T,w. i:n'.iA(T..'n. 593 



Capsiilo'_M,.ba1, 2-ivllfa. 



Oilyx-teetli nearer the pedicel tluiii IliP top of tlic 



capsule, ti])peil witli a, (iae brittle 0. A. Montholoni. 



Ciilyx-leetlj not bristlo-tippetl. 



Leaves exceed ing j in. long 7. A. fatida. 



Leaves not exceeding \ in. long 8. A. Ritchici. 



1. Anotis Leschenaultiana, Benlh. 6,- lloolc f. Gen. PI, v. 2 

 (1H73) ]). 59, & Jlook. f. Fl. li. I. V. 3 (ISbU) p. 12. A stout plant 

 1-2 it. liigli with a pei'eiiiiial root; stems strafjgliiig, more or less hairy 

 especially near the extremities and beneath the nodes, sometimes 

 glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 1-2| by g-1^ in., sessile or petioled, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, usually densely villous 

 on both sides, base obtuse or acute, sometimes cordate ; lateral nerves 

 numerous, prominent beneath; petioles 0-^ in. long; stipules bristly. 

 IMowers in corymbose usually hah-y dense peduncled terminal cymes ; 

 pedicels slender, short, hairy. Calyx in tlower ^^^ in. long ; teeth 

 equalling the tube, narrowly triangular, acute. Corolla red-purple ; 

 tube j-',;-^ in. long ; lobes -^-^ in. long, oblong, obtuse. Anthers blue. 

 Capsules subglobose, didymous, with the calyx-teeth near the top. 

 Seeds 1-2, plano-convex, -r,ij— j^ in. long, deeply pitted. The plant 

 varies much in hairiness. Jledijotis Leschcnaultiana, Wight & Arn. 

 Prodr. p. 411 ; Wight, 111. t. 125 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 115. 



S. M. Country : Belgaum, Dalzell cf- Gibson. 



I have seen no authentic specimens from the Eombay Presidency. Dalzell & Gibson 

 (15o. Fl. I. c.) give Eelgaum as the locality in which the plant occurs, and there are in 

 Herb. Kevv. specimens of one of the varieties of the plant from Stocks' Herbarium and 

 also one from Dalzell's Herbarium, but none of these have localities assigned to them. 

 AVoodrow does not include the phiut in his list. 



2. Anotis lancifolia, IIoolc f. in FL B. I. v. 3 (18S0) p. 73. 

 Herbaceous, erect, diffusely branched, 2-3 ft. high ; stems and branches 

 glabrous. Leaves membranous, 1-3 by g-1 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, bright-green and pubescent above, paler and hairy on the 

 nerves beneath, base acute or obtuse: petioles 5-g in. long ; stipules 

 pubescent, shortly bristly. Flow-ers purple, in terminal and subtermiual 

 many-flowered corymbose (usually glabrous) cymes which are sometimes 

 4-G in. in diam. ; peduncles 4-gonous, pubescent or glabrous. Calyx yL in. 

 long, hairy ; teeth Jg. in. long, triangidar, acuminate. Corolla | in. 

 long ; lobes triangular-oblong, acute, jL- in. long, hairy outside. Capsules 

 compressed, fV""4 ^^- broad, much broader than long, dehiscing across the 

 top, 2-lobed at the apex, crowned by the large distant recurved calyx- 

 teeth. Seeds 4-6, broadly ellipsoid or suborbictilar, convex on the back, 

 deeply excavated on the face, pitted, black. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 .Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 045. Hedyotis lancifoUa, Dalz. in Kew. Journ. Bot. 

 V. 2 (1850) p. 135 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 116.— Flowers : Sept.-Oct. 



Konkan: S/oc/ii<l,Dahefll Deccan: Mahableshwar, Cooke I, IVnodrowl; Purandhar, 

 Woodrow; Phnnda Ghat, Dal-ell clj- Gibson. S. M. Cocntrv : Belgaum south, liifchie, 

 1777 I ; Castlerock, Conke I ; Belgaum, Ritchie, 35G ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



3. Anotis Rheedei, Benth. ^- Hoolc f. Gen. PL v. 2 (1873) p. 59, 

 & Bool: f. FL B. I. v. 3 (1880) p. 73. Annual, slender; stem erect, 

 glabrous, 4-gonous, almost 4-\vinged. Leaves 14-3 by |-1 in., mem- 

 branous, ovate, acute or acuminate, with a few scattered hairs on both 

 surfaces, tapering at the base into the petiole; petioles slender, g-| in 



