile stamens 5 on 
the corol tube, ovary 10 ceded, fruit ovoid apiculate fulvo-tomentose 9 lines long 6-10 seeded seated on the enlarged calyx, seeds black 
transversely striated 7 lines long 3 lines broad, albumen ruminate.-There are occasionally female flowers in the capitula on the male 
tree, they are small and have the ovary only 6 celled and are probably abortive. Thw. En. PLZey. p. 181;— L.f. Sunn n 440>_ 
A. DC. Vol. viii. p. 223. * ^ ' PP V ' 
Ceylon forests of the suuth of the island. 
PLATE No. CXXXVII. 
DlOSPYROS MoONH (Thw) A middling sized tree, branches terete slightly pilose when yonng bat soon glabrous, 
leases coriaceous oblong acuminate rounded et the base, glabrous above, costa and petiole channelled, eparingiypih.ee beneath 5-123 
inches long 1.14 inches breed, petiole 3 lines long, i,.florescence axillary, fulvo-pilose, male capitals 6-10 flowered, calyx 2 lines long 
5 parted nearly to the middle, coral .hoot 4 lines, long, stamens 5. Female flowers 1-2, calyx thick 3 lines long margin revolute, corol 
.bent equal to the calyx in length, stigma obscurely 5 lobed,fruit 1J inches long 6-10 seeded, seated on the enlarged calyx, seed ohloug' 
compressed, transversely rugose, blackish 7 lines long 4 lines broad, albnme.i ruminate. Thw. En. PI. Ziy. p. 182. 
Ceylon at no great elevation—(from a drawing executed in the Ceylon Herbarium.) 
PLATE No. CXXXVII1. 
• . ?:•>!'** >— membranaoeooa giabroue or eparingiy pi,„ee obleng 
aoummat, attenuated at the bee. mb. a short petiole, closely and minutely reticulated, pale beneath, 1 H inches long, J-l inch broad, 
patmla -2 I,nee long, mfloraecenc. etr.goey ,tb browmsh yeUow hair, amongst which are mixed some black hairs, male capitula 3 10 
flowered, calyx l line long 4-5 parted to below the middle, lobes lanceolate acute, corol about 2 lines In™ a, nF 
the corol tub. round the rudiment of ,n ovary, female flowers solitary axillary, calyx 3-4 lines long 4 5 parted to below the middle 
lobe, lanceolate acute reflexed a. the marg.n, corol a little longer than the calyx, sterile stamens 5 on the corol tube, stigmas 2 .hart 
spathuliform, ovary 4 celted fruit oblong acuminate 1-1J inches long, 2-3 seeded, seeds chestnut shiuing oblong acuminate, albumen 
not ruminate. Thv>. En. PI. Zey. p. 183. Jj 
Ceylon, Pnsdoon Corl, at no great 
denia Herbarium, Ceylon. 
. PLATE No. CXXXIX. 
the flowering branch of the male tree i< 
xecuted in the Pera- 
D. EBENUM, D. EXSCfJLPTA, D. WfGHTlANA, and D. EMBRYOPTERIS Va'nable timber trees in 
Southern Indi* have been figured in the Flora Sylvalioa. D. assimi.ia figlIIed in th . Conservator's Annna. R I „n flr 
haps oniy a vsriety of ehennm j D. Cnndoiban. <N.Ig>ns), dnb,. (foot of Sev.gherries and Courtallmn), montana (eastern and western rid. 
of the Presidency), ovalifoliaGbronghont the western forester, chloroxylon (cepitnlate, Wight), and cordifolia, Eastern ride, end obovat. 
(locality not W by Dn Wigi* and I hare met with them all frequently except the last epcciee which is quite 
unknown to mc—Dioe),) roe acuta (Thw.) is n Ceylon tree, of which I have no specimen, end I have observed several other soeciee 
in the dense forests of our Western Coast, of which I have not been able to procure epeeimen, in flower, th. genns is well represented 
in Bengal and Birmah. b r 
GERANIACEiE. 
IMPATIENS PARASITICA. (Redd.) Parasitic on trees, stems very succulent often moniUform and throwing out 
roots leave, crowded about the epex of .be branch., glabrous long pstiolsd ovate acute, crenate with incurved bristles 1J-2 inches 
LTne^otll Jirirt 8 f inCh ' 0 “ g • l i edU “ 0le * tery 8hWt *“*»• 2 -'7 » W pedicets (ahoet 
9 hues long) upper ..pals green with a fohaeeons craet, lateral one. very .mall linear acute, lower one bright red saccate with a recurved 
spur, upper of compound petals much email or than the lower, both almoet eulirei, hid in the saccate sepal, capsule gtabrous ovate 
gibbous, seeds numerous small. Bedd. Mad. Journ. of Lit. 1859? 1 8 
'????*?* thu b u. 0 „ 
„„ the Nilgin, , .. is |Ujjd to I. J.rdom.and viridi6«ra, and though ite flowera me smaller than those of 
** profuse bloom.,, , small mass in a pot beiog often covered with 60 or 80 
being injured by 
but it is 
Jerdonii, it 
^° ,,e ? •-* — 60 0 
,he siight frosts we experience, it grow, admirab, yin .ump, of brick and ehareoai, and ^ 
PLATE CXL. 
