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found the finest specimens of Striga orobanchioides, with large rose- 
coloured flowers, certainly very unlike the figure of that plant in Hook. 
Comp. Bot. Mag. 
4. Lepidagathis /wfea ; caulibus crebris erectis filiformibus e basi 
dichotomo-ramosis velutino-tomentosis, foliis linearibus complicatis 
trinerviis supra minute patenti-hispidulis subtus glabris, spicis circa 
radicem glomeratis pilis glanduliferis velutino-tomentosis, bracteis 
ovato-orbiculatis longissime cuspidato-mucronatis, bracteolis oblique 
obovatis inzquilateris spinoso-mucronatis, calycis sericeo-tomentosi 
laciniis anterioribus et posteriore rhombeo-cuneatis spinoso-acumi- 
natis lateralibus linearibus. 
Folia bipollicaria, fere 2 lin. lata, non scabra. Bractee 1-1} poll. 
long: ; óracteole 6-7 lin. longe. Corolla lutea, 8-linearis ; tubus 
longiuscule exsertus, basi gracilis medio replicatus ; Jabium:. superius 
parvum, brevissime bidentatum, inferius trilobatum, lobis latis ob- 
tusis reticulato-venosis, palato intus lineis 2 pilosis instructo. £n- 
there cilate. Stigma obtusum.— Crescit in rupibus nudis provincize 
Malwan ; ff. Nov. 
Evidently allied to Z. rupestris, and differing from that species in 
the bracts and bracteoles being of different forms, and the stem and 
leaves not scabrous ; the leaves are strictly linear. 
5. Asystasia violacea; caule adscendente geniculato glaberrimo obtuse 
quadrangulari striato, duobus lateribus oppositis sulcatis, foliis ovatis 
vel oblongis acutis integris inferioribus in petiolum attenuatis supe- 
rioribus basi rotundatis breve petiolatis v. subsessilibus, utraque 
pagina hirtulis raro subglabris, racemis terminalibus secundis soli- 
tariis vel geminis, calycis laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acutiusculis hir- 
tulis sub anthesi patentibus, pedicellis brevissimis tribracteatis, co- 
rolla ezerulea pollicari extus glandulosa laciniis omnibus revolutis, 
labii inferioris lacinia intermedia convexa intense violacea fauce in- 
flata purpureo-maculata, tubo medio valde constricto, capsula glan- 
dulosa clavata longe unguiculata 15 lin. longa.— Crescit in utroque 
Concano ; jl. Julio. 
Folia 5 poll. longa, 24 lata. Stigma bifidum, lobulis emarginatis. 
This appears most nearly allied to 4. Neesiana. The flowers are 
about half the size of 4. Coromandeliana, and are not so symmetrical 
or Ruellia-like in form; they might be called subpersonate, from the 
prominence and convexity of the lower lip. 
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