APPENDIX II. 



FAM. 96. CONYOLYULACE^ (pp. 586, 587). 



5. ARGYREIA, Lour. 



Stems twining. Leaves more or less ovate ..... 8pp. 1-5. 

 Slirubby, branches sometimes twining. Leaves more or less obovate 6. cuneata. 



(i. A. cuneata, Ker. Syn. Lettsomia cuneata, Roxb. ; Convolvulus 



cuneatus, Willd. • 



Suberect and shrubby 2-5 ft. witli twining branches {fide C. B. 

 Clarke) or (according to Roxburgh) altogether scandent, but it is easily 

 distinguished from all the others by the leaves never being ovate 

 but lanceolate-obovate, obovate or obcuneate and often emarginate 

 or obtuse and mucronate. L. 1 • 5-3" or sometimes 4" long, villous 

 beneath. Peduncles numerous axillary mostly 3-fld., •25-1-5" long. 

 Corolla large deep bright purple, tubular funnel-shaped, hairy without. 

 Sepals -2", ovate, subobtuse. Corolla 2" diam. Filaments broad, 

 hairy at the base. Fruit ovoid or oblong nearly dry, the septa 

 evanescent so that it appears 1 -celled, yellow-brow-n, shining. Seeds 

 1-4. 

 Patua, Hum. ! Perhaps cultivated only, as it is native of the Deccan. Tl. l.'.s. 



FAM. 106. LABIATiE. 



Insert in Key after I. B. 2. b. i. (p. 727) :— 



Anther-cells very unequal or solitary on a long connective . 17. Salvia. 



Anther-cells equal distant , pendulous from a very long connective 1 7*. Meriundra. 



17*. MERIANDRA, Bentli. 



Hoary or woolly shrubs Avith opposite coriaceous crenulateandrugu- 

 lose leaves. Flowers small in many dense-fld. whorls in terminal or 

 panicled spikes. Calyx ovoid with concave upper lip and 2-fid lower 

 lip, throat naked. Corolla with short tube and equally 4-fid limb, 

 lobes flat, upper entire or 2-fid. Stamens short stout, 2 lower fertile 

 erect Avith anther-cells separated by the long connective, stipitate, 

 pendulous ; upper stamens imperfect. Nutlets obovoid, smooth, brown. 



1. M. bengalensis, Benth. Syn. Salvia bengalensis, Roxb. 



A shrub Avith smell of sage AAdth tomentose shoots and lanceolate- 

 oblong leaves, larger 5" by 1-7", smaller upAvards, appearing almost 

 punctate beneath from the close raised tomentose reticulation, sub- 

 obtuse. Bracts inconspicuous in fruit and shorter than the AAhorl. 

 Whorls -3" diam. in fl., -75" in fruit, close dense in terminal spikes 

 2-5" long. Fls. white. 



Patna, Ham. ! Native of Abyssinia. 



FAM. 109. CHENOPODIACEiE (p. 769). 

 1. CHENOPODIUM, L. 



L. glaucous or mealy beneath, entire at base, upper entire. Spikes 



simple 1. album. 



L. bright green beneath, rather shining, sharply and unequally 



toothed. Spikes with spreading branches. Pis. cymose . '. 1*. murale. 



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