90 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
flowers are too small to attract the notice of cursory observers, but when looked into with the aid of a mag- 
nifier are not deficient in beauty, being finely speckled with red spots, on a white ground. The calyx, too, 
is spangled with bright resinous glands, The specimen represented is, for the convenience of space, 
taken from a small plant, or may be merely a side branch. The figure in the upper corner is the tip 
of a branch further advanced to give some, though an imperfect, idea of what the plant becomes when 
every branch has become similarly developed. 
{ have not heard of this plant being applied to any useful purpose, but, as it possesses the usual 
properties of the family, I imagine some use might be found for it. The scent it exhales is so strong that 
I have heard it represented as quite overpowering. I was not myself sensible of this effect which therefore 
must be attributable rather to individual sensitiveness to strong smells than to any peculiarity of the scent. 
Prectrantaus Wientn (Benth.), herbaceous, 
erect, ramous: leaves petioled, broadly ovate or 
rounded, acuminate, cordate at the base, smoot 
i escent; the inferior floral ones 
; i nd bra mem- 
anaceous, rotundato-spathulate, shorter than the 
peduncles and pedicels: panicles 
owered: fructife 
es from one to two inches long or, on 
young, luxuriant plants, larger, usually longish, acu- 
minate ; serratures obtuse or acute: panicles large, 
loose: flowers white, speckled with red points, tube 
ascending, 4-lobed, each lobe marked with two red 
pots at the base, the inferior narrower, longer, con- 
cave. Stamens free, exserted. 
Neilgherries and Pulney Mountains, frequent, flower- 
ing during the autumnal months. The small size of 
the flowers prevents this from becoming the garden 
favourite which it deserves to be. e specimen 
selected by the draughtsman is rather too young to 
i i specific characters. It 
nguished by Mr. Bentham from P. serophula- 
on the one side, and P. striatus, on the other, 
extensive series of specimens before me, 
from different stations, and authentic specimens of all 
is disti 
rioides, 
the three species to compare, I find 1 cannot unrav 
of the corolla about as wide as long, the upper lip m. 
ANISOCHILUS. 
Fructiferous calyx ovate, suberect, the base or middle inflated, contracted above ; limb either bilabiate, 
the upper lip incumbent on the truncated lower one, closing the calyx, or obliquely 5-toothed, the upper one 
longer, incurved or incumbent. Tube of the corolla slender, abruptly bent beyond the calyx, throat dilated, 
upper lip short, obtuse, 3-4-cleft, the lower one elongated, concave. Stamens 4, filaments free, edentulate, 
style subulate at the apex, equally bifid. Hypogynous disk lobed, the posterior lobe often higher than the 
ovaries. Herbs or (undershrubs ?) verticillasters, densely imbricated, forming ovate, oblong, or cylindrical 
spikes. Floral leaves bract-like, caducous, shorter than the flowers, or rarely the upper ones longer, form- 
ing a terminal tuft. 
Essentian Caarscrer.—Lower lobe of the corolla elongated, concave, upper lip of the fructiferous 
calyx incumbent on the lower, or the inflexed teeth closing the mouth. 
Of this genus Mr. Bentham describes eight species, six of which are natives of the Indian Peninsula. 
The following species are not among them. This addition raises the number to ten, but certainly does not 
take all in, there being still one or two undescribed species in my collection. As in most of the other 
genera of this order, their discrimination is very difficult, partly owing to the striking family likeness which 
runs through the whole, and partly to their liability to'run into variations according to the kind of soil in 
which they happen to grow. The grand distinguishing feature of the genus, is the dense inflorescence 
and the peculiar way in which the mouth of the fructiferous calyx is closed with the detlexed upper lip. 
Where these occur, there can scarcely be any hesitation in regard to the genus. The species, as already 
said, are not always so easily made out, 
Anisocnitus purPurREUM (R. W.), stem procum- 
pilose, about the length of the cal 
corolla 
erect, under entire, deflexed: stam 
der lip of the fractiferous calyx minute, upper larger, 
deflexed, 3-toothed. 
eilgherries, on the eastern slopes, about Coonoor, 
on large stones covered with vegetable earth, flower- 
ing February and March. 
The specimen selected by the draughtsman is defec- 
tive, as not showing the general habit of the species, 
ich is usually, but not always, procumbent, with 
