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adpressed hairs, below pale, glabrous, Very short petioled : pedun? 

 cles axillary from half as long to nearly- as long as the leaves, pu- 

 bescent, furnished with several ovate pointed bracts at the apex, 

 umbelliferous, bearing several flowers on simple pedicels and a 

 second peduncle which is again ■^mbelliferous or sometimes much 

 elongated and paniculate, pedicels ^pubescent: icalycine lobes gla- 

 brous, subulate, half the length of the ventricose base of the gla- 

 brous corolla : segments Qf the'corolTa as Iffifig or longer than ihe 

 tube, exterior lobes of the staminal cro\yn short, emarginate, ciliate, 

 alternate with jt^e inner long ligulate lobes : follicles Ipng, slen^^r, 

 ierete : flowers greenish-white. 



Annamullays, rocky places at 2,50Q to 3,500 feet. 

 (26) 0. riMB&iiFERA. (J2, H. B.) 



Ident. Beddoffie I. c. 



Spec. Char. Root tuberous : stejca, erect,, minutely pubescent: 

 leaves subsessile, narrow ensiform, ta^etiil'g to the apex, -minutely 

 ciliated, abQv? pubegcei^, beneath glaJbrous, except on the midrib 

 and minutely frosted : peduncles axillary, short, nearly glabrous, 

 about 4-flowered, flowers openinlg in succession : pedicels about as 

 long as peduncles, furnished at ithe ^ase with a few siibulate bracts : 

 calycinp segments subulate, acute: corolla tube narrowed upWard^ 

 (but not ventricose at the base), segments about the length of the 

 tube with tufts of numerous lofag purple gland tipped hairs between 

 the segments : outer lobes' of the stamina!' crown short, sharply 

 bifid, and ciliated,' inner lohes long, ligiilate and adnate to the centre 

 of the outer ones : follicles terete : flower tube grefcriish, dutside 

 deep purple striated, inside, segments pale greenish purple, frii^e 

 i^eep purple. 



AnnamuUay hills, at 3,000 feet, rare. 



(27) C. GRACILIS. {R. H. 5.) 



Ident. Beddbnie I.' c. 



Spec Char. Root -fibrous; ijteins twinjng, glabrous : les^y*^ 

 short petiolpd, pvate-ellip^io, acuminate, nqinutely ^JHate,; ^ye 

 furnished with a few distant short .hairs, njiniitely pellncid/^.pitte^^ 

 Jieneath shilling, glahrqnsy except on t^ midpl^: pedunpl?s logger 

 than the petiql^, 2-5-.fti)were4j flpwfirs Tt?ry jl^rge, tube short ic^-. 

 tricose at the base, segments longer than the tube, very narrow at 

 ^he middle, broader upwards: outer lobes oif the staminalcroWn 

 short, deeply bifid, Sliale, with long fine ^airs, inner lobes alternate 

 jvith them, distant, long, ligulate. 



^nnamullays,in moist woods at 4,000 feet,' fare, 



