EXPLANATION OP PLATES.
222. Elatine (Bergia) astivosa, W. and A. Glabrous: stems much
branched: leaves opposite, Obovate, or "oblong, attenuated towards
the base; those on the flower-bearing branches almost linear, flowers
pedicellate, axillary, opposite, solitary: sepals and petals 5: stamens
10: styles short.
1. A flowering branch—natural size—2. A dissected flower, showing
the hypogynous insertion of the stamens, the 5 clavate styles
and a detached petal—3. Stamens—4. The ovary entirè—5. Ovary cut
vertically, showing the central, placenta—6. Cut transversely, 5-
celled—t. A portion of the stalk, showing that the flowers are occasionally
paired—8. A capsule cut transversely—alt more or less magnified.
223. Ochna Wightiana, Wall. Leaves ovate, bluntish, rounded at
the base, conspicuously veined, slightly serrulated, pedicels solitary,
or in pairs, from the apex of a very short leafless shoot: sepals oval,
obtuse, petals (deciduous) and ovaries 5, stigma 5-cleft. .
1. Flowering branch—natural size—2. A flower partially dissected
—3. Stamens—4. Ovary, style and stigmas—5. The fruit nearly full
grown—6. A carpel—7. The same, showing the immature seed—all
more or less magnified.
1. Plant—natural size—2. A portion of the rachis with abractea, and
a solitary axillary flower—not however the usual arrangement—3.
An expanded flower, showing the insertion of stamens on the thl-oat
of the calyx tube—4. The flower split open, showing the ovary with
its lateral style—5. Stamens—6. The ovary cut vertically, ovule ascending
from the base of the style—7-8. Portions of leaves magnified
to show the hairs—all more or less magnified.
230. Rubus gowreephul, Roxb. Stems somewhat terete, and like
the petiols and peduncles armed with recurved prickles and densely
hispid, with brown horizontal hairs, leaves pinnately 3 foiiolate,
leaflets from elliptical to nearly orbicular, toothed-serrated, upper
side glabrous, under white and iomentose, with recurved prickles on
the midrib and some of the nerves: stipules subulate, panicles small,
axillary and terminal, corymbose, segments oblong, white, and
shortly tomentose on both sides, petals cuneate, obovate, longer
than the calyx.
1. Flowering branch—natural size—2. A flower cut vertically—3.
A similar section of a fruit nearly ripe—4. Stamens— 5. A detached
ovary—6. Cut vertically—7. A detached aehenium—8. The same cut
vertically, showing the seed and position of the embryo—9. Cut
transversely—10. The embryo removed.
224. Agrimonia Eupatorium. Lin. (A. ceylanica, Moon)- Stem,
leaves pinnate, leaflets elliptic—oblong, terminal one stalked ; calyx
encompassed with bristles: spikes elongated.
1. Plant—natural size—2. An expanded flower—3. The trifid brac-
teas—4. A flower split open, to show the position of the ovary and
insertions of the stamens—5. Anthers—6. An ovary cut vertically,
seed pendulous—7. Cut transversely—8. Portions of a leaf magnified
to show the hairs.
Dr. Arnot,t has decided,by comparing specimens, that this plant, is
identical with the European one, but judging from characters only
I think there is reason to doubt that.
225. Rubus rugosus, Lin. Shrubby, armed with scattered straight
or recurved prickles, branches, calyx and under side of the leaves
villous, with tawny tomentum : leaves simple, cordate. 3-5 lobed,
reticulated and pitted underneath, scabrous and pustulated above,
stipules and bracteas villous, racemes few flowered, axillary and terminal,
segments of the calyx oblong, lanceolate, equal to the
1. Flowering branch—natural size—2. A dissected flower, showing
the ovaries detached from the sepals, petals and stameus—3. A petal
—4. An ovary and style—5. The same cut vertically, ovule pendulous—
6. Ovary cut transversely—7. Stamens—8. Portions of a leaf
magnified, to show the hairiness and reticulations.
226. Erioboiryajapmica. Lin. Leaves lanceolate, somewhat cuneate
at the base, slightly wrinkled, serrated, woolly on the under side,
lobes of the calyx rounded.
1. Flowering branch—natural size—2. A flower dissected, showing
the petals ana stamens, the lobes of the calyx removed—3. The
ovaiy—the sepals partly removed to bring i t into view.
227. Combretum Wightianmn. Climbing, glabrous : leaves opposite,
elliptic—obovate, usually with a snort sudden acumination,
coriaceous, shining above : spikes axillary, on longish peduncles,
elongated, lax, racliis and calyx pubescent: bractioles obsolete, or
resembling minute tubercles tube of the calyx two or three times
longer than the ovary, limb cleft to near the middle, with a hairy
ring below the insertions of the stamens; segments triangular,
ovate, acute, recurved, petals elliptic, oblong, emarginate.
1. Flowering branch—natural size—2. An expanded flower—3. The
same split open, showing the insertions of the petals and stamens,
the style and stigma—4. Stamens —5. An ovary cut vertically, two
ovuled—6. Cut transversely—'7. Fruit—natural size—8. Cut transversely—
natural size— 9. Cut vertically, seed pendulous fiom a slender
podosperm—10. Seed removed—11. A seed, the testa removed,
showing the cotyledons unfolded and superior radicle—tef/A the exceptions
mentioned, all more or less magnified.
