STYRACEiE. 
SYMPLOCOS ROSEA. (Bedd.) A large shrub, with small rose colored flowers, young branches petioles and inflorescence 
hairy, leaves elliptic oblong to lanceolate, slightly attenuated at the base and furnished with a longish sharp acumination, very finely but 
sharply serrated except at the base, glabrous above, glabrescent beneath or furnished with a few hairs on the costa and veins, 5-6 inches 
long by 1 b to 2b broad, petioles about 4 lines long, racemes axillary 1-3 inches long very hairy as are the deciduous bracts and the calyx, 
calyx-lobes acute about \ as long as the corol, corol lobes obtuse glabrous, ovary 3 celled, cells 2 ovuled, ovules pendulous, fruit 
oblong about \ an inch long, puberulous. Bedd. in Linn. Trans. Vol. XXV. 
Anamallays, moist woods, 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CXV. 
Symplocos An am allay an a. (Bedd.) A small tree, every where glabrous, leaves ovate to sub-orbicular with a 
short obtuse point very coriaceous shining, serrulate in the upper half, 1A to 1 ^ inches long by about 1 inch broad, petioles about 1 
line long, peduncles simple axillary solitary or 2-3 together about 1 inch long furnished with 2 bractes at the base of the calyx, flowers 
small white, calyx lobes acute about |rd the leugth of the corol, corol lobes rounded, ovary 3 celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each 
cell, fruit narrow oblong | to f inch long. Symplocos uniflora, Bedd. in Linn. Trans. J ol. XX V. (not Benth.) 
Anamallays, 5,000—6,000 feet elevation. 
J PLATE No. CXYI. 
Symplocos ACUMINATA. (Bedd.) A small tree or large shrub, young shoots peduncles and bracts minutely hairy 
otherwise quite glabrous, leaves elliptic lanceolate attentuated at the base and furnished with a very long acuminated point subentire 
or with a few very inconspicuous distant teeth in the upper half, about 4 inches long by 1 J-lf broad racemes slender axillary or supra- 
axillary slightly hairy as are the bracts 1-2 inches long, bearing several pedicelled white flowers, calyx lobes rounded or subacute, b 
shorter than the corol, flowers \ an inch in diameter, corol-lobes obtuse, ovary 3 celled with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. 
Wynad, very common on the top of the Brumagherries, elevation 5000 feet, also on the Tirrioot peak at a similar elevation. 
PLATE No. CXVII. 
GENTIANACEiE. 
ExACUM TftAVANCORICUM. (Bedd.) A small much branched glabrous perennial about 6-S inches high, stems 
numerous terete, leaves sessile spathulate incurved, and slightly acute at the apex very thick and fleshy, convex on the under surface 
3 veined, (veins quite obscure) 1-1^ inches long by about J an inch broad, peduncles axillary solitary about 2 inches long each bearing 
a single large light blue flower, each flower being 1-1 A inches in diameter, calyx winged on the angles, lobes 4 with very long acute 
points about A as long as corol, corol lobes rounded. 
Travancore hills, abundant on the Attraymallay in grassy places and on rocks at an elevation of 5000 feet ; a most lovely 
plant, of which the drawing only shows 1 branch; it forms a dense globular plant, covered with sometimes nearly 50 beautiful 
cobault colored flowers. 
PLATE No. CXVIII. 
ExACUM A 1 IlOPURPUREUM. (Bedd.) A glabrous erect plant, annual ? stems terete, leaves sessile and stem clasp¬ 
ing from broadly ovate to suborbicular with a sharpish acumination 3-5 nerved 1^-2 inches long by 1A broad, flowers on solitary axil, 
laiy peduncles which are about the length of the leaves, calyx very much winged on the angles, lobes 5 apiculate less than A the 
ength of the corol, floweis about 2 inches in diameter, of a very deep blue, corol lobes slightly acute, capsule oblong. 
PLATE No. CXIX. 
CYRTANDRACEiE. 
IDYMOCAR1 US REPENb. (Bedd.) A creeping plant, everywhere covered with much silvery pubescence, stems 
rooting at intervals along their whole length, leaves long petioled broadly cordate or orbicular with a very cordate base and slightly 
pointed at the apex, coarsely crenated with the crenatures again serrated, covered on both sides with numerous silvery hairs of different 
lengths, the longer ones being jointed, 4-5 inches each way, petioles about 4 inches long very hairy, peduncles rather larger than the 
petioles, few flowered at the apex, flowers blue, calyx lobes acute about £ the length of the corol, corol tube \ to f iuch long recurved, 
lobes small obtuse and scarcely spreading, filaments of the fertile stamens broadly dilated except at the apex, sterile filaments shorter 
slightly clavate at the apex. 
In moist woods in the South Tinnevelly and Travancore forests, 1,000-3,000 feet elevation, very abundant in the Ayen Coil 
pass, nearly allied to D. Zeylauica R. Br. a Ceylon plant. 
PLATE No. CXX. 
