by its existing in the Herbarium of Dr. Wicut; but this is not suffi- 
cient evidence. I am convinced Dr. Wicur had it in very sparing 
quantity, because he most liberally distributed his duplicates; I partook, 
through his great kindness, very largely of them; but I have no spe- 
cimen of this plant. Further, Nees von EsEnBECcK observes, that Dr. 
Wiceut gives no locality for the species; and, lastly, I find it stated in 
Graunam’s “ Catalogue of Plants growing in Bombay and its vicinity,” 
p. 163, that two supposed new species of the Genus had been sent by 
Mr. Law to Dr. Wicut, I think it probable that one of these is our 
plant, and therefore, that the neighbourhood of Bombay is the only 
part of India where it has yet been observed. I have compared my 
plant with Dr. Wicut’s specimens, now in the possession of Dr. 
Arwort, and find them to be identical. The specimens are numbered 
1946, not 38, as quoted by DE CanDoLLe. 
Descr. Perennial. Stems (one foot six inches high) numerous, 
herbaceous, simple, erect, four-sided, very hairy ; airs very unequal in 
length, spreading, acute. Leaves opposite, decussating, spreading wide, 
subsessile, cordato-ovate, subacuminate, crenato-repand, with a little 
deflected callosity in each notch, wrinkled, concave above, where the 
are darker than below, covered with harsh hairs on both sides, midd 
rib and reticulated veins very prominent below, channelled above. 
Capitula shortly pedunculate, terminal, or in axils of the upper leaves, 
ovate, strobuliform. Bracts resembling diminished leaves, but less 
wrinkled, narrower, erect, slightly coloured. Flowers solitary and ses- 
sile, in the axils of the bracts, expanding in succession from below 
upwards, and several at a time. Calyx rather shorter than the bracts, 
five-partite, bilabiately compressed, pale green, hairy; segments lanceo- 
late, subequal, the odd one superior, hairs glandular. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, rather more than twice as long as the bracts, lilac, closely cover- 
ed on the outside with short, glandular pubescence, and within the tube 
having many long hairs; tube cylindrical and narrow for about half the 
length of the bract, or about one-fifth of its own length, above this in- 
flated, this portion being also cylindrical when fully expanded, but previ- 
ously compressed dorsally ; mb five-lobed, subspreading, /obes short, 
round, or emarginate, subequal, much broader than long, folding irregu- 
larly, convolutely imbricated, the odd lobe inferior. Stamens four didy- 
namous, included, inserted above the contracted portion of the tube, and 
applied along its upper side, the longest about two-thirds of the length 
of the corolla, and having their filaments hairy, the shorter half the 
length of the free portion of the others, their filaments glabrous, and 
connected at the base by a narrow, transverse, erect ridge, in the middle 
of which rises a small point, the rudiment of a fifth stamen ; anthers 
large, bilocular, approximated in pairs, blunt, /obes parallel, opening along 
the front ; pollen abundant, granules oblong. Pistil rather longer than 
the longest stamens; style hairy, swollen and geniculate towards the top; 
stigma subulate, and having a remarkable ridge along the upper side, 
leading to an elongated depression towards the knee of the style, both 
the ridge, which seems a free, thin, double membrane, and the depres- 
sion being most conspicuous in the unexpanded flower ; germen seated 
on an orange-coloured disk, oblong, green, glabrous except at the apex, 
where there are some short, glandular hairs, unilocular. Ovules two on 
each side of the incomplete dissepiment, ovate, compressed. Graham. 
Pig. 1. Calyx including the Pistil. i i 
4. Patil, wi at g the Pis' 2. Lower portion of the Corolla laid open. 3, Stamen. 
4. Pi ypogynous Gland. 5. Stigma. 6. Ovary and hypo us Gland. 7, Ov 
vertically, and 8, transversely laid open, © Drain: < edicts ge 
