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late, or ovate, smooth, waved, or slightly crenate, bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, flowers axillary, nearly sessile, about 7 together, 

 pale blue, capsule within the calyx. 



In the S. Konkan growing in swamps, with the next, and rather 

 like it, but smaller every way, and without thorns. Yery common 

 throughout India and Ceylon (H.). He has 2 varieties. 



3. H. spinosa (AsteracantJia longifolia, D.). A stout, rough 

 plant, with sessile, blue flowers among verticils of lanceolate 

 leaves and thorns, calyx, segments, and bracts lanceolate, lower 

 lip of corolla with a yellow spot. Kordta, Kalsanda. 



Yery common in swamps ; much more so than the last. Through- 

 out India (If.). The seeds are called TalimTchdna. 



* H. Stocksii differs from H. serpyllum, chiefly by being larger, 

 and the stem leaves spathulate. Konkan (Stocks) and nowhere else 

 (H.). NotinD. 



4. EUELLIA. 



R. prostrata (Dipteracanthus dejectus, D.). Straggling, 

 prostrate, or climbing in hedges, leaves long-petioled, ovate, 

 often acute, flowers solitary, or nearly so, purple or blue, bell- 

 shaped, bracts like the young leaves, seeds about 12, flat, 

 roundish, light brown. 



Yery common in Guzerat, the Konkan, and Decoan. Throughout 

 India, very common 



H. makes this a variety of the species which is prostrate, but 

 not straggling, and with blunt leaves; and has a separate species, 

 R. patula (Petalidium, p. D.) resembling this, but densely and closely 

 pubescent. 



5. PETALIDIUM. 



P. larlerioides. A straggling, rather handsome shrub, leaves 

 ovate, pointed, crenated, flowers large, white or pale blue, 

 with veined throat ; calyx hidden in 2 leafy, veined bracts, 

 corolla tube narrow with wide mouth, lower lip bearded. 



N. Konkan and Panch Mahals. Ghauts and Panwell (D. and #.). 



This sufficiently resembles a Barleria to justify the specific name. 

 I had noted the ca^x as viscid, which is not mentioned in any of the 

 books ; but this viscidity of some of the parts is a frequent charac- 

 teristic in shrubs of this order, and apparently not a constant one, 

 but depending a good deal on situation. 



