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what shorter than they. Peduncle three inches long, slender, erect ;. 

 pedicels filiform, fascicled or verticilled, sub-unilateral, an inch and 

 a half long, supported by three lanceolate, gland-acute, spreading, at 

 length relieved bractlets. — Sepals obliquely ovate, with a subulate 

 point. Galea ovate, acuminate, concave, purplish ; lateral petals 

 oblong, two-lobed, an inch long ; the inner margin is furnished about 

 the middle with a short yellow claw. Nectary very ample, conical, 

 ascending, ventricose and gibbous, as long as the pedicel, ending in 

 a cylindric, curved spur; the mouth truncate, ending anteriorly in a 

 long filiform process. Capsule cylindric, smooth, shining, nearly 

 an inch and half long, containing eiaht or ten sub-cyliudiic seeds. — 

 N. W. 



10. f. mollis, Wall. 



Upper parts very soft and villous. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 

 with gibbous, cuspidate serratures. Peduncles solitary, half the 

 length of the leaves, filiform, one-flowered. Sepals ovate. Spur as 

 long as the flowers, slender, with the end incurved. 



1 have only found this on Sheopore, delighting like all the rest in 

 rich, moist, shady situations, and blossoming during the rains. 



Stem two or three feet high, erect, fleshy, and sub-diaphanous, 

 often purplish, jointed, with long alternate branches; about the thick- 

 ness of a swan's quill at the base, very soft and villous towards the 

 top, the lowermost joints sometimes rooting. — Leaves alternate, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, with gibbous, incumbent, cuspidate seiratuies, 

 base attenuate and decurrent, almost entire (as is also the acumen) ; 

 soft and pubescent on both side3, especially underneath, where they 

 are marked with copious oblique nerves ; from four to six inches long. 

 — Tetiol slender, about an inch and half long; margined towards 

 the leaf- — Peduncles axillary, one-flowered, very slender and fili- 

 fprm, villous, several times longer than the petiols, jointed a little 

 above the base, and there furnished with a pair of small, lanceolate 

 hractlets. — Flowers large, purple, nodding. The sepals obliquely 

 ovate, acute, a little hairy on the back, otherwise smooth, Corolla 



