opening fay a terminal pore, connective at the back produced into a short bluufc spur, ovary somewhat 8 lobed deeply sunk in the calyx 
tube, its apex on a level with the insertion of the stamens and its sides joined to the disk or staminal tube by 8 partitions, naked at its 
apex or crowned round the base of the style with 8 deciduous small filiform processes,‘ovules numerous iu each cell attached to the central 
placentas, fruit turbinate indehiscent succulent crowned with the calyx-limb and quite enclosed except its apex in the disk and calyx, 
the cells becoming somewhat obsolete, Beed obovoid, testa hard smooth, the flowers, peduncles, pedicels, petioles and base of the lamina 
are all of a brilliant crimson, the base of the lamina is often produced into 2 minute gland-like points at the apex of the petiole. 
This beautiful epiphyte is most abundant on the Anamallays, chiefly on the higher ranges where it quite covers trees, but 
also at lower elevations down to 3500 feet. I have also observed it on the western slopes of the Nilgiris (bauks of the river just below 
Walagbat) 4000 feet elevation; it is iu flower all the year round. 
Analysis. 
1. A bud, petals removed, showing the indexed stamens, 2, 3, 4. Front side and back view of an anther. 5. Vertical section 
of a flower, showing the position of the stameus and the walls or partitions connecting the ovary with the calyx. 6. Trausverse sec¬ 
tion of the ovary near its apex, showing its 4 cells aud the 8 cavities formed round it by the 8 connecting partitions. 7. Transverse 
section of the ovary near its centre. 8. A seed and the embryo. 9. View of the upper side of the leaf, the wart like dots are only 
visible when the leaf begins to dry, the quite fresh leaf is fleshy and perfectly smooth. 10. Underneath view of a leaf. 
Another species of MediniUa {the Triplectrum radicans of Wight and Arnol’s Prod.) with exceedingly thick nearly round leaves, 
is a most common epiphyte in all our western moist forests up to 4000 feet, perfectly covering trees in Wynad, Coorg , Anamallays, 
Tinnevelly, <kc. I have constantly met with it at different seasons during the last fifteen years, but never yet saw it in flower or fruit ; it 
probably flowers in Apnl and May , when Pam seldom in the forests, but I have occasionally seen it even in those months. 
PLATE CLVII. 
ANONACEiE. 
. . _ . y?° NA '’ ftImFL0Ii , A ;. <!*“■> A P« ts dmsely »ure„.pubescent, branches at Isngth glabrous 
but warty, leaves membranaceous whitish beneath ovate lanceolate rounded or somewhat cordate at the base gradually attenuated into 
a long point at the apex at length glabrous above, adpressedly pubescent beneath, 3-o inches long by about 1J broad, petioles 3-4 lines 
long, peduncles pubescent 1 flowered axillae e* *nnr* **m«»*» immso* _s*i. . ...... F ° * llues 
1-2 inches long, flowers bri^ 
the heart 
°', 8 ” pra fur “ s, ' ea *»* «»*. deciduous bract about their middle, 
*ht green 2-3 ruches long, sepals quite free at the base membranaceous nerved broad ovate subcordate at the 
CCi * * 7 6 ' 9 lineS Wd> " erpe ‘"' 3 * ^ - narrower,all membrlcc 
“ CC,ed “ ‘ he ba “ ka ° f tie ^ (30 °° fMl ^ -* forests in 
PLATE CLVIII, 
jy _ LABIATE 
^OQOSTEMON TkAVANCORICUM. (Bedd.) Stems erect ascending to 2 feet nr™ u* , 
naoeous ovate acute, coarsely crenated, the crenatures again serrated above furnished with a few Zk V 
inches long by 2 broad, petioles H-2§ inches long, flowers in dense terminal racemes whilh are 2iZ , ^glabrous about 3 
length furnished with filiform bracteoles at their insertion on to the raceme calvx *1 ^ “ length) p6tiolea 2 lines in 
^ an inch in length, the upper lip of 3 rounded lobes, the lower lip acute; stamen! filiform haTrylt T*™** ^ &pex 0U the outside 
the Corel, style a little longer than the stamens, stigma of 2 filiform lobes. * ^ ^ 6Xerted to 6 8 beyond 
On the Attraymallay ghat, Travancore, 4000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CLIX. 
CaSEARIA WynaDENSIS. (Bedd.1 A small tre* t , , 
small linear deciduous membranaceous penniveined, lanceolate, with a lorn III' T* 7 aUre °' Vlllou8 ‘ branches 8of tIy pubescent, stipules 
rounded, rather sharply serrated except near the baee at length glabrous ** a?6X ’ ° r S0metime8 01 *Iy acute or obtusely 
the costa and main veins, pellucidly punctate and lincolate 4-61 inches Inn* l u 6 S ° ftly pubescent benea tli especially on 
flowers small, 6-8 fascicled in ft. » ib , pedicel. 2-3 £ Zl'Zf ^ ^ ^ - 4-6 lines long; 
odistc punctate, Mobed, stamens 8, rarely only 6, stmSJ th ' °“ t8id8 ' *** ** within 
in length, both hairy, stigma 4 lobed. ^ y ’ ^ oblon 8 attenuated into a style equalling the stamens 
A small tree, very common on the slopes of the Wynad, 2-3,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CLX. 
