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Spec. Char. Pubescent : stem erect, branched : radical leaves 

 cordate-ovate, subacute : stem ones ovate-acute, cuneate at the 

 base : racemes without bracts, often twice bifid : calyx lobes ovate, 

 rather obtuse : corolla tube the length of the calyx, limb spread- 

 ing : flowers pale blue : nuts ovate-compressed, covered with hook-i 

 ed bristles round the margin. 



Near Vingorla. Mahableshwur. 



(4) 0. GLOCHIDIATCM. (Wall.} 



Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 922. — Dec. prod. X. p. 150. 

 Syn. C. vesiculosum, Wall. 



Spec. Char. Stem ergct, branched, hispid : hairs of the stenx 

 and the leaves spreading, tuberculate at their base, branches rather 

 angular : leaves lanceolate-acuminate, attenuated ajt the base : ra- 

 cemes terminal, solitary or twin, without bracts : calyx lobes ovate, 

 oblong-obtuse, silky and strigose : fruit with a hairy ring surmounts 

 ed by long teeth, which have 5 to 6 recurved hooks at their apex., 



PaiT Ghaut, flowering in November. 



(5) C. FURCATUM. (jB. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. &. t. 1395. 



Spec. Char. " Stems ramous, adpressed, pubescent or toinentose, 

 the hairs of the lower part reflexed : leaves glaucescent, adpressed, 

 pubescent : radical ones petioled, oval-lanceolate, acute at both, 

 ends : cauline ones sessile, the upper ones half-stem-clasping, ovate- 

 cordate : racemes paired, slender, ebracteate, secund, hairy : flowers 

 purple, scales of the throat two-lobed. 



Neilgherries, very common, rising from 1 to 3 feet high, and 

 flowering nearly all seasons. 



GENUS X. TRICHODESMA. 



PentandrSa Monogynia. Sex. Syat : 



Deriv. Prom Thrix, hair, and Desma, a bond ; the antherg 

 are bound to each other by hairs. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-parted or deeply 5-cleft, often accrescent, 

 lobes attenuated from a broad often auricled base : corolla scarce- 

 ly longer than the calyx, tube broad cylindrio, throat without 

 scales, lobes broad from the base, often acuminate-subulate : sta- 

 mens inserted on the tube : anthers many times greater than the 

 filament, connivent into a cone, more or less villous at the back, 

 usually long-subulate at the apex : ovary 4-celled, ovate-acute or 

 djppreaaed, somewhat 4-lobed: style filiform; stigma somewhat 



