444 xcviii. LA 131. vim:. 



|-| in. long, often with 2 spreading leaves at the base, on slender 

 (juadrangular pediuicles ; bracts beneath the approximated whorls 

 broadly obovate, shortly acuminate and with cuneate base, shorter than 

 the fruiting calyx. Calyx in flower J^ i^v iii fruit ^ in. long, pubescent 

 outside; upper lip oblong, entire, rounded at the apex ; lo\\er lip with 

 4 lanceolate teeth, shorter than the upper lip. Corolla g in. long, pale- 

 purple. Nutlets yLj in. long, oblong-ellipsoid, compressed, smooth, 

 brownish-black. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 611 ; Grab. Cat. p. 158 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 204 ; Hook. Icon. PI, t. 456 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. JVat. 

 V. 12 (1899) p. 360 ; Prain, Beng. PL p. 844.— Flowers : Oct. 



KoNKAN : Stocks]; Mira hills near Pen, Dahell ^- Gibson; Mahar (sparingly), 

 Dalzell tf Gibson; Polaclpur, Woodrow ; Vingorla, Woodrow. S. M. Countuy : Law es. 

 Graham; Belgaum, Eitvhic, 1794!; Londa, Cookel Kanaka.: TJiomson. — Distiub. 

 Throughout India ubieily in hillv districts ; Java, Borneo. 



4. GENIOSPORUM, Wall. 



Erect or procumbent glabrous or pubescent herbs. Flowers small, in 

 many-flowered whorls foniiiug long terminal spicate racemes ; bracts 

 often colored. Calyx ovoid in flower, tubular in fruit, suberect or 

 declinate ; upper tooth broadest, flat, obtuse, not decurrent ; lateral 

 pair of teeth free or connate with the upper ; lowest pair free or 

 connate. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube short ; upper lip 4-fid ; lower lip 

 declinate, entire. Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate ; filaments free, 

 inappendiculate. Di*k swollen, gibbous. Ovary 4-partite ; style 

 shortly 2-fid, the arms flattened. Fruit of 4 dry ovoid or oblong, 

 smooth or punctulate nutlets. — Distkib. Tropical Asia, Africa, Mada- 

 gascar; species 10 or 12. 



1. Geniosporum prostratuttx, Benlh. in PI. As. Ear. v. 2 (1831) 

 p. 18. Annual ; stems many from a woody rootstock, slender, either 

 diffuse, ascending, prostrate and rooting, or quite erect, glabrous or 

 more or less hispid with weak deflexed hairs. Leaves in distant pairs, 

 1-2 by 5-| in., subscssile, obovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute 

 or subacute, shallowly serrate or distantly toothed, with a iew hairs on 

 boih sides, base tapering. Flowers minute, in many-flowered close or 

 distant whorls, in slender racemes 2-6 in. long; bracts g in. long, 

 thick, broadly ovate, acuminate, pubescent, gland-dotted ; pedicels 

 usually longer than the calyx. Fruiting calyx ^ in. long, hairy outside 

 and with a riijg of hairs in the throat; upper lip variable in size, 

 oblong, subtruncate, mucronate ; lateral teeth triangular, acute ; the 

 2 lower teeth lanceolate, awned. Corolla pink or white, ^ in. long, 

 hairy ; tube j\ in. long; upper lip with 4 triangular teeth; lower hj) 

 obovate, obtuse, ratlier longer than the u])per. Stamens exserted. ■ 

 Nutlets -^Q in. long, ellipsoid, compressed, smootli, browniish-black. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 610 ; Grab. Cat. p. 148 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 368 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. IJomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 360; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 845. 



This is gi\cn on the authority of Grahiun (Cat. Eo. PI. 1. c), wlio mentions its 

 occurrence in tlie S. Kcjnkan on the autiiority of Nimino. I have seen no specimens 

 from the Bombay Presidency ; there are none from that Presidency in Herb. Kew. 

 Dalzell does not include it in bis Bc^mbay Flora, and Woodrow in his list of Boir.bay 

 plants merely cites Nimmo. It occurs in S. India and is common in Ceylon. — 

 DisTRiR. India (W. Peninsula^ ; Ceylon. 



