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Vat, i. Scape very often twining, furnished with scales and 

 bvate, acute or acuminated bracts : pedicels fructiferous, patent or 

 inore often deflexed, margined towards the apex, equally or much 

 exceeding the calyx: flowers remote: lobes of the calyx fructifer- 

 ous, much .increasing, broad- ovatej acute: upper lip of the corolla* 

 ovate, round at the apex or ovate-orbiculatle, , entire, exceeding tho 

 iippef lobe of the calyx and almost covering it with reflexed mar- 

 gins : lower lip largcj galeate, entire or marginate, equally or often 

 much exceeding the straight or scarcely curved subulate, acute 

 «pur : capsule ovate or elliptie covered by the enlarged calyx : seeds 

 ovate Or oblong) striated: flowers blue or violet) lower lip of th4 

 corolla towards the throat pale or whitish longitudinally and trans- 

 versely streaked with coloured nerves: spur pale or whitish. — 

 Wight's 111. II. *. Ui.—Rheede Mai. IX. t. 70.— U. uliginosaj 

 VTight'i Icon. t. 1674. (partlj/.J 



Fair. 2, Scape erect, firm : scales more or less acute ; fructifer- 

 ous pedicelis tnarginatie, equalling oi^ shorter thka the enlarged calyx* 

 a little exceeding the bract^ ascending or deflexo-patent : lobes of 

 the calyx finally elliptic, narrowed downwards : corolla smaller, the 

 upper lip equalling or shorter than the calyx, lower one nearly 

 fequalling the spur, which itself is scarcely longer than the calyx.— 

 U. liliginosa, Faht. — tj. huriiilisi tteyne. — U. pi^lygaloides, Edgw. 



(1) Neilgherries. Malabar. Mysore. Concans. MangalorSi 

 i^uilon. (2) Coromandel. Mysore. Bengal. Flowering in the 

 rainy season i 



- (9) U. scANDENs. (Benj.) 



Ideni. Benj. Mss. in Herb. Hook, (partly.) — bliver in JoumJ 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. III. p. 181. 



Spec. G^ar. Vfery slender : sdape twining, very thin, furnished 

 ■with few, very minute, ovate scales : pedicels remote, often very 

 short or equalling the calyx ; fructiferous ones usually deflexed : 

 lobes of the calyx somewhat unequal, upper one shorter, ovate* 

 orbiculate, almost equalling the very obtuse, entire or subemargi-i 

 liate upper lip of the corolla : lower lobe ovate, shorter than the 

 conical, subulate, dependent spur: lobes of the friietiferous' catyi 

 obtuse, nearly equalling the ovate or elliptic capsule : flowers blue| 

 usually remote : seeds reticiilately striated, scrobiculate. 



STear the Madura hills. 



(10) is. BitiBA. (Linn.) [ 



ident. Oliver in Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. III. p, 182. 



• Syn. U. biflora, Wall.—\J. diaintha. Bee. prod. VIII. p. 21.«-# 

 U. humilisj R. W. 



JEngrav. Wight's Icon, t. 1572, t 2, 



