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heads ; bracteoles conspicuous or absent. Calyx deeply 5-lobed ; lobes 

 imbricate, the upper the largest; sometimes in fruit all enlarged. 

 Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip erect, entire or notched, outmost in bud ; 

 lower 3-lobed, spreading ; throat not plicate ; tube cylindric. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, included ; anther-cells discrete, stipitate, one cell of 

 each anterior stamen or of all four stamens empty. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules in each cell numerous ; style filiform below, winged upwards 

 under the entire or 2 -lamellate stigma. Fruit an ovoid, ellipsoid, or 

 lanceolate 2-grooved and 4-valved capsule, opening both loculicidally 

 and septicidally. Seeds many, minute, reticulate. — Distrib. Species 

 about 10, in S.E. Asia and Australia. 



Flowers axillary ; outer fruiting sepals enlarged : — 

 Leaves ovate-obtuse, crenate-serrate 

 Leaves ovate-acute, serrate . . 

 Flowers in terminal heads, spikes or racemes; 

 altered : — 



Bracts linear, hardly exceeding the calyx : — 

 Spikes short, dense, cylindric or capitate 

 Spikes long, slender 

 Bracts leafy, elliptic, acute, longer than calyx 



1. A. 



2. A. 



sepals little 



ovatum. 

 inopinatuni. 



3. A. capitatum. 



4. A. cceruleuvi. 



5. A. hirsutum. 



1. Adenosma ovatum, Benth. in Hook. fil. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 263. 

 A puberulous or glabrate herb, branched from the base ; branches root- 

 ing below, prostrate or ascending, 6 to 18 in. long. Leaves ovate- 

 obtuse, crenate-serrate, base wide-cuneate, rounded or truncate ; blade 

 •75 in. long, -5 in. wide ; petiole -S in. Flowers axillary, sessile ; bracts 

 lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx of 5 almost free sepals ; in 

 flower herbaceous, sub-equal; in fruit membranous, reticulate, pubescent, 

 the 3 outer enlarged, '35 in. wide, ovate-cordate, the 2 inner un- 

 altered, narrow lanceolate, all -25 in. long. Corolla blue. Capsule 

 lanceolate, about as long as the sepals but hidden by the enlarged outer 

 ones. Herpestis ovata, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30 ; Wall. Cat. 3896. H. 

 javanica, Bl. Bijdr. 748. Pterostigma ovatum, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 

 380 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 678. 



Peeak : Gunong Tundul, Bidley 9444 ! Penang : Waterfall, Curtis ! 

 Malacca : Griffith ! Singapore : Bukit Timah, Bidley 6894 ! " a 

 garden weed," Bidley 8910 ! — Distrib. Indo-China, Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



2. Adenosma inopinatum, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXII. 2, 

 16. A pubescent herb, branched from the base ; branches rooting 

 below, ascending, 6 to 18 in. long. Leaves ovate-acute, serrate, base 

 cuneate ; blade 1 to 1'5 in. long, -75 to 1 in. wide ; petiole -3 in. 

 Flowers axillary, sessile ; bracts lanceolate, shorter than calyx. Calyx 



