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fleshy ; leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuated at the apex ; peduncles 

 few-flowered ; corolla shaped as in the genus ; root bulbous ; leaves 

 2 to 4 inches long, 4 to 6 lines broad. About Dharwar, Law. 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 29. 



6. LUSHII, Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3300. Twining, glabrous ; 

 leaves linear-acuminate, fleshy, channelled, glaucous ; base of the 

 corol-tube globose, inflated, greenish; divisions linear-ciliated, coher- 

 ing at the apex, violet-coloured within. Kasersaye jungles, Lush. 



7. TUBEROSA, Roxb. Cor. i, p 12, t. 9. Twining, fleshy, glab- 

 rous ; lowest leaves almost orbicular, upper ovate, or ovate-oblong 

 cuspidate ; peduncles sometimes twin, few or many-flowered, as 

 long or longer than the leaves ; divisions of the corolla ligulate, 

 hairy, cohering at the apex ; follicles slender, round. The Concans, 

 Nimmo. Syn. C mucronata, Roth. nov. sp. p 179; C biflora, 

 Linn. ; C candelabrum, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 27 ; C longiflora, Poir. 

 Encycl. Suppl. ; Wight Ic. 353. 



8. ANGUSTIFOLIA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 259. Herba- 

 ceous, erect, pubescent, 5 to 6 inches high ; root tuberous ; stem 

 round; leaves narrow-linear, lanceolate-acute, hairy on the margins 

 of the upperside, glabrous and pale beneath ; flowers outside of the 

 axils, solitary, ascending ; corolla slightly ventricose at the base ; 

 tube cylindrical, segments of the limb narrow-linear ; spathulate as 

 long as the tube ; flowers purple, with a green base. Rocky pastur- 

 age near the sea; district of Mai wan ; flowers in July. 



9. OPHIOCEPHALA, Dalz. loc. cit. All hispid, twining ; leaves 

 broad-lanceolate, rounded or cordate at the base, acuminated at 

 the apex, hispid on both sides ; peduncles outside of the axils, longer 

 than petiole, hispid, 3 to 4-flowered ; sepals linear-subulate, spread- 

 ing ; corol tube ascending, ventricose at the base, dark-purple, 

 glabrous ; divisions of the limb one-third shorter, oblong-obtuse, 

 attenuated towards the apex, purple, yellow, and green ; follicles 

 linear, smooth, 4 to 5 inches long, spotted with purple. On Caran- 

 jah hill. 



10. OCULATA, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4093. Stem herbaceous, 

 twining, glabrous ; leaves cordate ovate-acuminate, rather hairy, 

 ciliated, with glands at the base ; peduncles with spreading hairs, 

 4 to 6-flowered; tube of the corolla much inflated at the base, glo- 

 bose, broader than the limb ; segments of the limb oblong, erect, 

 connivent, ciliated, yellow below, with black spots, deep-green 

 above ; lobes of the outer staminal crown attenuated, emarginate, 

 of the inner narrow-linear, straight, entire. Bombay, whence the 

 plant figured was received. 



11. C ATTENUATA, Hook. Ic. PI ix, 867. Erect; leaves linear, 

 long and slenderly attenuated ; younger ones slightly pilose ; pe- 

 duncle axillary, solitary, 1 -flowered; calyx lobes subulate, ciliated 



