292 



(1) I. FEKMOLiis. (Nees.) i 



Ident. Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. 17. p. 82. — Dec. prod. iXi 

 p. 280. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1355.. 



Spec. Char. Suffrutiqos^, erect, simple, glabrous below, woolly 

 'tome'ntose above : leaves congested towards the apex, short-petioled, 

 alternate, obovate-cuneiform, acute or shortly acuminate, minutely 

 serrated, penninerved, pubescent above, tomento'se beneath : tomen- 

 tum in the dried specimen rttsty or tawny coloured: peduncles 

 asillaryj aboijt the length of the petioles, slefidff, drooping: cymes 

 many-floweired. 



' ConTtallam, in moist shady jungles. Western slopes of the She- 

 Vagherry hills. Flowering in August. 



GENUS Vn. JERDONIA. 



Didjnnainia Angloapernila. Sex: Sjfsti 



Derii. ' Named after Dr. Jerdon, Madras Medical Service, an 

 JBminent Naturalist. 



Gen. Chau. Calyx 5-parted, lobes narrow lanceolate : corolla 

 Bubinfimdibuliform, 4-lobed, the posterior one larger, emarginate i 

 stamens 4; all fertile : filaments dilated, anterior pair broader, 

 furnished with a broad descending tooth : anthers 2-cellbd, and, 

 cohering at the apex, form a disk-like crown over the atigma t 

 cells divaricating : ovary embraced at the base by a cap-shaped 

 disk, 1-celled, with 4 parietal placentse, 2 at each side : ovules 

 attached %o the slender filiform podosperm : style short ; stigma 

 dilated, peltate, concealed under the cohering anthers. 



(1) J. INDICA. {R. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icdn. vol. IV. &. t. 1352. 



Spec. Char. A small herbaceous stemless plant : leaves pe<" 

 tioled, oval, obtuse at both ends or slightly cordate at the base, the 

 younger ones pubescent all over, the veins and margins only of the 

 older ones clothed with long reddish hairs : scapes erect, filiform, 

 longer than the leaves : pedicels short, subumbellate, surrounded 

 with subulate pilose bracts : calyx winged with moniliforin hairs, 

 lobes narrow-laneeolate or subulate : corolla ihfundibulifonn, limb 

 somewhat bilabiate : filaments incurved at the apex, dilated below, 

 the anterior pair pubescent. 



Western slopes of the Neilgherries, flowering in March and April, 



