This drawing was prepared, in the hope of its 

 furnishing me with the generic characters of Buteraea, 

 my specimen being an authentic one (viz. Herb- 

 Gardner, No. 1219), named by Nees himself. It how- 

 ever appears from the analysis that Nees must 

 either have fallen into a mistake in referring the 

 species to ButcrtEa^ or that there is no actual differ- 

 ence between it and Endopogon. 



1522. GOLDFUSSIA DECURRENS (R. W- iS/roMttw- 



ihes^ Nees), herbaceous, stem 4-sulcated, slightly 

 rough : leaves oval acute at both ends, sub-dentate, 

 glabrous, closely lineolate : spikes axillary, or temate- 

 terminal, peduncled, oblong, drooping: bracts oblong 

 elliptic, obtuse, broadly decurrent, glabrous, lineo- 

 late: flowers with the rudiment of a 5th filament. 

 Stems flexuose: leaves unequal, the larger one 

 5 to 8 inches long, entire or scarcely repand: pe- 

 duncles at first simple, bibracteate about the middle, 

 afterwards trifid, but usually single. Spikes about 

 an inch long, cernuous or drooping : bracts opposite, 

 oblong obtuse, decurrent on the peduncle : flowers 

 solitary, sub-sessile, the pedicel furnished on each 

 side with a short, tooth-like bracteole, "stamina unit- 

 ed by pairs at the base, and decurrent in a foliace- 

 ous ciliate wing" "Structura calycis ab affinibus 

 valde recedit" Nees. 



tioled, cordato-suborbicular, entire; petioles wing- 

 ed: spikes ascending: flowers sessile, solitary, sub- 

 alternate: calyx segments all equal, sub-pubescent, 

 acute: corolla many times longer than the calyx 

 limb, large, ventricose, upper lip emarginate, under 

 3-toothed: anthers 2-celled, pubescent. 



Coorg. The ovary represented fig. 6, belongs to 

 this species — the capsule fig. 7 to another. Figures 

 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are taken from very young flower- 

 buds, long before expansion. 



Along with this I received specimens of another 

 species, very nearly allied to G. cwZantcum, which 

 I have named G. polyanthum^ witn the following 

 character. 



G. polyanthum (R. W.), glabrous, flowers fascicled, 

 on slender glabrous racemes: fascicles short pedun- 

 cled, sub-aggregate: fascicles furnished with minute 

 subulate bracts, glabrous: leaves cordato-orbicular, 

 subcuspidato-acuminate ; petiols wingless : calyx 

 lobes equal, subulate: corolla cylindrical: anthers 

 2-celled, cells parallel, distinct, except at the apex, 

 ecalcarate : capsules slender, about 9 lines long, 

 many-seeded. — The capsule valve, shown fig. 7, is 

 taken from this species. In one of the flowers ex- 

 amined I found 3 perfect stamens. 



1526. Calopaanes vagans (R. W.), shrubby, dif- 



This species is referred by Nees to SirohUanthes, fuse, climbing; leaves oval or sub-ovate, petioled, 

 but I cannot help thinking, as the result of hasty entire: preduncles axillary, longer than the petiols, 



examination, I have therefore taken the liberty of 

 transferring it to the genus Goldfussia, with which, 

 as r understand these two genera, it accords better. 



cymose 2-5-flowered and with the calyx sub-viscoso- 

 pubescent : calyx lobes subulate about half the 

 length of the bilabiate corolla: anthers bi-calcarate. 

 Coorg, climbing among bushes. Ramuli 4-angled, 



1523. Strobxlanthes Neesiana (R. W.), suf- rough on the angles: leaves from 1 to 2 inches long, 

 fi:uticose ramuli subteiete, glabrous: leaves unequal slightly pubescent on boths ides: corolla, before ex- 

 elliptico-ovate, acuminate, acute, sub-unequal at the pansion (fig. 3), pubescent: seed hairy. 



base, coarsely crenato-serrated, stellato-hirsute, dense- 

 ly lineolate above, lineolate and sparingly pubescent 

 beneath: peduncles axillary, often trifid, numerous 

 and sub-panicled towards the ends of the branches ; 

 bibracteolate about the middle ; spikes short, ovato- 

 capitulate : bracts foliaceous, acuminate, retuse at 

 the point, clothed with viscid pubesence: calyx and 

 shorter bracteoles densely pilose: corolla sparingly 

 pubescent without, bristly hirsute within: longer 

 filament hirsute, ovary 4-ovuled. 



Neilgherries. This species approaches both & 

 Perrotlianus and S. asper but is amply distinct. 



1524. Adexosma verticellata (Nees), stem gives an imperfect idea. 



1527. Leptacanthus alatus (R. W.), shrubby, 

 panicles racemose, numerous on the naked branches, 

 or in single axillary racemes on the leafy ramuli: 

 leaves oval oblong, acuminate, entire, decurrent on 

 the petiol, amplexicaul, glabrous: peduncles, bracts, 

 and calyx, thickly beset with long bristly hairs: 

 lobes of the calyx linear obtuse, much longer than 

 the bracteoles : longer filaments hairy. 



Coorg. Leaves from 6 to 10 inches long, dark 

 green above, pale beneath; petiols winged with the 

 decurrent limb of the leaf. A very distmct species, 

 of which, however, for want of room, the figure 



ascending and, like the oval oblong serrulato-crenate 

 leaves, hairy: flowers verticelled: lacineae of the 

 calyx linear-spathulate, obtuse.— Leaves approximat- 

 ed*^ about an inch long, attenuated below into a 

 short petiol, obtuse, crenulate, minutely punctulate, 

 hairy on the costae and veins : exterior bracts longer 

 than the interior, obovate, oblong obtuse, attenuated 

 at the base, densely pubescent; bracteoles on the 

 base of the calyx wanting or minute : calyx 2-3 lines 

 long, lobes equal, pubescent, broader above : corolla 

 4-6 lines long, pubescent, purplish; upper lip 

 vaulted, bidentate, the lower one broad, 3-lobed, 



1528. Barleria Hochtetteki (Nees), fruticose, 

 branches strigiloso-tomentose, trlchotomous at the 

 apex; ramuli trifid, 3-flowered or one-flowered with 

 2 bracts: leaves oval obtuse sub-mucronate, strigi- 

 lose: bracteoles lanceolate entire and, like the 

 larger oval acute equal entire lobes of the calyx, 

 glanduloso-pubescent; tube of the corolla smallish. — 

 A low shrub, veryramous; branches whitish-pube- 

 scent, leaves from | to 1 inch long, 4-5 lines broad, 

 obtuse: flowers horizontally nodding. 



I am indebted to Mr. Stocks of Bombay for the 



the middle lobe larger; palate gibbous, hairy: cap- drawing here published, and for specimens of this 

 sule about 3 lines long, pubescent, 4-sided, many- curious species ; a native of Scinde and Arabia. 



seeded. 

 Mysore and Coorg. This species approaches A. 



halsamiay but seems amply distinct. 



1525. Gtmnostachtum alatum (R. W.), stem- 

 less : leaves glabrous, all radical, humifuse, long pe- 



1529. Barlebia Courtallica fNees), stem fiiiti- 

 cose, leaves oblong, attenuated at the base and apex, 

 glabrous, shining: spikes axillary and terminal, short, 

 glanduloso -hirsute: bracts and bracteoles, linear-sub- 

 ulate: larger lacineae of the calyx about equal, 



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