Order 89. Acanthacece. 237 



racemes, large, violet, the lower lip dark purple and spotted, 

 protruding. 



The Konkans and Ghauts. Very common at Matheran, less so at 

 Mahableshwar Dr. Cooke who doubts whether it is distinct from 

 * A. coromandelliana, which H. calls a procumbent weed, grey pubes- 

 cent, but D, erect, almost smooth very common. A. Lawiana, a tall 

 rough plant with 4-sided stems, thicker just above the joints, leaves 

 oblong acute, flowers small white in short spikes, bracts lanceolate, 

 leafy. Nasik. Near Dharwar (D.). 



15. LEPIDAGATHIS. 



The majority of the 10 species found in this Presidency are con- 

 fined to the Ghauts, and known only to Dr. Stocks or Mr. 

 Dalzell. 



1. L. cristata. Prostrate, leaves lanceolate, they and the 

 calyx and bracts sharp-pointed, flowers pale, streaked darker, 

 in dense round heads near the root ; calyx segments and 

 bracts oblong or ovate. Bhuiterda, Kolhe die cliutar. 



Guzerat and the Deccan. Bombay. (<?.) . 



'2. L. prostrata. Creeping and rooting from the joints, all 

 silky or hairy ; leaves small, sessile, ovate, bristle-pointed, 

 bracts the same shape, densely imbricated, bracteoles and calyx 

 segments narrow ; flowers in short spikes, pink, streaked, 

 capsule 2-seeded. Bakrd. 



S. Konkan. About Eutnagherry it grows abundantly on the bare 

 sheet rock. Canara (H.) Tnis is probably what G. (No. 1175) calls 

 common at Mahableshwar. 



3. L. rigida. An erect undershrub, glutinous, leaves ovate, 

 pointed, narrowed into the petiole, rough, bracts and larger 

 calyx segments ovate, bracteoles and smaller segments narrow, 

 all hairy and spinous-pointed ; flowers yellowish white in 

 dense spikes, capsule 4-seeded. 



Ghauts (D.). Sind (H.}. I had it at Parpoli Ghaut, where it is 

 abundant and very strong-smelling. * L. mitis is closely allied to 

 No. 1, but nearly smooth, and the flower heads not prickly, flowers 

 white, spotted with pink and yellow. Fonda Ghaut (D.). * L. tri- 

 nervis, leaves linear lanceolate, 3-nerved, flowers white, either in 

 short spikes or in a conglomerated ball like the last j bracts (but not 

 calyx) with long spinous points. Ghauts, Guzerat and Konkan (H.). 

 * L. lutea, stems erect, leaves and inflorescence as in the last, both 

 bracts and calyx spinous pointed, flowers yellow, stems and flower 

 heads velvety. Malwan and Ghauts (D. and H.}. * L. clavata, stem 

 erect, leaves sessile ovate, bristle-pointed, bracts densely imbricated 

 in 4 rows, flowers pink-streaked, in short spikes. Ghauts (D.). It 

 is very like L. prostrata. 



