■ Glossocarya.\ VevbeuacecB. 361 



■cal. puberulous, segm. very short, broadly triangular, ciliolate; 

 cor.-tube short, \-% in., somewhat inflated, oblique at mouth, 

 upper and lat. lobes \ in., broadly oval, flat, spreading, lowest 



■ one (lip) I in., oblong, very concave, deflexed ; fil. much 

 curved, hairy at base; fruit depressed, somewhat succulent, 

 normally 4-lobed, with a pyrene in each lobe (1-3 often 

 suppressed). 



Moist low country up to 2000 ft.; common. Fl. June-September; 

 cor. with posterior and lateral lobes pale blue, anterior one dark bluish- 

 purplish. 



Also in India, Burma, and Malaya. 



A handsome plant. The flowers are usually reversed by reflexion of 

 the ped., so that the large hooded anterior cor.-lobe stands up at the 

 back of the flower. The leaves have a faint scent, and are used in 

 medicine. 



4. C. infortunatum,* L. Sp. PI. 637 (1753). Gas-pinna, S. 



Herm. Mus. 25, 45. Burm. Thes. 66. Fl. Zeyl. n. 232. Moon Cat. 

 46. Thvv. Enum. 243. C. P. 2894. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 594. Burm. Thes. t. 29. Wight, Ic. t. 147 1. 



A shrub or small slender tree, 4-10 ft., branchlets very 

 bluntly quadrangular, yellowish silky-pubescent; 1. large, 

 4-6 in., ovate, cordate or rounded at base, acuminate, acute or 

 subacute, entire, thinly hairy on both sides, especially on the 

 veins beneath, somewhat 3-nerved from the base, venation 

 prominent beneath, petiole i|-3 in., cylindrical, pubescent; fl. 

 large, on rather long pubescent ped., cymes stalked, in large, 

 lax, pyramidal, pubescent panicles, bracts leafy, deciduous; 

 cal, \ in., silky-pubescent, very much enlarged in fi'uit, segm. 

 •deep, lanceolate, very acute; cor.-tube about i in., slender, 

 lobes large, \ in., oblong, obtuse; drupe \ in., nearly globose, 

 succulent, purplish-black, shining, seated in centre of the very 

 much enlarged, spreading, succulent, bright pink cal. \\ in. 

 diam., pyrene usually solitary, brittle. 



Moist region up to 5000 ft. ; common. Fl. April-August ; white. 

 Also in India and Malaya. 



Leaves have a smoky odour when bruised; they are used as an 

 anthelmintic. 



C. Siphofiant/nes, Br., a native of India, is frequently found as a weed 

 by roadsides, &c. It is a tall showy .plant figured in Wight, 111. t. 173. 



II. GI.OSSOCARVA, Wall. {Griff.). 

 Semi-scandent shrub, 1. opp., entire ; fl. small, numerous, 



* This name is due to Hermann (1. c), who so translates the Sinhalese 

 ' Pinnakola ;' he has also (1. c. 54) a ^ plcmta forlunata' (= 'Pinna,' S.), 

 which is probably the same species. I do not know the origin of these 

 terms. 



