ilELI-SIFOLIA 



In Assam inferiore; Khasia, apud Jheria, 250 p. * 



Silhet, Roxburgh, DeSilva ! Cachar, Proar / 



(icon.)! Falconer! 



I 



271 



m., ffcr** nil. 44046! 44958 

 ii IIort. Bot. Calcutta, cult., Roxburgh 



Caulibus 50—250 cm. longis, gracilibus, sea] 

 medio deorsum radicantibus, rarissiine brevibus (10 



s, verticil lastris i 



dentibus v 1 prorsus 



cm. longis his 3*5 



30 



pr 



et a 



20 



5 cm 



mm. longis his 8 mm. 



lat 



reli 



10 mm 



longo hoc 4 



qu 



s 



Pi 



in 



64 

 19 



is) suberectis, latoiuis 7 — 10 



bract is extcrioi bus 



mm. lato — tubo 



longis his basi 2*5 mm. latis, corolla 35 



nun. 



imbo 8 mm. lato 



abio 



longa 



is 5 



tubi 





i 



hi 





i oi i * 



6 mm. latis, 



-* 



tibus 5 



postico 7 mm. longo hoc 9 "> mm 



V 



quali 20 



Bini 



i 



lato uiargine emar«rinato, 



labio antico 10 mm. longo hoc 145 mm. lato, nucuti 4 mm. Ion-is hi- :\ mm 



Plate 100. Gomphost 



melissifolium 



11 



A 



CiarJce 



44953 



B 



Ex 



Roxburgh , L 



men from .11 



Ghat 



I'ned. 



I, t. 11: 





This species is distinguished from G. ocatum, to which it is most r. irly Allied, 1 y its whorls being 

 fewer-flowered, its bracts acute, its upper lip of corolla emarginate, its leases smaller and narrowed to 

 both extremities and perfectly glabrous above. From O. Jfofemi, ( th which ft was list buted )j 

 Dr. Wallich, it also differs in having smaller leaves, fewer-How rod whorls, longer bracts, upper 1 



of corolla emarginate, and leaves quite glabrous above. 



The plant figured by Dr. Roxburgh 



1001 1 



d f 



A* 



01 



J 



7 ft 





Botanic Garden 



Calcutta 



L x, t. IV)) 



there 



dwarf and stunted, and though the plant has been Ion* 



ved in the Calcutta Herbarium a 



the distribut 



of Dr. Wallich's East Ind 



1 lerbariui 



atod spe men oolleeted wiHgequdit to 



6howa 



eltor being in cultivation 



during a quarter of a century it continued to be erect in habit and tl irfed. In one < r gnthi i 



that by P 



the plant is described as ha 



stems about 8 f< 



long, rambling over adjacent 



bushes; some of the specimens communicated by this collector are tops of stems 2 — 3 f 



of 



These 



long \* h no 

 Toborate Dr. Roxburgh's statement that the spec « if toandent 

 In Dr. Wftllioh'f gathering and in all subsequent giethtringi 

 that of Prazer, the stems are, as described by Sir Joseph Hooker, prostrate and rooting below for 



habit which it shares with 



half their 



i 



The flower 



Dr. Roxburgh's figure are yellow: this is he colour noted in most field gatherings 



Prazer's Cachar gathering has, however, blueish corollas with purple 



and a wh 



On th 



Dr. ] )x burgh's 



having been made by the fresh "bright red " nutlet; the ri]>e nutl ts of a d 4 



\ isely the same as 



page bearing the original figure of Roxburgh's plant there is brick- r I stain, whico 



handwriting is noted as 



(Clarke n. 44946), noted as " orange brown, " impart to pape 



the stain referred to, which was made 



There are not at Calcutta any specimens 

 elevation of over 300 feet above sea-level. 



fr 



Sikk 



and there are no Assam 



from 





