p i r t !
gcisuoemiii iiKlica ; colour in the morning ihal of a pale rose,
growing deeper and deeper ihrough ilie day, unci acquiring a
purplo li.ige,
Cn/jx helow, on the outside beauufully groov'd into trapezoid
figures.
Cnro/ as in Lagerstroemia indica.
numerous, all of the same she, inserted into the ealyx.
Fisl,/, Cnpnlc, and SeecU. as in the genus,
Thi. is a native ofiiKinyorthc woody mountains of the northern
parts ol tlie Circars, vvJiere it grows to a tree oC a middling size.
Flowers durino, the hot season. Seeds ripe in August.
1 know of uo use any part oi' this tree is put to by the natives;
it is very beautiCul when in Rower, and well deserves a conspicuous
place in oui' gaidcns ; it iias ilowered ibr some yeais in mine.
G(i. LACEllSTROEMIA PARVIFLORA.
Chinamghie of the Tulingas.
Ti-Hvk erect. Bark smooth, ash-colour'd.
¿irmc/i« very numerous, the large and lower spreading, the smaller
nearly creet.
Lcnvcs opposite, or in numbers from scabrous tubercles, very
short-petioled, oblong, above smooth, shining, below covered
with a whitish down, entire, I'rom two to four inches long, and
one or two inches broad.
Stijmlrs nonz.
Peduitdes termincl, and from the axills of the exterior leaves, erect,
lonnd, smooth, bearing in general from three to six flower.?;
or the whole e.\tremities of the branchlets may be called a large
leafy panicle.
Fhwrs small, white.
Calyx, CoTol, Stamcm, and PhUl as in the former.
Cn/Wff smooth, oval, size of a small nutmeg, three or four-cell'd.
r four-\ Ived.
Sccch wing'd, as in the genus.
This is a small tree, a native ofoiir Circar mountains. Flowers
during the hot season ; seed ripe in August and September,
The wood of this tree is used by the natives for various economical
purposes. Neither the flowers, nor the appearance of tlie
lend its being placed in the garden with the other
67. TMÜNBERGIA FRACRANS.
Yeanadary Tiga of the Telingas.
.ffofl/consists of many thick, woody fibres.
Stem and J?!V7'ic//ij twining, woody, of considerable extei
three fathoms), jointed and swelled there from the
of the leaves or their cicatrices, round. Beiik lig
lour'd. Young slioots downy.
Leaves opposite, petioled, narrow-hearted, acute, behin
slightly loI>'d, or angular, three-nerved, scabrous, a
inches long, and one and a lialf broad.
HUNBERGIA FRACR.'VNS.
long, clia
..rged about the middle, i
ir caly.K, bent to one sid<
Pff/io/c about three quai ters of an
rious directions.
Pff/ujif/i a X i I hn-y, so li tary, 0 ne -fio w er ' d
or two inches long.
Flowei-s large, of the purest white.
Calyx as in the genus, except that the le;
and many-nerved.
Carol salver-form: Tvbe compress'd, ei
little hairy, longer than the exter
with acui-ve, border flat, five-parted; divisions equal,
egg'd, with their extremities lop'd, and in ge.ieral irregularly
three-tooth'd, shorter than the tube.
Style length of the tube.
Stipm. two-lob"d : lobes inverse-hearted, funnel-form.
Ca-psjile sub-globular, flat-beak'd, iwo-cell'd, opening from the base
with an elastic Jerk.
Seed in general one in each cell, the other seldom or never ripens;
round, rugo.se, with a large cavity (as in tlie Cocculi indici),
which penetrates two-thirds of the seed.
This plant is common in hedges, among bushes, on the banks of
water-courses, about Samulcoiah ; I have not met with it elsewhere.
Flowers during the wet and cold seasons; w.heji cultivated it
flowers all the year.
The plant possesses a peculiar and agreeable fragrance, and the
beauty of its flowers, though not fragrant, intitles it to a placc in
the flower garden.
68. FLACOURTIA SEPIARIA.
Canrew of the Telingas.
cJim very irregular, iinri dark rust-colour, smooth.
Branches numerous, straggling.
Tkonts axillary, spreading, very numerous, large, and very sharp,
leaf-and Hower-beai'irig.
Leaves on the young shoots alternate, on older branches fascicled,
short-petioled, reflected, oval, serrated, smooth, about threefourths
of an inch long, and half an inch broad.
P f i W i a x i l l a r y , single, or many, undivided, one-flower'd.
f/owoi small.
Calyx five-leaved ; Leaflets oblong,
Carol none.
Filaments very numerous.
Anthers small.
t, woolly.
a distinct plant.
little spreading,
ize of a pea.
Calyx as in tlie male.
Germ above, o\'al.
Styles three or four, sliort, ;
Stigmas simjjie,
Berry globular. Succulent,
Seeds from four to eight.
This is a very common, thorny, shrubby plant, found in most
woody uncultivated parts of the coast, both on mountains, and low
lands. Flowers about the beginning of thehot season; berries ripe
in J u l y and August.
49 FLACOURTIA SEPIARIA.
i well for fences, its t Th i s b u s h ai horns being so exceedingly
strong and numerous.
The berries, when ripe, are eaten by the natives, and are sold
the public markets.
69. FLACOURTIA SAPIDA.
Pedda Caanrew of the Telingas.
Trunk irregular, but growing to the size of a small tree.
