NEH' INDIAN HCROPIIULAIUACEA':. 429 



(7) Stem scarcely branched, 40cm. high, puboscont below. Leaves 

 numerous, short, I'cm. long, puberulous. The upper leaves with many narrow 

 lobes, those near the base of the stem with few much broader (Luun.) lobes 

 with obtuse tips. The change between the upper and lower leaves rather 

 sudden. Pedicels and bracteoles r)nim. long. 



Loc. Brahmagiri, alt. 4,000-0,000 ft. (No. 1778). 



(8) A small plant, reaching 1 ">cm., with llexible stem, naked in its lower 

 half, profusely branched ni the upper. Leaves very small, rarely reaching 1 

 cm., liuear-entire or nearly so. Flowers numerous, small ; pedicels 2-4 

 mm. ; bracteoles omm. (Jalyx in flower ti mm., in fruit somewhat enlarged ; 

 lobes narrow, only half as long as the tube. 



Loc. High Wavy Mountain, Madura Dist. (No. 503). On dry grassy 

 hillsides, alt. 4,000 ft. 



(9) A small plant, IG cm. high, branched from the base ; branches 

 slender, erect. Leaves up to lomm. long, narrowly linear, entire or with 

 two lobes at about the middle, 7mm. long. Pedicels reaching 6mm. 

 Calyx lobes subulate, shorter than the tube in flower, as long as the tube 

 in fruit. 



Loc. High Wavy Mountain, Madura Dist. (No. 1782). One specimen 

 on dry grassy hillside, ait. 4,000 ft. 



The species has been found in flower in the month of May in the 

 Madura Dist. About Bombay it flowers from August to January. 



Sopubia trijida, Buch.-Ham. This species, too, is a variable plant. 

 We note the following forms : 



(1) Short, stout, !-lightly pubescent, little divided. Pedicels 9, calyx 7, 

 corolla 10mm. long. Floral leaves linear, twice as long as the pedicels, 

 puberulous and hispid, entire or tritid, bracteoles reaching ymm. in length. 



Loc. Panchgaui (^No. 178o). 



(2) Plaut 30cm. high, branched from about the middle. Leaves generally 

 linear entire, puberulous and hispid, the floral ones as long as or slightly 

 longer than the pedicels which attain 10 mm. in fruit. Bracteoles reaching 

 1 mm. 



Loc. Poolachee (No. 1784). 



(3) A much larger plant, reaching 80 cm. Stem stout, woody below, much 

 branched from about the middle. Lowest leaves very few, sometimes lanceo- 

 late-acute, 12x2^mm., leaves near the middle of the stem, numerous, up 

 to 30mm. long, generally much divided, puberulous and hi^^pid. llorai 

 leaves linear-entire, some much longer, but some also shorter than the 

 pedicel."^ which attain lOmm. in fruit. Bracteoles about iimni. long. Calyx 

 •5, corolla only .5mm. long, yellow, throat with a purple spot. Stamens 

 purple. 



Loc. High Wavy Mountain, Madura Dist. (Nos. 262, 1785, 1786), on dry 

 grassy slopes, alt. 4,000 ft., fairly common. 



We have always found that the bracteoles are opposite, not alternate as 

 stated by Cooke (Fl. B. Pres. 11, 306). 



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