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(7) A minute, extremely slender, slightly hairy plant, stem not brittle, 

 reaching 3cm. high. Leaves 2-3 pairs attaining 15 X 9mm., broadly ovate 

 with a few large teeth, very thin, membranous, glabrate. Petioles up to 

 6mm., capillary. Flowers few, sub-terminal or in all the axils. Calyx 

 3mm., corolla 5mm. Locality : Mt. Abu (No. 1580), growing on moist 

 rocky ledges, in shade. 



(8) This is the form described by Cooke under L. polyantha. It is gene- 

 rally much branched, chiefly from the base, which is often woody, with 

 long brittle branches, forming densely leafy racemes or spikes. Leaves 

 (bracts) not much exceedii.g the calyx. Whole plant densely villous. It 

 is a common form. Locality: Bombay Island (No. 1681), Bassein (No. 1582), 

 Khandeish (No. 1583), Cutch (Nos. 1584, 1585, 1586.) The more southern 

 specimens have longer, more slender branches than the others, which are 

 more robust, stunted, 



(9) An intermediate form between form (1) and form (8), with a woody 

 base and diffuse, brittle branches, densely villous. The lower leaves are 

 like those of No. (1), reaching 3cm., but with closer serratures. The leaves 

 of the inflorescence are like those of No. 8. Locality : Khandesh, Bori 

 river (No. 1587). 



(10) Another intermediate form between (1) and (8), showing just the 

 opposite arrangement of the leaves. Locality : Bombay Island, Fort (No. 

 1588), on the wall of a tank in exactly the same spot as No. 1581. The 

 latter specimen was obtained in February, the former in June. The plant is 

 40cm. high with ascending brittle branches, which in their lower part have 

 got leaves like those of form (8) while they are terminated by a tuft of leaves 

 like thoije of form (1) but sometimes smaller and with a shorter petiole. 



Forms 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10 become black in drying, the others keep their 

 green colour. It is worth noting that those forms which dry black are also 

 more or less brittle, whilst the others are not. This may possibly prove to 

 be a constant character. 



DOPATRIUM, Buch.-Ham. 



Dopatrium junceum, Buch.-Ham. var. vndtiloba, var. nov. 



Characters of the type, except for the following : A small plant, 11cm. 

 high, calyx 2-5mm. long, 5-or 6-fid to below the middle, lobes linear-oblong 

 obtus. Corolla 7 mm. long ; upper lip entire, 2mm., square. Lower lip with 

 5 (in one flower) or 7 (in two flowers) lobes, incisions very variable and in 

 the three flowers observed in no way uniform. The lobes are linear oblong, 

 ounded at the tip. Colour of corolla lilac, with purple veins (not pinkish 

 violet). Locality : Igatpuri, in a rice-field, January 1917 (No. 1597). 



Dopatrium junceum, Buch.-Ham. — We make a few corrections and addi- 

 tions to Cooke's description (Fl B. Pres. II, 293). 



Pistil green. Stigma broad, almost flat on top (certainly not bilamellate). 

 Seen from above it is oval in outline. Anthers yellow. Fleshy hairs in the 

 tube near the base of the stamens and staminodes. Seeds ellipsoid, very 

 strongly longitudinally ribbed, transversely rugose (not tuberculate). 

 Locality : Bombay Island (No. 1589), Salsette (No. 1590), Igatpuri (No. 

 1591), Mt. Abu (Nos. 1592, 1593, 1594, 1595, 1596). 



Dopatrium lohelioides, Benth. As to wrong reference in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. see under Ilysanthes. 



SCOFARIA DULCIS, L. 

 It is interesting to note the great rapidity with which this Tropical 



