220 



with long, brown bristles. The Ghauts. Syn. Achyranthes orbicu- 

 lata, Heyne. Wall. Cyathula orbiculata, Moq. in Prod. 13, p 3*25. 



14. ALTERNANTHERA, Mart. 



1. A SESSILIS, R. Br. Prod, p 417. Stem herbaceous, creep- 

 ing, branched, articulated, a little compressed, striated, pubescent 

 on 2 sides; leaves shortly-petioled, ovate-lanceolate or obovate, 

 entire or denticulate on the margin, glabrous, bright-green ; heads 

 of flowers much shorter than the leaf, 2 to 4 together, spherical ; 

 flowers shining, whitish ; calyx 2 to 3 times longer than the lateral 

 bracts. A common weed. Wight Ic. 617 ; Syn. Achyranthes 

 triaudra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall, ii, 505; Gomphrena sesssilis, 

 Linn. sp. ed. ii, p 300. 



CXI. PLUMBAGINE.E. 

 1. PLUMBAGO, Tournef. 



1. P ZEYLANICA, Linn. sp. i, p 215. Stems shrubby, sub- 

 scandent, striated, much-branched, leaves ovate or oblong, rather 

 acute, shortly and abruptly attenuated into a short stem-clasping 

 petiole; flowers white, disposed in elongated spikes; rachis glan- 

 dular; corol with a slender tube, divisions of the limb cuneate, 

 retuse. Common on rocky places in the Concans. Grows from 

 Cabool to New Holland. 



2. VOGEL1A, Lam. 



1. V ARABICA, Boiss. in DC. Prod. 12, p 696. An erect 

 under shrub, of a singular whitish, glaucous hue ; branches twiggy, 

 striated, dichotomous ; leaves ovate or obovate, sessile or perfoliate, 

 coriaceous, smooth ; flowers small, on long, slender spikes ; corolla 

 tubular, the limb small, divisions emarginate, mucronulate ; sepals 

 lanceolate, undulated. Hunmunt Ghaut and Mount Aboo. Syn. 

 V indica, Gibson in Wight Ic. 1075. It has been found from seed 

 brought from the Cape by Sir W. Harris, that our Indian plant 

 does not differ from the Arabian and African one. 



CXII. SALICACE^E. 

 1. SALIX, Linn. 



1. S TETRASPERMA, Roxb. Cor. PI. i, p 66,*. 97. Catkins 

 lateral peduncled, male long, lax, and few-flowered ; female cylin- 

 dric, rather dense, elongated ; peduncle furnished with 3 to 6 leaves, 

 scales oblong-spathulate, grey and puberulous ; nectary six times 



