234 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



calyx segments oblong, flowers large, purple, with 2 lines of 

 yellow hairs : capsule 2-seeded. Motayt. 



The ^ Ghauts (D.). Canara (ff.). "The magnificent Calaoanthus 

 grows in profusion on the wet rocks on the road np to Matheran." 

 Dr. Cooke. 



10. BLEPHARIS. 



1. B, asperrima. Diffuse with weak straw-coloured stem, 

 every part covered with bristly hairs, leaves ovate, bracts 

 trifid cuneate or lanceolate, whitish with green veins, flowers 

 blue or white sessile, solitary or in pairs, capsule i-seeded. 

 Pdhadi-dtgandkdd. 



Very common on the Ghauts : also in the Konkan. The flowers 

 are often seen on the Ghauts covering the ground like snowdrops. 



2. B. boerhaavifolia. Leaves in fours, one pair smaller, 

 lanceolate, bracts edged with long bristles broader upwards, 

 calyx segments the same shape, but not bristly, flowers white, 

 pale-blue or pink with white spot on lower lip, capsule 2-seeded. 



Common in Guzerat. From Mount Abu to Ceylon (fl.). 



3. J5. mollugini folia. Leaves in fours, one pair smaller, 

 oblong, rather obovate, rough on the margin, bracts many, 

 pressed flat against the calyx, boat-shaped, with one stiff and 

 many short bristles, flowers blue, like those of No. 1, but 

 smaller ; capsule 2-seeded. Kdnte-mdka. 



The Konkans, growing freely near the sea. Deocan peninsula (#.). 



11. ACANTHUS. 



A. ilicifolius (Dilivarla i. D.). A small handsome thorny 

 shrub, with leaves like holly, sinuate, spinous-toothed, and large 

 bright blue flowers ; bracts small ovate, calyx segments ovate 

 rounded, corolla lip nearly entire, anthers large, thickly 

 bearded. Nivgur, mdrandi. 



Very common on the sea coast. Also in Ceylon, Malaga, the 

 Philippines, and Australia (H.}. G. calls it sea holly, a very appro- 

 priate name, but it must not be confounded with the plant which 

 bears that name in England (Eryngo). 



The rather dismal salt marshes are often beautified by this hand- 

 some shrub, just as bare woods in England are by the true holly 



" When the bare and wintry woods we see, 

 What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? " Southey. 



A. mollis is a noble plant, sometimes found in English gardens, 

 called by Tournefort " this gentle thistle." Its leaves are very large 



