appressed, matted pubescence. The characters, 

 however, agree, generally, so well with those of 

 E. hypokucas, that, but for having an authentic 

 specimen for comparison, I should scarcely have 

 ventured to consider them distinct. The character 

 of the calyx associates it with Stenosiphonium, but 

 it differs in all other respects. 



A large, ramous shrub, flowers pale blue, capsule 



about the length of the calyx, 4-seeded. In the 



figure it seems as if two-seeded, that is an error of 

 the artist. 



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elongated, glabrous, exterior bracts foliaceous, ob- 



i^Qs T?„^^ /TVT V !_ . , ^°"S' lanceolate, or ovate, acuminate, longer than 



1498. Endopogon viscosus (Nees), bracts ob- the calyx: calyx 5-cleft, segments laAceollte: sta- 



te^. f ?r.ll^, 1^ f "1 tnens_4.didynampus: leaves broadly ovate, acumin- 



obtusely unguiculato-cuspidate, carinate; as long as 

 the calyx, rigid, and with the raches, hirsuto-glandu- 

 lose : leaves oval-oblong, or oval-attenuated at both 

 ends, hispid: seed oval. Var. «. viscosissimns^ spikes 



very dense, villous : upper leaves shorter, oval, with 

 a short point, strigillose above. 

 Ceylon. 



Var. a* humitis, spikes shorter, more compact; 

 lower bracts somewhat oval; otherwise as in a. 

 — Courtallum. 



The drawing was made from one of the same set 

 of specimens, as the one referred to by Nees under 

 the second variety. It is a low, shrubby, very 



ate, serrated, glabrous, lineolate on both sides. 



Neilgherries, flowering during March and April. 



A large, ramous shrub, each ramulus terminating 

 in a spike of pale blue flowers. In habit and in 

 the foliaceous character, but not in leaf-like form of 

 its exterior bracts, this species quite accords with 

 both the preceding and following species; it also 

 agrees in the form of the coroUa, but differs in 

 having 4, not 2 stamens. When in full flower it is 

 a very handsome shrub. 



1501. EjjfDOPOGON FOLiosns (R. W.), spikes abre- 

 viato-capitate, glabrous; exterior bracts leaf-like; 



ramous plant. The whole height of one now lying viato-capitate, glabrous ; exterior bracts leaf-like ; 

 before me is only six inches, another is about 9 in- \^^^ ^Y^^®' acummate, serrated: flowers diandrous: 



ches high. 



1499. Endopogon capitatus (R. W.), 

 abreviato-capitate: exterior bracts leaf-like, limb precedin 

 glabrous, the dilated base, calyx, ramuli, and 

 petiols, thickly covered with rigid, glandular hairs: 

 leaves ovate, acuminate, serrated; hmb glabrous, 

 densely lineolate. 



Neilgherries, flowering March and April 



leaves long, petioled, glabrous. 

 Neilgherries, flowering March and April. 



In habit and general appearance like the two 



species, differing from the first in being 

 every where glabrous, and from the second in its 

 capitate not elongated spikes. 



The three form a very distinct section of the 

 genus, characterized by their large, exterior, foliace- 

 ous bracts. 



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