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piargin ; flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, opposite : bracteoles 

 linear : larger calycine segments equal, elli'ptie, herbaceous : flowers 

 of a beautiful rose colour. 



Island of Caranjah. Travancore mountains. Flowering in Sep- 

 tember. 



(22) B. GiBsofTi. (Dalz.) 



Ident. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. Tf.. p. 339. — Bomb. flor. 

 p. 189. 



Spec. Char. Sufiruticose, all quite smooth : leaves elliptic- 

 acute at both ends, glaucous beneath, ciliolated on the margins : 

 flowers spicate : spikes short, terminal, solitary : bracts small, 

 foliaceous, narrow-ovate, obtusely acuminated : bracteoles linear- 

 acute : larger calycine segments oval, !subequal, quite entire : flow- 

 ers of a beautiful pink colour. 



The Ghauts, and on the Brahminwara range. 



(23) B. GRANDiiF'toRA. (Dale.) 



Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 189. 



Spec. Char. Stem fruticose : leaves elliptic acuminate, attenu- 

 ated into the petiole, upper ones subsessile, quite smooth on both 

 sides : flowers short-pedicelled, solitary in the opposite axils, very 

 large, pure white : . bracts inserted on the middle of the pedicel, 

 short, subulate : large calycine segments equal, herbaceous, ovate- 

 acute, glabrous, 10 to 12- nerved : smaller ones nairow-subulate, 

 half the length. 



MangeHee Ghaut. 



(24) B. ELATA. (Dalz.) 



Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 189. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby, 6 feet high : stem ronnd-strigose, swol- 

 len at the joints: leaves herbaceous, unequal, Ipng-petioled, elliptic- 

 acuminated, suddenly attenuated into the petiole, piibescent on both 

 sides : spikes terminal, and in the upper axils, solitary, short- 

 spreading, stoat, 2-3-flo-wered ; flowers very shortly pedicelled, 

 secund, pedicels subtended by lanceolate, foliaceous bracts as long 

 as the calyx" tube of the corolla reddish-purple, 'limb blue. 



Fhoonda Ghaut, flowering iri November. 



