332 Ac a nthacecv. {LepidagatMs. 



bractlets much imbricated, about i in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, ciliate, scarious, 3-nerved with transverse veinlets; sep. 

 slightly ciliate, as long as bractlets, and outer ones quite 

 similar to them, inner ones linear, shorter; cor. \ in., cor.- 

 tube narrowed at mouth, lobes rounded; capsule j- in., sharpl}- 

 pointcd. 



Moist region to 4000 ft.; rather common. Fl. March, July, Novem- 

 ber; mauve-pink. 



Endemic. 



The heads with their large imbricated bracts are like small hops. 

 Dries blackish. 



3. Xi. Walkeriana, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 260 (1847). 

 Thvv. Enum. 231. C. P. 85. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 522. Wight, Ic. t. 1530. 



Stems 2-3 ft., branched, quadrangular, glabrous; 1. 2^-5 

 in., oval or rhomboid-oval, much tapering at base and 

 decurrent on petiole, slightly acuminate, acute, coarsely 

 crenate-serrate, glabrous above, paler and slightly hairy on 

 veins beneath, petiole obscure; fl. as in L. zeylanica, but heads 

 rather smaller, bracts and bractlets under \ in., glandular- 

 pubescent; sep. more than twice as long as bractlets, 

 lanceolate-oblong, glandular-pubescent, inner ones much 

 narrower; cor. f in., lobes spreading; capsule as in the last. 



Moist region to 4000 ft.; common. Fl. Jan.; nearly white, with 

 mauve blotches. 

 Endemic (.''). 



4. Xi. fasclculata, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 95 (1832). 

 Rucllia fasciculata, Retz. Obs. iv. 28. Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 260. 

 Thw. Enum. 231. C. P. 1983. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 522. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 228 (not good). 



Stems numerous, about i ft., spreading, much-branched, 

 slender, quadrangular, hairy; 1. small, \~2\ in., ovate-oval, 

 rather suddcnl)' contracted into tapering base, decurrent on 

 petiole, subacute, irregularly dentate, hairy on both sides; fl. 

 in small rounded heads terminating slender divaricate 

 branches of leafy paniculate infl., bracts about j in., oblong- 

 oval, membranous, 3-veined, pubescent, glandular-ciliatd, 

 bractlets rather shorter, linear; sep. a little longer than 

 bractlets, hairy and glandular-ciliate, inner ones narrower; 

 cor. i^ in., pubescent outside; capsule \ in., pointed. 



Dry region ; very common. First collected by Koenigat the hot wells 

 near Trincomalie. Fl. April, August. 



Throughout India. 



The Fl. B. Ind. says that this 'always ' occurs mixed with Hcmigraphis 

 latebrosa., Nees ; but the latter is not found in Ceylon. 



