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GrIFFITHIA SPECIOSA. (Redd.) Scandent unarmed branches terete, slightly hairy at the joints under the stipules ; 
leaves glabrous shining broad ovato-lanceolate up to 10 inches long by 4 broad, acuminate, attenuated at the base, petioles nearly 1 inch 
long ; stipules triangular glabrous caducous, corymbs leaf opposed (alternate with pairs of leaves) much shorter than the leaves, pedun¬ 
cles up to h an inch long, pedicels elongate bracteolute at the base, calyx truncated and with the peduncles and pedicels slightly pilose 
(splitting like a spatlie) furnished with 5 small teeth at the apex, enrol glabrous outside, hairy in the jaws, cream colored, up to 1| inch 
in diameter, anthers subsessile, stigma clavate muriculate ; berry subglobose, 6-8 lines in diameter. 
Western slopes of the Neilgherries (up to 4,500 feet). Coorg, South Canara, Travancore, &e. A very handsome creeper with 
large fragrant flowers. Mr. Bentham unites the oenus Grijjithia with ltandia. 
PLATE No. XXXVIL 
GrIFFITIIIA Gardner! (Thw.) A small tree 15-20 feet, unarmed, branches terete, a little compressed ; leaves glabrous 
shining lanceolate acuminate narrow at the base, petiolate 2-4| inches long f-l|- inches broad, petioles 2-3 lines long ; corymbs axillary 
shorter than the leaves, shortly peduncled sparingly pilose, at length glabrous, pedicels elongate, bracteoles small, calyx truncated slightly 
5-toothed, externally slightly pilose or glabrous, corol externally subglabrous pilose in the jaws within, lobes linear lanceolate 4 lines long; 
yellow, tube 2 lines long; placentae 8-12 ovuled, berry subglobose 4-5 lines in diameter. Th. En. PI. Zey. p. 158. Stylocoryne Cey- 
louica. Gard. HISS. 
Ceylon, Central Provinces 2,000'to 4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XXXVIII. 
BoRRERIA TETRACOCCA. (Thw.) Herbaceous procumbent, branches elongate acutely 4-angled slightly compressed, root¬ 
ing at the joints and with numerous small lateral brauchlets ; leaves lanceolate subsessile scabrous; stipules lanceolate densely hispido- 
ciliate on the margins and dorsal nerve ; flowers small axillary 2-3. calyx hispid with 4 lanceolate teeth, one of which is sometimes ’ bifid, 
corol tube longish, segments ciliated at the apex and in the jaws, ovary 4-celled, cells one-seeded, stigma bifid pilose. Thw. En. Pi. Zey : 
p. 442. 
Foot of the Sampajee Ghat, Coorg—Ceylon. 
Note. —Mr. Bentham unites the genus Borreria with Spermacoce. 
PLATE No. XXXIX. 
DlSCOSPERMUM APIOCARPUM. (Dalz. ?) A tree, polygamo-direceous, branches subtetragonal, leaves glabrous ovato- 
lanceolate with a blunt acumiuation up to 6-7 inches long (of which the petiole is an inch) by 2-3 inches broad, furnished with hollow 
hairy glands in the axils of the veins beneath ; stipules triangular glabrous ; flowers male and bermathrodite on different trees, peduncles 
very short (2 lines), axillary each with 3-8 subsessile flowers, calyx urceolate entire or minutely toothed or fimbriated at the apex and 
furnished with a sticky gumlike substance (as are the stipules), glabrous or with a few weak hairs on the outside, corol yellowish fragrant 
(similar in both male and bermathrodite), tube short segments spreading glabrous or with a few weak hairs on the outside, hairy 
within at the insertion of the filaments, anthers on longish filaments which are hairy at the base, stigma with 2 spreading flatfish lobes : 
cells of the ovary 4-seeded ; berry ? 
Sisparah gbat, Nilgherries,—Mr. Ouchterlony’s ghat near Nedduvattam, Wynad—Coimbatore lulls 5,000 feet. 
I am not sure whether this is the apiocarpum of Dalzell or a new species, it has much larger flowers than the D. Dalzellii of 
Thwaites from Ceylon, which is apparently the same as Dalz ell’s sphazrocarpum. and has the calyx deeply 4-lobed. My specimens from the 
Coimbatore hills differ from the Nilgiri and Wynad specimens, in having much smaller flowers (same size as Thwaite’s 'alzellii) and 
smaller leaves, but the calyx is the same as in the species here figured, and I can discover no other difference ; all the species seem to be 
closely allied. Diplospora D. C. is an older name for this genus, but is false to the structure. 
PLATE No. XL. 
