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posterior spur and the 4 longer shortly spurred or truncated behind, ovary with 8 wings or partitions a3 inM. Malabarica. Style slender, 
stigma very small truncate, berry turbinate 4-celled.—Triplectrum radicans, Don. WA. Prod. 324 1 
A beautiful species very abundant in the Wyuaad and almost throughout our western moist forests between 2000 and 
3500 feet elevation ; it flowers in March, but I believe very rarely; it differs so considerably from the plant described as Triplectrum 
radicans in Wight and Arnott’s Prodromus, that it may not be their plant, though I believe it to be ; it is so fleshy and shrivels up so 
completely in drying that it could hardly be described except from fresh specimens or from specimens in spirits. The drawings and 
analysis were taken from living plants collected on trees at Luckady in the Wynaad. I only fouud the 4 sterile stamens preseut in one 
flower out of some 8 or 10 dissected ; they were not alternate with the other 8 stamens, but opposite to the longer ones. I have repre¬ 
sented one of them in the drawing. 
PLATE No. CLXSXIY. 
DIPTEROCARPEiSE. 
UOPEA MaLABARICA. (Bedd.) A very large tree, with a most valuable hard timber, bark blackish peeling off in 
long strips which become recurved and hang all round the trunk ; young shoots, petioles, panicles, and calyx glabrous, leaves oval cr 
ovate with a longish acumination glabrous on both sides, primary veins distant very prominent beneath 3 or rarely 4 or very rarely 
5 on each side, one or two of them furnished beneath with very large glabrous glands in the axils, 4-6 inches long by 2-2^ broad, 
petioles 6-9 lines long, panicles from the old axils 3-4 inches long, flowers pedicelled rather distant sometimes secund or subsecuud but 
not always, yellowish white about 5 lines long (much larger than in parviflora,) calyx glabrous but minutely ciliate, petals very hairy 
outside on the right hand half, the inner half which is imbricated whilst in bud glabrous, quite glabrous inside, with a twisted flattened 
prolongation at the apex, stamens 15 alternately single and double, filaments very flat below with a long apiculation below the anther, 
anthers with a long glabrous setaceous bristle more than twice their length. Stigma with 3 very minute points, (under the lens), fruit 
glabrous 2 of the sepals enlarging into wiugs 3-3^ inches long by 1-lf broad prominently 10-12 veined, a 3rd sepal occasionally 
somewhat enlarged. 
A very large tree, Carcoor ghat, (Wynaad) and Anamallay forests ; in flower in February and March, called Kallu in Malabar. 
It is allied to Hopea parviflora, but has glabrous panicles and much larger flowers and fruit, and the leaves differ considerably generally 
having only 3 very prominent lateral veins in this (rarely 4, very rarely 5) with large glands only in 1-2 of the axils, whereas in parv.- 
flora there are 5-9 veins (generally 7-8) not so prominent and smaller glands in the axils of almost all, the fruit-wings are red. 
PLATE No. CLXXXY. 
LEGUMINOSJS. 
DePvRIS EUALATA. (Bedd.) A gigantic creeper, young parts minutely sericeous, leaves alternate 10-14 inches long 
6-9 inches broad, leaflets rather coriaceous 3-4 opposite pair and a terminal one, oval to oblong with a very blunt point at the apex, gla¬ 
brous on both sides, rather shining above pale beneath, 2^-5 inches long by 2-2\ inches broad, penniveined ; petiolules 3-4 lines long, 
the terminal one 10-16 lines long ; panicles terminal and axillary elongato-thyrsoid aureo-tomeutellous up to 1 foot and even 
more long, the upper branchlets not much shorter than the lower, flowers rather numerous white 5-6 lines long the lower ones of each 
branchlet opening first and falling off long before the upper buds open, pedicels filiform 2-3 lines long, vexillum without callosities and 
with a short claw, stamens 9 and 1, the vexillum one quite free, ovary villous, ovules 4-5, style villous, stigma minute, legume narrow 
oblong flat apiculate 4-5 inches long by 1-lf inches broad 1-3 seeded, reticulated, very prominently winged all round, the wings 3-34 
lines broad subcoriaceous, the upper suture prominently keeled and slightly winged, 
Very common in the plains of South Canara and Malabar and about the foot of the Coorg ghats ; it is closely allied to and 
perhaps not distinct from D. thyrsiflora, Benth. Linn. Soc. Journ. vol. iv. Suppl. p. 114, but that species is only recorded from 
Eastern Bengal and the Archipelago. Pongamia ovalifolia, Wight leones 328, may also be a bad figure of this species. Some of my 
specimens have almost as small leaves, and if the figure of the inflorescence is taken for the base of the panicles (not for racemes along 
naked branches as described), it may well be this species ; at any rate, I have met with no other plaut corresponding to Wight’s figure. 
PLATE No. CLXXXYI. 
ANACARDIACE2E. 
SEMICARPUS AURICULATA. (Bedd.) A good sized glabrous tree, ditecious, leaves oblanceolate with a small blunt 
acumination very gradually attenuated at the base and there furnished with 2 rounded lobes just above the petiole, glabrous of a dull 
green color, costa slightly rusty, margin membranaceous, about 7 inches long by If inches broad above the middle, venation prominent, 
