240 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



spikes, dull white, streaked with pink, bracts rather large, oval 

 pointed, green-veined, capsule protuberant at the seeds, which 

 are nearly round and light brown. 



Common on the higher Ghants (D.). Matheran. I have seen this 

 as described at Khair in the Poona districts, but in the S. Konkan as 

 a weak shrubby prostrate plant. The latter H. makes a variety, 

 and calls it ramosissima. He calls both forms common throughout 

 India. 



2. J. trinervia (Adhatoda t. D.). A smooth plant, erect or 

 procumbent, much smaller than the last ; leaves as in the last 

 or fleshy, and slightly crenate, flowers in terminal spikes, bracts 

 much veined, lanceolate long-pointed, 3-nerved. Sut. 



Mahablesbwar and S. Konkans. Matheran. Near the sea I have 

 found this all fleshy. One authority makes it a small variety of the 

 last. 



3. /. Wynaadensis (Adhatoda w. D.). A shrub with 

 long and slender branches, which with the leaves are much 

 tinged with purple, leaves lanceolate, quite smooth, spikes 

 somewhat interrupted, hairy, flowers small, white spotted with 

 purple, bracts smaller than the calyx segments. 



Vingorla. Jungly parts of the Konkan, common (D.). Belgaum 

 (H.). H. calls it very variable as to hairiness. D. has " bracts ovate 

 deciduous, bracteoles linear, subulate shorter than the calyx." These 

 last are all that I saw, and all that H. mentions. 



J. Gendarussa, tiv, bdkas, a species said by H. to be cultivated all 

 over India, and by D. to be very common in gardens, strong scented 

 and of a purple hue, seems to me to differ only from J. Wynaadensis 

 in being a herb. 



J. montana (EemicTioriste m. D.). A tall handsome shrub, leaves 

 large oval, narrow at both ends, entire polished, flowers large white, 

 spotted with purple, in large racemes, bracts hairy, capsule with 

 seeds near the top. Machal. Ghauts (D.). * J". heterocarpa. A 

 small herb, grey, leaves ovate, flowers minute in clusters, capsules 

 of two kinds in almost every axil, one oblong 4-seeded, the other 

 winged and crested, one-seeded ; not in D. Deesa and Kurrachee, 

 Stocks (H.). Kot nearly allied to any other species (H.). 



4. /. procumbens (Rostellularia p. D.). A small weed, 

 hairy, branched ; leaves ovate to lanceolate, ciliated, flowers in 

 spikes, more or less 4-sided, pale purple, sepals 4 scarious, with 

 green midrib, bracts and bracteoles lanceolate or linear, about 

 as long as the calyx and corolla. Tharambal, gliatipitpapara. 



The three other species of this section are apparently very diffi- 

 cult to distinguish from one another. * J. micrantha (Rostellularia 



