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SCKOPHULABIACE^. 



Torenia bicolor, Dalz. 

 With Oldenlandia diffusa (q. v,) 



LABlATyE. 



Scutellaria discolor, Coleb. 



On a bank. 



Urticace^e. 



Fleurya inter rupta. Gaud. 



Edges of the forest. 



Elatostemma lineolatum, Wt. 



Forming great bushy patches by the side of a stream in dense shade in 

 forest. 



Okchidace^. 



Habenaria subjjubens, Rich. 



Very common in grass. 



Habenaria stenostacliya, Benth. 



In a natural clearing in the forest, on sheet rock. This elegant orchid is 

 not mentioned by Cooke in F. B. P. but as Hooker gives Deccan peninsula 

 from the Concan southward, its discovery within our limits is not unnatura^. 



Liparis nervosa, Lindl. 



Pcristylus fjoodyeroides, var affinis, Lindl. 



One plant of each by forest edges. 



Microstylis versicolor, Lindl. 



Very common at one point in forest, on and by exposed boulders iii 

 dense shade. 



SCITAMI]S*E.E. 



The prevalence of Zin/.iberaceous plants is one of the most conspicuous 

 features of these Ghat forests during the monsoon. 



Zinziber nimmonii, Dalz. 



Z. cassianar, Itoxb. 



Both common in the opener forest, 



Costus sjjeciosus, Smith. 

 Not uncommon. 



Cypejjace^. 



Scleria data, Thw. 



This splendid plant, which grows in a nallah near the Salt Bungalow at 

 Castle Rock, is not mentioned by Cooke. It is widely distributed through- 

 oat India, and its discovery within our limits is therefore not unnatural. 



Most of the above plants are definitely monsoon plants, and of them the 

 following: — Inpatiens acaulis, Beyonia crenata, Aryostemma both spp., Epithema 

 carnosicm, the other Gesneraceous plant noted as coming on and Utricularia 

 striatula represent a fugacious class of hygrophytes, wliich do not root in 

 earth at all, but attach themselves to crevices of stones and trees, and 

 subsis ton the constantly changing surface moisture. They all of them dry 



