396 Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants. 



where they are darker than^helow, covered with harsh hairs on both 

 sides, middle rib and reticulated veins very prominent below, chan- 

 nelled above. Capitula shortly pedunculate, terminal or in the axils 

 of the upper leaves, ovate, strobuliform. Bracts resembling dimi- 

 nished leaves, but less wrinkled, narrower, erect, and slightly colour- 

 ed. Flowers solitary and sessile in the axils of the bracts, expanding 

 in succession from below upwards, and several at a time. Calyx ra- 

 ther shorter than the bracts, 5-partite, bilabiately compressed, pale 

 green, hairy, segments lanceolate, subequal, the odd segment supe- 

 rior, hairs glandular. Corolla funnel-shaped, rather more than twice 

 as long as the bracts, lilac, closely covered on the outside with short 

 glandular pubescence, and within the tube having many long hairs ; 

 tube cylindrical and narrow for about half the length of the bract, or 

 about one-fifth of its own length, above this inflated, and this por- 

 tion is also cylindrical when fully expanded, but before this compres- 

 sed dorsally ; limb 5-lobed, sub-spreading, lobes round or emarginate, 

 subequal, much broader than long, folded irregularly, convolutely im- 

 bricated, the odd lobe inferior. Stamens 4, didynamous, included, in- 

 serted above the contracted portion of the tube, apd applied along its 

 upper side, the longer about two-thirds of the length of the corolla, 

 and having their filaments hairy, the shorter half the length of the 

 free portion of the others, their filaments glabrous, and connected at 

 their base by a narrow transverse erect ridge, in the middle of which 

 rises a small point, the rudiment of a fifth stamen ; anthers large, bi- 

 locular, approximated in pairs, blunt, lobes parallel, opening along the 

 front; pollen abundant, granules oblong. Pistil rather longer than 

 the longest stamens ; style hairy, swollen and geniculate towards the 

 top ; stigma subulate, and having a remarkable ridge along the upper 

 side, leading to an elongated depression towards the knee of the style, 

 both the ridge, which seems a free thin double membrane, and the 

 depression being most conspicuous in the unexpanded flower ; germen 

 seated on an orange-coloured disk, oblong, green, glabrous, except at 

 the apex where there are some short glandular hairs, unilocular. 

 Ovales two on each side of the incomplete dissepiment, ovate, com- 

 pressed. 

 This plant, whose blossoms are very handsome, was raised at the Bo- 

 tanic Garden, from seeds sent by Dr Lush from Bombay in 1833, and 

 flowered in the stove for the first time in 1839, but much more freely 

 in April 1841. I suspect there is a mistake in the opinion that this 

 species has been discovered in the southern part of the peninsula of 

 India. The idea has been suggested by its existing in the Herbarium 

 of Dr Wight, but this is not suflicient evidence. I am convinced Dr 

 Wight had it in very sparing quantity, because he most liberally dis- 

 tributed his duplicates ; I partook through his great kindness very 

 largely of these, but I have no specimen of this. Further, Nees von 

 Esenbeck observes, that Dr Wight gives no locality for the species ^^ 

 and lastly, I find it stated in Graham's Catalogue of Plants growing 

 in Bombay and its vicinity, p. 1G3, that two supposed new species of 

 the genus had been sent by Mr Law to Dr Wight. I think it pro- 

 bable that one of these is our plant, and therefore that the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bombay is the only part of India where it has yet been 

 obsei-\-ed. I have compared my plant with Dr Wight's specimens now 

 in the possession of Dr Arnott^, and find them to be identical. These 

 specimens are numbered 1946, not 38, as quoted by Nees. 



