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the calyx ; spikes dense, villous ; flowers solitary, alternate. Hills 

 at Sattara, flowering in November. Syn. L lawii, Wight Ic. 1439. 

 2. L BURMANNI, Benth. loc. cit. Slightly pubescent; leaves 

 bipinnatifid, segments linear-entire; floral leaves membranaceous, 

 dilated at the base, acuminated and setaceous at the apex, longer 

 than the calyx ; spikes short, dense ; flowers solitary, approximated, 

 either white or of a beautiful deep-blue. Common in the Deccan, 

 where it is called " Gorea." Syn. Bysteropogon bipinnatus, Roth, 

 nov. sp. 225. There is a white-flowered variety. 



10. POGOSTEMON, Desf. 



1. P PANICULATUS, Benth, in Wall. PI As. rar. l,p 30. Stem 

 erect, pubescent ; leaves unequal-ovate, cut and serrated, narrow 

 at the base ; verticals globose, secund, remote ; racemes terminal ; 

 bracts broadly ovate, membranaceous, as long as the calyx ; calyx 

 pubescent; teeth lanceolate. Syn. Elsholzia paniculata, Willd. 

 sp. iii, p 59. Southern Concan. 



2. P PLECTRANTOIDES, Desp. Ann. Muss, ii, p 154, t. 6. 

 Covered with hoary pubescence; stem erect; leaves ovate-cuneate 

 or rounded at the base, doubly serrated; flowers subsecund, clustered, 

 spicate, ovate, cylindric-peduncled, panicled ; bracts broad, ovate, 

 glandular-dotted, longer than the calyx; calyx hirsute, glandular; 

 teeth broad, lanceolate-acute. Near Chicklee, Surat Collectorate. 



3. P HEYNEANUS, Benth. in Wall. PI As. rar. 1, p 31. Stem 

 ascending, pubescent ; leaves subglabrous, ovate, narrow at the 

 base, irregularly crenated ; verticals many-flowered, subsecund, 

 interruptedly spicate ; spikes panicled ; bracts ovate or lanceolate, 

 equal to the calyx or a little shorter. Between the Ram Ghaut and 

 Belgaum. Syn. Origanum indicum, Roth. nov. sp. p 265. This 

 is not the Pach plant, as supposed by Graham. Pach is a distinct 

 specis (P patchouli). We do not know its native country, but the 

 leaves are imported from Singapore. As it thrives admirably in 

 our gardens, the growing of it in quantity would be a good 

 speculation. 



4. PURPURICAULIS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 336. Stem 

 erect, suffruticose, purple, shining ; leaves broadly ovate-acuminate, 

 coarsely double-toothed, attenuated into the petiole, subglabrous; 

 verticels dinudate, approximated ; panicles axillary and ter- 

 minal lax, pyramidal; bracts ovate and lanceolate, equal to the 

 calyx; leaves 7 inches long 3J broad. Has the odour of black 

 currants. Very common in the hilly parts of the Concan and on 

 the Ghauts; grows to the height of 5 to 6 feet. Syn. D frute- 

 scens, Graham's Catalogue No. 1 1 09. 



5. PURPURASCENS, Dalz. loc. cit. 337. Stem herbaceous, quad- 

 rangular, 4-furrowed, softly tomentose with spreading hairs ; leaves 



