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EUPHORBIACEiE. 
Croton Malaearicum. (Bedd .) A tree 20-30 feet high, the whole plant very silvery, leaves alternate oblongo-ovate 
ovate to rhombeo-ovate acuminate, entire, above in age very sparingly covered with grey stellate scales or rarely quite glabrous, beneath 
very silvery and densely matted with scales, primary veins 6-7 on each side raised and prominent beneath, glands 2 very small immer¬ 
sed ones at the base on the underside, 2-6 inches long by 1-3 broad, petioles 1-2 inches long silvery but also with rusty scales, stipules 
setaceous 6-9 lines long, racemes terminal solitary or 2-3 together about 2 inches long, the upper half male, the lower half female 
silvery as are the flowers, disk of 5 lobes present in both sexes, but very inconspicuous in the dense wool. Male petals less than a 
third the size of the sepals woolly, stamens 10. Female : no petals, styles 3 each 2-cleft to nearly the base the arms filiform blackish 
glabrous or subglabrous in age, fruit obovoid fusco-stellate about 1 inch long by 8 lines wide slightly raised above the calyx on a stalk 
1 line long, (base of the central column which runs up between the cocci and which is persistent after they fall off), fruiting calyx 
scarcely enlarged. 
This tree is common in all our western forests up to 4000 feet elevation ; it has the same silvery appearance as reticulatum 
(hypoleucos, Dalz.) but is a tree instead of a small shrub, has much larger leaves and very different glands, fewer stamens, larger fruit 
and different style ; it answers very exactly to Roxburgh’s description of C. bicolor, except in its shorter racemes, but I dare not give it 
that name as that species is from Sumatra only, but I should not be surprised if it turns out to be identical with it. Figure A is the 
fruit, life size. 
PLATE No. CLXXXI. 
TrIGONOSTEMON NEMORAL1S. (Thw.) A shrub or small tree, the young angled ramuli, the young leaves and inflores- 
cence sericeo-pubescent soon glabrous ; stipules subulate 2-3 lines long subpersistent, petioles 2-3 lines long pubescent bidenticulate at 
the apex, leaves penniveined subglabrous 3-6 inches long by 1-lf inches broad lanceolate acuminate mucronulate crenato-denticulate, 
racemes many flowered shorter than the leaves floriferous from the base, the flowers and pedicels about equal in length, petals dull red 
oblong entire 2-3 times longer than the unequal lobes of the calyx, anthers 3-2, anther-cells subparallel a little distant, at the apex of the 
rounded connective, female flowers a little larger than the male 6-7 lines in expansion, ovary hispid. Style-lobes 3 short spathulate 
emarginate reflexed, capsules nearly ^ inch diameter muricate pilose of 3 rounded cocci, seed spherical 3 lines in diameter a little keeled 
on the back, testa smooth marbled. Thw. En. pi. Zey. p. 277 ;— DC. Prod. xv. 1108. 
Tinnevelly mountains, south of Courtallum, common in the moist forest at 2000-3000 feet elevation (Ayen Covil pass, tanks 
of the Gama river, &c.); Ceylon, central provinces, 2000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CLXXXII. 
OyCLOSTEMON MaLABARICUS. (Bedd.) A large tree, young branches densely aureo-tomentose, leaves entire mem¬ 
branaceous oblong rather suddenly acuminated at the apex unequal sided at the base (one side attenuated, the other rounded) tomentose 
on both sides when young at length glabrous above except the costa, pilose beneath oil the costa and veins, 8-9 inches long by 2| broad 
primary veins prominent on the under side 7-10 on each side, petioles about 3 lines long, male flowers densely fascicled on the older 
branches, pedicels about 3 lines long aureo-tomentose, calyx-segments 4 broad cucullate imbricate densely aureo-tomentose on the out¬ 
side glabrous within, stamens very numerous iu 2-3 rows round a tomentose cup-like disk, anthers introrse, rudiment of ovary none. 
Female flowers not seen, fruit solitary along the older branches on pedicels \ inch long, about 1 inch long by f inch broad densely 
tomentose crowned by the 2 reniform stigmas, 
Tinnevelly ghat forests, 3-4000 feet elevation (near the Parapett Coffee estate.) 
PLATE No. CLXXXIII. 
MELASTOMACEiE. 
MeDINILLA ItADICANS. (Don ?) A perfectly glabrous fleshy epiphyte, branches terete fleshy, leaves opposite very fleshy 
suborbicular about 1-A inches long by a little less in breadth, 3-nerved but the lateral nerves very inconspicuous on account of the 
fleshy nature of the leaves, petioles reddish about 3 lines long, peduncles axillary 1-flowered 6-8 lines long, often with 2 minute 
bracteoles a little above the base, flowers 14-15 lines long and showy. Calyx turbinate truncated entire very fleshy with a thickenei 
ring inside from which the stamens arise, petals 4 pure white obliquely obovato-spathulate. Stamens 8 alternately sbortei or sometime- 
subequal, rarely 4 hooked staminodes present 1 opposite each of the larger stamens, filaments filiform, anthers 5-6 lines long curved 
attenuated at the apex, thickened below and furnished at the base in front with 2 spurs, the 4 shorter ones with a long single descending 
