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Spec. Char. Leaves subsessile, oblong- lanceolate, or hearlV 

 linear, entire or serrated : flowers racemose, blue : capsules 2 to 3 

 times longer than the calyx : leaves narrower and not so much ser- 

 rated as in the preceding. 



Southern Concan. Silhet. Hindostan, Floweting in the rainy 

 season. 



(7) B. GRANDIFLORA. (Spreug.) 



Ident. Sprehg. Syst. I. p. 41. — Dec. prod. X. p. 421. 



Syn. Gratiola grandiflora, Roxb. — Henckelia grandiflora, Link. 

 — G. pulegiifolia, Vakl. — B. pulegiifolia, Spreng. — B. Wightii, 

 Benih. 



Engrav. Roxb. Cor. II. t, 179. 



, Spec. Char. Stem diffuse, rather creeping : ovate-oblong or 

 lanceolate, sessile, serrated : flowers axillary, upperinost ones race- 

 mose : capsules linear, scarcely twice as long as the calyx : flowers 

 light blue. 



South Concan. Coromandel. Flowering in the rainy season. 



(8) B. opposiTiFOLiA. {Sprehg.) 



Ident. Spreilg. Syst. 1. p. 41. — Dec. prod. X. p. 421. 



Syn. Gratiola oppositifolia, Roxb. — Henckelia oppositifolia^ 

 Link. — G. minima. Roth. — B. minima, G. Don. 



Spec. Char. Erect: leaves oblong or lanceolate, slightly ser- 

 rated : flowers axillary, uppermost ones racemose : capsules lineary 

 scarcely twice as long as the calyx: flowers smalt, blue. 



Concans. Coromandel. Flowering in the rainy season. 



GENUS XVni. PEPLIDIUM. 

 Dlandria Monogynia. Sex: Systt 



t)eriv. From Peplis, piirslane ; plants with the habit of 

 Purslane. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubular, 5 -sided, very shortly 5-tdothed : 

 limb of the corolla 5-cleft, lowest segments much longer : poste- 

 rior stamens none, filaments of the anterior ones dilated at the 

 base, sorhewhat appendieulate : anthers small, 2-celled, cells pa- 

 •■rallel : style spathnlately dilated at the apex : capsule globose, 

 thinly membranaceous, fragile. 



