761. Microtropis garcinifolia. (Wall. Euony-
mus garcini folia Roxb. Cassine discolor, Wall.) subar-
borious leaves lanceolar entire acuminated : peduncles
axillary or supaaxillary short: corymbs small few-
flowered capsule—2 valved splitting from the base.
Roxb. Fl.Jnd. 1. p. 626.
Sylhet, (Roxb. Wall.)
Of th&1 gdnus little seems to be as yet known, Dr.
Wallich, with whom it originated, published the names
of 31 Species in his list of Indian plants, but without
either generic or specific characters. Professor Meisner
from imperfect specimens of two of these constructed a
generic character so nearly correct that I was enabled
from it to refer two or three new species, natives of the
Neilgherries, to the genus. Dr.'. Arnott. (Annals of
Nat. Hist. 3 p. 151,) from more perfect specimens of
the species here figured,drew up a generic character which,
with a few slight modifications, will include all my new
species, though differing a little in the capsule. I hope
in a subsequent part to be enabled to give a more perfect
character taken from the examination of several species.
762. Ltjdwigia prostrata. (Roxb.) lower branches
creeping : leaves alternate, petioled lanceolar flowers
axillary sessile : capsule filiform with one row of seeds
in each cell attached immediately to the axis. Roxb.
FI. Ind. 1 p. 520.
Native of Pegue.
763. Maba buxifolia (Juss.) Ferriola buxifolia
Roxb. leaves obovate glabrous in the adult state : calyx
downy : flowers solitary or aggregate, hexandreus, filaments
all simple. O. JDon. Fiction. 4 p. 43.
A frequent shrub in low jungles very abundant in the
Circars, but also extending to the Southern parts of the
Peninsula.
764*5. Myrica integrifolia (Roxb.) leaves lanceolar
entire smooth; scales of the female aments reniform
cordate one or two flowered : drupe oval granulated.
Roxb. FI. Ind. 3 p. 765. _
Sylhet, grows to the size of a large bush. Flowers December
and January, fruit ripen in May. 1 he fruit is
pickled by the natives and used as a condiment; in
its raw state though inviting to the eye is too sour to
be relished. Drupe oval the size of a prune, nut oblong
thick and very hard, a little flattened, the two
edges rather extended and somewhat sharp, densely
clothed with an immense quantity of fine white hair
in pencilliform tufts. The pulp consists of innumerable
closely impaced but distinct clavate succulent yellow
bodies.” Roxb.
764. A branch of the male plant with a detached
flower magnified.
765. Female plant with analysis of the ovary and
fruit.
766. AntibesmA lanceolaria (Wall. Stilago Roxb.)
shrubby smooth: leaves lanceolar: stipules ensiform:
spikes terminal filiform: male flowers diandrous. Roxb.
FI. Ind. 3 p. 760.
Native of Chittagong.
767- 8. Antidesma tomentosa (Wall. StilagoR-oxh.)
shrubby tomentose, leaves acuminate; stipules subulate
: spikes cylindric, amentaceous, male flowers trian-
drous. (Roxb. FI. Ind. 3 p., 757.)
A Native of Sylhet, flowers May and June, ripens its
fruit in September.
The genus Stilago not being considered sufficiently
distinct from Antidesma has been reduced to the latter
as being the older name.
767. Flowering branch of the female plant with
analysis*
768. Male plant with detached flowers, seen from
above and below.
769 Quercus CAstanicarpa (Roxb.) leaves oblong
entire smooth : nuts ovate, a little hairy, completely
hid iu the evalvular capsule-like cup which is completely
armed with ramous sharp spines. (Roxb. FI. Ind. 3
p. 640.)
Chittagong, a large tree, flowers July and August,
and the small acorns ripen during the cool season.
770. O.UERCUS ARM at a (Roxb.) leaves lanceolate
acuminate entire smooth: cup an entire evalvular capsule
armed with many compound thorns, hiding completely
the subovate acorn (Roxb. FI. Ind. 3 p. 640.)
Mountainous countries East of Bengal, a large timber
tree.
771. Aristolochia acuminata (Lam.) perennial
twining smooth : leaves cordate, rather acuminate : racemes
axillary, simple or compound, drooping (Roxb. Fl.
Ind. 3 p. 489.)
Eastern parts of Bengal, Roxb.—Lower slopes on the
eastern face of the Neilgherries, R. W.—Mauritius, Lam.
Flowering season-on the Neilgherries June, July and
August.
1 Flowering plant—2 dissected flower—3 a capsule
as seen hanging from the stem—4 capsule cut vertically
— 5 cut transversely.
AROIDEAD.
. Obs. The natural family Aroidece has of late years undergone
much careful revision, by several most eminent
Botanists, in the course of which it has been found
necessary to break down the old Linnean genera and
construct numerous new ones. The old genus Arum,
so copiously illustrated in this Part, affords a striking
example of the correctness of this statement. Of 22
species described by Roxburgh, in his Flora Indica,
under that generic name, not one is left. I have notwithstanding
preferred publishing most of his figures under
his own name, quoting the new ones as synonyms, not
because I disapprove of the innovations, for I have not
yet had an opportunity of determining for myself by
examination of the plants the necessity that exists for
such numerous changes, but because I think it desirable
to show the progress he made in elucidating this difficult
and, at the time he wrote, imperfectly understood
family.
When naming the plates I had not access to any systematic
description of the order, and now find I have
fallen into several errors in writing the synonyms on
them. Since then, indeed while these sheets were passing
through the press, I received Kunth’s Enumeratio
Plantarum, Vol. 3d embracing among others this family,
with the aid of which, I have been enabled, in the
letter press, to correct the errors of the plates.
772. Criptocoryne retrospiralis (Fischer—Am-
brosinia Roxb.) leaves linear lanceolar : spathe first twisted
to the right and there closed ; then to the left and
there open, capsule 5-celled, 5-valved. (Roxb. PL Ind.
3 p. 492.)
Native of the Northern parts of Bengal in mud soil.
773. Criptocoryne spiralis (Fischer—Ambrosi-
nia—Roxb.) leaves petioled linear lanceolate : spathe
sessile much shorter than the leaves twisted : ovary 5-
celled. (Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 p. 492.)
Native of marshy banks of streams and tanks. I have
found this or an allied species abundant in such places
in Tanjore and near the old fort of Palamcottah on the
bank of aa irrigation canal.