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^17. I. teneUa, Ileyne in Wall. Cat 4746 A ; small, slender, erect, 

 paDrous, leaves all opposite sessile or shortly petioled ligulate oblong or 

 mceolate remotely serrate, stipules obscure or 0, pedicels with a line of 

 JW^scence, sepals linear acuminatCj standard short, terminal lobe of wing 

 Clawed elongate lateral small, spur shorter than the flower, capsule clavate 

 pointed few-seeded W. <fh A. Frodr. 140 ; H.f.& T. in Journ. Linn. Soc, 



Iflr^ ?L rosmarinifolia, Hetz; Wight Ic. t. 750. I tenuicula, Steiid. 

 ^om. ed. 2, 1. 804. 



' ^^^^^^ains of Malabar, Heyne; and the Concan, Jacquemont. 

 row ^^ T^ •^^'' ^™P^® ^^ sparingly branched. Leaves 1-4 in., the upper or all nar- 

 petiolT P Z' ^ suhcordate base, the lower (rarely all) usually narrow lanceolate and 

 Fn -^^o^ceZ^ 1-3^ solitary or fascicled, capillary, erect horizontal or deflexed in fruit. 

 powers about i in., pink? Capsule glabrous, ^ in., straight, long- beaked. Seeds few, orbi- 

 intemT^^T^^' shining, black.— A very obscure plant, probably a variety of /. Klein ii, 

 Biarkel r^^;^ -^^^^ ^^ and/, incoiispicua. There is a specimen in Bottler's Herbarium, 

 filiort ^^^9iflora, Heyne, from i3ababud. Wight*s /. rosmarinifolia ? has a very 



ellinsn'l ^^^'^^^^'^'" ®P^^ ^^^y slender as long as the flower, capsule shorter | in. 

 4ia Ion 7-^^ at both ends. Herb. Wight —Cochin, Johnstone, Mysore, Lobb. Leaves 



& ligulate from a cordate sessile base in Cochin specimens. 



brancb^'l*?^^'^^^*^'*^' -^^^^^^- ^^^ ^<^U' Cat 4741 ; flaccid, glabrous, much 

 ^PDer 1 ^^^^ ^^^^' leaves serrate lower ovate or oblong and petioled 



cek V f^ sessile or all ovate or all linear, stipules setaceous or 0, pedi- 

 linear^^^l 1^^^^ shorter than the leaves with a line of pubescence, sepals 

 W a d ^ ^^^' wings with a broadly rhomboid obovate clawed terminal 

 Pro^r lorf"^^ lateral lube, lip saccate acuminate not spurred W. d* A. 

 k'Wn?? n ' ^^^hi Ic. t. 970 ; Dalz. d: Gibs. Bomb. Fl 43. I. pusiUa, Heyne 

 r i 1 k"^^-,^'^^ ; B. f,& T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv, 122. L filiformis, 

 rotmif' iy^^^^' ^^^^- I- raysorensis, Foth in Walt Cat. 4743 injxirt I. Per- 

 J^^l", i urcz 171 BuU. Soc. Nat 3Iosc. 1863, i. 594. ' 



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^^ rem r 1 *"'* ^^^^^^ ^^* slender, erect. Leaves J -4 in., upper always narrowed and 

 ^eath ^ p^,?^^^^*^> often very slender, glabrous or pubescent above, pale or glaucous 

 ^n the 1 f ?^^ ahvajs with one line of pubescence, solitary or geminate, shorter 

 '^nded I ^^^^^*^ ^^ fruit. Sepals veiy long and narrow; wings with a large 



^'^ tnr^T'^^*'i.^^^^^^^ ^^''^'^'*^*^ **^*'^'^"^'^^^®' ^^^ ^"^^^* ^^"^^^ lateral one. Capsule 

 ^^Ir^nSfYl u ^'"^^^^1 acute at both ends, ikeds few, almost globose, but a little 

 *^^ totallv '^' • shining.— Of this very variable plant there appear to be two extreme 

 *^^i thftf T ^^^^^ forms, but the Wallicliian specimens, which are all under-sized, are 

 '^^^tedalo i,^^""^ satisfactorily determine to which of them any of the synonyms 

 '^^ee J-,3 • ^ should apply. One of these two forms is usually shorter, and has all the 

 ^^picua ' f"'^^.*^^^'^^' ^^ate or ovate-lanceolate, and sharply serrate ; it is the /. in- 

 ^'^^ed in n +♦! ^^'^^'^ Icones, t. 970, /. tenella of Heyne, according to a specimen so 

 fcrm is ^^^."7 8 Herbarium, but certainly not Rottler's teneUa. The other extreme 

 '^udednr ^v ^^'■ger, with leaves 14-2 in., narrow-ligulate, remotely serrate, often 

 Offers frim fikT^^^ at the base; this is the Lfiliformia of Wight's Herbarium, but 

 ^rinost 1p ^^^^"Ption in Wight and Arnott in the pedicels not being confined to the 

 *nd not the t^^^' ^' ^2/soren«is, Wall. Cat. 4743 B, is a very small state of incompicua 

 f^wtosa T) 1 ® P'^^^ ■^- ramosissima, Dalz., referred in tlie Joum. Linn. Soc. to /. 

 ^^«forms ft ' ^® another form, with a minute rudimentary spur. Between the ex- 

 V^^ ^08t y ^^^ innumerable connecting links ; and I retain the name inconspicua, 

 *^^Pt8 the ^^P^^?^^®» the flowers being amongst the smallesl of the genus. Beddome 



synonymy of the Prodfomus for 7. inconspicua, and says that he does not 



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