ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS* 30I 



Interspersed with bristles. Stem jointed, flatfish, 

 hairy, reddish 5 furrowed on both sides; broader 

 at the joints, or above the verticils; furrows alter- 

 nate. 



$$* Sindhuca : 



S v n Sindhuvdra> ludrasurisa, Nirvand?) InJra'uidu 



Vulg. Ntsanda* 



Linn. Three-leaved V it ex, or Negwuio? 



Cal. Perianth five-toothed, beneath, permanent; 

 loothlets acute, subequal. 



Cor One-petaled, grinning; Tube funnehshaped, 

 internally villous ; harder two-lipped ; upper lip 

 broad, concave, more deeply coloured; under lip 

 four-cleft ; Bivisions acute, similar. 



St am. Filaments four ; two shorter, adhering to the 

 Tube, villous at the base, jfnthcrs half-mooned, 



Pi st. Germ globular; Style thread-form; Stigma 

 two-parted, pointed, reflex. 



Per. Berry (unless it be the coat of a naked seed) 

 roundish, very hard, black, obscurely furrowed, 

 with the calyx closely adhering. 



Seeds from one to four? I never saw more than one, 

 as Rhef.de has well described it. 



Flowers raceme-panicled ; purplish or dark blue 

 without, greyish within, small. Racemes mostly 

 terminal ; some pedicels many-flowered. 



Stem distinctly four-sided; sides channelled, join' 

 bending. Stipules egged, scaly, thickish, close. 

 Bran chle is cross armed. 

 The tube of the corol is covered internally with a 



tangle of silvery silky down, exquisitelv beautiful; 



more dense below the upper lip. 



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