28a 



(6) D. TOMENTOSA. (R. W.) 



lient. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. t. 1349. 



* Spec. Char. Leaves obovate^spathulate, densely crenate, dull 

 whitish tomentose above, densely lusty-tomentose or woolly be- 

 neath : scapes erect, dichototnously cynaose, many-flowered, hairy 

 above : calyx 5-cleft, lobes linear obtuse, clothed with glandular 

 hairs, : corolla subcampanulate, 5-c1eft, lobes suborbicular : fertile 

 stamens shorter than the tube : ovary abotit the length of the calyx :' 

 ^tigma dilated : capsule cylindrical, about 1| inch long, pointed,' 

 hairy, splitting along one side only : flowers bluish purple. 



Meilgherries. Hills near Coimbatote. Flowering in February. 



(7) D, G»iFFix»u. {R. fV:) 



Ment. Wight's lUust. vol. II. p. 182. & t. 159. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous^ erect, 4-8ided, farrowed on ttib sides, 

 angles roundish, blunt, pilose above: leaves ovate, acuminate,, 

 erenato-serrated, longish-petioled, pilose on both, sides : peduncles 

 axillary, longer than the petioles, cymosely 5-7-flowered : flowers 

 longish pedacelled : calyx deeply- departed,, segmems lanceolate : 

 corolla tubular, five-Iobed : stamens didynamous, the fifth rudi- 

 mentary one sometimes wanting,, stigma 2-lobed : <Symeis furnished 

 with a pair of lanceolate bracts at e^ch division : tul^e of the corolla, 

 hairy without. 



Khasia. 



(8) D. cristata. {Dale.) 



Ident. Dalz. Bomb. fior. p. 134. — Hook. Journ^ B'ot. Ill, pk 

 S25. 



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, 8 to 9 inches high, simple, 

 erect, round, fleshy : leaves Iai;ge, opposit^i pedoled, broadly cor- 

 date, ovate-obtuse, slightly hairy on both sides : inflorescence in the 

 opposite a^ils and connate with the petioles, crested, hairy, shorter 

 than the leaf, consisting of numerous pedicels rising upwacds, and 

 united belaw into a short thick peduiicle : corolla white, half an inch 

 long: capsule' longt slendier, curved, pubescent : seeds dangled, 

 oblong. 



. On rocks near Parwar Ghaut, fliowering in Septembet and Oc-*, 

 tober. 



