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+++ Flowers racemose, subtended each by a single bractea, tubular, slender, 4- 
(or 5?-) cleft; lobes oblong-linear: flower-bud terete. 
T1182. (7) L. recurvus Mes :) branches terete, when old glabrous: 
leaves alternate, petioled, e liptical, obtuse, acute at the base, nearly gla- 
brous: peduncles axillary and lateral, branched, 2—5-flowered, and with the 
densely pubescent flowers recurved: bractea broad, obliquely cup-shaped : 
limb of the calyx cup-shaped and toothed: flower-bud terete: lobes of the 
corolla 5, oblong: anthers oblong: stigma scarcely capitate.— Wall. L. n. 
525; DC. prod. 4. p. 299.——Neelgherries ; Noton. : 
This we have not seen; De Candolle defines the section with constantly 
4-cleft flowers, but describes this species with them 5-cleft, an obvious error 
in the one or the other which we cannot rectify. De Candolle further intro- 
duces into this section L. graciliflorus, although it has the tube 4-angled at 
the base; but that species, on the supposition that L. gracilifolius, Schult, is 
the same (about which we with De Candolle have no doubt), has the tube 
split down longitudinally almost to the base on one side, and therefore be- 
longs to the section of Scurrula with four stamens. L. Heynei, DC. (not 
Schult.), must also be removed to the same section. 
$3. Corolla tubular, 4-5-cleft at the apex, often gibbous at the base, split down 
longitudinally on one side (as in Lobelia). Filaments adnate to the petals 
Sor a long way, free at the apex. Anthers adnate to or erect at the apex of 
the filament. 
+ Stamens and lobes of the corolla 4. 
1183. (8) L. buddleioides (Desr.:) branches terete, glabrous, young shoots 
sometimes tomentose: leaves opposite, petioled, from elliptical to cordate- 
ovate, rather obtuse, thinnish, firm, at first puberulous or furfuraceous, parti- 
cularly on the under side, soon glabrous on the upper, at length often gla- 
brous on the under: peduncles axillary, crowded, very short, simple, few- 
flowered: bractea small, lateral at the base of the ovary, and with the pe- 
cles, ovary, calyx and corolla, covered with a mealy tomentum: flowers 
nearly sessile: ovary turbinate: margin of the limb of the calyx entire, 
thickish, incurved: flower-bud clavate at the apex: fruit turbinate.— Des- 
rousseaux in Lam. enc. meth. 3. p. 600; DC. prod. 4. p. 302; Spr. syst. 2. 
P. 131.—z ; leaves cordate-ovate ; tomentum whitish.— Wight ! cat. n. 1235.— 
L. Scurrula, Roab. (not Linn. °) fi. Ind. 1. p. 550, and 2. p. 186 ; (ed. Wall.) 
2. p. 206 ; DC. l. c. p. 301.—8 ; leaves oval, nearly glabrous on the upper side, 
puberulous on the under when old, slightly rugose.— Wight! cat. n. 1236.— 
- pyrifolius, Wight! in Wall.! L. n. 6869 (not H. B. K.).—y ; leaves nearly 
orbicular, furfuraceous on both sides ; tomentum whitish.— Wight! cat. n. 1237. 
L. tomentosus, herb. Madr.!—3; leaves elliptic-oblong, furfuraceous on the 
under side ; tomentum on the young parts rust-coloured.— Wight! cat. n. 1238. 
—L. Scurrula, Wall. ! L. n. 6867 Ua) D. Heyneanus, Wall. ! L. n. 528 
(not Sehult.)—L. Heynei, DC. I. e. p. 300.—:; leaves elliptic, when young 
Covered on the under side with a very thin white mealiness, soon quite gla- 
brous on both sides ; flowers with a pale tawny-coloured short pubescence.— 
Wight ! cat. n. 1239.—L. Scurrula, Wall. ! L. n. 6867 (partly). | 
A variable plant as to the foliage, but otherwise constant: the ovary re- 
sembles that of some species of Syzygium. We ought perhaps to add to our 
Var. æ, L. cordifolius of Wallich, but the branches and corolla are described 
to be villous. Our var. y is from Ceylon, the others from various places in 
the southern districts of the Peninsula. sation 
' + + Stamens and lobes of the corolla 5, 
1184. (9) L. memecylifolius (W. & A.:) glabrous: branches very woody, 
terete ; — narrow-oblong, a attenuated at the base into a short pe- 
