114 lENTANlHUA MONOCYNIA.' Lobelia, 



lieight of at least EOOO feet above the sea. It is also found in the 

 "llilly country near Sj'lhet. It blossoms all the year round. 



I have very little to add to the description I have given in the 

 above-quoted work. The p^ut varies very much in height, and is 

 often found altogether of a deep purple colour, but chiefly the flora! 

 branches and leaves. Capsule large, round, or ovate, generally node 

 ding, slightly ribbed, crowned by the long liuear calycine segments 

 arid often by the remaining tube of the corolla, two-celled. Seeds 

 very minute, ferruginous. 



6. L. excelsa, Leschenauft. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolar, acuminate, denticulate, attenuate at both 

 ends, densely villous, short-petioled. Raceme terminal, erect, villous, 

 columnar, most densely beset with flowers aud foliaceous bractes. 

 Calycine lacinia linear, as long as the tube. 



Found on Neelgni* by my highly respected friend Mr. Lesche- 

 nault de la Tour, who informs me that it is an annual plant growing 

 to the height of ten to twelve feet, and called by the natives Oumari. 



The specimen which my friend has indulged me with consists only 

 of a couple of detached, probably lower or radical leaves, and a ra- 

 ceme of unopened flowers, which however indicate great beauty in 

 the growing plant. The leaves are ten inches long, one inch and a 

 third broad at the middle, and from thence tapering towards both 

 ends, finely and copiously denticulated; exceedingly villous and soft 

 underneath, reticulated, maiked with an elevated rib and oblique 

 approximated nerves, upper surface much smoother ; they are very 

 much like the leaves of some species of Callicarpa. Petioles short, 

 marked by the Recurrent base of the leaf.— Raceme full ten inches 

 Ion", nearly three broad, all its parts villous. Flowers large, exceedingly 

 numerous, aud close together, peduncled, each supported by a sessile, 

 lanceolate, or sublinear, finely acuminated serrulate bracte from an 

 inch to an inch and a quarter long —Culycine luciuice linear, denti- 

 culate, acute, equalling the tube. 



» The blue-mountains. They are situated near Coimbetore. 



