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Stems 1-2 ft. high, simple or with a few slender ascending branches clothed with 

 BQort adpressed silky hairs. Leaves moderately firm, usually 2-4 in., but in the linear 

 form 5-6 ir„ usually acute, glabrous above, obscurely silky beneath; stipules subu- 

 late, very minute, deciduous. Terminal racemes 2-12--flowered. rarely reachiner A ft. 



bracts 



and bracteoles large, lanceolate. Cal^x |-1 in. long, persistently 

 tosely clothed with long brown silky hairs ; lower teeth lanceolate-acuminate, upper 



sessile, glabrous, ^-f in. long, 20-30-seeded. 



calyx 



i 29, C. sesslliflora, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii, 129 ; annual, shortly silky, leaves 



acute rarely lanceolate, flowers in elongated racemes rarely solitary from 

 eaty nodes, calyx middle-sized densely clothed with long siliy hairs, teeth all 

 ong upper lanceolate acute, pod oblong as long as the calyx. Bmth. in Hook. 



jMd. Jaum. ii. 565. 0. authyUoides, Zam. ; Wall. Cat. 6366 A. in part, B. 0. 



^venusta, Wall. Cat. 6365. 0. nepalensis, Link Enum. ii. 228. 0. hrevipes, 



LAam m Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 44. 0. eriantha, Sieb. 8f Zucc. Fl. Jap. 13. 0. Old- 



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Upper Punjab and along the base of the Himalayas to Assam, ascending to 5,600 ft. 

 Ja ^^^-^' BiRMA, Wallich; Pegu, McLeUand.—BiSTmn. China, Philippines, 



te??w 1-2 ft. high, simple or furnished with few or many ascending branches." 

 ^^'fis inoderately firm, narrowed to both ends, 2-6 in., glabrous above, thinly. 



; stipules setaceous, very minute. Flowers deflexed, 2-20 to a raceme, 



Cali/ ^f^^^^ reaching 6-9 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles long, setaceous, persistent. 

 tina^f^u^* ^^^S' brown silky hairs long and dense, but not as much so as in caly- 

 Pr^A \ , "^^ ^U acute, upper ^ in. broad. Corolla blue-white, glabrous, not exserted. 

 ^^^ glabrous, sessile, 10-15-seeded. , 



Hne?' ®Y <5^taensls, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 130 ; annual, laxly siUcy, leaves 

 ^aror oblanceolate obtuse or subacute, flowers 3-6 densely capitate all termi-' 

 cal^T^^ "iiddle-sized, teeth long upper lanceolate, pod oblong as long as 



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^enth. in Hook. Zand. joum. ii. 666 (not of Moxh.} 



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StiTnof T.!^*^^^^^^ Pr^IN, COKCAN, MArABAE, P£GU, and TbNASSEBIM.— DiSTKIB. 



^tra, Philippines, China. 



^th l^^ ^r^ ^^' ^^8^» usually with several stout ascending branches densely clothed 

 ^low*K^ ^^^° silky hairs. Leaves moderately firm, sparsely silky, 1-2 in., pale 

 teeth i ^^^^®^ rounded ; stipules 0. Calyx |-^ in,, densely laxly silky ; lower 

 ?o// o *"m^^' ^^acts and bractwles linear, persistent. Corolla glabrous, not exserted. 

 *^«essile, glabrous, 15-20-seeded, . . . 





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 ^r^ourn, ii. 664. 0. cephalotes, Jlerb. Madr. m Wall. Cat. 6373. 



^'3>hfcT ^^^^® woody, with rigid erecto-patent branches, densely clothed with short 

 ^^uided f T^ .^•'^^y hairs. Leaves firm, 1-1^ in., densely silky on both sides, 

 Qstiallv • iT ^^^^ ' stipules subulata, very minute. Heads copious, round, terminal, 

 ^^x 1 • 1 ^ ^^^f J^st beneath ; bracts lanceolate, as long as calyx, persistent velvety, 

 on the Vf '-i*^"^' densely persistently velvety. Corolla as long as calyx, densely silky 

 outside. Pod sessile, glabrous, 10-12-seeded, much shorter tlian the calyx. . . 



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olovatA ^'l^la, Orah. in Walt. Cat. 6404 j annual, shortly silky, leaves 

 denser ^°^**6 subacute, floww^ 12-30 in dense terminal heads, calyx wnaJl 

 Book rJ' *®^*^ ^ long acuminate, pod oblong as long as caljx. Benih. m "^1, 



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