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(2) P. Ze-Stianica. (^Benth.) 



Ident. Benth. Scroph. Ind.ji. 54.— Dec, prod. X. p. S80. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1419.— Spicil. II. t. 185. 



ferEC. Char. Furfiiraceo-pubescent, or rarely nearly glabrous : 

 loosely ramous at the base : brandies ascending or erect : leaves 

 petioled, oblong, obtuse, doubly crenate : racemes capitate or elon- 

 gated : calyx cleft along one side, cristately 2— 3-toothed behind : 

 tube of the corolla shortly exsened : helmet iuCurvedj obtuse, eros- 

 trate : flowers pink. 



Neilgherries, flowering in the rainy season. 



(8) P. flAgellaris. {BentJb.'j 



. Ident. Benth. in Dec. prod. X. p. 581. 



Spec. Char. Perennial ? stems elongated, procumbent, villotis i 

 leaves pinnately parted, segments oblong, cut atid toothed : racemes 

 elongated from the base, leafy, compact at the apex : calyx tubular, 

 occasionally cleft, 2-5-toothed, teeth crested : corolla tube exsert-" 

 ed, helmet arched above, narrowed, beaked : capsule ovate-lanceC*- 

 late. 



Upper Assain. 



ORDER CXIX. OROBANCHACE^. 



Flowers irregular : calyx fl-ee, persistent, 4-^5-sepaled i 

 sepals cohering into a 4-5-cleft calyx, or united by pairs : 

 corolla monopetaWus, hj'pogynous, pentamerous, or by union 

 of the upper pairs, tetramerous, petsistent, Estivation imbri- 

 cated, tube more or less curved, limb more or less 2-lipped ; 

 stamens 4, didyhatabus, inserted oii the base, dehiscing by a 

 longitudinal slit or oblong pore : ovary free, bound at the base 

 by a fleshy disk, 1-celled : placentse parietal, paired on each 

 side the ovarj', either distinct or geminately-connate, or with 

 two broadly 2-lobed placentifi extending from the paiietesr 

 placentse lateral as regards the axis of inflorescence : ovules 

 usiially numerous, aiiatropous, with sometimes a longish funi- 

 culus : style terminal, simple : stigma large, capitate, 2-lobe<I, 

 lobes either over the placentae, or placed anterior and posterior^ 



