ferent species before us, a point which can scarcely
be determined until our respective specimens are
compared.
In its woody structure this plant presents a close
affinity with Peppers, transverse sections of the two
being almost undistinguishable.
1956. T etrameles Grahamiana (R. W., Anicto-
clea Grahamiana, Nimmo in Graham’s catal.), leaves
long petioled, cordate, short acuraiuated, serrated:
male flowers panicled, panicles terminal, corymbose,
females racemose; racemes long pendulous.
Courtallum, Malabar, Ghauts, &c.
I have followed Mr. Nimmo in the specific name,
though I suspect this is not distinct from T . nudiflora,
Brown. The specimens from which the drawing was
made were gathered at Courtallum, but I received
others from Mr. Graham of Bombay, but all without
leaves.
1957. Artocarpus (Jaca) hirsuta (Lam., Roxb.),
leaves elliptic, obtuse, or rounded at both ends, glabrous
above, hairy, especially on the nerves, beneath:
male catkins long cylindrical, about the thickness of a
quill, at first ascending or erect, afterwards becoming
pendulous: females oval, about the size of an egg:
fruit globose, echinate.
Malabar, dn arid red soils, also in forests where
it attains a great size, the trunk being large enough
for canoes, for the formation of which the larger ones
are principally used. The drawings embodied in the
plate were made at different times: the figure of the
tree and full grown fruit were taken from a tree growing
near Trevandrum in May ; that of the flowering
branch was executed at Tellicherry by the same artist
(Rungia), but not under my inspection. I, however,
believe them correct, though at variance with Roxburgh’s
description and Rheede’s figure, as regards the
direction of the male catkins, the difference being
referable to the difference of age. The tree figured
is not a very good specimen, and I now suspect the
likeness is not very good, but being the first I had
seen I thought it well to have a sketch.
1958. Antiaris saccedora (Dalzell, Lepurandra
saccidora, Nimmo in Graham’s Cat.), arboreous:
leaves- ovate, oblong, acuminate, entire, glabrous
above, slightly villous beneath: capitula axillary, aggregated
; peduncles about the length of the pedicels.
Malabar, Ceylon, flowering during October. The
specimens from which the drawings were made were
obtained from Coorg.
The above specific character will require to be
modified when we become better acquainted with
the whole genus.
1959. Conocephalus niveus (R. W.), arboreous,
erect, ramous: leaves oyato-lanceolate, acute or acuminate,
quintuple-nerved, acutely serrated, somewhat
bullate above; prominently reticulate and white be-
. neath, strigosely hispid on both sides; inflorescence
axillary, cymose: fruit capitate, drupaceous, drupes
small, yellow, globose.
Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries, frequent, common
also in many sub-alpine jungles. I t extends
as far south nearly as Cape Comorin in the jungles
along the lower slopes of the hills. On the Neilgherries
it is met with at an elevation of about 5000
feet. This small tree seems so much to resemble
Roxburgh’s Urtica pidcherima that, for a long time,
I thought it that plant. I t does not, however, seem
to have been known to Roxburgh, as it does not correspond
with any of his descriptions.
Fruit capitate, made up of an aggregation of small
globose drupes. Sarcocarp fibrous, pulpy, studded
over with minute resinous translucent tubercles;
testa ovate, h a rd ; albumen copious; embryo straight,
as long as the albumen, radicle pointing towards the
apex of the seed. Albumen oily: filaments straight
in aestivation.
1960. Cudrabia javanensis (Tricul, Annal des
Sciences), leaves oblong lanceolate, entire, rounded
at the base or acute, acuminate at the apex, mucro-
nate, glabrous on both sides.
The specimen from which the drawing was made
I received from the Calcutta Botanic Garden, labeled
Morns scandens, a Chinese plant and may not, though
it agrees pretty well with the character, be the true
C. javanensis.
1961. E picarpurus orientalis (Blume, Trophis
aspera, Willd., Roxb.), arboreous, leaves alternate,
short petioled, obovate, cuspidato-acuminate, serrated
towards the apex, very rough above: male flowers
capitate, heads axillary, aggregated, short peduncled:
females axillary, 1 or 2 together, longish pedicelled :
fruit drupaceous, 1-seeded: testa crustaceous : cotyledons
very unequal-sized, exalbuminous; radicle
pointing towards the apex of the seed.
A common small rigid stunted looking tree, common
all over India. Blume has mistaken the structure
of the seed, which he describes as albuminous
with a curved inverted embryo and cochleate cotyledons,
in place of which it is composed of one very
large cotyledon split half through and a very small
one completely inclosed in the slit and concealed by
the larger one. To bring it into view, it is necessaiy
to tear off half the larger one as shown at figure 12,
when the true structure at once becomes obvious.
Figure 10 shows the seed as described by Blume,
where the smaller cotyledon assumes the appearance
of a small embryo with cochleate cotyledons.
1962. E picarpurus spinosa (R. W., Trophis
spinosa, Roxb. not Willdenow), arboreous, thorny:
leaves oblong lanceolate, coarsely serrated towards
the apex, glabrous: male flowers aggregated in the
axils of the leaves and thorns: female flowers 1 or 2
together, axillary; calyx deeply 5-parted, lobes lanceolate,
acute, much longer than the fruit.
Courtallum, Ceylon. This seems a very rare plant
in the Peninsula, as I do not recollect having seen it
in any other station, and there it was a low thorny
shrub.
The plant figured in the left hand corner of the
plate is a new species of Epicarpurus from Ceylon,
communicated by Mr. Thwaites with the following
character, since published in Hooker’s Kew Garden
Miscellany, vol. 4, page 1.
E picarpurus Zesxanicus (Thwaites, Arnott). A
ramous shrub, sparingly armed: leaves rhombio-lan-
ceolate acuminate, glabrous, remotely spinuloso-ser-
r a te : male flowers densely capitulate, heads oblong:
females racemose: fructiferous pedicels thickened at
the apex and elongated.