Thorns as in the former, but fewer, and even wanting sometimes.
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, serrated, smooth, from one tc
two inches long, and from three-fourths to an inch broad.
Peduncle axillary, many-flower'd.
Male Flowers as in the formei'.
Female Flowers on a different tree.
Calyx as in the former.
Xe-clarj a notch'd cup-like ring, surrounds the base of the germ.
Styles four or five.
Beny larger than in the former, and contains from six to twelv(
seeds, generally eij^ht or ten.
This tree is a
most part of the y
The berries of i
of t tainous parts only; flowers
1, andare very palatable.
:hes
70. EMBRYOPTERIS GLUTINIFERA.
Embryoptcris peregrina. Garln.sim. l. ji. M5, tab. 29.
Tumikaofthe Telingas.
Mango.stan-utan of the Malays. fKoenis-J
Lym-appel of the Dutch. fKoaiig.J
Tmni erect, straiglit, middle-sized. Barl: pretty smooth, dark,
blackish rust-colour.
Branches spreading, scatter'd ; young shoots snxootli.
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, two-faced, liiicar-oblong, p(
smooth, firm, shining; when young, soft and red ; si,':
long by two broad.
Stipule, single, sheathed, which bursts and falls, when the leaf bi
ghis to expand.
Penduncle axillary, single, bowing, bearing three, four, or more
small, white flowers.
Brnde small, deciduous, below each pedicel.
Filaments about twenty, at the point bifid.
Anthers about forty, linear, erect.
FEMAI.K TREE.
Peduncle axillary, single, undivided, bearing one wliitc Howe
which is considerably larger than the male.
Filamaits one, two, three, or Ibui', small, short.
Anthers linear, small, sterile.
Gerv, globular.
Styles four, spreading.
iS/jVjwiij branched, generally three-cleft.
Beiry, or rather apple, globular, size of a n
farin
rMDRYOI'TF.RIS
Seed'! eight, which generally all ripen, immersed in pulp, kidneyform,
straight, edge thin."
This is a middle-sized tree, growing in the moist, cool valleys,
among the mountains in the Circars; it does not cast its leaves;
flowering time March and April. The wood of this tree is of an
indifl'erent quality, and not much used.
The ripe fruit is eaten by the natives, but I cannot say it is palatable
: it is strongly astringent.
71, 72. RORASSUS FLABELLIFORMIS.
Linn. spec, plant. 1657.
Palmaira tree.
Potoo-Taady is the Telinga name of the Male tree,
Penty, or Is'ama-Taady, that of die Female,
Rool consists of innumerable long, tough, veiy strong fibres, about
the thickness of the little finger.
Tnmi erect, generally Irom thirty to fifty feet high, though sometimes
it allains the height of one hundred feet; it is everywhere
maiked with the hard, black cicatrices of the fallen
leaves.
Fronds (leaves) surround the top of the tree, stip'd [petioled], round,
composed of a great nuinber of folded, linear-lanced divisions,
which continue united about half way ; from two to five feet
each way.
Slipes stem-clasping, convex on the under side, and concave above,
inaigins armed with a sharp, very hard, lacerated edge ; from
two to four feet long.
imbricated,
,n splitin
subcovered
;s in the
sheaths,
ispadix.
ification
e cylinzed
apple, pulpy,
y-yellow when ripe, and covered with a rust-coloiu'd
Spalhe universal, composed of many (ten to four(
smaller spathes, each vaginated at the base, but so
ting in a long concave, pointed, boat-like sheath,
stance very strong and fibrous; when young, they arc
with a soft, downy, rust-colour'd suijstance ; someiim
lower axills of the sheaths, there is a bundle of smaller
forming a .spathe. like that now described, but withoi
The superior four or seven sheaths embrace each ran
of the spadix, each ramification ending in two or thr
• De..c.iptionb)-I)r.Kociiig.
/Iitfi granilis, fmidc magna,glcil)M:i, .Mangircraisiinlllimn. Tmmu erassu^, itcUis carlia
Fctia sltrriia, hiftrin, linnK-ohlong:!, acula, iiilegerriTO, ulrinqtic gbljn, corucm, rigida,
M-nioiriic.i iiit arbores.
.CCQJ, flavicans, pilis niris jibis adpressis Iccluj, c».
ubcorlacoa, albicans, calycciriplolongior, tjiiidrifiiia:
:v-ia, ilba. Ml/icra lincarcs, anguIoM, acula.', crccra.
axil lares, i>an-i,
1110llO|>ll)'llllS, UIC.
rims plcninicjuc soliiaiii. PcJimaJt Class io res, pcuolis vi\ brevior«, supra basin cicalrieiilanoiaii,
«bracKacadtica.
Catjx iiiojiopiiylliis, qujdiipirUtus : lacinia: ciectx, cordam, acuta:, intcgerrirai, coriacci,
alhicanlcs, persislenlcs, magiiE.
CmcHa major, profund ins divisa, et mi mis ilrccolati, quam in mare.
Crrwiwi gloliosura, a Ibiim, mugli i ludinc ]iisi OT i nori s, Ijasi margine cincnim. Slßi qualuor,
Patentes, pilosi, planiiwiili, apice bifiili : lacinia dcnutv, gennire breviorcs.
Bmia globosi, pjnini depressa, innieiiW pulvcrulento rubro caduco Icclum, magnitudine
pomi Viilgai-is, s-spci-nu. Smim ovau,,