Contributions to the Botany of Southern India by Captain R. H. BEDDOME, Officiating Conservator of Forests, with Plates.
ANONACEÆ.
(New Genus) Atrutegia (tribe Saccopetaleæ)
Generic Character—Sepals 3 small, petals 6, in 2 series aestivation valvate, outer ones nearly twice the size of the inner ones, ovate acuminated, nerved; inner ones obovate acuminate firmly cohering by their margins, torus sub-globose, stamens indefinite, anthers sessile, connectivum large attenuated into a blunt point—ovaries numerous oblong, style long attenuated, stigma 2 clawed, ovule erect, solitary.
Atrutegia Wynadensis (R. H. B.) an erect shrub, or small tree; leaves oblong acuminated, glabrous on both sides, 8 to 11 inches long by 3 inches broad, petiole G lines long, flowers axillary solitary, or solitary from small knots on the trunk, sepals rounded puberulous, outer petal puberulous on both sides, inner ones puberulous on the outside and glabrous within, but furnished on the inner face with a deep hairy channel round the upper portion torus ovary and style hairy (Plate No. 1.)
Rare. Wynad, in moist woods, 3,500 feet elevation, in flower in January.
"Unona pannosa" (Dalzell) is common in the Wynad and on the A'naimalais. " Cyathocalyx Zeylanicus" (Champion) not uncommon in moist woods on the A'naimalais "Guatteria coffeoides" (Hooker and Thomson), or a species closely allied to it, is a common tree in the W ynad : it yields a valuable fibre, as also does Unona pannosa, Orophea erythrocarpa, described by me from the A'naimalais in a former number of the Journal, I have also found in the Wynad.
