70 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
uncommon occurrence to see them climbing to the tcps of hedges 10 or 12 feet high. In the low country 
I do not recollect to have met with a white-flowered one, deep lilac verging on purple being here the 
predominating colour, and then they are most beautiful, but unfortunately only two or three flowers open at 
once, and these are of short duration. The present, as regards the number and permanency of its flowers, 
is one of the most desirable forms for cultivation I have seen, and differing to this extent from the usual 
habit of the genus, led me in the first instance to view it as a new species to which I gave the charac- 
teristic name of ‘albida,’ but on after consideration I thought it but a variety of the already well known 
species, and named it accordingly. 
ASYSTASIA 
(Nees), stem ramous, country, flowering during the rainy seasons. The 
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suborbicular; lineolato-rough above: racemes axil- istic form of the plant ; and for some time I suppos- 
lary, long, secund, straight, calyx lobes acuminate.— ed it a new species, but the species being variable 
Corolla about an inch long, funnel-shaped, yellow at I cannot find characters by which it can be kept 
the base. Capsule an inch long. distinct. The flowers i were nearly 
Slopes of the Neilgherries at a considerable eleva- white, specked with reddish-yellow spots: lilac is the 
tion, The species, however, is common allover the usual colour. 
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Calyx deeply 5-parted, lobes narrow, the upper one often longer. Corolla funnel-shaped, limb five- 
lobed, somewhat unequal, the two upper ones larger. Stamens 4, didynamous not projecting ; anthers at 
first cordate, afterwards oval; cells parallel, contiguous. Style filiform ; stigma awl-shaped, curved back- 
wards at the point; ovary 4-ovuled; ovules orbicular, borne on thick processes (retinacula). Capsule 
oblong, 2-celled from the base, 4-seeded, below the middle. Shrubby or herbaceous plants; flowers dis- 
posed in terminal trichotomous panicles, interspersed with small leaves; branches of the panicles opposite. 
Bracteoles wanting when the lobes of the calyx are very unequal, when nearly equal two, narrow, attached 
to the base of the calyx. Corolla handsome, blue or red. 
So far as known to Nees, this is a small genus consisting of three species. I haye however reason 
to suspect that it must be considerably enlarged, and can scarcely help thinking, that the accompanying 
species must yet be separated from the Ceylon plant, whose name I have given it. At the time the draw- 
comparison of the two plants will, I suspect, show other discrepancies, but in the mean time they must be 
admitted as very nearly allied species if not actually the same, Should they prove distinct, this may 
be called L. fruticosa, in allusion to its shrubby habit, sometimes attaining to the height of nearly 20 
As the plate will show, it is a very handsome shrub, abundant in the woods between Pycarrah and 
Nedawuttim, but like many others of the order, labours under the disadvantage, for ornamental purposes, 
of not flowering annually. I have not ascertained the length of the intervals but feel pretty certain that 
acter of the Ceylon L. Walkeri and may not quite correspond. The colour I have assigned is wrong, it 
ought to have been deep pink approaching to crimson. 
LePracaNnTHus Waker (Nees), panicle densely cuspidate, lacinez of the calyx narrow, very villous, 
Piate-viom: lobes of the perianth linear-fili- the upper segment longer, straight: coro] 9-10 lines 
orm, the upper one a little longer: cauline leaves oval long, cylindrical, ventricose, lobes of the limb sub- 
oblong, pubescent beneath ; floral ones, at least the repand, dark pink, or purplish coloured. : 
maries, ovate, acuminate, small.—Upper branches The specimens represented are from the Neil- 
iry, leaves with the petiol from 6 inches to a foo herries, where it flowered in great perfection during 
long 13 to 3 inches broad, acuminate or caudato- ebruary and March 1846. 
