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entire or emarginate, lower lip often nearly equalling the spurs 

 seeds more or less deeply scrobiculate : flowers blue or violet. 



For. 1. Scape at first few, afterwards 5-7-flowered : pedicels 

 nearly equalling the calyx : upper lip of the corolla often more or^ 

 less obovate, em^ginate or entire. — U. decipiens, Dalz. in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. UI. p. 279. 



. Far. 2. Scape 1-4-flowered : pedicels very s^t, sc^cely ex- 

 peeding the bract : upper lip of the corolla obovate, emarginate.-Trr 

 U, brachypoda, Wight's Icon. t. 1578-.1. 



(1) Concan. Neilgherries. (2) Quilon. 



(7), U, c^BULEA. (LiHn.) 



Ideni. Oliver in Journ. Proc. Linn. See. III. p. 179. — Linn, 

 Herb, (not Dec.) 



Spec. Char. Leaves spathulate or linear-spathulate, usuallj 

 evanescent before flowering : scape firm or slender, erect or some- 

 what twining, furnished with few ovate acute scales : fructiferout 

 pedicels slender, erect, ascending, never deflexed, at last equalling 

 or exceeding the calyx : upper lobe of the calyx ovate-acuminate, 

 shorter than the upper obovate, or oibiculate-obovate, entire lips of 

 the corolla ; lobes of the fructiferous calys^ ovate, apute or acqmi? 

 nate : seeds minute, reticulately striated : flowers blue. 



' Var. 1'. Scape firm or slender : racemes finally elongated, flow- 

 ers remote : fructiferous pedicels equalling or exceeding the calyx, 

 erect or erecto-patent : upper lip of the corolla very often obovate, 

 lower usually more or less ascending. — U. pedicellata, Wight's 

 Icon. t. 1578. /, 2.— U. conferta, Wight I. e. t. 1575, 



Var. 2. Scape often firmer furnished with numerous Avate, 

 acute scales : flowers few, subterminal : pedicels straight, nearly 

 equalling the calyx. — U. squamosa, Wight I. c. 



Far. 3. Elongated : scape slender or twining : pedicels mor'^ 

 ■lender, loosely-ascending or spreading archwise : upper lip of the 

 poroUa narrower. — U. uliginoides, Wight L e. (. 1573, 



(1) Mountains of the Peninsula. Gpncan. Neilgherries. Pul- 

 ney Hills. Oourtallum. (2) Sispara. (3) Courtallum. Flower- 

 ing \n the rainy season. 



(8) U. RETICt?LATA. fSm.) 



Ident. Oliver in Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. III. p igo Dec 



prod. Vin. p. ig.-rWan, Oat. No. 1493. 

 Engrav. Sm. Exot. Bot. t. 119. 



ppEc, Char. Scape twjning, or firm and erect: leaves linear, 

 often deciduous before flowering : upper lobe of the calyx ovate 

 ve^y acute or cuspidate, shorter than the eptire , ovate, very obtuse 

 upper lip of the corolla : spur subulate-dependent : calyx fructifer,; 

 8WS, accrescent, margins oft^n decurrent with ^he deflexed pe^ipel, 



