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3. COLDENIA, Linn. 



1. PROCUMBENS, Linn. sp. 182. Herbaceous; stems procum- 

 bent, hirsute ; leaves shortly-petioled, obpvate, plicate, coarsely- 

 toothed, with ad pressed hairs above, hirsute beneath ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, sessile, white ; nuts rugose, rough. Common in 

 rice-fields, in the cold weather. 



4. HEL10TROPIUM, Tourn. 



1. ROTTLERI, Lehm. Asp. p 66. Shrubby; stems short, divid- 

 ing into many horizontal prostrate branches ; branchlets and 

 leaves strigose ; leaves subsessile, ovate lanceolate-acutish ; spikes 

 lateral, I to 2 inches long; flowers subsessile, secund, the under- 

 side of the rachis bearing the bract ; bracts ovate, strigose ; calyx 

 lobes ovate-acute, a little shorter than the corol tube ; corolla hairy 

 externally, throat closed with hairs; fruit strigose, globose. At 

 Domus. 



2. SUPINTJM, Linn. sp. 187; B Malabaricum, Benth. in Royle. 

 Illustr. 306. Herbaceous ; stems ascending ; leaves oval, obtuse, 

 plicate, hoary, and tomentose on both sides ; spikes mostly solitary ; 

 calyx 5-toothed, shut, very hirsute ; corol scarcely longer than the 

 calyx, white. Common in rice-fields, in the cold weather. Lyn. 

 II malabaricum, l\etz. Obs. iv, p 24 ; Piptoclaina malabarica, Don. 

 Gon. st/st. iv, 364. 



3. COROMANDELIANUM, Lehm. Asp. 46, and obovatum. Her- 

 baceous, pubescent, erect ; leaves obovate obtuse mucronate, clothed 

 with soft, white hairs ; spikes terminal, generally paired; flowers 

 numerous, small, white, placed in a waved row on the upperside of 

 the spikes. Beemasunker. 



4. MARIFOLIUM, Retz. Obs. 2, p 8. Suffruticose ; stems pro- 

 cumbent, diffuse, much-branched ; leaves and calyx strigose; leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, revolute on the margin, racemes subspicate, 

 solitary, alternate, the uppermost ones twin ; flowers minute, white, 

 with yellow eye ; nuts densely-his r id. At Vingorla. 



5. LAXIFLORUM, Roth. nov. sp. p 102. Erect-branched, strigose 

 with minute ad pressed hairs; leaves linear-lanceolate, entire; 

 racemes simple, subspicate, solitary or twin, elongated ; flowers 

 rather lax ; lobes of the calyx strigose, as long as the tube of the 

 corolla, nuts globose, strigose, not glabrous as described by Roth. 

 Worlee hill, Island of Bombay ; Deccan. 



5. TOURNEFORTIA, Linn. 



1. T SUBULATA, Hochst. Stern suffruticose, erecf, sparingly- 

 branched, clothed with stiff, bristly hairs ; leaves linear-lanceolate. 



