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ErYTHROSPERJIUM PHYTOLACCOIDES. (Gard.) A middling sized tree 20-30 feet, branches glabrous terete, leaves 
alternate rather distant oblongo-lanceolate acuminate acnte at the base, very glabrous on both sides, shining above paler beneath entire 
or obscurely serrate reticulated with prominent veins, 3J-8 inches long, l*-3 inches broad, petioles 3-8 inches long, sulcate above, swollen 
at the base and apex, stipules minute lanceolate, racemes many-flowerei paniculate terminal or axillary, about equalling the leaves, 
peduncles glabrous ; pedicels 2-3 lines long 3 braoteolate at the base, sepals 5 white tinged with red, ovate obtuse concave about 2 lines 
long petals white ovato-oblong obtuse ciliate when very young, equalling the sepals, anthers saggitato, ovary oblong glabrous stipitate, 
Ceylon, up to an elevation of 1500fe< 
PLATE No. CXCV, 
ACANTHACE.E. 
Sl'ROBILANTHES I^EfLQHERRENSTS. (BM.) A large climb, sterna mltetragcml bupid as are He leav« on both 
sides and the petioles with long patent shming white jointed hslre, leaves somewhat papillose on both eides and at the margin ovate to 
elliptie quite rounded at the base or attenuated into the petiole acuminate serrate liueolate, 4-7 inches long by 1J-3 inches broad, 
primary veins 4-8 ou each side, petioles \-2\ inches long, spikes terminal and axillary, peduncles l$-4 inches long leafy bracteated 
and few-flowered at the apex, calyx 5-cleft } down, segments long linear, 4 equal, the 5th a little longer hirsute and ciliate as are the 
bracts, corol pure white hairy outside and within 1* inch long, the lower £ inch of the tube suddenly narrowed and very slender, lobes 
rounded emarginate equal, stamens 4, two much shorter, all on a short tube, filaments very hairy, style hairy, stigma bent, ovarv very 
hairy at the apex. J 
A common species as I have specimens from the west slopes of the Nilgiris, the Pulneys, Coorg, Palghnt hills and Balaran- 
gams. Fig. 1, upper surface of a leaf, liueolate and hairy, the hairs 1-2 jointed—2, leaf under surface-3, portion of a petiole hairs 
5-6 jointed—4, a hair from the petiole. 
P r< ■^ n< * erson re ^ erre ^ “y specimens to his S. papillosus, but I have lately received a fragment of that plant from Kew, and 
it is identical with a species which I have found only at Ootacamund, and which is quite distinct from this,—this papillosus is*very 
nearly allied to S. Perrottetianus, Fees., (so well figured by Wight, pi 1513) but is much less hairy and far more scabrous. Neil- 
gherrensis is far more hairy than either of them and has white flowers. 
PLATE No. CXOVT. 
StROBILANTHES PARYIFLORUS (Bedd.) Shrubby erect 5-6 feet high, stems terete or sub-tetragonal glabrous, 
leaves lanceolate attenuated into the petiole acuminate coarsely serrate, glabrous on both sides except a few set® on the costa and veins 
above, very densely lineolate above (hence somewhat scabrous) paler and smoother beneath and less lineolate, 6-7 inches long (with 
the petiole) and about 2 inches broad, primary veins much raised above 6-7 on each side, petioles 6-18 lines long Blightly winged 
sometimes woolly in the axils, spikes axillary or from the old axils 1-3-inches long narrow linear densely imbricate with small ovate 
bracts more or less densely furnished with long cottony wool which is generally soon deciduous, bracts ovate 4-5 lines long and fur¬ 
nished as are the bracteoles and calyx with gland tipped hairs, bracteoles 2 linear a little shorter than the calyx-segments, calyx^segmeuts 
subequal or one of them a little longer, all linear, corol white 8-9 lines long glabrous on the outside the lower half of the tube at¬ 
tenuated and very narrow, the upper half campanulate, lobes entire rounded glabrous or a little hairy inside, stamens 4, filaments furnished 
with very long shining hairs, the inner pair a little shorter, in the bud all monadelpbous (on a stamen tube) or sometimes diadelphous, 
iu age always diadelphous. Style long glabrous, stigma subentire or with a minute furcation below the long setaceous lobe, capsules 
very slightly hairy, 
Coorg, about Kiggatnad 3000 feet elevation, also in South Canara. Fig. 1 shows the upper surface of the leaf densely lin¬ 
eolate and with a few setae on the costa and veins ; fig, 2 is a young bud opened. 
PLATE No. CXCVII. 
StROBILANTHES GOSSYPINUS. (T. And.) Shrubby erect, stems tetragonous covered with much cottony down, leaves 
ovate to broad elliptic acute or acuminate entire, above glabrous in age but densely silky when young and sometimes in age at the base 
only, densely matted with white cottony down beneath, 4-7 inches long by 2-2* broad, petioles 1-1J inches very woolly, spikes densely 
cottony axillary and terminal 3-6 inches long, the lower ones branched, bracts lanceolate densely cottony outside glabrous and shining 
