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Beddome thinks to be common to several. Tennent says the same 

 of the Ceylon species. 



2. S. callosus. A tall shrub, branches warty, or ttibercled, 

 leaves large, elliptic, acute, crenate, long-petioled, spikes conical, 

 sometimes compound, flowers large, hairy within, deep blue, 

 bracts roundish, calyx increasing in fruit. Kdrvi. 



The Ghauts and Central India. 



H. includes in this D.'s C. Grahamianus. This is, no doubt, 

 the well-known Mahableshwar shrub, and is viscid and strong- 

 smelling. 



3. S.perfoliatus (Endopogon integrifolius, D.). A shrub with 

 a very powerful smell, leaves narrow lanceolate, running with 

 a wing into the petiole, quite smooth and entire : flowers in a 

 4-sided raceme, bracts and calyx segments linear or lanceolate, 

 hairy and viscid, corolla large, blue or purple. Rdribokri. 



S. Konkan. Very common at Matheran (Birdwooft). The leaves 

 are never perfoliate (H.). I noticed what I have seen put down as 

 a generic distinction in Endopogon (but not in H.} that there is 

 in the corolla a depressed hairy channel which holds the style. (See 

 Hypcestes lanata.) 



* 8. barbatus (S. tetrapterus, D.). Stem and petioles often winged, 

 leaves large oval, flowers in short dense spikes, white, bracts 

 cuspidate, green. Wari country (J>.). * S. wareensis, leaves oblong 

 acuminate, spikes short, drooping on hairy jointed peduncles, but 

 erect in fruit with the cah x enlarged, corolla small white, purple- 

 spotted. Wari country, Belgaum, &o. (D.). * S. lupulinus, woody 

 and hairy, leaves elliptic acuminate, spikes short, sometimes 

 umbelled, bracts concave, hairy, calyx scarious, bristly. Konkan 

 and near Belgaum (H.) * S. heyneanus (S. asperrimus, D.), herbaceous, 

 about a foot high, hairy, leaves elliptic acuminate, spikes short", 

 roundish, flowers pale blue, bracts convex. Akrd. The Ghauts. 



* S. scrobiculatus, woody, with long much-divided branches, covered 

 with flowers and leafy only at the tips, leaves as the last, corolla 

 an inch long, pale below, of a beautiful blue upwards, lobes crenu- 

 late. Ghauts. " It appears to be the most beautiful of all the 

 species, and is allied to S. ixiocephalus" (H.). * S. asper, a shrub, 

 softly hairy, leaves ovate crenate, spikes oblong, panicled or 

 fascicled, bracts ovate or oblong, reddish. Konkan, Stocks (S.}. 



* S. sessitis (S. sessiloides, D.), a low undershrub, hairy, leaves sessile 

 ovate acute, bracts large, the same shape, or broad cordate, flowers 

 large and handsome, blue or pale purple. The Ghauts (->) 



9. CALACANTHUS. 



* C. DakeUiana (Lepidagathis grandiflora, D.). A shrub, 

 stem quadrangular, leaves large, oval, acute, smooth, spikes 

 long and slender, densely woolly, bracts, bracteoles, and upper 



