80. CA3IPANULAGE.E. [2. Ckphalostigma. 



4. L. trialata, Ham. 



A g-labroiTs siiberect or erect branched herb usually -4-8" but 

 attaining- 16" in height with short-petioled rhomboidly ovate leaves 

 •2o-l-3" long, the upper narrowly rhomboid and passing into bracts, 

 not approximated as in triijona, crenate or denticiilate. Peduncles 

 •25--5" shorter or up to twice as long as the subtending leaf or bract. 

 Hypanthium obconic tapering acutely into the peduncle, •15.--2" long 

 in fruit, glabrous, not ribbed (or not nearly as distinctly as in 

 trigona). Sepals linear. Seeds ellipsoid compressed, not angled. 



In similar places and often in association with trigona, with which it is some- 

 times confused though quite distinct. Common in Chota Naspur in the h ins . 

 Singbhum ! Rmichi, Gamble \ Parasnath (Hazaiibagh) ! Sarguja, C/a/-A-e ! ll.,ir. 

 Sept.-Dec. 



5. L. zeylanica, L., var. aligera, Haines''' {sp. v. Joiirn. As. Soc. Beng., 



XV, 7, p. 316). 



A herb with many branches spreading from the root 9-18" long 

 prominently 3-alate,'glabrous. L. -I-VS" long- elliptic-oblong obtuse 

 or subacute with broadly sessile base, sometimes with a few short 

 hairs on the nerves beneath, margin rather thickened and crisped- 

 serrate. Peduncles solitary axillary exceeding the leaves. Hypan- 

 thium •22--2o" tiirbinate narroAved into the peduncle and with sparse 

 reflexed hairs on the ribs ; sepals narrowly lanceolate exceeding the 

 tube and hypanthium. Corolla -22" long and broad, posterior petals 

 colourless with a yellow linear appendage, lobes of lip sub-equal 

 rhomboid-lanceolate crisped -1" long. Dorsal anthers ciliolate on the 

 edges, 2 anterior barbed at the apex. Capsule •2--23" by -1", beaked. 

 Seeds minute brown broadly-ellipsoid scarcely compressed. 



Pats of Chota Nagpur near streams. Neterhat 3000 ft. ! Fl., Fr. April- June. 



6. L. radicans, Thunb. 



A procumbent glabrous herb, stems not angled. Leaves linear or 

 linear- or oblong-lanceolate o-l" narrowed at the base, sessile 

 bifarious, sub-entire or remotely toothed. Peduncles axillary equal- 

 ling or longer than the leaves. Corolla S-o" with glabrous or 

 obscurely pubescent tube, green with pink marks and a green gland 

 on each side the central lobe at its base. Tw^o lower filaments hairy. 

 €apsule -25" with acute base. Seeds ellipsoid slightly compressed. 



Naturalised near the Ranchi lake, Prain ! Carter ! Fl. Sept.-Oct. 



2. CEPHALOSTIGMA,^. Z)C. 



Small, erect branched herbs, sparsely patently hairy. L. alternate 

 subsessile, margin thickened entire, waved or crisped. Flowers small, 

 racemed or panicled on filiform pedicels. Calyx o-partite. Corolla 

 stellately spreading deeply 5-fid Avith narrow petals, blue or whitish. 

 Ovary sub-globose 2-3 -celled. Style terete with shortly obtusely 



* This was described as a new species mainly on account of the anthers. 

 L. zeylanica, L., is placed in The Flora of British India and other works in the 

 section of Lobelia with anthers all nearly equally barbate at the apex. Its close 

 affinity to L. trialata was, however, recognised. In DC. Prodroinas L. zeylanica is 

 included under L. affinis, and it is stated that Linnceun mixed up different species 

 under this name. 



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