February and March, flowers white or pale straw 



colour. 



This plant so nearly resembles the preceding, that 

 it^ is with considerable hesitation I describe it as a 

 distinct species, though I believe it to be so. The 

 herbarium marks are very unsatisfactory, but recent 

 plants appear amply distinct 



1441. POGOSTEMON ROTUNDATUM (Bcnth.), vil- 



lous, stem ascending: leaves roundish, doubly ere- 

 nate, truncated or cordate at the base; the upper 

 Jioral ones shorter than the calyx: racemes simple, 

 Terticillasters equal, distinct (sub-remotis): bracts 

 Jhnear subulate: teeth of the calyx lanceolate vil- 

 lous: filaments bearded. 



Neilgherries, frequent about the outskirts of 



1437. AmsocHiLus suffruticosum (R. W.), *^°^^s, and in neglected, broken ground, flowering 



sunruncose, erect, ramous, young shoots and leaves 

 densely villous: leaves short, petioled, ovate, lanceo- 

 late, prominently veined beneath, when dry deep- 

 ly reticulated between the veins: spikes numerous, 

 long, peduncled, congested on the ends of the 

 branches: corolla tubular, deflexed from the base, 

 2-Iipped; upper lip 3-Iobed, the middle lobe larger, 

 emarginate, under entire, obtuse: stamens the length 

 of the corolla: under lip of the fructiferous calyx 

 minute, upper much larger, entire, round at the 

 apex, deflexed. 



^ Sisparah, on the western slopes of the Neilgher- 

 ries, on rocky clifts, among long grass, flowering 

 December and January. Stems apparently annual, 

 from two to three feet high, but the roots seem 

 perennial, as old, withered plants were noticed 

 with young shoots at the base. 



1438. Lavandula (ch^tostachvs) Burmanjvi 

 (Benthain), delicately pubescent, with leafy stems: 

 leaves bipinnatifid, segments linear, entire, the floral 

 ones membranaceous, dilated at the base, ending 

 in a long, setaceous acumen: spikes denticulate: 

 flowers solitary, alternate, approximated. 



Copper mountains, Bellary, Mysore, Coorg. 



A herbaceous plant, apparently annual, from 1 

 to 3 feet high. Stems 4-sided, somewhat hispid, 

 very leafy towards the base, sparingly so above. 

 Spikes terminal, ramous ; floral leaves furnished 

 with a long, bristly acumen. Calyx striated, after- 

 wards somewhat ventricose. Corolla slender, longer 

 than the calyx, 2-lipped, the upper one emarginate, 

 the lower 3-lobed. 



1439. Lavandula (ch.) Lawii (R. W.), herba- 

 ceous, pubescent: stems erect, leafy at the base, 

 4-sided : leaves obovate, pinnatifid, divisions im- 

 equally serrated, often broader and 3-lobed at the 



apex; floral ones dilated at the base, striated, point- ,. . . ^ , 



ed: spikes terminal, simple, compact, flowers alter- ^d* leaves quaternate, sessile, linear, subulate, entire, 



revolute on the edges; floral ones lanceolato-spathu- 



Jnost part of the year, but in greatest perfection 

 during March and April. 



A low growing plant, somewhat spreading at the 

 base, afterwards ascending, leaves softly villous, 

 lacemes 2 to 6 inches long, compact towards the 

 apex, flowers small, white. 



1442. PoGOSTEMON HiRsuTUM (Bcntham), cloth- 

 ed with adpressed hairs; stem ascending: leaves 

 petioled, ovate, acuminate, serrated, rounded, at the 

 Case; floral ones shorter than the calyx: racemes 

 simple, verticellasters equal, distinct; bracts linear, 

 subulate: teeth of the calyx lanceolate, acute, 

 hispid : filaments shortly exserted, bearded. 



Neilgherries. The specimen selected for repre- 

 sentation, seems to be a luxuriant form, greatly 

 exceeding in size my specimens, a circumstance 

 which for some time led me to doubt whether it 

 was the true plant, the more so as the original 

 specimens of the species are from Neuera Ellia in 

 Ceylon. The difference however of locality and 

 even the season of the year, at which the specimens 

 were gathered, might cause considerable difference 

 in appearance, the consideration of which circum- 

 stances led me to adopt the name here given, in 

 preference to viewing this as a new species, not 

 having an authentic specimen to compare. 



1443. PoGosTEMON sPEciosuM (Bentham), piloso- 

 hispid; stem erect: leaves broad, ovate, cordate at 

 the base, doubly crenate: racemes simple: verticel- 

 lasters terete, loosely approximated: bracts minute: 

 teeth of the tubular, nearly glabrous, calyx subulate: 

 filaments naked. 



Common about the outskirts of woods, on the 

 Neilgherries, usually in moist soil, flowering during 

 the rainy and cold season. 



1444. DysopHTLLA tetrafhtlla (R. W.) dense- 

 ly pilose, stem ascending, simple or sparingly branch- 



nate solitary. 



"Hills at Satara, flowering in November.*^ Law. 



This is ?fcftrly allied to the preceding, but is 

 evidently a distinct species, as at once shown by 

 the pinnatifid, not bipinnatifid foliage, the very 

 compact spikes, and the broader, scarcely acumi-* 



late, pubescent, about the length of the flowers: 

 spikes elongated : calyx pubescent, teeth short, 

 pointed: filaments long, exserted portion bearded. 

 Station uncertain, but I think Malabar. 



ifolea 



nated floral leaves; the calyx and corolla coincide* 5"^*^ distinct. It is represented glabrous, which is 



lar from being the case in the original, but I have 



tMMf. Ti -rx /-n ^i_ X * ^^ often suffered from the uncertainty of lithography 



1440. PoGOSTEMON Heyne A NUM (Bentham), stem in this country, that I am constrained to follow that 



ascendmg, pubescent: leaves glabrous, or narrowed ..-'.- _ _ . 



at the base, irregularly crenate: verticellasters sub- 



secund, interruptedly spicate : spikes panicled: bracts 



ovate, slenderly nerved, about the length of the 



calyx : calyx pubescent, teeth ovate : filaments 



bearded. 



course 



small portion, and unfortunately in this case a por- 

 tion of the stem has not been so shown with the 

 leaves. 



1445. 



\ 



Neilgherries, frequent about Kotergherry and else- ed with soft, spreading hairs; stems procumbent or 



where, about that zone of elevation, flowering ascending: leaves opposite, sub-sessile, ovate, ob- 



during the rainy season, or from June until Novem- long, coarsely serrated; floral ones ovato-lanceolate, 



ber, as well as at other times. about the length of the flowers: spikes very dense: 



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