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HeDYOTIS CAPITATA. (Bedd.) A woody nearly glabrous shrub 5-8 feet high, young ramuli somewhat angled and 
with the stipules and peduncles slightly hairy (under the lens), leaves ovate slightly acute very coriaceous, l£-lf inches long by f-li 
inch broad, very prominently 7-9 nerved from the base, nerves channelled above, raised beneath, petioles very flat and dilated 1-2 lines 
long. Stipules broad ovate glanduloso-fimbriate, peduncles terminal and from the upper axils 1-1A inches long, flowers 4-merous 
small and inconspicuous densely capitate in globose (| inch diameter) heads which are furnished at the base with 2-4 small sessile 
leaves, calyx and corol strigose with shining hairs, bracteoles glanduloso-fimbriate. Ovules 6-8 in each cell attached to a fleshy placenta 
which is erect from the lower part of the axis. 
I have only found this very distinct species ou the mountains just above Palghat at an elevation of 6500 feet, abundant in 
open grassy places. 
PLATE No. CXCI. 
GERANIACEiE. 
IMPATIENS BaLLARDI. (Bedd.) Herbaceous weak suberect, 1-1 £ feet high, stems glabrous often rooting between the 
leaves, leaves alternate and opposite ovate acute, incurved-setaceo-dentate and furnished near the base on the margin with pedicelled 
glands, 1-2 inches long by -|--1 inch broad, above furnished with a few weak very inconspicuous hairs on the veins, beneath glabrous 
and much paler, primary veins 3-4 on each side, petioles 3-7 lines long, peduncles solitary terminal or from the upper axils 2-31 inches 
long subglabrous 5-8 flowered at the apex, pedicels slender elougate, flowers f inch long, vexillum hooded slightly keeled at the back 
with a rounded point at the apex, aloe spreading, the lower lobe very much larger than the upper, labellum attenuated into a long spur 
gibbous at the middle, capsule ovate swollen subglabrous 3 lines long 7-10 seeded, seeds with weak haiis. 
Travancore mountains, on the ghat up from Cottayam to Peermede, and about Peermede 2-3500 feet elevation, allied to 
I. Goughii, but with much longer flowers and differently shaped petals. 
PLATE No. CXCII. 
MELIACEiE. 
AGLAIA M1NUTIFLORA. (Wight.) A good sized tree, densely covered with stellate down, leaves unequally or rarely 
equally pinnate, up to more than 2 feet long by 1 foot broad, leaflets 4-6 pair, in age glabrous above except the costa, densely stellato- 
downy uuderneath, oblong to lanceolate with a long fine acuminatiou, slightly and irregularly toothed or subentire, 3 6 inches long by 
1-2 broad, primary veins prominent 10 14 on each side, Male panicles axillary very large and very compound, from much shorter than 
to about as long as the leaves, flowers very numerous very minute a line in diameter, stamens 5 exserted beyond the nearly entire 
staminal tube, calyx hairy, petals glabrous, female flowers not seem fruit densely stellato-downy, about 1 inch in diameter.—Aglaia 
polyaatha, Bedd. in. Distrib. 
Travancore hills 2-3500 feet elevation, Asambu hills South Travancore, and Peermede North Travancore, also on the Aua- 
mallays (Nelliampathy). I have only male flowers, though plenty of specimens of the hermathrodite tree in fruit. The figure 
represents portion of a male panicle in very young bud. Specimens sent to Kew were named Milnea minutifolia, Wight, probably 
only a manuscript name, as I cannot find it described in any work ; it it a very handsome tree, particularly when young. 
PLATE No. CXCIII. 
BIXINE2E. 
ABERIA GtARDNERI. (Clos.) A tree, 16-20 feet, unarmed, branches terete tuberculate, young ones tomentose, 
leaves ovate oblong or oblongo-lanceolate acuminate subobtuse at the base, entire or dentato-serrate, above pubescent, beneath tomen¬ 
tose, about 4 inches long by 2 broad, petioles about 4 lines long, costa and primary veins reddish, male peduncle short often 
twin, pedicels 10-20 umbellate about 4 lines long pubescent, calyx-lobes lanceolate acute pubescent, filaments filiform equalling the 
segments of the calyx, female pedicels 1-3, calyx-lobes as in the male, ovary densely pubescent subglobose, styles diverging lines 
long pilose, berry about 1 inch in diameter. Clos. in An. des Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, viii. p. 236 ;— Bedd. Flora Sylv. p. xvi. Analytical 
pi, ii. Roumea liebecarpa, Gard. in Calc. Journ. of Nat. Uis. vol. vii. p. 9 ;— Thw, En, PI, Zey. p. 18 and p. 400, 
Ceylon, called Ixatambilla ; the acid fruit is eaten. 
PLATE No. CXCIV. 
