404 XCVI, ACAXXllACE.T'. 



KoxKAN : Stocks], Dahdl \ ; S. TConkan, Graham, Ui^chie, 585 ! ; Matheran, Cooke ! 

 Dkccan: Kbandala, Woodrowl; Mali ablesh war, Cooke \ S. M. Country: Belgaum, 

 Eitchie, 591 ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



3, Dicliptera Leonotis, Dcdz. MS. in Ilerh. Kew., ex C. B. Clarice, 

 in IJooJc. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1885) p. 553. Glabrous or nearly so; stem 

 6-aiigular, erect, 2-3 ft. high with elongate opposite branches. Leaves 

 2-3 by |-1 in., elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous or pubescent, attenuated at 

 the base ; petioles ^-| in. long. Flowers in clusters of small subsessile 

 somewhat umbel-like cymes in the opposite axils and at the ends of the 

 branches ; bracts in unequal pairs, the longer j by g in., lanceolate, 

 acuminate cuspidate, pubescent, 3-nerved, the 2 lateral nerves close to 

 the margin, without scarious margins in the lower piirt; bracteoles 

 ^ by -g^r in., linear-lanceolate, very acute. Calyx ^-^ in. long, divided 

 to within ^ in. of the base ; segments linear-lanceolate, very acute. 

 Corolla ^ in. long, pubescent outside ; upper lip shorter than the lower, 

 entire ; lower li]) | in. long, oblong, subtruncate, very shortly 3-lobed, 

 the lobes scarcely 4-q in. deep. Capsules | by -i- ^ in., ohovoid, mucro- 

 uate, much compressed, shortly stalked, with scarious faces, hairy all 

 over, 4-seeded. Seeds ^ by ^V i^^-' obovoid-oblong, rounded at the 

 apex, with small not glochidiate tubercles. Diiliptera Bunnaniti, Dalz. 

 & Gibs. p. 196 (not of Nees). B. Boxburfjhiana, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 196 ? 

 {not of Nees). 



Rare. Xonkan ; S. Konkan, iVa?>wc. Deccan : Anjaniri hill above Trimbak near 

 Nasik, I)alzell\—'Diii-tn\Ti. Tropical Africa. 



4. Dicliptera cuneata, ]!\ees, in WalJ. PL As. Bar. v. 3 (1832) 

 p. 111. kStems branched, glabrous, terete or obscurely tetragonal. 

 Leaves 11-3 by l-lg in., ovate or elliptic, acuminate, lineolate, glabrous, 

 base acute or rounded; petioles g-lg in. long. luflorescence, in lax 

 terminal panicles, the branches of the panicle |-lg in. long, 1 or often 2 

 from an axil, each bearing an umbel-like cyme of 3-8 heads, the 

 branches of the cyme pedicel-like, 0-1 in. long; bracts below the cyme 

 1 ill. long, lanceolate, acute ; bracts of the flower-heads ^-^ by -^-^-^ in., 

 obovate-oblong, somewhat cuneate at the base, mucronate, hairy, cilia^c;, 

 each pair of bracts enclosing 1 or more sessile flowers ; bracteoles 

 ^-g in. long, linear, very acute, pubescent. Calyx |— ^ in. long, divided 

 to about -Jy in. from the base ; segments linear- subulate. Corolla 

 ratlier more than ^ in. long, pubescent outside ; upper lip -^ in. long, 

 obovate-oblong, entire ; lower lip slightly longer than the upper, oblong, 

 shortly 3-lobed, the lobes subacute. Filaments glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy. Ovary glandular-pubescent. Capsules -^-^ by y^-} in., with a 

 stalk about -^ in. long, compressed, obovoid, obtusely rounded or sub- 

 truncate and bluntly pointed at the apex, densely pubescent at the lip 

 with short glandular hairs, less densely so on the sides and scarious 

 faces, 4-seeded. Seeds somewhat obovoid, jV by j^ in., compressed, 

 lubereular, the tubercles not glochidiate. Fl. E. I. v. 4, p. 552 ; Wight, 

 Icon.!. 1552; AVoodr. in Joiirn. l?omb. ^at. v. 12 (1899) p. 358.— 

 Flowers : Dec. -Jan. 



Rare. Dj'XCan : Mawal, Woudrow; Jai-onda bill, Woodrow. S. M. CouNTRy; 

 Yelliir hill near Bclgauni, RUehic, 6'J4 I — Distkib. India (W. Peninsula). 



