BIJBIACEhE. 
HeDYOTIS BUXIFOLIA. (Bedd. Linn. Trans. Yol. XXY.) A large shrub, branches terete, leaves short petioled, 4-6 
lines long, 3 lines broad, ovate shining glabrous, very coriaceous, veinless, margins recurved ; stipules broad sheathing, connate at the base, 
divided into filiform teeth, ciliate on the margins and with a line of hairs down the centre ; peduncles terminal or in the upper axils 
-J inch long, 3 flowered, flowers subsessile, bracts filiform ciliate, calyx cyathiform with 4 erect teeth, subsessile, coral villous in the mouth 
and on the segments, filaments included or exserted, anthers oblong, style longly exserted ; capsule splitting into 2 bony cocci. Seeds 
numerous. 
Anamallay Mountains, higher ranges. 
PLATE No. I. 
HeDYOTIS HIRSUTISSIMA. (Bedd. Madras Journ. of Lit.) Shrubby, leaves 14 to 3§ inch long by f to 1 inch broad, 
elliptic lanceolate to ovate lanceolate, mucronato-acuminate and attenuated into the petiole which is 2 lines to h an inch long, prominently 
veined, on both sides as well as the panicles densely adpresso-hirsute with yellowish hairs ; stipules pectinately pinnatifid, very hairy, 
panicles axillary corymbiform, few flowered shorter than the leaves, bracts linear leaf-like, calyx deeply 4-cleft, segments lanceolate 
acuminate very hairy, corol tube long, very hairy outside and bearded within. Seeds numerous. 
Nilgiri Mountains between Avalanche and Sisparah (7,000 ft.) 
PLATE No. II. 
HeDYOTIS ALBO-NERVA. (Bedd.) Shrubby glabrous, leaves sub-membranaceous, pale beneath, slightly lineolate, 
lanceolate acuminate at both ends, 2-4 inches long (petiole J to f of an inch) about 1 inch broad, veins prominent; stipules broad-ovate 
deeply pinnatifid flowers sub-glomerate ; peduucles axillary very short, pedicles numerous, very slender, 2-3 lines long ; calyx with 4 erect 
acute lobes half the length or nearly as long as the corol; corol pilose within, anthers exserted and style included, or vice versa. 
In foliage much resembling H. cinereo-viridis (Thwaites), but the inflorescence aud stipules are different. 
Tinnevelly Mountains (rare) 3,000 ft. 
PLATE No. III. 
HeDYOTIS VISCIDA. (Bedd.) Shrubby glabrous, leaves ovate to lanceolate acuminate, 3-5 inches long 1 to U broad ; 
petioles \ to 1 inch long; stipules ovate entire and very viscid as are the bracts ; corymbs terminal and from the upper axils, calyx 
glabrous 4 parted, segments lanceolate acute erect both in flower and fruit; corol pilose within ; cells of the ovary. S seeded. 
A large handsome shrub—beds of rivers on the Tinnevelly Mountains 3,000 feet. 
PLATE No. IV. 
HeDYOTIS PURPUREA. (Bedd.) Shrubby glabrous, leaves lanceolate acuminated at both ends, 2 to 3§ inches long f to 
14 inch broad, stipules ovate entire, ending in a mucro or pectinate (but not deeply); panicles terminal corymbose calyx 4-cleft with the 
segments foliaceous erect and slightly enlarging in fruit; flowers, calyx and peduncles of a fine purple color, capsule elongate slightly 
ribbed crowned with the erect, very foliaceous segments of the calyx. 
A very large shrub. Calcad Hills and elsewhere on the Tinnevelly Mountains, the fine purple tint of the whole of the panicle 
makes it very conspicuous and showy. 
. PLATE No. Y. 
