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linear-folded, 3-nerved, minutely hispid above, glabrous beneath ; 

 spikes clustered about the root, velvetty and tomentose ; bracts 

 ovate-orbicular, with a long spinous point ; anterior and posterior 

 segments of calyx rhomb-cuneate, spinous-pointed, lateral ones 

 linear; flowers small, yellow. Mai wan, on rocks ; leaves 2 inches 

 long, 2 lines broad. 



4. MITIS, Dalz. loc. cit. iii, 226. Stem branched, diffuse; 

 branches trichotomous, glabrous, almost 4-sided ; leaves sessile, 

 linear-oblong, acute, glabrous on both sides, minutely ciliated on 

 the margin; spikes clustered about the root into a ball 2 to 3 

 inches in diameter ; bracts acuminated from a broad base ; bracte- 

 oles and calyx-segments linear-acute, all without points, somewhat 

 cartilaginous, smooth at the base, silky and villous at the lip ; 

 flowers white, spotted with pink and yellow. On rocks at Fonda 

 Ghaut; flowers in November. 



5. CLAVATA, Dalz. loc. cit. ii, 340. Stems several, from a 

 woody root 1 foot, high, simple, ascending, obtusely quadrangular, 

 glabrous, naked at the base ; spikes terminal, solitary, simple, 

 oblong quadrangular ; leaves small, sessile, ovate-acuminate, 

 spinous-pointed, glabrous, entire, coriaceous, rigid ; bracts densely 

 imbricated in 4 rows, of the same shape HS the leaves, along 

 with the bracteoles and calyx, silky and tomentose. Chorla 

 Ghaut. 



6. RIGIDA, Dalz. loc. cit. p 341. Stem erect, suffruticose, 

 covered with soft, spreading hairs ; leaves linear-lanceolate, folded, 

 gradually attenuated into the base, glandular and pubescent on 

 both sides ; spikes terminal on the short branchlets, cylindric, 1 to 

 1 J inch long, compound at the base, glandular and pubescent ; 

 bracts linear-subulate, calyx 4-divided; dorsal segment oblong-acute, 

 3-nerved, anterior divided to the middle, lateral subulate, all spi- 

 nous-pointed ; leaves 3 to 4 inches long. Ram. Ghaut. 



7. GCENSIS, Dalz. loc. cit. p 340. Stem herbaceous, dichoto- 

 mous, diffuse ; leaves broadly ovate-acute, 1 j to 2 inches long, 

 softly pubescent, repand-dentate ; spikes terminal on bitrifid 

 peduncles, lax, few-flowered, 1 to 1 J inch long ; bracts broadly 

 ovate, rather obtuse ; bracteoles linear, and with the calycine 

 segments densely glandular, pubescent. The Warree Country ; 

 closely allied to L fasciculata, N. ab E. A native of Ceylon. 



8. CRISTATA, Willd. sp. PI iii. 1, p 400. Stem suffruticose, 

 diffuse ; leaves lanceolate or oblong ; spikes all clustered about the 

 root, in a subglobose head of various sizes ; bracts arid bracteoles 

 oblong-attenuated, mucronate ; calyx 4-divided ; segments acuminate, 

 bristle-pointed, lower one bifid ; corolla 4 lines long, pubescent, 

 whitish. Wight Ic. 455 ; Roxb. Cor. PL t. 267. 



