tube of the corolla: corolla blue, the tube furnished 



with 5 projecting, triangular, acutely mucronate 

 lobes: plicae emarginate: capsule obovate, rounded 



at the apex. 



Neilgherries, frequent in pastures flowering at 

 at all seasons. The bright blue flowers render this 

 a conspicuous plant even though the foliage can 

 scarcely be distinguished from the surrounding 

 herbage. It seems to have a wide geographical 

 range, extending on alpine ranges from the Hima- 

 layas to Ceylon. I have now gathered it on the 

 Neilgherries, Pulney mountains and Neuera Elha 

 in Ceylon. I think it is also found on the higher 

 hills in Coors: and Mysore. 



1329. Ophelia corymbosa (Griseb.), stem 4- 

 sided, ascending, branches divaricate: leaves spathu- 

 lato-elliptic, roughish, 3-nerved ; the lower ones 

 largest, the stem ones short sessile: cymes sub- 

 fastigiate few-flowered, pedicels spreading, segments 

 of the calyx linear acuminate, half the length of 

 the corolla: corolla 4-parted, blue, segments ob- 

 ovato-elliptic mucronate: foveae minute, orbicular, 

 solitary, covered with a scale, fimbriate at the apex, 

 and themselves bound with short fimbriae : filaments 



linear. 



Neilgherries, not unfrequent during the rainy sea- 

 son in pastures and about the outskirts of woods. 

 The upper branches of this are not fastigiate, but 

 often nearly horizontal, the flowers only looking to 

 the sky, in which respect it differs considerably 

 from the following, which Grisebach has joined 

 with it. 



ovate, glabrous, obscurely 3-nerved, cauline ones 

 sessile : cymes terminal, lax, 3-5 flowered ; the axil- 

 lary pedicels shorter: segments of the calyx lanceo- 

 lato-oblong, acute, about half the length of the 

 corolla: corolla 4-parted, blue; segments elliptic- 

 oblong, acute, suberect: foveae orbicular paired dis- 

 tant, most minute ; margins naked : filaments linear, 

 shorter than the corolla. 



Neilgherries, in wet marshy grounds. 



It seems to me doubtful whether this ought to 

 be admitted into the genus. The total want of 

 style and the ail-but absence of foveae militate 

 against it. They are double, always most minute, 

 often wanting, and when present, unlike those of 

 all the other species, being, so far as I have seen, 

 mere tufts of pubescence, not foveae, and so small 

 that aid of a magnifier is required to see them. 

 In a genus where the character of the foveae forms 

 so important an item in the generic character, so 

 wide a departure, as is here presented, from the 

 normal form seems to merit a higher than specific 

 value. 



1330. 



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1334. Halenea Perbottetii (Griseb.), stem 

 erect, lamous: leaves ovato-lanceolate acute,^ 5- 

 nerved, subsessile: pedicels axillary and terminal 

 unequal, filiform : segments of the calyx lanceolate 

 acute: spurs thickish, half the length of the corolla, 

 corniculato-obtuse, spreading and ascending at the 

 point: corolla pale blue; lobes ovate mucronate, 

 stigmas small, distinct at the apex, 



Pulney and Neilgherry mountains, common among 

 long grass and about the outskirts of woods in both 



places. 



This plant often attains a considerable size, two 

 or three feet high, and very ramous, becoming alto- 

 gether a large annual- The specimen figured was 

 selected on account of its small size, as better suit- 



simple below, ramous above, fastigiate: leaves op- 

 posite or ternate, lanceolate, acute, or sometimes 



narrow linear, 3-nerved: corymbs many-flowered, ^ „ j • ^u i * 



compact: calyx lobes sub ulate-pointed, nearly as mg the space allowed m these plates. 



long as the corolla: corolla 4- cleft, divisions lanceo- 

 late acute, foveae covered with a scale and bound 1335 — 36 ^ 



), arbo- 



with long fimbriae round the margin. 



Pulney mountains, among long grass, flowering 



September and October. 



This species seems to me to go far towards show- 

 ing that Grisebach's variety /?. elatior of his O* corym- 

 bosa is a distinct species, that is, if I have not erred 

 in considering the plant figured No. 1329 his O. 

 corymbosa* 



133L Ophelia elegans (R. W.), erect, ramous 

 above, obsoletely 4-sided: leaves sessile, narrow 

 ovate l£Uw:eolate, tapering to a slender point, 3-nerv- 

 ed; latital nerves close to the margin: branches 

 ascending, slender, bearing at each joint lateral, few- 

 flowered cymes, forming together a large many- 

 flowered leafy panicle: calyx lobes narrow lanceo- 

 late acute, about f the length of the corolla: lobes 

 of the corolla obovate cuspidate: foveas bound 

 with longish coarse hairs : flowers pale blue. ^ ^ 



August 



rious, glabrous except the pubescent branches^ of 

 the panicles and bracts : leaves 2-3 pinnate, petiols 

 angled; leaflets petiolate, ovate or oblong acumi- 

 nate, entire, membranous, penninerved, reticulately 

 veined: panicles subcorymbose, branches dichoto- 

 mous: calyx unequally 5-toothed: corolla campan- 

 ulate, shortly tubular, lobes somewhat undulated, 

 roundish: capsules siliquiform, linear, roundish, in- 

 curved, tuberculate.— A handsome tree: flowers 



white, fragrant: capsule about two feet long from 

 1 1 1 :«^h T.v/^o/1 



1 



1^ mc 



broad. 



iNeiignemes, nowenng m April. I have only met 

 with Uiis tree twice— in Orange valley and on the 

 Eastern slopes by the road side about 4 miles below 



Coonoor. 



It is suggested that it may be a species of Te- 

 coma, a point I am unable to decide as I scarcely 

 know in what respects the two genera differ. 



1337_38. Calosanthes Indica. (Blume.) 



very handsome species when in full flower, forming, Sandy plains in Malabar. 



as it does, a rich panicle of light blue flowers, a glabrous tree with opposite bipinnate leaves; 



streaked with deeper coloured veins, 

 distuxct from all the other species. 



seems 



1332. Ophei^ia minor (Griseb.), stems subterete, 

 erect, filiform, glabrous, sparingly ramous : branches 

 erect 1-3 flowered: leaves short cordato-ovate, or 



leaflets short petioled, subcordato-ovate acuminate 

 entire : racemes terminal, erect : flowers large, whitish 

 within, exteriorly streaked with red, foeted: calyx 

 coriaceous, tubular, truncated: tube of the corolla 

 short, throat campanulate ; limb 5-lobed sub-bilabi- 

 ate, somewhat fimbriately cut on the margm: rta- 



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