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along its margin (stamiuodia ?) ovary connate with the tube near the summit very hairy 2 celled, cells 1 ovuled, ovule erect, style lateral 
or almost basal glabrous except at the base longer than the stamens. Entosiphon Indicus, Bedd. in Mud. L , Soc. Jour. 
Wynad, in moist woods at an elevation of 2,000-3,000 feet, common on the Carcoor ghat. 
PLATE No. C1X. 
BEGfONIACEAC. 
Begonia minima. (Bedd.) A very small plant about 4 inches high, leaves radical rhomboid ovate to cordate or 
slightly trilobate acuminate, bristly crenate, long petioled, furnished above with a few weak hairs, beneath glabrous, pellucid dotted, 
1 l to 2 inches long, 1-1 f broad, petioles 1-2 inches long, scapes dichotomously branched longer than the leaves, with 1 leaf near the 
base, branches several flowered, bracteated, male perianth 4 petaled, 2 inner petals narrower than the outer, stamens definite about 8, 
female perianth 5 petaled, capsule 3 winged, placentas double. 
Wynad, on rocks in moist woods near Devallicottab, elevation 2,500-3,000 feet ; it belongs to Dr. Lindley’s section Diploclinium. 
PLATE No. CX. 
Begonia FLOCCIFEB.A. (Bedd.) Stemless with large scariose very membranaceous bracts at the apex of the root 
leaves densely covered with woolly tomentum on both sides when young, at length nearly glabrous above, obliquely semi-cordate to sub- 
orbicular (not peltate) variously sinuate but not lobed, generally broader than long, 3 inches long by 4 broad, but very variable in size 
and shape, petioles about 2-24 inches long very woolly, scapes very long branched, with the branches again dichotomously branched and 
supradecompound, flowers very numerous, male perianth 2 petaled, petals nearly orbicular, stamens indefinite, female perianth 4 petaled, 
petals lanceolate acute, placentas single. 
Travancore and South Tinneveily hills, at an elevation of 3,000 feet. 
PLATE No. CXI. 
Cypripedium Drurii. (Bedd.) Rhizome shortly creeping with thick succulent fibres, leaves radical narrow oblong 
thick coriaceous slightly unequal at the apex, 8-12 inches long by about IP broad, scape 7-10 inches long pubescent, bearing a single 
lame yellowish flower streaked and blotched with reddish purple, with a sheathing bract at the base, upper sepals or a little more 
lon^ and about 1 inch broad acuminate pubescent on the outside, lower ones united in a single broadly ovate sepal, petals narrow 
oblong nearly 2 inches long by about A an inch broad slightly hairy at the base, labellum broadly inflated about lg inch long. 
Travancore hills at 5,000-6,000 feet elevation, first discovered by Colonel H. Drury on the Aghusteer hill, and I afterwards 
found it very abundant on the top of the Calcad hills, in flower in January. 
PLATE No. CXII. 
MYRSINACEiE. 
A.RDISIA SERRATIFOLIA. (Bedd.) Au erect shrub, young branches under side of the leaves and petioles densely rufo- 
t^mentose, leaves nearly glabrous above, narrow lanceolate attenuated at the base and with a long acumination at the apex, very 
sharply serrated serratures quite at right angles with the margin of the leaf, lateral veins numerous diverging from the midrib very 
prominent beneath, 6-9 inches long by 1^-2| broad, petioles \ to \ inch long, peduncles axillary about 2 lines long several flowered, 
pedicels slender about inch long glabrous, calyx pubescent, petals gland dotted, style long slender. 
Anamallays, in moist woods up to 3,000 feet, Coimbatore hills at similar elevations. 
PLATE No. CXIIL 
IllIAMNACEiE. 
ZlZYPIIUS WyNADENSIS. (Bedd.) A lofty tree, unarmed, young shoots and inflorescence fulvo-tomentose, leaves 
elliptic lanceolate glabrous ar,d shining above beneath very finely reticulated and slightly hairy on the veins furnished with hairy 
glands in the axils of the main veins, igto nearly 2 inches long, f to g of an inch broad, petioles a little less than \ inch long, 
flowers in dense axillary fascicles about the length of the petioles, sepals furnished with a prominent ridge down their inner face, 
petals 3 lobed, connective of the anthers prolonged into a long blunt point, ovary 2 celled immersed in the hairy pentagonal disk, styles 
2 diverging. 
Wynad, in dense forests about Devalicottab, elevation 3,000 feet. 
PLATE No, CXIY. 
