lor 



(5) C. Khasiana. {H. F. ^ T.) 



Ideni. H. F. & T. in Jour. Proc. Linn. Soc. II. p. 25. 



Spec. Chak. Hispidly pubescent : stem simple, erect, straight, 

 somewhat robust, furrowed : leaves suberect, sessile, obovate-oblong, 

 acuminated, serrated, hispidly pubescent on both sides : raceme 

 long, terminal, simple, or paniculately branched : tube of the calyx 

 subglobose : lobes bristly-lanceolate: corolla glabrous, campanu- 

 late, shortly o-lobed : style slender : stigmas 2 : flowers middle^ 

 sized; nodding, short>pedicelled : pedicels bracteate. 



Khasia mountains,, flowering in July. 



GENUS VIII. PIDDINGTONIA. 



Peiitandrla monogynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. Named after H. Piddington, author of an English Indejc 

 to Indian Plants. 



Gen. Char.. Calyx-tub& ovoid, narrowed below : lobes linear- 

 acuminate, equal, 3 upper ones approximated, and less patent: 

 corolla longitudinally cleft at the back ; two upper lobes linear, 

 erect, lower lip 3-cle£t, patent : lobes ovate^acute ; lips equal in 

 length : anthers 2, terminated by solitary bristles : stigma 2-lobed : 

 berry thick, ovoid-globose, 2-celled. 



(!') P'. Nummularia. (Lam.) 



Ident. Lam. Diet, II. p. 589.' — Deo. prod. VIT. p. 341. 

 Syn. Rapuntium nummulariura, PresL—Tjohelia begonifoRa,', 

 Wall, in Roxh.fl. Ind. II. p. 115. 



Engrav. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1373. (under Pratia.) 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, creeping : stems rooting, hairy : leavei 

 pubescent, unequally reniform, cordate, toothed, niucronulate : pe- 

 dicels quite glabrous, naked, in the axils of the middle leaves : 

 flowers purplish. 



Khasia mountains at 4 — 7000 feet, flowering in the rainy seasonj 



GENUS IX. LOBELIA. 



Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Sytt: 



Deriv. Named after Matthew Lobel, author of various Botanical 

 works ; he was Physician to James I. and died in London in 161 6i 



Gen. Char. Herbs, rarely undershrubs : leaves alternate ; 

 jedicels axillary : flowers often racemosely-spiked, blue, white, 



