GENTIANACE^E. 
EXACUM AnaMALLAYANUM. (Bedd.) Perennial, shrubby 2-3 feet high, stems very woody at the base, terete more or 
less angled when young, leaves very thick and coriaceous from broad lanceolate to broad ovate 3-5 nerved stem clasping, slightly acute 
at the apex, 2-2£ inches long by 1-1£ broad, flowers intensely deep blue, 1-| to 2 inches in expansion, peduncles crowded at the apex of 
the branches and from the upper axils, sepals acuminate, petals acute or mucronate. 
Auamallays and Pulney mountains, 6-7000 feet elevation. This is by far the most lovely species of the genus, its foliage 
is very beautiful, and its flowers are of the deepest ultramarine. I always looked upon it as a form of the Ceylon E. macranthum until 
I saw that species growing ; it is however very distinct, the leaves are very thick, leathery and opaque. 
PLATE. CLIV. 
Exacum alropurperum (PI. cxix of this work) was drawn from a specimen collected on the Travancore hills (4500 feet eleva¬ 
tion), 1 have lately found it on the mountains near Palghat at nearly 7000 feet. Exacum Wightianum ( Wight's leones, 840) 
7 have lately found in high grass on the Shevaroys {elevation 4500 feet). It is a superb species, but perhaps only a very luxuriant variety 
of bicolor, bicolor and tetragonum are scarcely distinct’, and E. Zeylanicum, macranthum, Walkeri and P err ottettii are I believe all 
forms of one species. E. Courtallense is very closely allied to Perrottetii, but is more membranaceous, and 1 have a species in my Herbari¬ 
um from the Travancore hills (4000 feet) which I at first thought new, but now look upon as only a very luxuriant form of Courtal¬ 
lense, it has its leaves very much broader, and the flowers 2A inches across. 
The very ccespitose fleshy leaved E. Travancoricum (PI. cxvii of this work) is a most distinct species, and one of the most beauti¬ 
ful plants in this Presidency ; it is abundant on the Attraymallay in Travancore. 
COMB RETACE7E. 
Quisqualis Malabarica. (Bedd). A very large climber, young stems veiy minutely puberulous, leaves opposite 
elliptic, oblong more or less acuminated very minutely puberulous on the costa and veins, otherwise glabrous penuiveined quite entire 
3-6 inches long by 1-2| broad, petioles 4-8 lines long slightly puberulous, jointed near the base, leaving a permanent hard base after the 
fall of the leaf, which become large hooked blunt topped spiues (on the older branches) racemes terminal 1^-lf inches long ; minutely 
silky pubescent, bracts narrow linear 2 lines long, flowers deep pink 1 inch long (on pedicels 3 lines in length), calyx and corol silky on 
the outside, petals linear lanceolate acute, style adglutinate to the calyx tube, not reaching the lower stamens, stamens all included, 
the upper 5 opposite the segments of the calyx, the lower ones opposite the petals, ovary hairy l celled with 3 pendulous ovules ; 
fruit not seen. 
A very large creeper, Carcoor ghat, Wynad, elevation about 1500 feet. 
PLATE CLV. 
MELASTOMACE2E. 
SONERILA TrAVANCORICA. (Bedd.) Perennial suffruticose, erect, branches terete sometimes marked with a decur¬ 
rent rib from the insertion of the leaves, densely villous, leaves opposite ovate to elliptic, acute at the apex, quite entire or incon- 
% spicuously creuate near the apex, densely villous on both sides (especially so on the mid rib and veins beneath) with adpressed long 
tawny hairs, 21-31- inches long by 1^-lf broad, petioles densely villous, § to 1J inches long, peduncles terminal about 1 inch long 
subumbelliform 5-6 flowered, pedicels short at first recurved, erect in fruit, peduncles pedicels and calyx hirsute with gland tipped 
hairs, calyx prominently nerved, petals obovate to sub-rotund often mucronulate furnished with a line of gland tipped hairs down the 
centre of the back, anthers deeply sagittate at the base recurved and attenuated into a long point at the apex, style longer than the 
filaments, capsule ribbed and covered with gland tipped hairs, flowers pink about 1| inches across. 
Travancore mountains (Attraymallay), 3500-5000 feet. A very beautiful species, somewhat resembling the much more mem¬ 
branaceous versicolor, which however is annual; this besides is far more densely pubescent and the venation of the leaves is different. 
PLATE CLYI. 
MeDINILLA MALABARICA. (Bedd.) Epiphytic glabrous subscandent, copiously rooting, branches warty, leaves very 
fleshy opposite lanceolate 3 nerved, the lateral nerves springing from the costa a little above the base, costa and nerves very prominent 
beneath, occasionally the leaves are sub 5 nerved, the outer nerves being thin and near the margin, entire or inconspicuously crenato un¬ 
dulate near the apex, scarcely acute at the apex, glabrous, 3-3| inches long by 1| broad, petioles 4-7 lines long, peduncles quite glabrous 
generally several together in the axils 2 lines to § inch long, 3-5 flowered, furnished with 2 minute bractes at the apex, lateral pedicels 
10 lines long jointed and bracteoled at the middle occasionally 2 flowered, terminal one not jointed, calyx-tube turbinate quite entire 
or with 4-8 most minute teeth, petals 4 fleshy oblong with a cultriform apex much imbricate, stamens 8, equal inserted round the apex 
of the stamen tube (which lines the calyx) iuflexed in the bud, filament with 2 glandular swellings at its apex on the inside, anthers 
