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stamens and corolla are regularly developed ; the corolla falls off 
early, taking with it sometimes all the stamens, sometimes two out of 
in this instance, of the bibliography as well, which, in the 
case of Indian plants, is too frequently a formidable item. 
Characteristic examples of close observation, frequently involving 
careful and laborious dissections, are to be found in the treatment 
of such genera as Sarcostemma (pp. 158-159), Ceropegia (pp. 173, 
et seq.), Lindenbergia (pp. 3806-307), and of the whole family of 
Gramineae. In matters of nomenclature the same painstaking 
such conditions are compelled in practice, in some cases, to accept 
results embodied in some wider treatment of a family or genus with 
which they can hardly be themselves in real accordance. ‘Thus, at 
p- 413, Dr. Cooke has placed a most interesting addition to the Flora 
of Bombay under “ Monechma, Hochstetter” as set out by the late 
Mr. C. B. Clarke in the Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. v., p. 2143 
pretty certain ood Species) of “ Monechma bracteatum, 
Hochstetter,” the orbandar plant is to be attributed, although 
teresting questions of phytogeography are raised by this striking 
