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385. 



St>EC. Chati. Erect, hispid, about one foot in height: leaves 

 'opposite, sessile, linear, almost enliri?, very roush : flowers axillary, 

 solitary, subsessile, somewhat trumpet-shaped, of a deep purplish 

 t'ed. 



Hilly parts of the Concan. Goromandel. Hindostan. Flowi 

 'ering nearly all the year. 



GENUS XXVm. PEDICULAEIS. 



Didyiiamia Angiospermia. Sex.- Systi 



Deriv. From P^diculifs, a louse; The supposed effect on sheejj 

 eatings it. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tabular or eampanulate, in front and some- 

 ^imea at the back more or less cleft,. 2-5-toothed at the apex ; 

 teeth rarely equal, lateral ones connate or free, cristato-dentate 

 ipr entire, posterior one very often less, entire or wanting : tube 

 of the corolla cylindric or slightly amplified at the throat ; hel- 

 met compressed, entire or increased in front under the apex by a« 

 tooth on either side or produced into a truncated or 2-toothedi 

 beak : lower lip somewhat erect, 2-crested above : lobes 3, erect, 

 spreading or deflexed, lateral ones rounded: filaments usiially 

 hairy : anthers transverse, in pairs, or all approximate ; cells 

 equal, mntic : capsule compressed, ovate or lanceolate, more or 

 less falcate or oblique, especially at the apex, loculioi.liilly dehis- 

 'cing behind from the apex towards the base and iq front often 

 more shortly : seeds lafcei'ally attached in the lower part of the 

 capsule, ovoid, largish. — Herbs, usually inountainons : leaves 

 alternate or verticil late, one or many times pinnately divided or 

 rarely simply toothed : flowers spiked, rarely racemose, without 

 bracts : floral leaves bract-shaped, entire or cut, rarely agreeing 

 in shape with the cauline ones. 



(1) P. Perottettii. (Benth.) 



Ident. Benth. in Dec. prod. X. p. 565. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1418. 



Spec. Char. Small: sparingly pilose: branches simple : leaves 

 deeply pirinatifid, lobes ovate or oblorif;, crenate : flowers axillary, 

 taedicelled : calyX' tubular with the lirnb, crested: corolla many 

 times longer than the calyx, with a slender tube: capsules not 

 beaked. 



Eoondah hills, NeilghetrieS. 



