438 



(28) S. RCGOsus. (R. W.y 



Menu Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t. 1619. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby, erect, ramous ; branchlets spaKinffly 

 pubescent, 4-sided, furrowed, angles blunt, older branches glabrous : 

 ^e^yes ,broad, ovate acuininate, coarsely crenato-serrated, decurrent 

 on the petiole, wrinkled, hirsute on both sides : spikes globose, ax- 

 illary, simple or compound, when compound peduncles trifid or 

 sometimes twice trifid : lower bracts remote, sterile, reflexed, aX\ 

 obovate, round above, glabrous : bracteoles none. 



Coonoor, Neilgherries. 



(29) S. CALLOSUS. (Nees,J 



ident. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. 85.— Dea^ 

 prod. XT. p. 185.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 188. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby : stem verrucose : leaves elliptic-cuspi- 

 date, running down into a long, petiole, with minute callous teeth, 

 on the margin, scabrous and ciliated : spikes axillary, compound, 

 shorter than the leaf: bracts orbicular, ventricose, lower more re- 

 mote, sterile : branches 4-sided, glabrous, often rough with wart^ 

 and grey points : flowers deep-blue : s^eds quite smooth. 



The Ghauts, flowering in August. 



(30) S. Heyneanus. (Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XI. p. 184. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 187. 



Spec. Char. Stems about a foot high, herbaceous, strigpse and 

 hirsute : leaves elliptic- cuspi^atf, running down into a long petiole, 

 crenate serrate, hirsute : spikes axillary, compound, shorter than 

 the leaf, sub-globose, glabfous : bracts ofbicular, ventricose : caly:^ 

 short, the segments oblong-obtuse, glabrous. 



Chorla Ghaut. 



(31) S. Wakr,ens^s. (Dah.). 



Ident. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. II. p. 341. — Bomb, flor, 

 p. 187.. 



Spec Char. Stem sufftuticose, dichotomously branched, knotty 

 and smooth : leaves oblong-acuminate, running gradually into the 

 petiole, glabrous on both sides, repand-toothed : spikes in the op- 

 posite axils, peduncled, simple, solitary, drooping : peduncles joi^^t■\ 

 sA in the middle : flowers small, spotted-with purple, 



Warree country. 



