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SPERM ACOCE. f.b.i. 75 lxxxvii. 



Herbs with square branches, stipules connate into a 

 broad tube with marginal bristles, and small flowers in 

 axillary or terminal fascicles : and characterised further 

 by the corolla lobes valvate in bud, and the fruit divid- 

 ing into two l-seeded parts. 



Species about 150 tropical and subtropical. 



Spcrmacocc ocymoides Burnt. ; F.B.I. iii 200, 

 LXXXVII 3. Very variable. Branches numerous weak 

 or prostrate, forming in dry places a dense tuft. Leaves 

 close or distant according to situation, %-i^/2 inches by 

 ^-}/2 inch, more or less acute at both ends sub-sessile or 

 petioled. Corolla white small, hairy at the throat, four 

 lobed. Fruit surmounted by the four spreading sepals, 

 and splitting into two parts in which open along the 

 inner faces. Seeds narrow ellipsoid, t. 370. 



Pulneys : slopes of the Shembaganur valley, etc., 5,000 to 

 6,000 feet. In grass. 



Kukal, 7,000 feet. Nilgiris : Coonoor. ^^<?« 4170, 4308, 

 5662. Bourne 2601. 



GALIUM. 



Galium rotundifolium L. ; Vol. I p. 201. Flowers 

 yellow, t. 371. 

 Galium asperifolium Wall. ; Vol. I p. 201. t. 372. 



VALERIANACE/E. 



VALERIANA. 



See Vol. I p. 372. 



Valeriana hookcriana W. & A.; Vol. I p. 203. t. 373. 



Valeriana beddomei C. B. Clarke) Vol. I p. 203. On 

 the higher downs of the Pulneys glabrous and hairy 

 forms occur side by side. 

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