424 



Spec. Char. Stem erect : branches numerous, almost smooth : 

 leaves cordate-ovate or suborbiculate, glabrous : racemes axillary; 

 elongated, secund, straight : flowei-s large, pale-blue : capsiile an 

 inch Itiilg. 



Very common in most parts of the cotintry. There are Varieties 

 With whitej piirplish-blue and primrose-coloiired flbwers. 



^6) A. vioLACEA. {Dale.) 



Tdeni. Dali, Bdmb. flor. p. 186. 



Spec. Char. Stem ascending, joiiited, smooth, striated, ob- 

 tusely ^uadraiigiilar : leaves ovate or oblong-acute, entire, lower 

 bnes attenuated into the petiole, tipper rounded at the base, short 

 ]>etioled 01* subsessile : racemes telrminalj secund, solitary or twin : 

 flowers an inck loiig, of a deep-blue, s6mewhat 2-li()ped, the lower 

 lip of a dark-violet : the throat spotted TJith ptirple. 



Concans. TraVancore. 



(7) A. Lawiana. (Dalz.) 



ikerit. Dalz. in Hook. Joum, Bot. IV. p. 344.-^B6mb. &oi. 

 p. 186. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous; erect, quadrangular, knotted, 

 trichotomdus : leaves ellipUc-ohlong, acute, suddenly harrowing 

 into a petiole of 1 iiich, roughisH above, hispid on the nerves 

 beneath : spikes terminal, solitary, short : flowers approximated, 

 sessile, opposite, decussate : bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, folii 

 aceous, 3-nerved, villous : flowers small, white, shorter than the 

 bracts. 



Near Dharwar, flolvering in the r^ihs. 



GENUS XXVli. BCHmAdAlJTMuS. 

 Didynaniifi AnsidHpermia. Seit: Syst: 



beriv. From Echiniis, a hedge-hog ; probably alluditlg to thel 

 bristly anthers. 



Gen. Char. Calyx deepljr S^Cleft, tlearly equal, erect when in 

 ifruit : corolla funnel-shaped, limb equal : stamens four, didyna- 

 itioiis, included, connate by pairs at the base : anthers sagittate, 

 bvjkl, oblong, hairy, cells parallel, at the base either one or two 

 BpUrred : stigmtt simple : dapsule 2-celled, many-seeded from the 

 base : dissepimfent complete, adnate : seeds cordktely subrotiuid, 

 compressed; silbtended by retinacula. — Herbs : leaves more or 

 less denticulatei : cymes either axillary, 2-cleft with an interme- 

 diate flower, the branches secund-flowered upwards, or arranged 

 in a terminal panicle : bracts narrow - bracteoles none : flowers 

 middle-sized. 



