222 ENUMEEATION OF \_Podostemac€(B 



This is I suspect, a form only of the following species, the only real ditterence 

 appearing to be in the size and colour of the flowers; for the character derived from 

 the position of the sterile loculus of the anthers is a fallacious cue, this being, m all 

 the species of the genus I have examined in a fresh state, porrected and nearly hori- 



zontd. 



2. C. tricolor, Grardn, 1. c, p. 156.— c,p. 2889. 



Hab, Central Province, at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 feet ; parasitic 



on roots of Acanthacem, Gardner, 



Caulis glaher, squamosus, parce ramosus, l-S-pollicaris ; ramis 1-2-floris. Pedi- 

 celli teretes, ehracteolati, rufesceutes, pollicares. Calyx 5-angularis, rufescens 8 Im. 

 longus ; dentibus ffiqualibus, lanceoiatis, acutis, 3 lin. lougis. Corolla circiter l^ poll, 

 louga; 2;«J(?infundibuUformi,faucelutea; /m^o 1-U poll, in exp. ; /oto 2 supeno- 

 ribus denticulatis, sanguineis, 3 inferioribus subcrenatis, paUide roscis. btcmma 

 iuclusa. — Gardner » 



3. C. bicolor, Gardn. 1. c. p. 160.— c.p. 3108. 



Var. ^. pallidiflora.—C, pallida, Gardn. I.e. p. 159.— C.P. 1781. 

 Hab. In similar situations witL the last, Lear, Gardner, 



Caulis simplex, 3-6 poll, longus, verrucoso-hispidus, apicem versus rufescens sub- 

 laevis squamosusque. Squama ovatse, acutsej circiter 4 lin. longse, pilosulse. rlores 

 racemosi, sapissime 5-6. Pedicdli 1-8 lin. longi, bibracteolati. Calyx tubulosus, 

 pilosulus, rufescens, circiter 8 lin. longus; dentibus aequalibus, acutis, circiter 1 Im. 

 longis. Corolla infundibuliformis, sesquipollicaris, pallide roseo, plus minus flaves- 

 ccns, vel omnino flava; limlo 1-li poll, in exp., lobis undulatis. Stamina inclusa ; 

 filameiitis glauduloso-pilosis. — Adescrip, cL Gardn. prcecipue excerjpt, 



4. C. unicolor, Gardn. 1. c. p. 161.~An CamphelUa cytinoides, 

 Wight, Ic. 1. 1425, cum syn. ?— c.p. 2971, ? 1780. ^ 



Hab. Hunasgiria Eange, Lear. Eambodde, at an elevation of 3000 



to 4000 feet. 



Tota planta flava. Caulis simplex, glaber, angularis, squamosus, 1-3-pollicans, 

 ad basin verrucoso-bispidus. Sqiianm subrotundse, 3-G lin. longce. Flores race- 

 mosi, SEepissime 5-6, Fedicelli 2-8 lin. longi, ebracteolati. Calyx pollicaris, angu- 

 laris, irregulariter acute 5-dentatus. Corolla iufundibulifomiis, 1^-2 poll, louga ; 

 lobis intc^ris, parum reflexis. Stamina exserta ; filamentis glabris \ antherartm su- 

 periorum loculo sterili parvo. Flacenta; majuscula^. 



CXVII. PODOSTEMACEiE. 



DICR-SJA 



1. D. elongata, Tulasne in Ann. des Sci. Nat. (ser. 3), vol. n. p. 103. 

 Walp. Ann. iii. p. 437 ; Wight, Ic. t. 1^17-1.— Podostemon elongaUis, 

 Gardner in Calc. Journ. of Nat. Hist. vol. vii. p. 188.— c.p. 22d9. 



Hab. Eocks in the bed of the Mahawelle Granga, near Jianay, 

 Gardner. £"1, January to March. 



2. PODOSTEMON, Mich. 



1. P. subulatum, Gardn. 1. c. p. 184 ; Wight, Ic. t. 1918-1 ; Tul^^^e 

 1. c. p. 103.— P. dendvoides, Thw. MS. in Hb. Hook.— C.P. 3088, 3JbO 



IIab. Eocks in the Mahawelle Ganga. Fi. January to Marcfl 



Gardner. 



