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calyx red, petals fleshy ovato-rotundate about 1| inches long rose colored. Hook, and Benth. Gen. VI. vol. i. 751. Medinilla ? Walkeri, 
Wight III. i. 217. Pachycentria, Thw. En. p. 107. 
Ceylon, one of the most beautiful plants in the island, covering the trunks and branches of trees at 3000-5000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CCLXXI. 
STYRACEtE. 
SyMPLOCOS OLIGANDEA. (Bedd.) A small or middling sized tree much branched, gemmae and young parts minutely 
puberulous, leaves coriaceous elliptic shortly pointed or rarely obtuse glabrous on both sides, shining above, pale beneath, quite entire or 
with a very inconspicuous tendency to cremation near the apex, about 2 inches long by 8 lines broad, petioles 2-3 lines long channelled 
on the upper side and puberulous, racemes puberulous very short scarcely longer than the petioles 3-6 flowered, calyx puberulous 
scarcely a line long segments unequal, corol glabrous about twice as long, stamens as long as corol 12 (rarely only 10-11) generally 
hexadelphous in pairs or irregularly pentadelphous, some in bundles of 2-3-4 the others solitary, ovary 3-celled, ovules 2, the upper one 
very small suberect the lower long and pendulous, fruit not seen. Bedd. FI. Sylvatica p. cl. 
PLATE No. CCLXXII. 
MYRTACEvE. 
EUGENIA SlNGAMPATTIANA. (Bedd.) A small dense tree, leaves opposite coriaceous oblongo-ovate to broad ovate 
subcordate at the base retuse or subacute at the apex deep green above, very pale beneath, perfectly glabrous, about 3 inches long by 
l|-2 inches broad, primary veins numerous and forming a continuous loop near the margins, flowers white in expansion about J an inch 
on very short terminal crowded racemes, calyx and bracts with a slight pubescence, petals 4 distinct, prominently veined and inconspi¬ 
cuously dotted. 
I have only met this tree on the Singampatty hills (Tinnevelly ghats) at 3000 feet elevation in moist forests. 
PLATE No. CCLXXIII. 
RANUNCULACErE. 
ThaLICTRUM DaLZELLII. (Hook.) Stem erect 1 foot high, leaves 3-foliate rarely 2-ternate slightly sheathing at the 
base, leaflets 1J-2J inches in diameter reniform deeply cordate 7-9 lobed lobes crenate or toothed, stipules oblong free, panicle subsimple 
small, flowers white, fascicled at the ends of the branches, filaments clavate about 50, achenes about 38 not compressed sessile, ribbed, 
furnished with long straight beaks hooked at the top. Ilook. and Thom. FI. Ind. 10. 
Bababooden hills and Canara ghats, also in the Bombay Presidency (Harrichander.) 
PLATE No. CCLXXIV. 
RUTACE^E. 
PaRAMIGNYA ARMATA. (Thw.) A large soandent shrub, spines deflexed often recurved, leaves 1-foliate ovate- 
oblong to ovate with a sudden acumination, the apex obtuse or mucronulate glabrous or slightly hairy on the under side and the costa 
puberulous, punctate, 1-3 inches long by 1-lJ broad, petioles articulated 8-9 lines long, flowers solitary or several together in the axils, 
pedicels slender articulate 3-12 lines long, calyx small 4-5-triangulari-lobulate or dentato-lobate puberulous, petals 4 oblong punctate 
imbricate. Stamens 8-10, filaments hairy apiculate towards the apex dilated below, anthers oblong, ovary pilose and punctate 3-4-5 
celled seated on a large gynopliore, ovules solitary pendulous, style thick punctate, stigma dilated, fruit rotundate about \ an inch in 
diameter yellowish green when ripe, Anthromiscus armatus, Thw. En. PI. Zey. 47. Paramignya, Oliver on Aurantiacece p. 43. 
Common on our Western ghats, Wynad, Coorg, &c., up to 3-4000 feet elevation, also in Ceylon. 
PLATE No. CCLXXV. 
CAPPARIDEJE. 
OaPPARIS PARVIFLORA. (Hook. f. et Thom.) A spreading much branched large shrub, branches unarmed, leaves 
glabrous subcoriaceous very variable from narrow lanceolate to broad oblong or ovate, attenuate or cordate at the base more or less 
