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length. I'ppcr lip oroct, entire, slij;htly more than Innn. broad, tip 

 rounded, with a fow bhort bristles ; htwer lip .spreading, ii-lobed, lobes 

 about equal, tips like that of the upper lip. Stamens 2, subineluded ; 

 lilanients very blmrt. a little conipiessed, glabrous ; anther reaching about 

 half-way up the lower lip ; pollen globose. Staniinodes absent. Style 

 :imm., rather stout, glabrous ; stigma bilamellate, bent over to one side ; 

 lobes broad, one slightly larger. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. — Capsule 10 mm, 

 terete. Seeds ovoid-globose, rugose with numerous circular depressions 

 in rows. 



The distinguishing character of this species is the absence of stami- 

 nodes and the ctdour of the flowers. Found in November 1916 at Mahim, 

 Bombay Island, among grass (Herb. St. Xavier's College, No. 1517). 



Bonnaija qtanqvelaba, sp. nov. (near li. oppositi folia, Spreng). 



Stem erect, Oocm. high, sparingly branched. Leaves, bracts, and 

 pedicels like those of i)'. ('js<«?/.j'//r;</2(/.>a, except lor the lowest leaves which 

 are subentire —Flowers in terminal or lateral raceiKes, the lowest flowers 

 axillary. Calyx like that of li. tracttoidcH. Corolla (nm. loi]g, tube 

 3mm., cylindrical, rather ^\ide, outside with a few minute capitate hairs. 

 Upper lip 2mni., entire, erect, tip rounded. Lower lip sliaUov\ly /5-lobed. 

 Midlobe the largest, the two adjacent ones not much smaller, the last two 

 very small, but distinct, one larger than the other ; all lobes rounded. 

 Corolla white, lower lip with pink-purple spots. Stamens like those of 

 U. e.^taminoiiiusa. ^ta.n\\i\Oi.\ia 2, not reaching as high as the stamens, very 

 small, narrow, linear, acute, inserted on the throat of the lower lip, 

 straight, glabrous. Style 3'''nim. long, glabrous. — Capsule 9mni. long, l|mm. 

 broad, tapering, acuta, minutely striate. Seeds irregularly ellipsoidal, 

 rugose, with numerous minute circular depressions. 



The main distingui.shing characters of this species are the shape and 

 colour of the coroJla, the absence of leaf opposed flowers below the raceme. 

 Leaf-opposed flowers are present in B. estauiinodiosa, and, according to 

 Koxb. Corom. Plants 11. lo7, also in B. oppositifulia, Spreng. 



Found in Novtmber 191t) at Bhandup in Salsette, in rice- fields (Herb. 

 St. Xavier's College, No. 1/)18). 



Bonnai/a micrantha, sp. nov. — A small herbaceous plant. Stem up to 

 10cm. high, with a few pairs of decust^ate branches, which may again 

 branch in a similar manner, ^tem and branches rather stout, quadran- 

 gular ; angles hairy with short stifl' tapering hairs. Leaves o[iposite, sub- 

 sessile, up to io X H'mm., broadly ovate or suborbicular, regularly strongly 

 serrate-dentate; licrves o-7, fiom the base or neatly so, tomttinus the 

 midrib which is strongest, with 1-3 j^econdary nerves, all prominent 

 beneath ; both suriaces of the leaves nearly glabrous, margin hispid with 

 minute stiti hairs (or teeth minutely serrulate). — Profi.sely flow em g from 

 all the axils, even the lowest ; the flowers are either sessile, crowded 

 in the axils, or with slender subqnadrangular pedicels, reaching 2cm. in 

 length, which are either glabrous or nearly so ; the sessile flowers are 

 apparently always present, while the pedicelled ones are absent in some 

 specimens. There seems to be no law as to the distribution of the latter. 

 In one specimen (Igatpuri) the main stem is terminated by an umbel with 

 a peduncle 3cm. long, which is slender, 4-grooved, slightly hispid, bearing 

 4-pedicelled flowers Bracteoles miimle, triangular, acuminate, spinous- 

 serrulate, one at the base of each pedicel or subtending a sessile flower. 

 Flowers very minute, but the calix is much enlarged in fruit, when it attains 

 3mm. in length, teeth 5 the len;:th of the tube, ovate-acute, minutely spar- 

 sely hispid. I -nerved, nerves running down the tube as ribs ; fruiting calyx 

 almost always split down to the base on one side. The corolla is white, 



