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node, which represent an axillary branch that does not 

 develop ; there being another bud to become a branch 

 if necessary. The flowers are in spikes like those of 

 ADHATODA. 



ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA, Nees, with weak 

 square stems, and flowers in loose axillary racemes. 

 Capsules oblong, not contracted below, with six or 

 more seeds. 



THUMBERGIA, twining shrubs, of which various spe- 

 cies, especially T. GRANDIFLORA, Roxb. are cultivated 

 in gardens on account of their large blue handsome 

 flowers. The capsule is in this genus swollen below 

 and has a narrow beak above, and the seeds are not 

 on strong hard stalks ; in which respects it differs from 

 all others of this family. 



*STROBILANTHES KUTHIANUS, T. Anders, is a well- 

 known shrub growing in clusters in the open moors of 

 the Nilgiri and Pulney Hills. It is a multiennial 

 {p. 74) flowering when about twelve years and then 

 dying. The leaves are elliptic, crenate, serrate, white 

 beneath but with very conspicuous red veins. The 

 flowers are of a pale purple or blue colour, the 

 lobes of the inflated tubular corolla nearly equal, and 

 twisted in bud like those of RUELLIA. The stamens 

 four, or sometimes two only, and the ovary two-celled, 

 The fruit is like that of RUELLIA. 



LABIATES 



Examples : 



OciMUM BASILICUM, L. the Sweet Basil, a very 

 common plant and well known on account of its 

 aromatic smell. 



