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petioles 1-1 inch long, flowers small villous in axillary racemes 6-12 lines long, petals with a very villous scale on their inner face anci * 
with a long claw, disk of 4 large glandular lobes, berry round size of a pea red. DC- Prod. i. 611. 
Ceylon, Ambagamwa and Hinidoon Districts up to 3000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CCLXXXVI. 
ScHMIDELIA ACUMINATA. (Thw.) A small tree, branches terete glabrous, leaves glabrous ovate obtusely rostrato- 
acuminate, 2-£-4| inches long by 1-2 inches broad, petioles 4-7 lines long, racemes elongate subglabrous few flowered, the petals with a 
very densely villous scale. Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 55. 
Ceylon, Galagama on banks of streams 2000-3000 feet elevation ; the analysis in the plate gives only male flowers. 
PLATE No. CCLXXXVII. 
ScHMIDELIA VARIANS. (Thw.) A small tree, branches terete glabrous, leaves glabrous lanceolate acuminate entire 
4-6 inches long by 11 If inches broad, petioles |--1 inch long, racemes puberulous 4-5 inches long, bracts very minute and very 
shortly pilose. Thw , En. PI. Zey. p. 408. 
Ceylon, central provinces, 2000-5000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CCLXXXVIII. 
NePPIELIUM BIFOLIATUM. (Thw.) A middling sized tree, 20-30 feet high, much branched, leaflets 1 pair, common 
petiole about 1 inch long glabrous entire lanceolate obtusely pointed shining above, reticulated, opaque and fuscous beneath, 3-5 inches 
long by |-1| inches broad, petiolules 2-3 lines long, panicles pilose terminal and axillary as long or longer than the leaves, flowers 5- 
merous, calycine segments rounded glabrous ciliate, petals slightly longer oblong glabrous ciliate, with a sudden short claw aud furnish¬ 
ed with a small round long ciliate scale at the base, disk fleshy crenulate, stamens generally 7 the filaments hairy at the base longer 
in the male flower, ovary glabrous 2-lobed, Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 57. 
Ceylon, Lower Badulla road from Kandy at no great elevation, in flower in April, I have what appears to be the same only in 
young bud from the Kolay Mallays in the Trichinopoly district of this Presidency. 
PLATE No. CCLXXXIX. 
DISCQREACEiE. 
TriCHOPODIUM ■ZeYLANICUM ? (Thw.) Leaves bluntly hastate or triangulari-deltoid prominently 7-nerved, 4-5 
inches long by 2-3 inches broad on petioles 4-7 inches long, flowers brownish red 4-5 lines long, fruit 12-14 lines long. Thw. En. PI. 
Zey. p. 291 ? 
Travancore hills (Singampatty) up to 3500 feet elevation. I have distributed specimens under the name of T. Travancoricum, 
and it appears to differ from Dr. Thwaites’ description of the Ceylon plant in its larger flowers and in the greater number of nerves 
in the leaf. I have not seen Ceylon specimens, but Dr. Thwaites does not seem to thiuk this distinct as a species. 
PLATE No. CCXC. 
CONY O L VTJL ACE2E'. 
-N EUROPELTXS RACEMOSA. (Wall.) A large woody climber, stems glabrous in age, leaves ovate to lanceolate with 
a longish acumination entire glabrous in age but when young densely adpresso-pubescent above and sparingly hairy beneath, 3-5 inches 
long by about 2 inches broad, petioles -|-1 inch long, racemes straight axillary or from the old axils solitary or several together densely 
rufo-pubescent 2-3|- inches long, flowers 3-4 lines long on peduncles 2 lines long which are furnished towards their apex with a large 
ovate acute cucullale bract, calyx about 1^ lines long rufo-pubescent as are the bracts and petals, corol nearly 3 times as long as the 
calyx deeply 5-cleft, lobes entire, ovary hirsute, fruit not seen. in Roxb, FI. Ind- ed. Wall. ii. 44. 
