436 



(21) S. ASPER. (R. W.). 



Meni. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t. 1518. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby, erect, four-sitjed, young shoots furrow- 

 ied on two si^es, older branches glabrous, braochlets hirsute : leaves 

 ■^nequal, ovate oblong, long petioled, acuminate, crenato-serrate, 

 "rough p,n both sides, yenoso-reticulate : peduncles axillary, shorter 

 than the petioles, trifid : spikes compact, ovate, bracts broad ovate, 

 yentricose, undulate, attenuated below into a winged petiole, cuspi- 

 dato-acuminate above : bracteoles linear-lanceolate, bristly, as long 

 as the calyx. 



Neilgherries in woods above Pygarrah. 



(22) S. MICRANTHES. f^- ^'-X 



Ment. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t. 1519. 



' Spec Char. SuiFruticose, or herbaceous, erect, stems 4-angledi, 

 glabrous : leaves long petioled, broad 'Ovate, serrated, abruptly acu- 

 iiiinate, decurr^nt into the petiole, somewhat hispid above, reticu- 

 late venous and sparingly pubescent beneath : spikes axillary, opT 

 posite, drooping : ped,uncles refract near the apex : bracts ovate, 

 lanceolate, acute, the lower ones foliaceous, pubescent, those above 

 membranous, ciliate : bracteoles linear lanceolate, longer than the. 

 ?alyx. . ! 



Neilgherri«s. 



(23) S. Grahamiakus. (R. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol.W. & t. 1,520, --Dalz. Bomb, flor. 

 p. 187. 



Spec. Ohar. Shrubby, ramous, 4-sided, older branches gla- 

 brous, tubetculate : leaves broad ovate, cuspidato-acuminate, slight- 

 ly crenato-dentate, decurreot on the Ipijg petiole, stejlately-hirsute. 

 above, pubescent beneatb, reticulately veined : peduncles axillary 

 or from the naked branches, trifid, sljiprter than the petioles : spikes 

 Ova,te oblong, glabrous : bracts orbicular, ventricose, the lower one, 

 a little m9i;e remote, densely lineolate, sometimes hispid;: bract^ple^ 

 none. 



Bonibay. 



(24) S. Neesiana. (R. W.) 



Meni. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t. 1523.— Calz. Bomb. flor. 

 p. 188. 



Spec. Char. Sufifruticose, branchlets subterete, glabrous : leaves 

 jinequal, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, acute, slightly unequal at th^ 



