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spathulate, 2 to 4 lines long ; scales few, acute, fixed by the base ; 

 flowers few, purple, upper lip obovate, cuneate emarginate, lower 

 much larger, entire or emarginate about the length of the acute- 

 depending spur. Vingorla, in the rains. Syn. U affinis, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1580,^ 1. 



6. ORBICULATA, Wall. list. No. 1500, DC. Prod. 8, p 18. One 

 to 2 inches high ; leaves radical, rounded, obovate, entire, attenuated 

 into a very slender petiole, scape very slender, erect, 3 to 4-flowered ; 

 pedicels twice the length of the flower ; flowers purple, the lower 

 lip with a yellow spot in the centre ; seeds oblong, covered with 



tlochidate bristles. On the face of moist rocks in the Concans. 

 yn. U pussilla, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI p 165; U glochidiata, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1581. The seeds are curious and beautiful objects. 



7. U ARCUATA, Wight Ic. t. 1570 and 1571. Flowers few, 

 calyx lobes subequal, upper a little larger, broadly ovate or cordate- 

 ovate, upper lip of corolla suborbicular, obovate or obcordate, 

 entire, or more or less deeply emarginate, lower lip large, entire, 

 rarely emarginate, spur long, slender, linear subulate, pendent, or 

 falcately curved. Concans and Belgaum. Bombay, gathered by 

 Jacquemont. 



LXXXI. PRIMULACE.E. 

 1. ANAGALLIS, Tournef. 



1. A ARVENSIS, Linn. sp. 211. Stems procumbent, branched ; 

 branches elongated, quadrangular, shortly winged ; leaves opposite 

 or tern, ovate sessile, acutish ; peduncles longer than the leaf; 

 calyx-leaves linear lanceolate ; flowers blue or rose-coloured. Dec- 

 can. Found from Europe to New Holland. 



LXXXII. MYRSINACE^E. 

 1. MAES A, Forsk. 



1. INDICA, DC. Prod. 8, p 80. A shrub; leaves alternate, 

 oblong acute, grossly serrate, smooth, 3 to 6 inches long ; racemes 

 axillary and terminal, simple, branched and panicled ; flowers 

 numerous, very small, diverging, pure white ; fruit size of a small 

 pea; used to poison fish ; seeds numerous, angular. Very common 

 along the Ghauts. Syn. Baeobotrys indica, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 557. 

 Native name " Atkee." 



2. EMBELIA, Juss. 



1. BASAAL, Alph., DC. Prod. 8, p 87. A shrub, 4 to 5 feet 

 high ; leaves ovate, acute, entire ; racemes lateral, one-third shorter 

 than the leaf; flowers very small, greenish-yellow ; petals acumi- 