228. Phoiinia Lindleyana, W. and A. Leaves elliptical or oblong,
lanceolate, acute, serrulate, or sometimes almost,quite entire: panicles
small, compound; ramifications glabrous: pedicels equal to the
calyx : cells of the ovary spuriously bilocular: Fruit glabrous, often
one-seeded from abortion.
1. Flowering branch—natural size—2. A dissected flower—3. The
same cut vertically, showing the insertion of the stamens, the two
styles, and the 2-celled half adhering ovary, with ascending ovules—
4. Stamens—5. Ovary cut transversely, 2-’celled, with two ovules in
each—6. A fruit full grown—natural size—7. The same, magnified—8.
Cut transversely, 2-celled, with one seed in each—9. A seed—10.
Cut transversely—11. Cut vertically, showing the cotyledons about
half grown—12. Cot) ledons and radicle removed.
229. Alchemella vulgaris, Lin. (Al. ceylanica, Moon). Leaves
reneform, plaitedly concave, 9-lobed, serrated. Flowers dichoto-
mously corymbose—varies much in size and pubescence..
I have now specimens of this plant from Ceylon, Neilgberries,
and the Pulney mountains.
231. Rubus Wallichianus, W, and A. Stems somewhat terele, and
tlié petioles and peduncles and pedicels armed with recurved prickles
and densely hispid with brown horizontal hairs: leaves pinnately
trifoliolate; leaflets nearly orbicular, toothed-serrated, green on
'both sides, glabrous above, slightly villous' beneath; midrib and
some Of the larger nerves prickly bêneuth : stipules subulate: panicles
large, compound, somewhat corymbose, axillary and terminal:
segments o'f the calyx oblong-lanceolate, tomentose, hispid at the
base: petals oblong; thé length of the calyx.
, 1. Flowering branch— natural size—2. A dissected flower.
232. Rubus lasiocarpus, Sm. Stems terete, long, rooting at the ex-
• treraitics, glabrous, glaucous, armed with curved prickles; branches
and petioles tomentose and prickly: leaves pinnated; leaflets 3-7,
somewhat plicate, front ovate or obovate and acuminated to lanceolate,
terminal one roundish and often 3-lobed, glabrous above, white
and tomentose beneath, irregularly toothed and serrated: stipules
subulate: panicles racemose, chiefly terminal: segments of the
calyx oblong, attenuated at the apex, tomentose: petals roundish,
shorter than the calyx: carpels tomentose.
1. Branch in fruit—natural size.
233. Polentilla Mooniana, R. W. Stems creeping and with the under
surface of the leaves clothed with silky pubescence, leaves interruptedly
pinnate, larger leaflets, from oval to obovate, obtuse,
acutely serrated, smaller ones sub-orbicular, nearly glabrous above :
flowers racemose: bracteas entire or dentate: accessory sepals
larger, dentate : petals obovate, yellow.
Netcera Ellia Ceylon, on the banks of a stream creeping among grass
The petals were lost before the drawing was made, but nut cone
g them necessary for the identification of the species I have figt
notwithstanding this defeet. The plant figured is nearly two
1. Plant—natural size—2. A flower expanded but without petals—3.
Stamens—4. A fruit cut vertically—5. The entire frui:—6. A detached
carpel—7. The same cut vertically, with its enclosed seed—8-9. Portions
of leaves intended to represent the upper and under snrtaci s
but badly executed, the one with too much the other with too little
pubescence—all more or less magnified.
234. Rosa involucrata ? Roxb. Subscandent, armed with strong sti-
pulary straight prickles, flowers in subsessile fascicles, bracteas in
form of a 4 or 5-leaved inferior calyx.
My specimen differs from Roxburgh’s description in having the
leaflets glabrous beneath, except the midrib which is somewhat
I am indebted to Lieut. Munro for my specimen which he found
wild in Mysore.
1. Flowering brunch—natural size—2. A cluster of flower-buds—3.
A detached brae lea—4. Stamens—5. A carpel, with style and stigma
—6. The same cut vertically, showing the pendulous ovule.
235. Semecarpus Grahamii, R.W. Leaves cuneato-lanceolate, acute,
coriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, petiol short, furnished
with 4 subulate bodies (as in Holigama longifolia) ; panicles racemose,
contracted, congested towards the summits of the branches :
calyx truncated, cup-shaped, adnate, with the lower half of the
young fruit : styles 3, lateral, near the apex, reflexed, stigmas capitate;
ovary and young fruit covered with rusty colored hairs ; ovule
solitary, pendulous from the base of the styles.
1 dedicate- this species to the memory of the late John Graham,
Esq. of Bombay, from whom 1 received tho specimen. See Illustrations
of Indian Botany, voi. I. page 180.
1. A branch covered with young fruit—2. A young fruit—3. The
same cut vertically; showing the position of the ovary—both magnified—
4. A leaf— natural size..