Malabar. I first met with this tree, or one that
I believed to be it, but not in flower, in the pass
between Quilon and Courtallum. I have since received
specimens from the western slopes of the
Neilgherries and from Coorg. Several years ago
Captain Munro sent me a specimen from the latter
station with the following note attached: 11H. Bru-
nonis. I send a specimen of this as requested. I
found the plant in great abundance at the foot of
the Sumpayjee Ghaut in Coorg, but I could only
find two specimens in flower. I send one. I have
also found it on the (name illegible) Ghaut in Canara,
and on the Koonda Ghaut, Neilgherries.” The specimen
figured is from Coorg.
1607-8. HuMBonDTiA Vahliana (R.W.), branch-
lets solid, equal: leaflets 4 pairs, ovate, oblong, acuminated:
back lobe of the stipules nearly equal
sided, round at both ends, petals 5, nearly equal,
scarcely equaling the calyx lobes, caducous.
Neilgherries. In jungles about Coonoor.
This species is very distinct from both the others ;
from the first it differs by its solid branchlets, and
from the second by its pentapetalous flowers, 4-
paired leaves, and very different shape of the leaflets.
The spikes are usually geminate, secund.
1609. Bryonea Mysorensis (Klim. Herb. Mad.),
stems glabrous smooth: tendrils simple: leaves
cordate, repand-toothed, usually 5-angled or lobed;
slightly scabrous: male flowers in a simple or proliferous
umbel at the apex of a long slender peduncle;
female very shortly peduncled, solitary, often
in the same axils with the males, rarely several
umbellate at the apex of a long peduncle: calyx
tube and ovary narrow oval: berry longish oval,
glabrous, copiously marked before maturity with
small shallow pits: seeds smooth, surrounded with
a zone quite flat on the sides.
Mysore, climbing on hedges, &c. This species
is so nearly allied to B. Hookeriana that I formerly
expressed my belief of their being but varieties
of the same plant differing merely in the shape of
the berry. It having since then been suggested
that the difference forms a good specific distinction,
I have thought the best course to follow, to rectify
my error, if such it be, is to give figures of both.
This one can be compared with No. 758, which
is the form described under B. Hookeriana.
1610. Dichrocephala Schmidii (R.W.), procumbent,
diffusely ramous, glabrous: leaves obovate
cuneate, slightly dentate at the apex: capitula
globose, sessile, axillary and terminal.
“Neilgherries, on the banks o f dry ditches near
the dyke of Ootacamund lake, and also on the
margin of a tank near Bellicul. Schmid.” I am
indebted to the Rev. Dr. Schmid for my specimens
of this very distinct species, which I have much
pleasure in dedicating to the discoverer. In the first
named station he found it several years ago, but latterly
it seems to have disappeared from that locality.
The specimens sent were obtained from the other.
1611. Atalantia floribunda (R.W.), shrubby
or subarboreous, very ramous, spinose: thoms straight,
about 6 lines long, axillary: leaves oval, emarginate '
or subovate: racemes axillary, short, many-flowered,
flowers longish pedicelled: ovary stipitate 4-celled
with 1 ovule in each, orange about the size of a
nutmeg.
Ootacalmundagum, near Coimbatore. Flowering
during the rainy season, October and November.
The flowers of this species are much larger than
those of the other two : the ovary, which is somewhat
cylindrical and 4-celled with a single pendulous
ovule in each, is prolonged downwards considerably
beyond the base of the cells. In other
respects it much resembles A. monophylla.
1612. Osbeckia hispidissima (R.W.), suffruti-
cose, erect : branches 4-sided, thickly covered with
strong inflexed bristly hairs, leaves sub-sessile, oval-
lanceolate acute at both ends, 5 nerved, hispid
on both sides, especially on the veins beneath : hairs
thick and wiry like those of the stem: corymbs
terminal, few-flowered : calyx stellato-hispid, 4-cleft,
lobes ciliate, petals 4, large, spreading^: stamens 8,
anthers prolonged into a longish beak.
Mysore, Cleghom. I am indebted to Dr. Cleg-
horn for the drawing and specimens, from which
the plate and specific character of this very distinct
species were prepared.
It is at once distinguished from all those of both
India and Ceylon; with which I am acquainted,
by the extreme hairyness of its stems, which is
not adequately brought out in the figure, and the
texture of the hairs with which the leaves are
covered: the larger leaves on my specimen are
about 7 inches long and two broad, 5 nerved, with
a more slender one binding each edge. The flowers
are large, dark crimson, anthers prolonged into a
long curved beak ; the fruit I have not seen.
1613. “S cjevola uvifera (Stocks), shrubby,
branches decumbent at their origin, axils almost
smooth : leaves oval or obovate, like the branches,
fleshy and smooth: flowers in cymes about the
length of the leaves, peduncles a little compressed,
bracts fleshy, linear : border of the calyx entire or
5-6-crenate : lobes of the limb of corolla fimbriate
at their base : filaments smooth, anthers with the
connective ending in a hooked tip: ovary with 10
streaks, style hairy at the base : stone of the purple
fruit pear-shaped and rugose on the surface.
Hab. Mouths of the Indus, and sand-hills by the
sea at Kurrachee. Flowers white, scentless. A
large epygynous gland in the line of the stamens
and opposite the anterior or odd lobe of the corolla.
Lobes of stigma right and left of the axis.
Cells of ovary anterior and posterior.
The indusium, undeveloped in the youngest buds
(figure 5), grows rapidly over the lobés o f the
stigma which remain stationary in their development
(figure 6), but soon take on growth and the
pollen is shed on them before the flower opens
(figures 7 and 8), and even after this they continue
growing and project beyond the Indusium (figure 9).
Seed erect with albumen.
1. Flower.
2. Anther.
3. Ovary.
4. Ovary cut vertically,
5. Stigma in very young bud. Its lobes are
uncovered by the Indusium.
6. Stigma and Indusium in buds further advanced.
Mouth of Indusium open. Lobes of stigma
small.
7. and 8. Stigma and Indusium just before the
expansion of the flower. Mouth of Indusium closed.
Lobes of stigma well developed.