NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
the consideration of Botanists, the following diag- 
nostic characters o ree genera j 
the adoption of which will, I apprehend, obviate the 
necessity of ditional one in an ord 
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Enporocon. Flowers diandrous, rarely didyna- 
mous. lla campanulato-infundibuliform, with a 
long, slender tube. Capsule 4-seeded. 
SrrogitanrHes. Flowers didynamous. Corolla 
infundibuliform, tube short. Capsule 4-seeded. 
Srenosipnontum. Flowers didynamous, rarely di- 
androus. Corolla campanulato-infundibuliform, with 
a long, slender tube. Capsule 8-seeded. 
The first and last differ in the number of seed, the 
second from both in the form of the corolla. 
When this was written I had not studied with much attention the distinctive characters between 
Goldfussia and Strobilanthes but on doing so, found them still more obscure than the above. If the genera 
are really distinct, I feel certain that Nees has misnamed some of the species of both genera, mutually 
interchanging them, examples of which are given in the Icones. 
Enpopocon capitatus (R. W.), spikes abreviato- 
capitate: exterior bracts leaf-like, limb glabrous, 
i calyx, ramuli, and petiols, thickly 
covered with rigid, glandular hairs: leaves ovate 
acuminate, serrated ; limb glabrous, densely lineolate. 
Neilgherries, flowering March an ri 
A large, ramous shrub, flowers pale blue, capsul 
about the length of the calyx, 4-seeded. In th 
figure it seems as if two-seeded, that is an error of 
the artist. 
Enporocon Fotrosus (R. W.), spikes abreviato- 
capitate, glabrous: exterior bracts leaf-like ; limb 
i rrated: flowers diandrous: leaves 
long, petioled, glabrous. 
Neilgherries, flowering March and April. 
abit and general appearance like the two 
preceding species, differing from the first in being 
every where glabrous, and from the second in its 
capitate not elongated spikes, 
e 
e 
three form a very distinct section of the 
genus, characterized by their large, exterior, foliace- 
bracts. 
Exporocon StrogitantueEs (R. W.), spikes elon- 
gated, glabrous, exterior bracts foliaceous, oblong, 
lanceolate, or ovate, acuminate, om than the 
ate : 
calyx: x 5-cleft, se ts lanceo stamens 
4-didynamous: leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, ser- 
rated, glabrous, lineolate on both s 
eilgherries, flowering during March and April 
rub, each ramulus oe geet 
and in 
some shrub. 
ASYSTASIA. 
Calyx 5-parted, equal. 
Corolla somewhat funnel-shaped, limb 5-lobed, equal, the upper lobe slightly 
concave. Stamens 4, didynamous within the tube, approaching by pairs; anthers 2-celled, cells parallel, 
appendiculate at the base, stigma capitulate, 2-lobed, or 2-toothed. Capsule contracted at the base, rough, 
often four-angled, 2-celled, 4-seeded, seed attached to processes, discoidly lobed, with a prominent angle 
this genus Nees describes 15 
independent of characters. It was on 
collect meeting with on the Hills, feeling certain that, when one is wel 
Southern India, will be readily recognized. Though this is true as regards the genus, I cannot promise as 
much for the species, as they are indeed very difficult and none more so th 
rieties are enumerated as distinguishable. In regard to th 
belongs to any of these seven, if it does, it is to the first, but 
distinct species. It however agrees so well with the 
it, differi tant j 1 f the flowers, whic 
it, differing principally in the colour © owers, which I feared could not be maintained. Nees doubts 
it better to place it here than make it a new species, 
whether this genus and Leptacanthus are sufficiently 
ot inki i f ost characteristic a RE 
cannot help thinking this one of the m specially a rich moist soil, and in such situations it is no 
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plains its species abound, growing in hedges, 
an the present of which 7 va- 
e one here represented, I am not quite sure that it 
I rather suspect Nees would have viewed it as a 
character of the species, to which I have referred 
distinct; for myself I see no reason to doubt it, as I 
genera of the tribe to which it belongs. On the 
