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GENTIANACEJS. 
EXACUM AnAMALLAYANUM. (Bedd.) Perennial, shrnbby 2-3 feet high, stems very woody at the base, terete more or 
less angled when young, leaves very thick and coriaceous from broad lanceolate to broad ovate 3-5 nerved stem clasping, slightly acute 
at the apex, 2-2£ inches long by 1-1J broad, flowers intensely deep bine, 1J to 2 inches in expansion, peduncles crowded at the apex of 
the branches and from the upper axils, sepals acuminate, petals acute or mueronate. 
Anamallays and Pulney mountains, 6-7000 feet elevation. This is by far the most lovely species of the genus, its foliage 
is very beautiful, and its flowers are of the deepest ultramarine. I always looked upon it as a form of the Ceylon E. macranthum until 
I saw that species growing ; it is however very distinct, the leaves are very thick, leathery and opaque. 
PLATE. CL1V. 
Exacum alropurperum (PI. cxix of this work) was drawn from a specimen collected on the Travancore hills (4500 feet eleva¬ 
tion J. I have lately found it on the mountains near Palghat at nearly 7000 feet. Exacum IVightianum (Wight's leones, 840) 
I have lately found in high grass on the Shevaroys (elevation 4500 feet). It is a superb species, but perhaps only a very luxuriant variety 
of bicolor, bicolor and tetragonum are scarcely distinct ; and E. Zeylanicum, macranthum, Walktri and Perrottettii are I believe all 
forms of one species. E. Courtallense is very closely allied to Perrotletii, but is more membranaceous, and 1 have a species in my Herbari¬ 
um from, the Travancore hills (4000 feet) which I at first thought new, but now look upon as only a very luxuriant form of Courtal¬ 
lense, it has its leaves very much broader, and the flowers 2h inches across. 
The very empitose fleshy leaved E. Travancoricum (PI. exm of this work) is a most distinct species, and one of the most beauti¬ 
ful plants in this Presidency ; it is abundant on the Altraymallay in Travancore. 
COMBRETACE^E. 
QuISQUALIS MaLABARICA. (Bedd). A very large climber, young stems very minutely puberulous, leaves opposite 
elliptic, oblong more or less acuminated very minutely puberulous on the costa and veins, otherwise glabrous penniveined quite entire 
3-6 inches long by l-2£ broad, petioles 4-8 lines long slightly puberulous, jointed near the base, leaving a permanent hard base after the 
fall of the leaf, which become large hooked blnnt topped spines (on the older branches) racemes terminal i|-I| inches long ; minutely 
silky pubesoent, bracts narrow linear 2 lines long, flowers deep pink 1 inch long (on pedicels 3 lines in length), calyx and corol silky on 
the outside, petals linear lanceolate acute, stylo adglutinate to the calyx tube, not reaching the lower stamens, stamens all included, 
the upper 5 opposite the segments of the calyx, the lower ones opposite the petals, ovary hairy I celled with 3 pendulous ovules ; 
fruit net seen. 
A very large creeper, Carcoor ghat., Wynad, elevation about 1500 feet* 
PLATE CLV. 
MELASTOMAGEJE. 
SONERILA TrAVANCORICA. (Bedd.) Perennial suffruticose, erect, branches terete sometimes marked with a decur¬ 
rent rib from the insertion of the leaves, densely villons, leaves opposite ovate to elliptic, acute at the apex, quite entire or incon¬ 
spicuously crenate near the apex, densely villous on both sides (especially so on the mid rib and veins beneath) with adpressed long 
tawny hairs, 2 \ -3£ inches long by l$-lf broad, petioles densely villous, \ to inches long, peduncles terminal about l inch l6ng 
subumbelliform 5-6 flowered, pedicels short at first recurved, erect in frnit, peduncles pedicels and calyx hirsute with gland tipped 
hairs, calyx prominently nerved, petals obovate to sub-rotund often mucronulate furnished with a line of gland tipped hairs down the 
centre of the back, anthers deeply sagittate at the base recurved and attenuated into a long point at the apex, style longer than the 
filaments, capsule ribbed and covered with gland tipped hairs, flowers pink about 1J iuebes across. 
Travancore mountains (Attraymallay), 3500-5000 feet. A very beautiful species, somewhat resembling the ranch more mem¬ 
branaceous versicolor, which however is annual; this besides is far more densely pubescent and the venation of the leaves is different. 
r PLATE CLVI. 
MeDINILLA MaLABARICA. (Bedd.) Epiphytic glabrous subscandent, copiously rooting, branches warty, leaves very 
fleshy opposite lanceolate 3 nerved, the lateral nerves springing from the costa a little above the base, costa and nerves very prominent 
beneath, occasionally the leaves are sub 5 nerved, the outer nerves being thin and near the margin, entire or inconspicuously crenato nu- 
dulate near the apex, scarcely acute at the apex, glabrous, 3-3| inches long by 1 £ broad, petioles 4-7 lines long, pednnoles quite glabrous 
generally several together in the axils 2 lines to f inch long, 3-5 flowered, furnished with 2 minute bractea at the apex, lateral pedicels 
10 lines long jointed and braeteoled at the middle occasionally 2 flowered, terminal one not jointed, calyx-tube turbinate quite entire 
or with 4-8 most minute teeth, petals 4 fleshy oblong with a cultriform apex much imbricate, stamens 8, equal inserted round the apex 
of the stamen tube (which lines the calyx) inflexed in the bud, filament with 2 glandular swellings at its apex on the inside, anthers 
