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PLATYSTEMMA vIOLOIDES. Tab. 151. 
Chesom inter muscos super rupibus montium Napaliz superioris, florens mense Augusti. 
PrawTULA elegans, annua, pollices 2 ad 6 alta, carnosa, pilis obsita patentibus, rene loygiusculjs, Pon ee E pul 
cherrimè moniliformibus, articulis decrescentibus, extimo subulato. BADEN constans fibrillis ane igni? capi ai ZAULIS 
tenerrimus, ferè filiformis, 11—3-pollicaris, teres, pilosus, erectus vel oblique pen, spice ]- 5 2-phyl m L m arci 
Fouvm ad apicem caulis sessile, patens, planum, orbiculato-cordatum, vi Me apnd "e ve E utin I -— 
extrorsòm remote sinuato-dentatum, ciliatum, basis integerrimæ sinu brevi, Magia, lobis rotundatis, omnia p exica ibus; suprà 
atroviride, opacum, pilis copiosis, erectis conspersum, subtùs argenteo-pallidum, obscurè pinn, pee pervia gracilibus, 
prominentibus, pilosulis, versus marginem reticulato-ramosis, prætereå a alterove e nervo cun vel costa op sé a proveniente ; 
nune 2 adsunt folia approximatissima, opposita, quorum alterum multó minus. nd terminalis, e gremio folii quasi ortus, 
(caulis continuatus) solitarius vel geminatus, gracillimus, filiformis, indus, diana pilésalhe, ké 2- ve} Aforo: FLos ratione plantæ 
sat magnus, cernuus, inodorus, lævis, amoenissimé azureus, centro minutim viridi-radiatus, subtús glbisans, pediogllg longo, capillaceo, 
suffultus. BRACTEOLA 2 infra pedicellos subulatee, acuta, patulæ. Catyx ovatus, j-dentotus, carnogus, vis ultra lineam longus ; dentes 
lanceolati, acuti, patuli. CoroLLa planissima, rotata, absque ullo ferd T pollicaris, bilabiata, pio ovata ; unc fuge 
subquadratum, 2-lobum, lobis ovatis, obtusis, leviter divergentibus; inferius QUORUM, altero va ‘pi GARD, pos pou oops, 
paròm divergentibus, intermedio vix minore, basi cuneato-angustatum ; faux staminifera, superne inscripta lineolis 7 viridibus, radiatim 
per basin labii superioris divergentibus. SramIxa 5, brevissima, glabra, ostio corolla vix tubuloso intòs adfixa ; fertilium filamenta æqualia, 
crassiuscula, subulata, parallela, per paria conniventia, basi parùm torta; anthere magnæ, reniformes, conniventes, supernè rimá trans- 
verså dehiscentes, 1-loculares; stamen quintum vel sterile, subulatum, castratum, infra sinum labii superioris, inter filamenta superiora 
insertum, hisce parüm brevius, apice acutiusculo levitèr recurvatum. Ovarium rotundato-ovatum, læve, 2-loculare, polysporum ; ovula 
placentæ axili, jugiformi dens? inserta. Sryuus valde longus, labium inferius æquans, supra hoc descendens, carnosus, teres, apice parüm 
incrassatus. StiGMa parvum, capitatum, minutim papillosum, indivisum. Frucrus haud visus. 
This elegant little plant forms unquestionably a new genus, very unlike any of the others belonging to the family of 
Scrophularinee. The flowers are remarkably large for the size of the plant, and of a dark sky-blue colour; the corolla 
is perfectly flat. I have a second species from Kamaon, which was sent to me by Robert Blinkworth, and which may 
be called P. majus. It differs in having a longer stem, an ovate-cordate, acute, sharply sinuato-dentate leaf, and the 
common peduncles umbellato-bifid, each division bearing two long-pedicelled flowers, besides one or two pedicels 
from the bifurcation. “This may perhaps be only a large variety of the Nipal plant; but as my specimens are not 
very good I am unable to determine this point. 
Plate CLI. Fig. !. Corolla enlarged, viewed from below. 2. The same opened, viewed from above. 3. Calyx, opened. 
5. 6. Stamens. 7. Ovarium, opened. 
LOBELIA ROSEA. Tab. 152. 
Lobelia rosea, Wall. in Roxb: Flor. Ind. 2. p. 115. 
Lobelia Dudia, Herb. et MSS. Hamilt. 
Habitat in convalli parva Noakote dicta Napaliz, florens Martio. * In Mithilæ et Napalize inferioris ripis torrentium 
umbrosis, ubi vocatur Dudhiya (lac praebens)" ; Hamilt. Mss. Montes prope Sillet, Francis De Silva. 
Having given an account of this very elegant plant in the Flora Indica, I shall confine myself here to the following 
short view of the other Indian species of Lobelia with which I am acquainted :— 
2. L. pyramidalis, Wall. in Act. Soc. Asiat. 13. p. 376. 
Incolit plurima Napaliæ loca, florens fructiferaque per totum feré annum. 
3. L. excelsa, Lesch. ex Wall. in Roxb. Flor. Ind. 2. p. 114. Erecta, cano-villosa, mollissima ; foliis oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis, utrinque attenuato-acutis, minutissimè denticulatis, breve petiolatis ; racemo terminali, maximo, e Boris, 
bracteisque foliaceis, densissimis composito, villoso, laciniis calycinis elongatis, tubum corolla superantibus. 
In montibus Nilghiry dictis detexit b. Leschenault de la Tour. 
Since the publication of my account of this truly splendid plant I have been favoured with 
in full flower, which was gathered in the Nilghiry by Mr. Noton, and which has 
somewhat improved specific character. | 
4. L. nicotianifolia, Heyn. ex Roth. et Roxb. 
Habitat prope Bangalore, Heyne, teste Roxburghio. Montes Courtallum, Wight ; 
9. L. colorata, erecta, glabra, subramosa, caule tereti, purpurascente ;. foliis 
a. very fine specimen 
enabled' me to give the above 
Heyne in Herb. Madraspatano. 
linearibus, sessilibus, denticulatis ; 
