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3. EPITHEMA, Blume. 



1. ZEYLANICA, Gardner in Wight Ic. PI t. 1354. Pilosely 

 hispid all over ; inferior leaves opposite, or solitary by abortion, 

 petioled, broad ovate-cordate, doubly serrate-dentate, the upper 

 ones opposite, sessile; peduncles terminal, 1 to 3 elongated, spicate 

 at the apex ; spikes dense, secund, circulate, bracteate at the base ; 

 bracts cordate, cucullate, obtuse, dentate. On the Ghauts in the 

 southern portion of the Presidency ; flowers during the rains. 



4. jESCHYNANTHUS, Jack. 



1. PEROTTETTII, Alph. in DC. Prod. 9, p 261. Leaves 

 lanceolate, rather obtuse at the base, obtusely acuminated at the 

 apex, glabrous ; lateral nerves few, oblique ; umbels 3 to 5-flowered ; 

 pedicels twice the length of the calyx ; flowers red, two inches long ; 

 capsule three inches long. Parwar Ghaut; flowers in October. 

 Syn. Ae. zeylanica, Gardner (?) in Wight Ic. t. 1347 (?). 



LXXX. LENTIBULARIACE^E. 

 1. UTRICULARIA. 



1. RETICULATA, Smith Exot. Bot. #.119. Annual, twining; 

 leaves linear oblong-obtuse; stem branched, many-flowered; scales 

 ovate, acute, sessile ; bracts tern, ovate-lanceolate ; calycine segments 

 ovate acuminate equal ; flowers rather large, blue, the throat reti- 

 culated with darker veins ; spur conical, about equal to the lower 

 lip. Common in rice fields in the rains. 



2. NIVEA, Vahl. Enum. i, p 203. 3 to 4 inches high, leafless; 

 scales adnate, with the base free ; flowers few, white, the upper lip 

 linear-erect, 2-toothed, lower ovate, half the length of the conical 

 spur ; capsules nodding, globose. At Vingorla ; in the rains. 



3. STELLARIS, Linn. Fil Suppl. p 86. Aquatic ; leaves verti- 

 celled, bipinnatifid, segments capillary, bearing bladders near the 

 base ; scape ascending, many-flowered ; flowers yellow, calycine 

 segments ovate-obtuse, upper lip of corolla entire, lower longer than 

 the sac-formed spur. In tanks throughout the Concans. 



4. ALBOCCERULEA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 279. Scape 

 round, erect, 4 to 6 inches high, root with bladders ; leaves soon 

 falling off, spathulate obscurely 3-nerved, 2 to 3 lines long, also 

 bearing bladders ; scales few, acute, fixed by their base ; flowers 

 few, blue and white, upper lip round, entire or emarginate, lower 

 very much larger, twice as long as the acute-descending spur. 

 Vingorla. S U smithiana, Wight Ic. (?) 



5. DECIPIENS, Dalz. loc. cit. Scape round, 3 to 9 inches high, 

 straight or twining, root with bladders ; leaves deciduous, obovate 



