Common in pastures on the Neilgherries, 

 A low plant, from 8 to 12 inches high, readily 

 distinguished by the leafy base and long, rusty- 

 coloured, almost naked branches, ending in 1 or 2 

 capitate verticillasters. Flowering during the au- 

 tumnal months. 



1455. Leucas (Astrodon) rosmarinifolia 



(Benth.), suiftuticose, branches adpressed, villous: 

 leaves sessile, linear, entire, scabro-hirtous above, 

 •whitish, tomentose beneath: bracts lanceolate, line- 

 ar: calyx villous, mouth truncated, villous, teeth 

 very short, scarcely spreading. 



Neilgherries, in arid soil. Very abundant by the 

 road side, on the shoulder of the hill above Kaitie 



roots perennial, stems ascending, puberulous: leaves 



succulent, elliptical or ovate, entire, usually attenu- 

 ated into the petiol, sub-mucronate at the apex, 

 slightly pubescent on both sides: flowers axillary, 

 peduncle about the length of the petiol, at length 

 deflexed: segments of the calyx very unequal, 

 upper one broadest : corolla ecalcarate : capsule 

 oblique, globose, shorter than the enlarged calyx; 

 anterior cell dehiscent, polyspermous, posterior small- 

 er, compressed, 3-4-seeded: seed obconical, trun- 

 cated at both ends, longitudinally 5-angled; angles 

 transversely furrowed. Stocks' MSS. 

 Rocks in Scinde. 



A smooth looking, glaucous plant, six inches to a 

 foot high, with succulent, brittle leaves. The leaves 



pass, flowering at nearly all seasons, but in greatest are variable in shape, being sometimes sub-spathu- 



perfection about the end of the year. 



late, and have an unpleasant smell. Upper sepal 

 cordato-ovate, wrapping over the others, lateral se- 



1456. GoMPHOSTEMMA Heyjveanum (Wall.), stem pals lanceolate, a little narrower than the inferior 



erect: leaves elliptico-ovate, rugous, above softly, 

 beneath densely floccoso-tomentose : verticillasters 

 congested into a terminal spike, or the lower ones 

 somewhat remote, sub-axillary; floral leaves bract- 

 like, broad, ovate, longer than the calyx: calyx 

 campanulate, softly tomentose, teeth ovate, lanceo- 

 late, scarcely shorter than the corolla. 



Walliar, among bushes in the Bungalow com- 

 pound, abundant, flowering in July and August. 



From 2 to 4 feet high, flowers bluish, with a 

 purple tinge. 



1457. GoMPHosTEMMA OBLONGUM (Wall), stcm 

 erect: leaves oblong, elliptic, rugous, hispidulous 

 above, densely tomentose beneath; the floral ones 

 conformable: verticillasters axillary, remote, few- 

 flowered : calyx campanulate, tomentose, with long, 

 linear, lanceolate, acute teeth: corolla thrice the 

 length of the calyx. 



Courtallum. 



The original specimens of this species are from 

 Burmab, and possibly this may not be that plant 

 but the character, so far as it goes, agrees so well, 

 that I cannot venture to consider it a new species, 

 merely because the serration of the leaves is not 

 mentioned in the character, the more so, as that is 



ones. Corolla ^ an inch long, of a dingy white, 

 with purple veins. Capsule size of a garden pea, 

 with ruptile dehiscence. Stocks. 



1460. Peronema cawescens (Jack. Mai. Miscel.). 

 Malacca, Griffith — Sumatra, Jack. 



"A large tree, wood hard and tenaceous. Leaves 

 opposite, pinnated, nearly 2 feet long, leaflets 7-9, 

 alternate or sub-opposite, lanceolate, acute, some- 

 what recurved, entire, glabrous above ; whitish and 

 reticulately veined beneath, 8-9 inches long; petiols 

 winged, finely tomentose ; wings decurrent from the 

 insertion of the leaves. Panicle large, composed of 

 opposite cymes, delicately tomentose ; cymes tricho- 

 tomous. Bracts narrow, acute. Flowers inconspicu- 

 ous white, tube of the corolla scarcely longer than 

 the calyx." Jack. 



Having obtained a specimen of this little known 

 plant, I have taken advantage of the circmnstance 

 to endeavour to make it better known. The plant 

 figured, though from a new station, seems to corres- 

 pond sufficiently with the above description to 

 authorize its being considered the same species. 



1461. BoucHEA (Rhagocarpum) marrubiifolia 



(Schauer), dichotomous, cano-villous, branches round- 



equally overlooked in the definition of the pre- ish; leaves ovate, sub-truncated at the base, slightly 



ceding which has them serrato-crenate. It agrees 

 v^ell with the character generally of G- eriocarpum^ 

 but has glabrous achaenia; it may however be a 

 variety of that plant, which is firom the same station. 



1458. Teucrium tomentosum (Heyne), suffiruti- 



cose 



t^ranches 



ovate, rounded at the base, villous above; tomen- 

 toso-pubescent, whitish beneath, or rarely sub-glab- 

 rous: racemes paniculato-ramous : calyx declinate, 

 pilose, bilabiate, the upper tooth broadest 



Neilgherries, abundant on the hill behind Kelso 

 Cottage, in poor, arid soil. Flowering after the 



.. jufficiently conspicuous plant, from the almost 

 naked, sterile soils in which it luxuriates, attaining 

 in such places, firom 1 to 2 feet in height and, under 

 the shade of trees, is even higher than that The 

 leaves are of a pale green colour, and acquire a 

 whitish hue fi-om the white pubescence with which 



rains 



prolonged into the petiol, coarsely serrato-dentate, 

 reticulately rugous: spikes lateral and terminal, 

 often very long, slender, loosely flowered: bracts 

 linear, subulate, about twice the length of the 

 calyx : calyx shortly toothed : capsule obtuse, incluse. 

 ^ — Leaves about an inch broad, petiols about | an 

 inch, beneath prominently reticulated, teeth broad, 

 obtusely angled, acute. Calyx narrow, about 3 hnes 

 long, teeth acute, and like the herbaceous costae and 

 scariose margins of the bracts, villous. Tube of the 

 corolla scarcely twice the length of the calyx; limb 

 small, capsule a line and half long, obtuse, nigre- 

 scent, cocci half round, striated, areolate at the 



Schauer in D. C. Prod. 11-558. 



I am indebted to Mr. Stocks 

 for the drawing and specimens of this plant, which 

 had not previously been figured. 



14^. BoncHEA (Chascanum) Hyderabadeivsis 



(Walpers), suffinticose, sparingly pubescent, branches 



apex. 



Scinde. Stocks. 



they are clothed, flowers pale rose colour, or some- obsoletely 4-angled : leaves ovato-elliptical, cuneate- 



times nearly white. 



1459. ArrTEREHmcM glaucum (Stocks' MSS,), 



ly narrowing into the petiol, acutely and coarsely 

 senated, glaucous beneath: spikes terminal, pedun- 

 cled; pedicels rfiort, minutely bracteolate: bracts 



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