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below. In our specimens they are distinctly hairy on both surfaces, on the 

 lowor surface chieHy on the nerves. 



SUTEliA, I'toth. 



Suteni ;/la7nli(losa,lloth., is somewhat variable with regard to the colour of 

 the eorolhi. Hooker {¥\. Brit. Ind. IV, rioH) gives it as nearly white, while 

 Cooke (¥1. B. Pres. 11, l'8o) says it is white. ^Ve found the corolla white 

 (Nos. l(J()o, 160(i), and pinkish-white (No. ItiU?) in Khandesh along the 

 Tapti river. In a specimen from Kliandala, in a deep ravine, the corolla is 

 white with a pink longitudinal line on midlobe of lower lip (No. ItJOH). The 

 plant is not common and prefers sandy river beds. 



MIMULUiS, L. 



Mimulus gracilis, R. Br. — Hooker (Fl. Brit. Ind. IV, 259) seems to be 

 mistaken when saying that the calyx-lobes are rounded. Both Benth. 

 (DC. Prodr. X, 3(39) and Cooke (Fl. B. Pres. 11, 287), give them correctly 

 as acute. Hooker says that the corolla is white or pale blue. We found 

 the plant at Alt. Abu flowering in October (No. I(j09), fruiting in May 

 (No. liJlO). The former specimen had a compressed corolla, I'-grooved on 

 the lower side of lower lip, pinkish in colour and with brown spots on 

 midlobe of lower lip. A flowering specimen from the Tapti river near 

 Bhusawal (No. 1611). found in December 1916, has the corolla white 

 with a pink tube and pink spots on lower lip. The plant does not generally 

 turn blackish in drying, as Hooker has it. Our specimens show ciliolate 

 coroUa-lobes, thus agreeing with Bentham's, but not with Cooke's des- 

 cription. 



MA/jUS, Lour. 



Mazus McCannii, sp. nov. — A small annual erect plant, either stemless 

 with a scape 5-9cm. high or with a slender leafy stem, reaching 16cm. 

 including the raceme, glabrous or minutely hispid, often glandular, simple 

 or sparsely branched and with internodes 8^cm. long ; there are no runners 

 rooting at the nodes, but sometimes a few branches at the base of the 

 plant, resting on the ground, possibly developing into runners ; the leaves 

 on these branches are opposite or alternate, subentire, subspathulate, 

 2-5 X 7mm., with petiole l-lmm. long. The other leaves are either radical 

 up to 42 X l8mm. or cauline and opposite, reaching 35 X 15mm., thin, 

 obovate, narrowing into a petiole variable in length and keeled below ; 

 margin obscurely crenate-dentate or sinuate, lower surface quite glabrous, 

 upper with a few short soft bristles. Flowers about 10 in lax terminal or 

 lateral racemes, the basal branches sometimes bearing a few flowers. 

 Inflorescence acropetal. Pedicels distant, stout, alternate, up to 5mm. 

 long in flower, 10mm. in fruit, glandular, ebracteate, 1-bracteolate, 

 bractcole inserted about 1mm. up the petiole, subulate, the lowest 

 (largest) 2-5mm. long, glabrous. Calyx in flower almost regular, 5mm. long, 

 5-lobed more than half-way down, in fruit much enlarged, 8mm. long, 

 irregularly deformed, with spreading lobes. Lobes ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 acute, one-nerved. Tube obscurely 10-ribbed, rihs with minute glandular 

 hairs. Corolla 8 or 9mm. long, tube 4-5mm., upper lip 2mm., external in 

 bud, erect, pale lilac, triangularly ovate, tip elongate, bifid, lobes narrow, 

 0-5 mm. long, margin minutely serrulate ; lower Jip nearly white, 6mm. 

 brv)ad , 3-lobed, lobes 1mm. long, rounded, midlobe the smallest, in- 

 cisions in lower lip continued on the outer surface of the corolla by deep 



