VARIATION IN BOMBAY STRIGAS. 



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III S. euphrasiodes :— The writer was for a long time unable to 

 find this species in any grassland round Poona, although one specimen 

 in the Poona herbarium had been collected at Pashan, a near-by 

 village. At length a very few specimens were found in the area of 

 waste land near the College of Agriculture in a piece of that land 

 adjoining an irrigation distributory. At Chharodi in Gujarat this 

 species was the common one, with occasional S. clensiflora and no 

 S. lutea, while at Tegur in the Dharwar District S. euphrasiodes was 

 the only species found. 



Van Buuren reported it on roots of grasses of the irrigation 

 channel of the College Farm at Poona, and considered it more 

 hygrophilous than the other species mentioned. 



The diagnostic character of this species is the possession of 

 15 ribs, each main rib having on each side of it a secondary rib 

 which runs right up to the tip of the calyx tooth. 



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Here again there is some variation in number, : all the Chharodi 

 specimens having 16 ribs, the additional rib being, as usual, anterior. 



The writer came across one plant pink in the bud and also 

 in the fully expanded corola. Van Buuren states : " At the 

 approach of the dry season some plants which I had under observ- 



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