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7. Barleria, — Shrubs or large herbs with showy flowers; sepals 

 in opposite pairs, the outer pair much the largest ; corolla lobes 5, 

 often divided 4 and 1, two of the stamens often imperfect. 



B. prionitis, — Shrubby and thorny; flowers spiked or wliorled, 

 rather large, buff, soon falling off; larger calyx segments ovate, 

 spinous, pointed ; bracts subulate; leaves narrow at both ends. 

 Kholeta. Very common. 



B. montana,- — -Large smooth plant ; flowers large and beautiful, 

 solitary, sessile rose-coloured, mauve or blue : smaller calyx seg- 

 ments and bracts very small, linear. 



Bombay, Konkan, and Grhats. Not uncommon. 



There are several other species, one with blue another with white 

 flowers, botli very large ; but none are at all common but the two 

 given above. 



8. Asystasia, — Underslirubs ; sepals narrow ; corolla lobes five, 

 about equal. 



A. coromandelliana, — Erect or procumbent, much branched; flowers 

 in long, loose, one-sided racemes, yellow, blue or pale purple ; bracts 

 linear ; leaves ovate, acute. Common. 



A. violacea, — All softly hairy, with large violet flowers, the lower 

 lip dark purple and spotted, is very doubtfully distinct from the 

 last. Dr. T. Cooke calls it very common at Matheran, less so at 

 Mahableshwar. 



9. Lepidagathis, — Calyx of two large and two or three small seg- 

 ments; corolla tube swelling in the middle; limp decidedly 2-lipped. 



L. cristata, — Prostrate hairy leaves; calyx segments and bracts all 

 bristle pointed; flowers in dense round heads near the root, pale, 

 streaked darker. 



Guzerat, Deccan, &c. 



Note. — There are many common members^ of this order which have only two 

 stamens, and are therefore not mentioned here. 



VII. — Order Verbenace.*:. 



1. Laniana, — Straggling shrubs; with small flowers in heads; 

 calyx small, entire or slightly lobed ; bracts large. 



L. camara, — An American plant, now very common everywhere, 

 straggling and climbing, with square prickly stems and pretty flowers 

 in roundish heads, pink, orange or lilac, and of many shades in the 

 same plant. The whole smells very strongly of black currants. 



* The pink and white varieties doubtless belong to an indigenous species. — L, 

 indica, Roab, {I. alba D.).—G. C. 



