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simple or branched just above the ground. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 

 quite entire, subacute, up to 10 X 3mm. Pedicels attaining 3cm, in 

 fruit, when they become reflexed. Corolla bluish-lilac, tipper lip bilobed, 

 with rounded lobes. Sfcaminodes large, stout, clavate, glandular, yellow ; 

 near the tip and overtopping it a long nanowly linear or filiform apend- 

 agre, hardly glandular ; at the base of each stamiuode a tuft of clavate 

 yellow hairs which continues along a line down the tube almost to its base. 

 Seeds elUpsoid, subacute at one end, and with a minute tail at the- other, 

 .somewhat compressed, the faces with a few strong longitudinal ribs, 

 minutely transversely rugose. 



In Roxburgh's figure the appendage of the staminodes cannot be distin- 

 guished. 



The plant was also found on the slope of the High Wavy Mountain 

 (Madura District), altitude 3,000 feet (Herb. St. Xavier's College, No. 

 1529). In this instance the plant has a more slender steyi and smaller leaves 

 than in the Khaudala specimens. The leaves are ur» to 8nmi. long, linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, acute coi-olla lilac with purple veins on upper lip ; tube 

 wider ; upper lip bifid ; lobes subacute. Tlie lateral appendage of the 

 staminodes much shorter, not reaching beyond the tip, somewhat thicker, 

 cylindrical. 



Ilysanthes pardjlora, Benth. in DC. Prodr. X, 419. 



Syn.— Gmfio/rtjo«rm'/?ora, Roxb. Cor. PL HI, 3, t. 203 ; Fl. Ind. 1, 140. 

 Bonnaya hyssopioides. Wight Ic. t. 857. — Bonnaya pavviflora, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 34. 



A very common plant at all times of the year, often frequenting rice- 

 fields during the dry season. Tl.e leaves are generally subserrate, and the 

 flowers white or nearly so. The length of tlie corolla cannot be a distin- 

 guishing character in the identification of these two species. 1. pavviflora 

 may have the corolla 1^-4 times as long as the calyx in the same specimen. 



Also with regard to this species the staminodes have not been figured 

 correctly by Roxburgh and Wight. Roth represent them as subequally 

 bilobed, whilst in reality they resemble those of I. hyssopioides, although 

 they are smaller. 



The usual height o? the plant is about 10cm. We have, however, found 

 specimens at Mt. Abu (No. 1546), measuring 33 cm. 



We have specimens from the following localities : — Bombay Island 

 (No. 1530), Uran Island (No. 15^1), Penn, Colaba District (Nos 1532, 1533, 

 1534, 1535, 1536), Khandala (Nos. 1537, 1538, 1539), Igatpuri (Nos. 1540, 

 1541), Khandesh (Nos. VA', 1543, 1544), Mt. Abu (Nos. 1545, 1546, 1547, 

 1548) Kambam, Madura District (No. 499), in which case the corolla is lilac. 



KEY TO THE TWO SPECIES. 



(1) Stems several from the root, simple. Leaves entire. 



Pedicels a taining 3cm. Corolla bluish or purphsh I. hyssopioides. 



(2) Stem diffusely branched. Leaves often subserrate. 



Pedicels rarely exceeding 1cm. C 'roUa usually whitish I. parviflora. 

 The seeds in the former are twice as Icirge as those of the latter and the 

 lower lip of the corolla at least twice as broad. 



VANDELLIA, L. 



Vandellia Crustacea, Benth. — We give some additional characters to the 

 description furnished by Cooke (Fl. B. Pres. II, 295). 



Stem sharply quadrangular, nearly glabrous (No. 1;53) or v\ithafew 

 minute upwards directed bristles on the angles (No. 1752), reaching 12cm. 



