3<DO BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Syn. Talancdshd ', lcshugandha\S'v:adanshtra, Swar 

 ducaniaca, Gucshuraca, Vanasrmgdta, 



Xvlg. Gbcshura, Gokyura, Culpi. 



Rhesde : Bah el Chilli. „ 



Linn. Long-leaved, Bar leki a ? 



Cal. Perianth, one-leaved, hairy, five-toothed ; upper 

 tooth long, incurved, pointed ; two under and 

 two lateral shorter, subequal, winged with sub-pel- 

 lucid membranes. 



Cor. One-petaled, two-lipped. Tithe flattish, curved, 

 protuberant at the mouth. Upper lip erect, two-part- 

 ed, reflected at the sides, convave in the middle, en- 

 closing the fructification. Under lip three-parted, 

 reflected, with two parallel, callous, hispid bodies 

 on the centre of its convexity -, Divisions inverse- 

 hearted. 



Stam. Filaments four, inserted in the mouth of the 

 tube ; connected at their base, then separated into 

 pairs and circling round the pistil; each pair 

 united below, consisting of a long and a short fila- 

 ment. Anthers arrowed. 



Pist. Germ awled, pointed, furrowed, with pro- 

 minent seedlets, sitting on a glandular pedicel. 



i Style thread-form, longer than the stamens, incurved 

 above them. Stigma simple. 



Per. 



Flowers verticilled; Corols blue, or bright violet; 

 centre of the under lip yellow. Ueriials, each sur- 

 rounded by six thorns, very long, diverging, 

 coloured above ; under which are the leaves, alike 

 verticilled, lanced, acutely sawed 3 pubescent, 



interspersed 



