236 TJie Flowering Plants of Western India. 



4. B. cristata. A shrub, erect or diffuse hairy, leaves ovate, 

 flowers in the axils nearly sessile, 2 or 3 together or in heads 

 blue or white ; anthers violet ; larger calyx, segments ovate, 

 pectinated, veined, smaller segments and bracts lanceolate. 



The white variety, which is D.'s B. dichotomy is commonly planted 

 about temples and in gardens, and is called Pdndhari Kordnti. The 

 blue is said to be wild in Bombay and the Konkans. 



5. B. strigosa (B. terminalis, D.). Shrubby, erect, rough 

 nearly all over, leaves ovate, running down with a wing into 

 the long petiole ; flowers large, blue, crowded together in 

 terminal spikes ; outer sepals ovate, acute, bracts lanceolate. 

 Wdhiti, Kola Koranta. 



S. Konkan and Ghauts : common at Matheran. H. has 2 varieties, 

 and says it is much cultivated. Mr. Birdwood says, " flowers blue, 

 tube of corolla much paler than the limb, stigma purple." 



* B. luxifolia, a small very prickly undershrub, leaves small, 

 ovate, mucronate, no bracts, and spines instead of bracteoles, flowers 

 rather large, purple, rose or white, larger calyx segments enlarging 

 in fruit. Konkan, Law, &c. (H.). * B. involucrata (B. elata, D.). Six 

 feet high, leaves elliptic unequal, long-petioled, flowers very large, 

 long-tubed, blue, in short racemes or spikes, bracts linear lanceolate, 

 leafy. Fonda Ghaut (D.). * B. sepalosa, leaves elliptic acute, 

 covered with yellow hairs ; outer sepals very large, broadly elliptic 

 acute, one bifid. An imperfectly known species. Konkan, Gibson 

 (H.). *B. Courtallica, a large shrub, leaves oblong or obovate, 

 smooth and shining, spikes short, hairy and glandular, larger sepal a 

 very hairy, veined, flowers blue and yellow, or white. Chorla Ghaut 

 (D.). Dr. Dymock gives this the same native names as B. montana. 

 * B. Stocksii, a small undershrub, flowers solitary, axillary, leaves 

 elliptic acute, bracts small, narrow oblong. Bombay and Bababudin 



13. CROSSANDRA. 



C. undulcefolia (C. axillaris and G. coccinea> D.). A shrubby 

 plant, leaves smooth, ovate, waved, long-petioled, often in 

 fours; flowers in 4-sided spikes, red or orange, bracts much 

 imbricated, with the larger calyx segments ovate, pointed, 

 bracteoles and smaller segments linear. Abholi. 



Said to be wild about Dharwar, but known generally as a garden- 

 flower. 



14. ASTSTASIA. 



A. violacea. A shrubby plant, softly hairy, stem jointed, 

 leaves ovate or oblong acute, lower ones narrowed into the 

 petiole, upper rounded at the base ; flowers in one-sided 



