my specimens, if the true plant, rather convey the 



idea of growing erect, or at all 



ascending. 



Courtallum. This species seems very near if not 

 events loosely indeed too nearly allied to R. Wightiana, and may 



1548. RuNGiA tATioR (Nees), leaves subovate or 

 oval, moderately attenuated at both ends, somewhat 

 obtuse : stem diffusely repent : corolla longer than 

 the bracts, upper lip acute : bracts uniform, obovate, 

 retuse, shortly mucronate, -3-nerved, ciliate, margin 

 membranaceous; "bracteolis subulatis," 



Ootacamund, flowering during the autumnal 



months, growing among bushes and long grass, 



about the sides, treams, and the outskirts of damp 

 woods. 



prove only a very luxuriant variety but, so far as 

 can be judged from specimens, it is distinct. 



1551. DrcLiPTKRA BivALvis (Juss.), Icaves ovate 

 oblong, acuminate, acute at the base, lineolate, his- 

 piclo-scabrous: peduncles axillary, longer than the 

 petiols, trifid: capitula 2 or3-flowered: bracts broad 

 ovato-roundish, aristato-mucronate, 5-nerved, hispid, 

 margin naked. 



Courtallum. A very distinct and easily recog- 

 nized species. 



I feel somewhat at a loss regarding the last two 1552. Dicliptera cuniata (Nees), leaves ovate, 

 words of the specific definition, as I have not been obtuse or acute at the base and, with the stem, 

 able to find a trace of bracteoles beyond those shown niinutely lineolate, glabrous: peduncles axillary, 



~ longer than the petiols, 3-5-cleit: common involu- 



crum shorter than the umbel, subulate; partial invo- 

 lucrum diphyllous ; leaves cuniform, mucronate, 

 pubescenti-scabrous, 



at fig. 1 of the plate. The figures of the anthers are 

 not good though, in the main correct as seen when 

 simply lying on the field of the microscope* To 



show their proper structure they require to be sep- 

 arated, when it is seen that the appendage, shown 

 on the back of the anther, is a prolongation of the 

 upper cell, and that the lower one has an orbicular 

 tip. I however believe that this is truly the plant 

 named. 



1549. RuNGiA Wightiana (Nees), suffruticose, 

 erect: leaves ovate oblong, much attenuated at the 

 apex: bracts veined, the margins hyaline towards 

 the apex, most delicately (subtilissime) ciliate; 

 sterile ones oblong, acute, the fertile ones rhombeo- 

 cuniform, obtuse; bracteoles membranaceous, oval, 

 mucronulate; spikes lax, terminal. 



Courtallum, during the rainy months. 



I am not sure that I rightly understand Nees' 

 views of the bracts and bracteoles of this genus. 

 In the generic character he says, "Spica quadrifar- 

 um bractiata * * ordinum duorum superiorum vacuis, 

 inferiorum unifloris." I find in this species two rows 

 of sub-lateral alternate empty bracts along the back 

 of the rachis, one to each flower, other 2 rows on the 

 opposite side, each with a single flower and two 

 broad lateral membranaceous bracteoles in its axil. 

 Fig. 4 of this plate shows the flower and bracteoles, 

 figure 3, is the fertile bract ; and fig, 2 gives a view 

 of a portion of the back or sterile side, with four 

 of the sterile bracts. Hence it follows that to each 

 flower there are two bracts, one sterile and one 



Courtallum, flowering during the autumnal rains, 



1553. Peristrophe Montana (Nees), leaves 

 oblong, attenuated at both ends, lineolate and, like 

 the stems, glabrous: umbels axillary and terminal, 

 five-cleft: capitula 3-5-flowered: invclucrum diphyl- 

 lous; leaflets equal, ovato-elliptic, obtuse, mucronu- 

 late, glabrous. 



Courtallum, flowering during the rainy autumnal 

 months, flowers pink coloured. A beautiful species 

 but rare. I have not found it in any other station. 

 The flowers are nearly 2 inches long, and the involu- 

 cra coloured. 



1454. RHAPHEnosPERA glabra (Nees), pedun- 

 cles axillary, many-flowered; leaves ovate, atten- 

 uated at the apex, glabrous. 



A common plant, growing about hedge rows and 

 clumps of trees all over the country, flowering during 

 the cool season. 



1555. 



W 



ceous, erect, stems 4-angled: leaves entire, ovato- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sub-villutinous, acute at the 

 base: spikes short, sub-capitate, axillary and ter- 

 minal, the axillary ones short peduncled, with occa- 

 sional solitary axillary flowers: bracts lanceolate, 

 shorter than the tube of the villutino-viscid 1-flower- 

 fertile, and two conformable bracteoles, not 4 bracts ed involucrum: leaflets of the involucrum cohering 



below, the inner ones smaller, all lanceolate: calyx 

 5-cleft, about the length of the tube of the invo- 

 lucre: upper lip of the corolla longer than the. 



and two bracteoles, which the concluding words of 

 the definidon of R. latior gives us reason to suppose, 

 as I find, what I conceive to be its bracteoles, not 

 subulate, but obovate, cuniate, obtuse, like the fertile 

 bract, but all three different from the sterile one. 



In this species the fertile and sterile bracts are 

 nearly conformable, the bracteoles much shorter and 

 sub-orbicular. The capsule is not correctly repre- 

 sented, it opens like that of Dicliptera, No. 155, p. 52. 



lower, acute or bidentate : stigma undivided. 



Malacca, Capt. A. C. Wight. I have no know- 

 ledge of this species, nor indeed of the genus, 

 beyond what the specimens supply. 



1556. HapLANTHUS NEIIiGHERRTENSIS (R. W.), 



herbaceous, ramous, dechning ; branches axillary, 

 opposite, shorter than the leaves : flowers racemose 

 on the ends of the branches and stem: leaves 

 hispid, elliptic, oblong, acuminate, long petioled; 

 petioles winged : flowers opposite from the axil of 

 branches trzfid, spikes short, dense: bracts obovate, a minute leaf; calyx 5-parted, small and, like the 



1550. Rungia 



W 



erect, glabrous, branches terete: leaves broad elliptic, 

 attenuated at both ends, decurrent on the long, and 

 thence winged, petiol: panicles terminal, compact. 



scarcely membranous on the margin, finely pube- 

 scent, bracteoles oval, mucronate, hyaline: calyx 

 sub-villous, posterior lobe a little larger: upper lip 

 of the corolla entire, pointed. 



numerous bracts, setaceo-hispid: bracts linear, 2-3- 

 toothed at the apex : anthers two-celled, bothpoUen- 

 iferous with a dense tuft of wooly pubescence on 

 the back. 



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