is distinguished from the preceding by its minute stipules,
glabrous calyx, and the want of hairs within the
tube of the corolla.
LAWIA (R. W.)
Gm. Char.—Calyx limb 5-6 parted. Corolla tubular
gibbous at the apex; limb 5-6 cleft. Stamens
5-6 attached to the very base of the corolla, filaments
very short. Ovary 5-6 celled ; ovules numerous; placentas
free attached by a short pedicel to the inner
angle of the cell. Seeds numerous, small, irregularly
shaped, (resembling grains of gun powder) black.
Herbaceous plants, puberulous all over; leaves long-
ish petioled, oblong-oval, acuminate at both ends,
membranaceous, transversely veined ; deep green above,
glaucous beneath. Stipules triangular acute. Cymes
terminal twice or thrice trichotomous lax; each division
embraced by two connate membranaceous bracts : flowers
yellow pedicelled, small: calyx tube short campa-
nulate ; limb deeply cleft into 5 or 6 narrow somewhat
subulate divisions : corolla tubular about the length of
the calyx 5-6 cleft, somewhat hairy within, yellow : stamens
very short, apparently scarcely attached to the
corolla : style short: stigma lafge 5-6 lobed, segments
acute.
In dense jungles about Courtallum and Shevagherry,
flowering and bearing ripe fruit in August and September.
I have dedicated this very distinct genus to my
valued correspondent J. S. Law, Esq., of the Bombay
Civil Service ; an enthusiastic Botanist, who in the
midst of the fatiguing duties appertaining to the office of
a Collector, still finds some leisure for the prosecution
of his favourite pursuit, and has made many valuable
additions to my collection, from that side of India, of
plants not found to the Eastward of the Ghauts. This
genus seems clearly referable to the tribe Hamelieae of
D. C. and is the only one so far as 1 know belonging
to the Flora of the Indian Peninsula.
1070. Lawia acuminata (R. W.)
Courtallum and western slopes of the Shevagherry
mountains, flowering in August.—See Calcutta Journal
of Nat. History, vol. 6.
1071. Scutea Rheediana (R. W.) shrubby, armed
with a few scattered recurved prickles : leaves suboppo-
siteapproximated, from broad ovate to orbicular, tipped
with a minute point, conspicuously, parallel-veined,
bright green above subglaucous beneath : ovary 2 celled
; fruit 2 celled : seed compressed.
Neilgherries abundant near Kaitie Falls, apparently
in flower at all seasons.
This seems very distinct from S. Indica. When naming
it I thought it Rheede's plant, to which it bears a
considerable resemblance, but he represents the fruit
with 5 seed, in both his figures, a form I have not yet
met with, and, if that part of his figure is correct, I doubt
whether his plants belong to this genus. This I have never
seen with more than two. It is at once distinguished
from S. indica, by the venation of the leaves, which in
this is prominent on the upper surface, running in parallel
curved lines from the costa to the margin ; while
in that, it is barely conspicuous and at irregular distances
: the leaves in this are besides ovate, or approach
that form, while in that they are cuniate or obovate :
this is nearly unarmed, while the ramuli of that are
constantly furnished with numerous stout recurved
prickles.
1072. Polanisia Burtporenses (Mur.ro) stem
together with the leaves thickly covered with prickly
hairs ; leaves simple ! oblong-lanceolate acuminated ;
radicle ones attenuated into a petiole ; cauline sessile :
stamens 10-12 ; siliqua linear, not compressed, sessile,
about the length of the peduncle.
Plains of Roobass near Bhurtpore, flowering in September.
Flowers rose coloured.—Munro Hort. Ag-
rensis p. 35.
I am indebted to Captain Munro, H. M. 39th foot,
for the drawings and characters of this, and the two
following plants.
1073. Corchorus humilis (Munro) perennial
prostrate: leaves ovate crenate long petioled : peduncles
2 flowered : capsules linear, oblong 6-8 times longer
than broad, nearly glabrous, 4-5 celled, 4-5, valved ;
septa nearly obostate.—Munro, l. c.
“ A small prostrate plant growing in very hard dry
soils. This may be C. prostratus. Royle who, however,
gives no character.”—M.
MONSONIA CHUMBALENSIS. (R. W. Erodium
Chumbalense, Munro).
1074. (E rodium Chumbulense Munro.)—Annual,
with a short decumbent stem covered with glandular
hairs : leaves long petioled, oblong, cordate, cre-
nated : peduncles one flowered, thicker towards the
top, jointed near the base, furnished at the joint with
two bracteas : sepals pointed : carpels including the
awns nearly 2 inches long.—Munro, l. c.
Chumbul, near Agra in ravines. “ I believe it is the
first instance of an Erodium having been found on the
plains of India.”—Ikf.
As this is certainly a species of Monsonia, I have
changed Captain Munro's generic name but for the
present retain the specific one, though I suspect it is
identical with Geranium Lawianum of Graham's catalogue,
because the drawing differs somewhat from specimens
of that plant communicated by Mr. Stokes of
Bombay, under the name of Monsonia Lawiuna a full
description of which will soon appear in the Calcutta
Journal of Natural History under the following specific
character.
M. Lawiuna (Stokes) densely clothed with lymphatic
glanduliferous pubescence; leaves ovate-cordate, acuminate,
dentate : stipules and bracts herbaceous ; peduncles
axillary 1 flowered : carpels obliquely truncated
at the apex hispid.—The peduncles are long,
jointed near the base, and when in fruit, twice bent,
somewhat resembling the long form of the letter ƒ inverted
thus ?.
1075. Vogelia Indica (Gibson M.S.S.) leaves
ovate obtuse roundish at the base perfoliate.—R. W.
Found by Dr. Gibson of Bombay, near Heura, to
whom I am indebted for the specimens from which the
drawing was taken. The station given is “ liumicul
Ghaut” leading down to Sungunnure in the Deccan.
A large shrub from 6-10 feet high with cylindrical
ramuli and ovate obtuse coriaceous glabrous perfoliate
leaves. Inflorescence paniculately spicate ; flowers closely
congested on the extremities of the branchlets forming
a conical spike. Calyx five sepaled ; sepals lanceolate
corrugated on the margins. Corolla tubular 5 cleft
aestivation convolute ; lobes reflexed obcordate mucro-
nate. Stamens included. Ovary superior one celled
with a solitary ovule pendulous from the apex. Style