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articulated spiny point which is deciduous in age, upper palea convex and perfectly glabrous shorter than the lower, stamens 6 monadel- 
phous in a long tube, anthers with a prominent bristle hairy at its apex, squamuke none, style and ovary perfectly glabrous, stigma entire 
terminating in a minute thickened point at its very apex, caryopsis narrow linear oblong, when ripe half as long as the upper palea in 
which it is closely folded. 
Anamallays. It is at once distinguished from all the rest of the genus by the articulated very long spiny point to the lower 
palea of the terminal or fertile floret, the palea aud glumes are perfectly glabrous even at their margins, and the style is glabrous with 
a simple stigma. Bedd. FI. Syl. p. 233. 
PLATE CCXXXIY. 
RUBIACE7E. 
NAUCLEA PEDUNCULARIS. (Wall.) A middling sized tree, glabrous, the branches a little compressed, leaves ovato- 
elliptic coriaceous acuminate glabrous about 6 inches long by 2 broad, petioles 3-4 lines long, peduncles terminal stout, pedicels 3 slender 
15-18 lines long bracteate at the base, flower heads 8-9 lines in diameter, no bracteoles between the flowers, calyx-segments linear- 
spathulate rounded at the apex a little hairy, corol yellow turning to purple, tube a little hairy towards the apex outside and hairy 
within, lobes oblong hairy outside and there furnished with a short horn below the apex, filaments about as long as the anthers, 
anthers slightly apiculate, stigma globose sulcate, ovules about 7 in each cell, the placentas pendulous from nearly the apex of the 
partition. Wall. cat. 6091 ; — Walps. Hep. ii. 512. 
Ceylon, Saffragram and contiguous districts, up to 1000 feet, not uncommon. 
PLATE CCXXXV, 
PSYCHOTRIA -A.NAMALLAYANA. (Redd.) A large shrub or small tree, glabrous, stipules broad-lanceolate with a long 
acumination much sheathing, 1-2 inches long deciduous, leaves cuneato-obovate shortly and abruptly acuminate, 8-12 inches long 2-2f 
inches broad towards the apex, much attenuated towards the base, petiole 1-2 inches long, cymes terminal shortly pedunculate many 
flowered, flowers greenish large, bracts minute acute deciduous, calyx cup-sliaped shortly but sharply 5-toothed, corol-tube very short 
villous in the jaws at the insertion of the anthers, lobes thick rather longer than the tube, filaments glabrous as long as the anthers. 
Style glabrous, stigma of 2 clavate lobes, berry oblong about 9 lines long by 4 broad, crowned with the remains of the calyx. Grumilea 
longifolia, Bedd. in. Linn. Trans. Vol. XXV. p. 218 (not Psychotria longifolia, Dalz.) 
Anamallay forests, generally on banks of rivers at 3000-4500 feet elevation. 
PLATE CCXXXVI. 
RANDIA DeCCANENSIS. (Bedd.) An unarmed tree 30 feet, young shoots tomentose, leaves broadly-ovate rhomboid- 
ovate or almost orbicular obtuse or emarginate scarcely coriaceous, above glabrous or subglabrous in age, beneath densely velvetty, 3-4 
inches long by 2-4 broad, petioles |-1 inch long, cymes axillary or from the old axils a little shorter than the leaves subglabrous, rather 
loose, the branchlets 3-flowered, flowers 5-merous white 6 lines in expansion, calyx cup-shaped, the teeth small acute, corol hairy outside 
the tube scarcely as long as the lobes hairy in the jaws, lobes rounded. Stamens exserted quite sessile, style linear, stigma scarcely 
exserted globular entire, ovary cells 5 ovuled, fruit not seen. Bedd. FI. Syl. under Rubiaceae. 
Nallaymallay mountains, KurnooL 
PLATE CCXXXVII, 
PLECTRONIA MACROCARPA. (Thw.) Shrubby subscandent, thorns axiilary very stout recurved, branches terete rufo- 
pilose when young glabrous in age, leaves ovate acuminate l|-3 inches long by f-lA broad densely rufo-pilose beneath particularly on 
the prominent veins, sparingly pilose above, petioles 2-3 lines long pilose, cymes pilose solitary in tbe axils the peduncles 6-8 lines long, 
flowers numerous on the dichotomous branchlets with a single one in the fork, brownish white rounded at the apex in the bud, 5-merous, 
calyx minutely toothed, corol about 3 lines long contracted above the tube when in bud, the lobes lanceolate a little bairy on the outside 
at length reflexed and a little longer than the tube, tube pilose within. Stamens exserted, style hairy much exserted, stigma thick 
