196 
Sprc. Cuar. Stem jointed, purplish: leaves opposite and alter- 
nate, lanceolate, serrulated: racemes terminal, oblong, many-fiow- 
ered, fringed with the long coloured hairs of the lanceolate bracts :, 
lower petal very large: flowers numerous, rose-coloured : spur long, 
ascending. 
Silhet. 
(40) I. exrzgans. (Bedd.) 
Ident. Beddome in Madr. Journ. IV. p. 67. 
Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous, erect, often throwing out roots from 
the joints, somewhat branched: leaves alternate, on very long pe- 
tioles, ovate, acuminate, crenate with incurved bristles, above a few 
rigid hairs on the nerves, beneath pale glabrous: peduncles axil- 
lary, shorter than the petiole, 3-(rarely 4—5)-flowered at the apex: 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate: upper sepals broad, ovate, flat, 
with a green ridge at their back; lateral ones ovate, with a green 
ridge ending in an acumen; lower one boat-shaped without a spur; 
upper of compound petals very small, incurved, and vaulted over 
the staminal crown; lower ones large spreading: capsule glabrous 3 
seeds hairy: flowers pale-rose with a dark eye. 
Annamullay Hills. Banks of streams. 
(41) I. Wientiana. (Bedd.) 
Ident. Madr. Journ. IV. p. 67. 
Spec. Car. Suffruticose, erect, branched: leaves alternate, 
narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, incurved, bristly-serrate, above a 
few hairs on the nerves, beiow glabrous: petioles very long, with 
long pedicelled glands at their apex: peduncles axillary, solitary, 
a little longer than the petioles, racemed nearly their whole length: 
upper sepals with a green ridge at their back; lateral ones small ; 
lower one ventricose with a short incurved spur; upper of com- 
pound petals very small; lower ones very long and narrow: pedi- 
cels in fruit horizontal: bracts small, ovate; capsule with about 3 
seeds: seeds slightly hairy: flowers white, with the upper sepals 
and lateral petals speckled with pink. 
Banks of the Toracadoo River. Annamullay Hills. 
(42) I.uicurata. (Bedd.) 
Edent. Madr. Journ. IV. p. 67. 
Srzc. Cuan. Erect, herbaceous, much branched, stems gla- 
brous: leaves opposite, linear, lanceolate, mucronate, often slightly 
cordate at the base, remotely bristle-toothed, above clothed with 
minute harsh pubescence, below glabrous and glaucous: petioles 
very short: peduncles 1-3, axillary, about half the length of the 
leaves, pubescent on one side, reflexed in fruit ; upper sepals small, 
lateral ones linear : spur curved, gibbous, inner of compound petals 
