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10. CRYPTOPHRAGMIUM, N. ab E. 



1. LATIFOLTUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 137. Suflfmticose 

 glabrous ; leaves very long-petioled, rounded-ovate, acuminate, 

 truncate at the base, crenulate, 1 foot long, 4h inches broad ; spikes 

 axillary, short, trichotomous ; flowers yellowish-white; capsule 

 4 times longer than the calyx. Chorla Ghaut. Syn. Phloganthus 

 latifolius, Wight Ic. t. 1537. 



2. GLABRUM, Dalz. loc. cit. ii, 338. Herbaceous ; leaves 

 elliptic-acuminate, denticulate, glabrous, running down with a wing 

 into the petioles; spike terminal, compound; the branches opposite, 

 nearly a foot long. In shady places in the Southern Concan. 



11. ENDOPOGON, N. ab E. 



1. INTEGRIFOLTUS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 342. A shrub ; 

 leaves narrow-elliptic or lanceolate-acuminate, running down with 

 a wing into the petiole; bracts and bracteoles linear, ciliated with 

 long hairs, and as long as the calyx ; flowers blue, rather large ; 

 rachis short, quadrangular, viscous and glandular. Hills near 

 Pan well. 



12. PETALIDIUM, N. ab E. 



1 . BARLERIOIDES, N. ab E., DC. Prod. 1 1 , p 1 14.- Shrubby ; 

 leaves oblong, crenate-dentate, 'somewhat glaucous; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, 1 -flowered ; flowers an inch long, white or 

 pale-blue ; bracteoles large, opposite, covering the calyx. The 

 Ghauts ; hills near Panwell. Syn. Ruellia barlerioides, Roth. nov. 

 sp. p 310 ; R bracteata, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 47 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4053 ; 

 Eranthemum barlerioides, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 114. 



2. P PATULUS, N. ab E. DC. Prod. 11, p 126. Stem erect; 

 leaves ovate, oval or oblong-obtuse, hoary and puberulous ; flowers 

 fascicled in threes or fives, or solitary, smaller than in the preceding, 

 white ; bracteoles oval or oblong, longer than the calyx. The flowers 

 open in the evening, and fall off in the morning; while in the pre- 

 ceding, the flowers open in the morning. 



13. DIPTERACANTHUS, N. ab E. 



1. DEJECTUS, N. ab E., DC. Prod. 11, p 125. Stem herba- 

 ceous, suffrutiscent at the base, creeping, procumbent or ascending ; 

 leaves long-petioled, ovate-elliptic, acute at both ends, entire, 

 strigose or rough on the veins ; flowers pretty large, blue, axillary, 

 sessile, solitary ; capsule half an inch long, oblong, narrow at the 

 base, 12 to 16-seeded. Common in Bombay and the Concans ; 

 flowers in October. Syn. Ruellia repens, Blume Bijdr. p 794 ; R 

 rigens, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 44. 

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