868. Ocimum BAsILICUM. var. THYRSIFLORUM (Benth.) 
herbaceous, erect or ascending : leaves petioled, ovate or 
oblong narrowing at the base, subdentate, glabrous ;petiols 
ciliate : racemes simple: calyx longer than the pedicel, the 
fruitiferous ones reflexed, campanulately inflated, gibbous 
above the base, superior division ovate concave, with 
a short acumen, its wings not extending to the base of the 
calyx; the lateral teeth ovate acute, the lower ones seta- 
ceous pointed: superior filaments appendiculate—[var. 
THYRSIFLORUM erect, glabrous, petiols and calyx scarcely 
ciliate, raceme thyrsoidly ramose. Benth Lab. page 4. 
869. PREMNA LATIFOLIA. (Roxb.) arboreous : leaves 
round cordate, entire, smooth: corymbs axillary and ter= 
minal: throat of the corolla woolly. Roxb, Fl. Ind.3, p.76. 
A common shrub, flowers of a dirty yellow colour, drupe 
about the size of a pea erect wrinckled 4 celled. 
870. BaARLERIA BUXFOLIA. (Lin. Nees.) shrubby : hairs 
spreading : bracteoles axillary paired, spinous, opposite, 
divariced, alternately one flowered and sterile : leaves el- 
liptic, acute at the base, spinously mucronate : lacinice of 
the calyx shorter than the spines, the inferior one obtuse, 
emarginate. Nees. in Wall. pl. Asiat. rar. 3, p. 94. 
A low growing thorny shrub, frequent in poor lands and 
about road sides. The flowers open in the course of the 
night and generally drop before midday. ‘They vary in 
colour from white to rose colour. 
871. HEXACENTRIS 21550888515. (R. W.) leaves ellip- 
tic oblong, acuminate, crenate, three nerved, reticulated : 
authers bearded : stigma tubular. 
Mysore.—I am indebted for the drawing and specimens 
of this plant to the kindness of Mr. Stokes of the Mysore 
commission, who found it near Nuggar in Mysore. It is 
the only specimen I have seen: the dissections were made 
by my Draftsman. The limb of the corolla is bright yel- 
low the tube purplish. The bearded anthers and tubular 
stigma seem to indicate that it might form the type ofa 
new, or at all wentsa sub-genus, but not having fruit I 
prefer leaving it here. 
ጅ. S.—Since writing the above I have seen fruit which 
does not differ from those of Hexaeentris I, therefore, 
think it advisable to view the hairy anthers rather as a 
sectional than generic character, 
872. THUNBERGIA GRANDIFLORA. (Roxb. Nees.) scan- 
dent : leaves cordate, angled, acuminated, hispid : limb of 
the calyx truncated, entire. Nees. in Wall. pl. As. 3 
77. 
This plant I have never met with wild. The specimen 
here represented was obtained from the Mysore Horti- 
cultural Society's Garden at Bangalore. It is an exten- 
sively twining handsome plant, well fitted for arbours. 
873. STENOSIPHONIUM RUSSELIANUM. (Nees.) leaves 
ovate, dentate, glabrous beneath : bracts rhomboid obtuse, 
cuspidate, equaling the calyx. Nees. in Wall. pl. Asiat. 
rar. 3, p. 84. 
The specimen here figured differs a good deal in ap- 
pearance from the one so named by Professor Nees in my 
herbarium, especially in the shorter spikes and greater 
abundance of flowers, but still I believe them only differ- 
ent states of the same plant, they are from the same lo- 
cality, namely the Pulney mountains, This form is also 
met with on the Neilgherries. 
874. BOERHAAVIA PROCUMBENS. (Roxb.) root fusi- 
form perenial: branches procumbent, smooth : leaves 
variously cordate, covered with a silver coloured pellicle 
underneath : flowers terminal in long peduncled heads : 
stamens three. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1, p. 148. 
A very common and troublesome weed, always in flower. 
The young leaves are eaten by the natives as greens and 
made into curries. 
The analysis of the seed, though strictly correct, as seen 
in the sections represented, does not convey a correct idea 
of the structure, a circumstauce which I regret to find I 
overlooked when sending the drawing to the press, fig, 6 
seems to represent the embryo surrounded by albumen 
in place of conduplicate and euclosing a central albumen. 
This is shown in figure 7, where the cotyledons are unfold- 
ed, but not clearly. 
Roxburgh seems to think this the only Indian species, 
there are certainly other two, namely, the following which 
I have ventured to consider undescribed and another 
larger flowered species probably B. diffusa. 
875. BOERHAAVIA STELLATA. (R. W.) decumbent : 
Jeaves succulent, cordate ovate, obtuse, mucronate: ra- 
cemes long peduncled : flowers verticelled, subsessile, in- 
terruptedly subspicate : ovary elongated,clavate, furrowed, 
the intermediate ridges furnished with viscid glands, five, 
round the apex, elongated, spreading starlike. 
Tinnevelly in black cotton ground frequent, forming 
dense tufts, also, but sparingly, in Coimbatore. Its whole 
appearance is different from the preceding and is at once 
distinguished by its white flowers, the viscid glands and 
stellate processes surrounding the apex of the fruit. In 
that part of its structure it approaches B. scandens as 
figured by Gartner. 
876. AgRUA JAVANICA. (Juss.) stem erect, and like 
the oblong obtuse pale greenish leaves, clothed with 
woolly tomentum: spikes cylindrical, crowded towards 
the ends of the branches, villously tomentose, Sprengel 
Syst. Veg. 1, p. 815. 
An exceedingly common and troublesome weed, found 
nearly all over the Southern provinces of India, but so 
little known in the Northern ones that Roxburgh seems 
never to have met with it, as it is not mentioned in his 
Flora Indica. ፡ 
1 Howering plant—2 detached flower— 3 flower forcibly 
opened—4 ovary and stamens detached—5 ovary opened 
showing the single ovule and podosperm—6 ovule detach- 
ed—7 mature seed—8 cut vertically the embryo rolled 
round a minute farinacious albumen. 
877. AcarxPHa INDICA. (Linn.) spikes axillary lax : 
male flowers few; females more numerous, alternate: 
involucra several flowered, glabrous, subdentate: leaves 
long petioled rhombeo ovate, serrated. Sprengel Syst. Veg. 
3, p. 880, slightly altered. — SI 1 
Frequent among bushes in subalpine jungles, also in 
gardens and about old walls where vegetation is luxuriant. 
The curious body, apparently sterile flowers, which ter- ` 
minates each spike in this species, readily distinguishes it 
from all the other Indian ones. : i 
1 flowerivg plant,—2 portion of a spike showing both 
male and female flowers with its terminal cross—3 a male 
flower—4 female flowers and bractea—5 fruit, one of the 
carpels opened to show the seed—6 a fruit cut trans- 
versely. 
878. Droscoræa BULBIFERA. (Linn.) leaves alternate 
deeply cordate, acuminate, 7 nerved; the exterior nerves 
2 clift ; transverse veins reticulated: stem bulbiferous : 
male spikes fascicled. Sprengel Syst. Veg. 2, p. 152. ` 
This drawing was made from a cultivated plant which 
may perhaps account for the flowers being bisexual in 
place of dioicous as usual in the genus. 
1 flowering plant with a large round tuber on the stem, 
و‎ flowers—3 calyx, lobes detached-—4 a flower, the 
calyx lobes removed to show the sexual organs 一 5 stamens. 
