U2 



3-flowered : 'bracteoTes linear, reflexed ; larjrer sep;ments of thfe 

 calyx oblong-elliptic, obtuse, reticulated, inner ones lanceolate,' 

 acute, much shorter : flowers blue. 



Common in dry suiitty places near the sea coa^t &t H'egapatam. 



(7) B. PiiosA. (_Herb. Mitetr.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. id Wall. PI. As. Rar. 111. p. 93— Dec. proi 

 il. p. 234. 



Spec. Char. Ftutidose : leaves ovate, obtusfe at the base, aii3 

 ■withi the yotinger branches cohered with spreading hairs : peduncles 

 axillary, short, 1-finWered : bradteoles linear, reflexed : larger seg- 

 ments of the calyx nearly equal, ovate, orbiculate, obtuse, toothed, 

 ciliated, inner ones linear-ianceolate, aciitei,' twice as sliort : flowers' 

 blue. 



Courtallunl. 



(8) B. LONGIFLORA. {Linn. J 



Ident. Linn. Suppl. p. 290.-^Dec. prod XT. p. 235. — Roxb. 

 fl. Ind. 111. p. 40.— N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. Ill, p. 93. 



Spec. Char. Eruticose, very softly tomentoSe, hoary: leaves 

 6iate, obtuse £(t the base : peduncles axillary, very short, 1-flow- 

 ered : bracteoles linear, reflexed: larger segments of , the calyx' 

 equal, ovate, obtuse, reticulated, inner ones small, ovate, bristly- 

 mucronate ^ flowers white. 



Jilalabar. Hills near Vellore. Circars. TraVancore. 



{&) B. HystriX. (Linii.) 



idetit. Linn. Marit. p. 89.— Dec. prod. XI. p. 239. — N. ab. E. 

 in Wall. PI. As. Rar. 111. p. 93. 



Spec. Char. Fruticose : bracteoles sterile otitside the branches, 

 twin, or r^vrely in fours, thorny, divaricate: leaves elliptic or ellip- 

 tic-oblong, spinulosely-niucronate, strigose or hirsute at the ribS': 

 flbwers axillary, sessile, in threes, upper ones spiked: bracts nervoso- 

 striated, strigilose : pro'pei* bracteoles subulato-spineseent : larger.: 

 segments of the calyx oblong-lanceolate,' acuminately spinescent'j' 

 Strigilose : flowers purplish (?) 



Pon'dichei^ry. 



(10) B. NocTiFLORA. (Linii.) 



ideht. titin. Sp. p. 290.— Dec. prod. XI. p. 239. 



Syn. B. cristata, Lam. — B. MysOrensis, Uoth. — Justicia \sSt 

 (eolata, Forslc. 



