EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
VOL. IV.—PART II.
1283. Secamone emetic a (R. Ur.), twining glabrous:
leaves lanceolate or elliptico-lanceolate tapering
downwards to the petiol: cymes shorter than
the leaves, five or many flowered: corolla glabrous:
leaflets of the staminal crown cultriform, half the
length of the gynostegium: stigma apiculate: follicles
slender, attenuated at the apex.
Subalpine jungles, not unfirequent, twining extensively
over low trees and bushes.
1284. Brachylepis nervosa (W. and A.), young
shoots and under surface of new leaves clothed
with soft pubescence: cymes very hairy, furnished
with numerous minute bractiols.
Co'mmon on the Neilgherries about Coonoor and
Kotergherry and generally about that elevation,
(6,000 feet.) Flowers small, purple, surrounded with
much whitish hair. Leaves very dark green and
shining above, below reticulated with strong dark
coloured veins, at first pubescent, afterwards glabrous.
1285. Decalepis Hamilton». (W. and A.)
Balaghaut mountains near Madras.
A very ramous, twining, glabrous shrub: rainuli
terete, slightly sulcated, thickened at the joints:
leaves obovate cuneate, retusely acuminate, coriaceous,
finely veined beneatL.. Cymes racemose: bractiols
numerous, minute, ovate, pubescent: flowers
small, lobes of the corolla spreading, exterior pubescent,
densely hairy within.
1286. Boucerosia lasiantha (R. W.), quadrangular
erect, very ramous: angles prominent,
denticulate: flowers umbelled, longish pedicelled:
corolla rotate, four lobed, externally glabrous; densely
clothed with shaggy pubescence within; lobes at
first ciliate with longish jointed caducous hairs:
gynastegium exserted.
Nuggur Hills, Madras.
Nearly allied to Bl umbellata, but quite distinct in
its very ramous habit and its densely hairy corolla.
1287. Boncerosia campanulata (R. W.), stems
simple erect, 4-sided, angles dilated somewhat winglike
with gland-like denticular: corolla campanulate;
tube conical, glabrous on both sides; not marked,
with transverse bars: gynostegium short, not exserted
beyond the tube.
Station unknown.
This seems still more nearly allied to B. umbellata
than the preceding, but is, I think, quite distinct.
The simple stems with broad thin angles, and the
want of transverse brown bars, added to the tubular
form of the corolla, which is more distinct in the
specimen than in the figure, all combine to prove
it distinct. I received the specimens without the
station being marked.
1288. C hilocarpus C eylanicus (R. W.), shrubby,
cirriferous: leaves petioled, elliptic, tapering to
both ends, bluntly acuminate, glabrous, shining
above, dull (when dry) rusty coloured beneath,
parallely veined: corymbs axillary, cymose: calyx
lobes broad, ovate, obtuse, ciliate: corolla deeply
5-cleft: stamens inserted on a thickened ring near
the bottom of the tube, included: filaments incurved:
anthers ovate pointed: ovary obtuse: stigma oblong
acute: fruit------ .
Ceylon. I gathered the specimens here represented
in March, 1835, but without fruit. Since the
figure was printed I have received others from Mr.
Gardner, but still without fruit, hence it is still
doubtful whether this is a true Chilocarpus, or a
species of Willoughbia.
1289. Carissa congesta (R. W.), fruticose,
erect, ramous: branches dichotomous, armed with
long tapering simple spines: leaves petioled, broad
ovate or suborbicular, obtuse, glabrous, very smooth,
membranous, the veins scarcely visible in the dried
specimen: peduncles short, terminal, about 3-flower-
ed, several congested on the points of the branches
slightly pubescent: calyx lobes ovate, acute, ciliate,
much shorter than the corolla: corolla hairy within
the tube, throat glabrous: filaments hairy, anthers
apiculate: stigma capitate, hairy.
Coorg. Jerdon, Aboo. Stocks.
This seems a very distinct species, intermediate
between C. carandas and paucinervia, but certainly
distinct from both. I am only acquainted with it
through Herbarium specimens, communicated by
Messrs. Jerdon and Stocks.
1290. Carissa paucinervia (Alph. D. C.), branches
sub dichotomous, armed: leaves elliptic, oblong,
acute at both ends, mucronate, glabrous, short petioled,
few veined oblique: peduncles terminal and
axillary, much shorter than the leaves, 3-5 flowered;
pedicels longer than the calyx puberulous: calyx
5-cleft, slightly pilose, laminae lanceolate, acuminate.
Neilgherries, abundant near Kaitie falls, flowering
during the hot season, April and May, but I believe
generally to be met with in flower. A low somewhat
diffuse very ramous thorny bush: leaves elliptic
oblong, mucronate, smooth and shining, light pea
green, from ^ to inch long, and about naif as
broad—flowers white with a slight dash of rose, berries
about the size of a small bean, oval, dark purple.
1291. Ophioxylon Ceylanicum (R. W.), shrubby,
erect, glabrous: leaves opposite or verticelled, 3-4
together, elliptico-lanceolate, acuminate, at both ends,
acute, dark green above, glaucous beneath, pinni-
veined: corymbs longish peduncled cymose, axillary,
solitary or two or three together from the upper
axils: flowers pedicelled: lobes of the calyx narrow
lanceolate or somewhat subulate: corolla hypocra-
teriform, lobes of the limb broad obovate obtuse,
about the length of the tube; tube hairy in the
throat: ovary 2-celled, 2-parted united at the apex,
two ovules in each cell: berries connate at the base,
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