petioles 2-3 lines long, male flowers very small velWiab 
than the leaves, flowers generally 3-merous but nhon 1 ' n ° mer0US in veI ? com P oand g^brous panicles which are longer 
Bed! ° b ° Vate ab ° Ut 6 H “ ea l0Dg by 4 6 lines bro * d “^Ported on a short 
QuilonaJZZZ^a^ "» Ik. new Pcleary pees between 
in full blossom, being a perfeet mas, of wellow^U wwl flower tb ** gh ‘“- Tte * rM ia sh °*7 " be “ 
in color; the tree aowers in November' ’ ° “ the flowers being few end greenish 
PLATE No. CLXXXVII. 
RHAMNEiE. 
COLUBRINA ? TRAVANCORICA. (Bedd.) A large shrub unarmed, young parts and young leaves beneath and costa 
obZr It a .rTsi P rt; 'T 11,6 bra,,ChM “ »»—* >•»« bat .ppvoxim.ted in pairs (or snbopposite) 
« ns 4 5 ,n sit ' b^ b " CU, ‘ M,, T “ « «" b «° “™*< g -n.r,ed at the base penniveioed above, primary 
72 I jl T K I g 0U V a T ° r tk ° ° 0Sta and VeiUS 8li * btl * P ube8Ceut * 3 - 5 ***** l«»g by 1J-2 broad, petioles 4-5 lines 
ZtlTCZ * 2 , 80011 r US ’ fl0Wera Bma11 in 8hl>rt pedu,,culate aXllUry V— a ** longer or twbe as long as the 
petiole, fruit (not mature) 6 lines m diameter globose slightly depressed at the top. 
Travancore plains between Cotacarray and Panalur, in flower and fruit in November. 
PLATE No. CLXXXVIII. 
PaRINARIUM TrAVANCORICQM. (Bedd ) A small very graceful tree, yonng parts with silky adpressed greyish white 
pubescence leaves membranaceous or submembranacemis lanceolate or linear-lanceolate with a generally bluntish acumen entire glabrous 
» .? e ® XCCP ' 6 C ° 3ta eneat which is often silky, 4-5 inches long by 1-1J broad, furnished with 2 inconspicuous glands at the base 
of the amnia beneath, primary veins numerous, veiulets much reticulated and prominent beneath, petioles 2-3 lines long, stipules 
(fig A) 4-5 l.nes long 1,near-lanceolate silky deciduous, racemes terminal simple or cymosely branched, 3-4 inches long, silky pubes¬ 
cent furnished with numerous lanceolate or linear-lanceolate bracts, calyx segments ribbed down the back acuminate or acute, 
oblong glabrous, veined ; stamens 12-10 unilateral quite free at the base, filaments twice as long as the oalyx-tube, ovary 
s 2-locellate. 
I have only found this very graceful tree on the Travancore mountains about 2000 feet elevatiot 
•states not f»r from CoortaUam ; it is allied to P. Iadioom, but more pube.ee.,t and with much smaller i 
PLATE No. CLXXXIX. 
iallay Coffee 
RTJBIACEjE. 
TiMONITTS JAMBOSELLA. (Gsertn.) A very Bmall tree or large shrub, young parts and young leaves strigosely hairy, 
leaves elliptic lanceolate acuminate entire, 3-7 inches long by 1J-2£ broad, glabrous in age except the costa beneath and the hairy glands 
the axils of the main veins, petioles 6-9 lines long, stipules hairy on the back ovate acuminate 3 4 lines long, diaecious, male and 
hermathrodite, flowers yellowish-white, lobes fleshy aubi.nbricate, mnU peduncles axillary opposite springing from within the stipules, 
£-1* inch loug bifurcate with a flower in the fork, the branchlets few-fl »wered, flowers subsecund, corol infundibuliform hirsute outside 
sulcate within, stamens 4 attached by the middle of the back by a very short filament which does not extend nearly to the base of 
the lower lobe, style hairy especially towards the apex, stigma minute entire, hermathrodite peduncles axillary 1-flowered l£ inches 
ong, flower articulate bibracteolate at the base, corol loboa more fleshy than in the male each lobe most prominently 3-sulcate on the 
inside, filaments much longer than in the male and extending below the lower lobe o! the anther, ovary about 12-celled, style 2-cleft 
at the apex each arm with 2 entire stigmas, Eupyrene, WA. 
Cevlon, up to 5000 feet, very common about Badagam in the south of island, also in the peninsula ? Thwaites desci 
atigma of the mab flower as minutely bifid, and the hermathrodite stigmas as 12 (i. e., the 4 lobes each 3 cleft), but I do not 
in any flowers that I dissected ; the 4 stigmas appear to be quite entire. 
ribes the 
find this 
PLATE No. CXC. 
