76 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
Verbascum having 5, Celsia, 4 stamens. V. virgatum often attains a great height. I have measured plants 
upwards of 8 feet high, and believe that taller ones may sometimes be met with. It is interesting in con- 
nection with the climate, as showing how much that of the autumnal months of the Hills assimilates 
with that of summer in Europe. , 
Versascum vircatum (Withering), stem sub-  Neilgherries, frequent, flowering during the rainy 
viscoso-hispidulous or glabrous at the base: leaves season. 
oblong, glabrous, or glanduloso-hispid beneath; the This plant not unfrequently attains the height of 
inferior ones peti i innati om 6 to 7 feet, though from 3 to 4 is the more 
the superior ones sessile or cordato-amplexicaul, or common size. Flowers yellow, nearly sessile, the 
shortly decurrent: racemes glanduloso-hispid ; pedi- short bent filaments densely clothed with purplish- 
cels 2 or 3 together, rarely solitary, shorter or about coloured, woolly hairs. 
the length of the calyx: filaments clothed with vio- 
let-coloured woolly hairs (violaceo-lanatis), 
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LIMNOPHILA. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft, or parted, equal or with the posterior lobe larger. Upper lip of the corolla emar- 
ginate or 2-lobed, the lower one 3-lobed; throat not plicate, stamens 4, incluse, cells of the anthers sepa- 
rate, oblong, often stipulate. Style deflexed at the apex, dilated, entire, or shortly bilamellate, often two- 
winged at the flexure. Capsule ovate, globose or compressed, the valves splitting along the back (loculi- 
cide bivalvis) the valves afterwards 2-parted; the slightly inflexed margins separating from the broad 
placentiferous partition. Tropical, herbaceous, marshy or aquatic plants, often punctuate with pellucid 
glands, leaves opposite or 3-4-verticelled, the lower submerged ones in aquatic species capellacio-multifid. 
Flowers oblong, axillary, or the upper ones disposed in a leafy raceme, the calyx often bibracteolate. 
Of this genus Mr. Bentham has described 22 species, 20 of which are natives of India; the other two 
are from Java. This therefore is almost a purely Indian genus but is not confined to India, several species 
being found in other countries, the Eastern Islands, Java, Australia, &c., a common occurrence in the 
represented grew in some swampy ground in Kotergherry, attaining the height of between 3 and 4 feet, 
flowering in August and September. It is a pretty plant when in full flower but loses its beauty as 
the seed advance towards maturity, 
Limnoramas HYPERICIFoLIa (Bentham), branched, 1-2 feet high. Leaves about an inch long, 
rooting at the base, a : leaves sessile, ovate, ctuate. Corolla 7-9 lines long. Style winged 
oblong, obtuse, cordately semiamplexicaul at the at the bract with 2 acutish falcate auricles. Cap- 
base; th aa ones smaller: racemes terminal or sule short, valvate, bifid. nd 
axillary: flo ers se remote: calyx Kotergherry, Neilgherries, in swampy ground, 
deeply 5-cleft, divisions lanceolate, the posterior one flowesing = hank . 
larger.—Herbaceous, repent at the base, scarcely 
PEDICULARIS. 
obtuse, entire, or furnished with a tooth on each side, or prolonged into a truncated or bidentate beak: 
lower lip often two-erested, 3-lobed, lo ing or deflexed, the middle one smaller, exterior in estiva- 
, apex, spliting along the back from the apex, to near the base, and for 
_ Space in front, the valves bearing the partition. Seed in the lower part of the capsule attached 
or arely simply dentate, decreasing in size from the radical to the floral ones. Flowers spicate, bracteo- 
ite; floral bract-like leaves like the cauline ones. 
