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■of 5 almost fx'ee sepals ; in flower herbaceous, sub-equal ; in fruit mem- 

 "branous, reticulate, the 3 outer enlarged, -25 in. wide, ovate-lanceolate 

 with truncate bases, the 2 inner unaltered, narrow lanceolate, all "25 in. 

 long. Corolla blue. Capsule lanceolate, about as long as the sepals 

 but hidden by the enlarged outer ones. 



Malacca : Griffith ! Singapore : Anderson ! King's Collector ! 



Very nearly allied to A. ovatum, Benth., and A. subrepens, Benth. It differs from 

 both by its acute leaves, but except in this respect and as regards its distribution it is 

 hardly separable from A. subrepens of Ceylon. From A. ovatum of Tenasserim, with 

 ■which it has been confused, it further differs in its larger size, coarser habit of growth, 

 and much narrower outer sepals. It has also been confused with A. deruleum, from 

 -which it differs by its flowers being all axillary and by its enlarged fruiting sepals. 



3. Adenosma capitatum, Benth. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 264. 

 A stout, erect, glandular-villous herb, 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves ovate or 

 oblong, sub-acute, serrate, often reflexed ; base euneate ; blade 1 to 

 2 in. long, -5 to '75 in. wide ; petiole very short. Flowers in dense cylin- 

 dric or globose terminal or axillary heads, with basal involucres of floral 

 leaves ; peduncles 1 in. or less, sometimes in the lower clusters sub- 

 obsolete and the flowers in axillary whorls ; heads usually -5 in. across, 

 sometimes longer up to 4 in. long ; bracts linear, hardly exceeding the 

 sepals. Calyx of 5 almost free sepals, villous with long hairs, '25 in. 

 long, the uppermost ovate-lanceolate, broader than the other lanceolate 

 4. Corolla blue. Capsule ovoid, -2 in. long. Steviodia capitata, Benth. 

 in Bot. Eeg. under t. 1470 ; Wall. Cat. 3926. Pterostigma spicatum, 

 Benth. Scroph. Ind. 21. P. capitatum, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 31, and 

 in DC. Prod. X. 380. Erinus bilabiatus, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 92. 



Peov. Welle slet : King! King's Collector. Pbnang : Wallich ; 

 Deschamps ! Curtis ! Singapore : King ! Bidley ! Malacca : Cuming ! 

 Ayer Keroh, Bidley ! Griffith ; Wallich. Negri Sembilan : Kwala 

 Pedas, Bidley ! Pahang : Bidley ! — Disteib. Throughout S.E. Asia. 



4. Adenosma cceruleum, E. Br. Prod. 443. An erect herb, 1 to 

 2 feet high, viscidly pubescent. Leaves ovate-acute, crenate, base 

 rounded or cordate ; blade 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide ; petiole 

 '5 to 1 in. long. Floioers in long slender strict spikes ; bracts lanceo- 

 late, about as long as calyx. Calyx of 5 almost free sepals, the upper 

 lanceolate the rest linear, not very greatly altered in fruit. Corolla 

 blue. Capsule lanceolate, rather longer than the sepals. Benth. Flor. 

 Austral. IV. 484; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 263. Pterostigma 

 mllosum, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 21, and in DC. Prod. X. '^diQ partly ; Miq 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 678. P. strictum, Griff. Not. IV. 96 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 417, f. 3. Stemodia coerulea, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 381. Herpestis 

 lamcginosa, Bl. Bijdr. 747. 



