11. Dysophtlla.] 106. LABIATE. 



Purneah, X^Mrz ! Gy?i, Cal. Rerh.\ Manbhum ! Fl., Fr. Nov.-Dec. 

 The peculiarity of very small slender plants flowering in company with very 

 large stout ones is quite characteristic of this and of the next species. 



6. D. crassicaulis, Benth. 



Habit of the last with lower decumbent parts of stems sometimes 

 as thick as the fingers. Leaves linear-lanceolate or nearly linear, 

 mostly 4-5 in a whorl. Distinguished by the larger spikes 1-4-5'' 

 long and •3-'4" diam. FloAvers larger, calyx OQ-'l" in fruit, campanu- 

 late, shortly hairy with the teeth erect or conniving so that the fruit- 

 ing spikes have a very different appearance. Nutlets very small, 

 orbicular, compressed pale grey or black. 



In rice-fields and swamps. Purneah ! Fl., Fr. Nov. -Jan. 



Our specimens have serrate leaves with rounded (sometimes acute, F.B.I.) sessile 

 base. Bracts exceeding the buds, linear. Calyx purple. 



7. D. pentagona, Clarke. 



A small plant 4-8" high or attaining 18", grooving gregariously in wet 

 places with nearly glabrous stems and leaves, the latter linear 4 in a 

 whorl 'S-l'S" long, and with minute pink flowers in terminal slender 

 pubescent spikes -75-3" long. Calyx in fruit sub-globose, densely 

 pubescent, only "06" long, deeply 5-grooved, with obtuse ridges 

 between the grooves and mouth closed by the minute obtuse teeth. 



Singbhum, elev. 1000 ft. ! Rare, but also collected by Clarke at Bandgaon, which 

 is in Singbhum close to the Ranchi boundary, elev. 2000 ft. ! Fl., Fr. Oct.-Nov. 

 Annual. 



Leaves sessile, obtuse, glabrous, margins somewhat revolute, base obtuse or 

 acute, beneath gland-dotted. Corolla segments Avhite, flat, obtuse. Stamens pink. 

 Fruiting calyx glandular in the furrows, teeth closing over the small oblong bro%vn 

 seeds. {N.B.— Clarke says nutlet solitary, linear-oblong. This was probably 

 exceptional.) 



8. D. Griffithii, Hoolc. f. 



A copiously branched erect glabrous or nearly glabrous herb with 

 linear obtuse or subacuminate leaves -5-1" long, 4 in a whorl or 

 uppermost opposite and slender pubescent spikes •75-2" long, •15-"2" 

 broad. Calyx in fruit obconic only -06" long, broadly 5-grooved Avith 

 acute ridges between the grooves, glabrous except for the tip and 

 minute incurved densely shortly villous subacute teeth. 



Rocky ground. Angul, B. K. Chattarjee ! Sambalpur, Griffiths] Fl., Fr. Jan.- 

 Feb. Annual. 



Leaves sometimes tapering both ends, gland-punctate beneath, with one oblique 

 slender nerve from near the base either side of the midrib, but other nerves 

 obscure. Bracts linear, exceeding the flowers. Fruiting calyx sometimes brown, 

 shining below the villous tip. Nutlets 2-4, minute, dark brown, suborbicular. 



12. COLEBROOKIA, Smith. 



Shrub with opposite or 3-nate leaves and small white flowers in 

 dense Avhorls aggregated into panicled spikes. Calyx-tube very 

 short ; teeth long, subulate, in fruit elongating and plumose. Corolla 

 minute, limb sub-equally 4-fld. Stamens 4, very short, included, 

 equal, divergent, with small orbicular anthers with confluent cells. 

 Disc regular. Style 2-fid with subulate lobes. Nutlets hairy, 

 obovoid. 



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