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porrecto crasso cylindrico-conico v. cylindrico obtusissimo labio in- 
feriore breviore eodemque plus minus obtecto. 
U. racemosa, Wight, l. c. t. 1584. f. 1; Benj. in Linnea, xx. 307.—U. 
cerulea, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 19. 
Loc. In Bengalia, Edgew. Ceylonia, Walker! Gardner! (C. P. 2085) 
Thwaites! Montibus Pulney, hb. Wight ! 
Radices fibrosz, utriculis paucis nullisve. Folia spathulata v. lineari- 
spathulata, ante anthesin szepe evanescentia. Scapus interdum bifidus. 
Pedicelli brevissimi, bracteam sequantes v. parum excedentes, brac- 
teolis minutis lanceolatis a basi plus minus volutis. Corolla (pur- 
purea v. rosea ?) labio inferiore cucullato striis 4 latis pulchris notato 
(fide sched. in hb. Hook.) calcar obtegente. Capsula globosa v. sub- 
globosa, calycem æquans v. parum excedens, seminibus minutis. 
U. racemosa (Wall. Cat. 1496) varietas? cf. U. complanatam, Wall. 
Cat. 1497. | 
U. rosea, Edgew., is known to me solely from the description in the 
* Proceedings of the Linn. Soc.’ (7. c.); I may therefore err in referring 
to the same form the plant occurring in the South and Ceylon, As 
noted above, perhaps both may be forms of U. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 
1496, although I scarcely consider them as such. 
** Corolle calcar labium inferius excedens. 
I desire especially to draw the attention of Indian botanists to the 
forms which group themselves under this subsection. Notwithstanding 
the extensive suites of specimens illustrative of most of these, together 
with the other aids which have been freely and most liberally afforded 
me, I feel myself, after devoting no little anxious care to their study, 
quite unable satisfactorily to adjust or subordinate them. While, on the 
one hand, I fear to unite them under one presumed species (the extreme 
forms of which, however, would by no means present structural differ- 
ences irreconcilable with the reasonable adoption of such a course), on 
the other, from tbe variability of those parts which alone can afford 
characters not common to the whole series, I cannot, with a fair con- 
fidence, say between which groups a line may be most suitably drawn. 
Therefore, although I incline to the opinion that there may be of these 
two (or perhaps three) species, under existing circumstances I have 
thought it the safer course to pursue, to indicate merely the groups 
which I conceive may not improbably be of specific value, without, 
however, positively attributing such import to them. 
Characteres omnibus communes. 
Folia lineari-spathulata v. spathulata. Scapus erectus, debilis vel sub- 
volubilis, floribus paucis v. numerosis. Calyx lobis subsequalibus 
ovato-rotundatis rotundatisve, superiore sspe obtusiusculo у. subapi- 
culato corolle labio superiore integro v. emarginato plerumque bre- 
viore. Corolla labio inferiore cucullato integro v. subintegro calcaris 
