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%vhite glistening hairs y'j in. long at the tip. Capsule 3 in. in diam., 

 subglobose, opening by 2 valves. Seeds very small, ellipsoid, compressed, 

 yellowish-brown, extremely acrid (Dalzell «j- Gibson). A yellow viscid 

 secretion is often found on the peduncles in thick drops. Odor very 

 disagreeable. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 427; Grab. Cat. p. 102 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 133 ; Wight, 111. t. 135 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 57 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 162; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, 

 p. 8(3. — Elowers : Nov.-Mar. A^ern. Dliaval ; Boknal. 



Common on the Western Gbats. Konkan : Stocks], Lambert \; Mathemn, Baikra 

 road to Gliarbat Point, Cookel Dkccan : Khandala, Woodrowl; hills about Parr, 

 abundant, Graham. S. M. Country : Castlerock, Kanitkar \ — Distiub. India (W. 

 Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



2. CEPHALOSTIGMA, A. DC. 



Annual slender erect herbs, often hairy. Leaves alternate, subsessile. 

 Flowers very small, laxly racemose or paniculate ; pedicels filiform. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb 5-partite. Corolla 5-partite 

 almost to the base, blue or white ; lobes narrow. Stamens free from 

 the corolla; filaments dilated at the very base; anthers free. Ovary 

 inferior, 2-3-celled; placentas many-ovuled ; style shortly conical at 

 the base ; stigma 2-3-tid with short lobes. Capsule conical at the top, 

 2-3-valved within the persistent calyx-lobes. Seeds very many, small. 

 — DisxKiB. India, Tropical Africa, Brazil ; species 9. 



Stem erect, reaching 16 in. long; leaves oblong; seeds much 



longer than broad 1. C. Schunperi, 



Stem flexuose, less than 10 in. long, more or less zigzag ; leaves 



broadly ovate ; seeds scarcely longer than broad 2. C. flexitosiim. 



1. Cephalostigma Schimperi, Ilochst. ex A. Euh. Tent. Fhr. 

 Myss. V. 2 (1851) p. 2. A slender annual 3-16 in. high ; stem erect, 

 rarely branched near the base and, as well as the branches, angular, hispid 

 with spreading hairs. Leaves -^-1 by |-| in., subsessile, oblong, acute, 

 narrowed at both ends and with uuduJate crisped subdentate margins, 

 sparsely clothed with rigid hairs above and on the nerves beneath. 

 Flowers in very lax cyuies terminating most of the branches ; pedicels 

 filiform, \-^ in. long, pubescent. Calyx -J— 4- in. long ; tube turbinate 

 or subhemispheric, hispidly hairy ; lobes about equalling the tube, erect, 

 triangular, acute, with thickened and prominent margins, glabrous. 

 Corolla divided nearly to the base, blue ; segments lanceolate, acute, 

 ^ in. long. Capsule hispid. Seeds much longer than broad, ellipsoid, 

 about -^ in. long, pale-brown, smooth. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 428 ; AVoodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 162. Cephalostigma hirsutum, 

 Hook. f. & Thorns, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 2 (1858) p. 9, partly (not of 

 Edgew.) ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 133. — Flowers : Oct.-Dec. 



Konkan: Stocks], Dahell] Deccan: Panchgani, Woodrow] S. M. Country: 

 Belgaum (shady places), Ritchie, 1101!; Dharwar, Woodruw, — Distkib. India (W. 

 Peninsula, Khasia); Ceylon. 



2. Cephalostigma flexuosum, Hool-.f. 4' Thorns, hi Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. v. 2 (1858) p. 9. Annual, 5-9 in, high, dichotomously branched ; 

 stem and branches slender, more or less zigzag, angular, hispid with 

 white hairs. Leaves thin, subsessile, f-1 by h-^ in., ovate-elliptic, 

 subacute, glabrous or nearly so above, hispid with white hairs ou the 



