lanceolato-subulate, margin membranaceous, rough- 

 ly ciliate, two or three times shorter than the 

 calyx: calyx plicatelv five-angled, truncated with 

 five subulate, unequal teeth: corolla large: capsule 



This is a variable plant, seen growing on the open 

 ground, it is a low, spreading, procxmibent shrub, 

 but if near support, in hedges or among bushes, it 

 often attains the height of 6 or 8 feet, and is then 



the length of the calyx, liner compressed at the one of considerable beauty on account of the pro- 



apex, smooth. 



Serramallie hills, near Dindigul, Mysore, in shady 

 jungles, &c, 



I have met with this plant several times in sub- 

 alpine jungles, but it is far from common ; flowers 

 rose coloured, and from the plant usually growing in 

 clumps, sufficiently conspicuous. The fruit in my 

 specimens are not quite mature. The figure repre- 

 sents a healthy plant, it is only when in a state of 

 monstrosity, so far as I have seen, that the character 

 "spicibus digitalibus confertiusculis" becomes ap- 

 plicable. 



1463. LippiA (Zapania) nodiflora (Rich.), 

 roughish, with adpressed, biacuminate hairs, stems 

 herbaceous, filiform, ramous, procumbent; rooting 

 at the joints and ascending: leaves cuneato-spathu- 

 late, entire at the base, above rounded, obtuse, or 

 sub-acute, equally and sharply serrated, obsoletely 



veined, flat: peduncles 



filiform 



exserted: capitula ovoid, and at length cylindrical: 

 bracts closely embracing the tube of the corolla, 

 equal, obovate or sub-rhombeo-cuneate, mucronato- 

 acuminate or muticous; the upper margin broadish, 

 membranous, glabrous or finely ciliate: calyx two- 

 parted, slightly bicarinate; carinas puberulous. 



In moist soil every where, especially on the banks 

 of streams. This plant is truly cosmopolite within 

 the tropics. 



A procumbent, often succulent plant. Witii 

 minute, white or pale rose coloured flowers, collect- 

 ed into compact heads, which go on lengthening 

 with age, those first opening having passed into 

 seed before the last opens. Calyx translucent, 

 membranous, as long as the tube of the coroHa. Cap- 



adhering 



almost 



necessarily variable, the specimen however figured 



form, 



r 



1464. Lantana liVDiCA (Roxb.), shrubby, straight, 

 4-sided, hairy : leaves opposite, cordate, serrate, 

 rugous: peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter than 

 the leaves: heads ovate: bracts ovate, lanceolate: 

 nut 2.celled. Roxb. Fl. Tnd. 



A common plant, widely diffused oyer the Indian 

 peninsula, flowering during the rainy and cool 

 seasons. 



The plant here represented is certainly Rox- 

 burgh's, I have therefore retained his name and 

 character. But since the plate was printed, I have 

 received T>. C. Prod. Vol. XL in which I find it 

 reduced to a synonym of L. alba by Schauer, with 

 the following character. 



L. alha (Miller, &c-), straight, branches virgate 

 and witli the peduncles 4-sided, rough and strigose : 



fusion of its heads of pure white flowers. 



On the higher slopes of the Neilgherries, the flow- 

 ers are usually coloured, and look so different from 

 the plant of the plains, that one is almost led to 

 doubt their identity, but on comparison, I could 

 not discover specific marks by which to distinguish 

 them. 



1465. ViTEx PUBESCENS (VahL Schauer. V. ar- 

 boreaj Roxb. R. W. Icon.), ramuli 4-sided, channel- 

 ed, and with the petiols and young leaves pubescent 

 or slightly tomentose: leaves long, petioled, 3-5- 

 foliolate; leaflets elliptic or ovate, oblong, atten- 

 uato-acuminate, rounded at the base, sub-sessile, 

 coriaceous, penninerved, glabrous, shining above, 

 pale, finely puberulous beneath: panicles whitish, 

 powdery tomentose, terminal, compound, ovato- 

 pyramidal, compact: cymes interspersed with folia- 

 ceous bracts longer than the calyx : calyx cyathiform, 

 sinuately 5-toothed : corolla twice the length of the 

 calyx, inflated ; inferior lip straitish, villous at the 

 base. Schauer in D. C. Prod. 



A large tree, found in sub alpine forests, exposed 

 to the influence of the south-west Monsoon. Mala- 

 bar, &c. I have also specimens fi*om Mergui and 

 Malacca, communicated by the late Mr. Griffith. 



This tree attains a great size, and the timber is 

 said by Roxburgh to be exceedingly hard and 

 durable. 



1466. ViTEx ALTissiMA (Liuu fil.), ramuli, com- 

 presso-tetragonous, channeled, with the petiols and 

 back of the leaves whitish-woolly: leaves long, 

 petioled, trifoliolate ; leaflets elliptic or elliptic-ob- 

 long, attenuato-acuminate, at both ends, sub-sessile, 

 entire, coriaceo-membranaceous, peiminervedj fine- 

 ly pubescent, and at length glabrous above: panicle 

 terminal, compound, spreading, pyramidal, white 

 with dense tomentum : cymes sub-sessile, com- 



f)act, minutely bracteolate, interruptedly verticil- 

 ed: calyx 5-lobed; lobes obtuse, spreading: cor- 

 olla small, the inferior lip straightish, somewhat 

 woolly. 



A considerable tree, not uncommon in subalpine 

 forests, flowering in August and September, during 

 the prevalence of the south-west Monsoon rains. 

 The specimen represented was gathered on the 

 Shevagherry mountains in September, 



1467. ViTEX LEUcoxYLON (Liun fil, Wallroihia, 

 Roth, Walpers, R. W. Icon.^ ramuli and petiols 

 pulverulento-pubemlous, and like the cymes and 

 young leaves firosted (pruinose): leaves long, petiol- 

 ed, 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets elliptic or ovate, oblong, 

 elliptic, shortly and obtusely acuminate, attenuated 

 into a long petiol, entire, sub-coriaceous, penninerv- 



coars 



leaves opposite, short petioled, elliptic, or roundish, ed; glabrous, shining above, pale, and, especially on 



the veins, finely strigoso-puberulous beneath: cymes 



rugous, hirto-scabrous above, wnitisn, vu- axillary, long, peduncled, corymbose, devaricato- 



dichotomous, many-flowered: calyx patelliform, 5- 

 toothed: corolla twice the length of the calyx, 

 inferior lip spreading, densely hairy. 



This, so far as I have observed, is a rather rare 

 Indian tree. Courtallum, Malabar, Tanjore, &c. 



lous beneath: peduncles axillary, rigid, spreading, 

 thickened above: capitula hemispherical, spicato- 

 elongated: bracts ovato-roundish or elliptico-ovate, 

 acuminate, half the length of the corolla, exterior 

 ones involucrate, foliaceous, spreading. 



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