133 



2. N BALSAMICA. SufFruticose, glaucous, and perfectly smooth, 

 four feet high ; leaves rather fleshy petioled, lanceolate, long at- 

 tenuated at the base ; flowers terminale, corymbose, at the apex 

 of the tall, nearly naked, stem; branches of the corymb few, simple, 

 2 to 3-flowered ; pedicels short club-shaped, angular or slightly 

 winged, each with 2 lanceolate bracts at its apex ; involucre of 5 to 

 7 unequal linear-acute leaflets, united into a tube, 8 lines long ; 

 florets about 15, a half longer than the involucre ; pappus as long 

 as the florets ; achenia cylindric, mutic, striated, smooth ; has a 

 strong balsamic odour ; leaves 3 to 4 inches long, 1 inch broad in 

 the middle. Habitat below the Kamatkee and several other of 

 the more inland Ghauts of the Deccan ; rare. 



LXXVI. LOBELIACE/E. 

 1. LOBELIA, Linn. 



1. L TRIGONA, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 111. A small, herbaceous, 

 glabrous plant, with diffuse branches, and 3-angled stems ; leaves 

 subsessile, ovate, subcordate, repand-dentate mucronulate ; pedicels 

 slender, longer than the leaf; flowers small, of a deep blue. Syn. 

 L stipularis, Roth, in Rcem. and Schult. syst. v, p 67. Common in 

 pastures in the Concan. 



2. L NICOTIANJEFOLIA, Heyne in Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 506. A tall, 

 erect plant, with hollow stems ; leaves long, subsessile, lanceolate- 

 acute, with large white flowers in terminal racemes. " Dawul" and 

 " DeonuF' is said by Graham to be the Maratha name, but in the 

 Southern Ghauts the people call it " Bokenul," or tubular poison 

 plant ; " Boke" being a tree of the order Euphorbiacese, said to be 

 poisonous. Common on the Ghauts ; seeds extremely acrid. 



LXXVII. CAMPANULACE^E. 

 1. CEPHALOSTIGMA. 



1. C HIRSUTUM, Edgew. in Linn. Trans, xx, p 81. Stem erect, 

 flexuose, pilose, angled, ramous ; leaves alternate, sessile lanceolate, 

 acuminated at the base, glabrous, margin denticulate ; peduncles 

 terminal, pubescent, naked ; tube of the calyx hairy ; capsule 

 globose, 3-celled. Syn. Wahlenbergia perotifolia, Wight Ic. 842. 

 The Concans ; flowers in September; found also in Abyssinia. 



2. C FLEXUOSUM, Hook. Fil. and Thorns, in Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 ii, p 9. Stem hispid and pilose, very slender, flexuous, panicle- 

 branched above ; branches filiform ; leaves sessile, broad ovate 

 oblong-obtuse, slightly sinuate-dentate ; flowers on very slender 

 pedicels. A plant, 5 to 8 inches high, with the stem angled, and 

 leaves three-quarters of an inch long, having a more slender stem 

 and broader leaves than the preceding. The Concans. 



