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with a few sparsely divitlod branches from the base (No. 1763) or with 

 deiiso, diliuse interlaced branches (Nos. 174L', 174.'5), the latter IGcm. high. 

 Smallest specimen 1cm. hi<,'h with only two llowers and very small loaves 

 (No. 17ol). _^Leaves generally strongly dentate, teeth variable in number 

 (Nos. 17o'J,17o3), or margin 8ubentiro( Nos 17o4, 1 7.);'i, 175(5), or quite entire 

 (No. 17ol), broadly ovate or ovate elliptic, subobtuse, the lower sometimes 

 narrowed into a petiole 7mm. long (No. 1719); margin generally minutely 

 spinoiis-serrulate. Calyx -ribbed, in (lower folded, m fruit expanded by 

 the capside, ribs with a few (No. 1763) or numerous (No. 17-02), minute spinous 

 serratures, sometimes tlie whole calix minutely stili'-hairy. Upper lip of 

 corolla broadly ovate-oblong, with tivo large rounded lobes (No. 1753), or 

 ovate-acuminate, lip shortly (No 17o2) or deeply (No. 1755) bitid, or broadly 

 ovate-emarginate (Wight Ic. t. 863). Colour of corolla : Purphsh, tube darker 

 outside, lobe nearly white with darker margin, with a transver-se purple bar 

 across mid lobe of lower hp (Nos. 1752, .75 ), or corolla more or less uni- 

 formly purplish. Appendage on longer filament inserted high up (No. 1753) 

 or near the base (No. 1752, 1755); it may be from very small, wart-like 

 (No. 1753) to half as long as the part of the filament above it (Nos. 1752, 

 1755, and Wight Ic. t. 863), generally narrowly cylindrical with sub- 

 clavate glandidar tip, never subulate. Seeds ovoid, with a minute tail at 

 one end, echiuulate (No. 1753) or pitted (No. 1738), sometimes irregular 

 (No. 1745). " 



The fjlant is very common, especially during the rains, but flowers at all 

 times of the year. 



Locality : Bombay Island (Nos. 1738-174-3, 1745, 1752, 1756), Salsette 

 (No. 1755), Khandala (Nos. 1744, 1740, 1747), Igatpuri (No 1748), Mt Abu 

 (Nos. 1749,1753), Madura District '^No. 17-50), Mauantoddy, Malabar 

 (No, 1751). 



Varxlellia hirsuta, Buch.— Ham.— This plant is rather difficult to recofrnize 

 from the descriptions in Hooker's Fl. Brit. Ind. IV, 280 and Cooke's Fl. 

 B. Pres. II. 295. We give the folloaiug additions and correction < : Stem 

 acutely quadrangular, more or less succulent, especially diiriuo the rains. 

 Sometimes erect, undivided, short, l-3cm. glabrous (No. \1{\) or with 

 a few densely hirsute sub.rect branches from the base (Nos. 17.58. 1759. 1760. 

 1763), or stems many, prostrate, reaching 15cm. dividing at the first node 

 into 5 branches in one plane (No. 1762); branches often glandular upwards. 

 Leaves minutely bristle-serrulate on the margin, which may be almost entire 

 (No. 175-<) or sinuate (No. 17(il) or generally distinctly serrate-dentate 

 (Nos 17ti2, 1763, 1764) ; sometimes they areglabrons or nearly s.) (No. 1761), 

 sometimes hirsute on both surfaces (No. 1758), but in general only on the 

 upper surface and on the nerves beneath (Nos. 1759, 1760) : th*-. last men- 

 tioned specimens have the largest Kavei, 4 x 2cm. narrowed into a 2imm. 

 broad petiole. Inflorescence racemose with opposite flowers, lowest'pair 

 often axillary (Nos. 1761, 1762), pedicels stout, flattened on the upper side 

 subglabrous (Nos. 1758. 1761), or hirsute and glandular (No. 1759) or slender 

 and spansely hairy (Nos. 1762, 1763). Calyx subglabrous (No. 1761) or with 

 short stiff upwards directed bristles ; Nos. 1758, 1759, 1762, 1763) Corolla 

 from 5mm. (No.s. 1761, 1762, to 8mm. (No. 17.58). upper lip a».out half as 

 long as the lower, pale greyish-yellow or brownish, obscurely notched 

 margin finely irregularly serndate ; lower lip white or nearly so. 3-lobed' 

 lobes obtuse, the mi-Ulle one suborbicular ; throat with some yellow- 

 pubescence in?ide. Anteriov stamens with long arched filaments, visible 

 from above outside the closed corolla, each with a small oblong sessile 

 gland at the base ; pollen globose. Stigma bilamellate, lobes serrulate 

 Capsule subglobose (No. 1758) or more elongated (No. 1760), glabrous 

 Seed shaped hke a truncate coue, with a minute tail at one end, ribbed 

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