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1189. R. Opovata. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p, 41. Nir schulli. Rheed. Mal 
2, ¢. 46. Hamilton in Linn. Trans. 14. p. 289. 
Annual; flowers about the close of the rains. 
1190. R. Bracteata. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 47. 
A shrubby plant; stems round, smooth, jointed; leaves opposite, petioled, 
peduncles axillary, solitary; bractes 2, opposite; covering the 5 leaved calyx. 
Flowers large, white; corolla with a gibbous tube.—On the Ghauts; flowers in 
the cold weather. Hills in the vicinity of Panwell. N. 
1191. R. Rincens. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 44. Hygrophylla ringens, 
Sprengel’s syst. 2. p. 828. Upa Dali. Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 64. 
Perennial, creeping plant, with pale blue, bell-shaped flowers; the Concans. 
1192. R. Patuta. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 45, Lam. Ill. ¢. 650. Jacq. Icon. 
Rar. 1. ¢. 119. 
Perennial, with ovate, scolloped leaves. Peduncles axillary; three flowered; 
flowers pale blue. 
1193. R. Deccanensis. G. 
Annual, creeping plant, with large, beautiful, bright blue flowers. Common 
in the Deccan, below bushes, during the rains. (Dr. Gibson.) 
It seems to be allied to R. hiria. Vahl’s Symbols ¢. 67. What is Roxburgh’s 
R. latebrosa? 
1194. R. Exvecans. Bot. Mag. t. 3389. 
Herbaceous, erect, hairy; leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate, tapering into 
the foolstalk; calyx of 5 linear, lanceolate, ciliated segments; tube of the 
corolla whitish; limb bright blue,—On the Ghauts; flowersin the rains. Sal- 
sette. N. The plant figured in Bot. Mag. was reared from seeds sent by 
Mr. Nimmo to Sir W. J. Hooker. 
1195. R. Impricata? Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 48. Willd- Spec. 3. p. 366. 
Vahl’s Symbols. 2. p. 73. Aetheilema veniforma. Nees in Wall. Asiat. Pl. Rar. 
3. p. 94. 
Wayutee. (Mahableshwur name.) A perennial plant, witha strong balsamic 
smell; leaves opposite, long petioled; one of the pair much smaller than 
the other. Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes; whitish; appear in 
December and January. Calyx and bracts covered with clammy hairs. 
The ravines about Parr. (Dr. Murray.) In thick Jungle on the Ghauts, 
generally. 
575. STROBILANTHUS. Blume, Didynamia Angiospermia.- 
Strobilus.—a cone—anthos—a flower; in allusion tothe mode in which the 
flowers grow. 
1196. S. Cinriata? Wall, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3. p. 85. : 
Marwee.—An erect growing shrub; stems as thick as a walking stick; 
branchless; (when it is regularly cut down.) something like young shoots of 
the English Elder. (Sambucus nigra.) Commonly used by the natives in 
the construction of mud walls, and for making fences with. Flowers in Octo- 
ber; of a bright blue; in closely imbricated cone---like spikes, formed by the 
bracts, as in Barleria lupulina of the Mauritius; are they distinct? N- 
Grows in great abundance on the Ghauts, frequently covering acres of 
ground, to the exclusion of every thing besides.—At Mahableshwur; most 
of the bungalow fences on Bombay Esplanade are made of it. The natives 
have a tradition, that it flowers only once in lO years. Itis a most useful 
plant to them. 
-e'4197. S. GLuTINosa? 
Karwee;—much like the last, but with hairy, glutinous bracts, haying a 
strong balsamic smell, 
