220 LXXXTIT. EOEAGINACEtE, 



long at flowering time ; lobes ^ in. long in flower, enlarged to more than 

 I in. in fruit, ovate-oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla pale-blue with 

 darker centre ; tube ^ in. loug; lobes 4-^ in. long, suborbicular ; scales 

 fleshy, shortly bifid, puberulous. Anthers not exserted. Style stout, 

 jig- in. long, conical ; stigma capitate. Nutlets usually 2 (2 others 

 suppressed in numerous growing specimens examined at Mahableshwar), 

 reaching | by j% in. (including the margin, which is sometimes -^ in. 

 broad), broadly ovate, flatteued, not glocliidiate on the margins or faces, 

 the margin entire, flat, extending in the same plane as the face or very 

 slightly curved upwards. AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. jN'at. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 170. — Flowers : Oct.-Nov. 



Deccan : abundant at Mahableshwar on the cliff opposite the Dhobi's walerfall 

 below the bungalow known as General Barr's, Cookel; Fitzgerald Ghat, below 

 Mahableshwar, H. 31. Birdwood.—DisTRiB. India (W. Peninsula), apparently 

 endemic. 



Paracaryum aspernm. Stocks, in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) p. 175. 

 Erect, 1-2 ft. high ; stems leafy. Leaves lanceolate, acute ; the radical 

 (including the petiole) 3-6 by §-| in. ; the cauline linear, sessile. 

 Flowers distant, in elongate panicles ; pedicels erect. Calyx ^-i in. 

 long. Corolla of a fine violet-blue, g in. long. 



This plant is given by Stocks as occurring in Upper Eeluchistan. Wood row, in 

 Journ. Eomb. Kit. v. 12 (1898) p. 170, niention-s tliat it has been found by Sir Evan 

 James on the Kirthar mountains which divide Sind from Beluchistau, but the precise 

 locality has not been mentioned, so that it is not known wliether the plant exists in 

 Sind or not. I have not seen any specimens from Sind, those in Herb. Kew. collected 

 by Stocks and Lace being from Beluchistan. 



9. SERICOSTOMA, Stocks. 



Much-branched often cano-tomentose undershrubs. Leaves small, 

 alternate. Flowers small, axillary, sessile, solitary, or the upper 

 arranged in a bracteate raceme. Calyx 5-fid or sub-5-partite ; lobes 

 narrow, enclosing the nutlets in fruit. Corolla-tube short, the throat 

 without scales, but nearly or entirely closed by hairs ; lobes 5, imbricate, 

 obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube, subincluded ; 

 filaments short ; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary distinctly 4-lobed ; 

 ovules erect ; style short ; stigma dilated or annulate, often with a 

 prominent central apiculus. Nutlets 4 (2 sometimes suppressed), ovoid 

 or shortly acuminate, erect, substipitate ; scar basal ; receptacle flat. 

 Seeds straight ; cotyledons ovate, flat. — Distric. W. Asia from India 

 to Arabia ; species 3. 



1. Sericostoma pauciflorum, Stods, in Wirjht Icon. (1850) 1. 1377. 

 A small straggling undershrub (3-18 in. high; stems woody at the base, 

 decumbent, and, as well as the herbaceous branches, clothed with short 

 a]ipressed hairs. Leaves variable in size (larger when growing near the 

 sea than inland), \-^\ by iVt '°-' sessile, Hnear-lanceolate, subobtuse, 

 clothed with stifl' aj)pressed hairs usually from bulbous bases. Flowers 

 in short 2-5-flowcred subscor])ioid leaf-opposed racemes with a terminal 

 bract, the flowers shortly pedicellate, one of them remote. Calyx at 

 flowering time }.; in. long, clothed \\\\\\ a]->i)resscd hairs ; lobes y\, in. 

 long, the 2 outer larger than the other 3, lanceolate, acute, enlarged to 



