IiASIANTHUS ACUMINATTJS. 
leaves coriaceous shining, except the slightly pub 
to 4| inches long, f to H inches broad ; flowers 
triangular ; corol tubular 4 cleft glabrous, hairy 
celled. (Wight.) 
RUBIACML 
(Wight.) Shrubby branches terete pubescent; stipules short subulate pubescent; 
bescent nerves, lanceolate acuminate at both ends, mucronately cuspidate at the apex, 2\ 
axillary subsessile 2—3 together, bracts inconspicuous, calyx hairy 4 cleft, segments 
within, style equalling the tube or slightly exserted stigma 3—5 cleft, ovary 3-5 
Pulney Hills, in sholas at Kodinkarnal and elsewhere on the higher ranges, (7,000 feet.) 
PLATE No. XXI. 
Lasianthus Blumianhs. 
hairy; leaves glabrous short petioled elliptic lane 
calyx limb deeply 4-cleft, divisions lanceolat< 
Within, stamens 4 subsessile in the throat, ovary 
(Wight) Shrubby glabrous branches terete ; stipules short triangular pointed slightly 
jeolate ending in a long acumination; flowers aggregated few, bracts short subulate hairy, 
e acute persistent glabrous except a slight tuft of hairs at the apex, corol 4-cleft hairy 
4-celled, style equalling the corol stigma hairy 4-cleft; drupe globose. (Wight) 
Courtallum Mountains (3,500 feet’elevation.) 
PLATE No. XXII. 
i AcRANTHERA AnAMALLICA. (Bedd.) Herbaceous, leaves petioled obovato-spathulate attenuated at the base 
rounded at the apex and furnished with an inconspicuous mucro, up to 7 inches long (of which the petiole is nearly 1 inch) by 2 broad 
near the apex, ciliate and furnished with a few scattered hairs on the upper side, densely hairy on all the veins beneath but glabrous 
in between; stipules undivided triangular ovate acute, flowers congested towards the apex, peduncles very short, furnished with a few 
small linear bracts and each bearing 3-5 pedicelled flowers, calyx cup-shaped, segments short obovate glabrous within very hairy on 
the outside, with a small yellow gland in each sinus; corol infundibuliform about 1* inches long, slightly haiiy on the outside 
ponnectivum scarcely produced beyond the anther cells, style a little longer than the filaments, stigma clavate verrucose • ovary pseudo- 
bilopular, dissepiments opposite but not joined in the axis, seed very numerous papillose. 
[ Anamallays: banks of streams in moist woods at about 4,000 feet elevation, not observed elsewhere. A low very showy plant 
with numerous thick wiry roots, some of which often proceed from the stem above the lower leaves ; flowers of a very deep blue. * 
PLATE No. XXm. 
I AcRANTHERA ZeYLANICA. (Amt.) Herbaceous, leaves petioled oblongo-obovate obtuse, furnished above with a few 
rather rigid hairs and densely hairy on the veins beneath, calyx tube oblongo-turbinate, segments linear erect not furnished with glands, 
corol densely hairy on the outside about 1 inch long, connectivum apiculate and produced far beyond the anther cells.—Ami in Ann 
\pf Nat, Hist, iii. p. 21. Endl. Suppl, i p. 1394. 
Ceylon, on shady banks in the Central Provinces at 3,000 to 5,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XXIV. 
! AcRANTHERA GRANDIFLORA. (Bedd.) Herbaceous, leaves petioled obovato-oblong, retuse or sub-mucronate up to 
i-i 2 “ CheS lo ” g (petiole KmA > 1 inch > b? 3 bro,d < with a few scattered weak hairs or nearly glabrous above erceot the 
uudnb, densely villous with matted woolly hairs on the veins beneath; .tipules browl connate ; peduncles aaiiary and terminal Tp to 
Smchea long eornabrform, calyx with a pair o£ bracts near the base of th. tube, segments long linear erect without glands. Lb 
infundibuliform about 3 inches long, densely Innate on the outside, connectivum apiculate and produced far beyond the anther cells 
stigma clavate verrucose sub-bilobed at the apex. ’ 
Tinnevelly Mountains, south of Courtallum in moist forests 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation-flower pale blue turning white. 
PLATE No. XXV. 
