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bomplete, adnate : seeds ovate-roundish, compressed, smooth^ 

 subtended with retinaoiila. — Shrubs : spikes axillary, opposite, 

 unequal, bracts nerved, quadrifarions : flowers solitary, small : 

 calyx ciliated; 



(i) N. spH^RoTAciiYUS. (JDialz.) 



Ident. Dalz. in Hook. Jourri. tlot. it. p. l40.-^Bomti. flor. 

 p. 190. 



Syn. Lepidagathis sphserostachya, N. ah. E. in Dec. prod. XI; 

 p. 254.— N. LsLwii, fFiffht's Icon. t. 1531. 



Spec. Char. Steiils many frbm a perennial root, erect, simple, 

 obtusely quadrangular, pubescent and scabrdus : leaves opposite, 

 oblong-truncate or subcordate at the base, obtuse at the apex; 

 pubescent and scabrous on both sides : spikes in the opposite axils 

 sessile, globose, densely silky and tomentose : bracts orbicular^ 

 suddenly acuminate, reticulately veined: corolla blue, subfentire,- 

 the limb ventricose and rotate^ 



Malabar hill. Island of Caranjah. 



(2) N. TRINERVIUS. (B. JF.J 



Tdent. Wight's Icon. vOl. IV. & t. 1532. ^Dalz. tiomb. flor. 

 p. 190. 



Spec CriAR. Branches round, glabrous and shining : Ieav6^ 

 shortly petibled, subobovate-mueronate, glabrous : spikes axillary; 

 seeund, dense, terminal one as long as the leaves : bracts ovate- 

 acute, coriaceous, densely hairy, 3 to 5-nerved: calycine lobes 

 laiiceolate, pubescent : corolla obsoletely 5-lobed : flowers small^ 

 blue. 



Hills near Alibaug. 



GENUS XXXV; LEPIDAGATHIS. 

 Ditlynamla Angiosiierniia. Seir: Syii r 



Deriv. From Lepis, a scale, and Agathis, a ball. 



Gen. CkAR. Galyi 5-parte*, upper segment largest, two lowest 

 cn^s more deeply joined together, in some almost coalescing into 

 one : corolla 2-lipped, upper lip either entire or 2-ioothed, or 2- 

 cleft, the segments then agreeing with those of the lower 3-cleft. 

 hp: stamens four, didynamons, included, consociated by pairs - 

 anthers 2weelled, bivalved, 4.seedfed neat the base : seeds compress, 

 ed.— Herbs or undershrubs, small or middle-sized, many-flower- 

 ed : spikes simple or glomerately compound, second, scorpioid - 

 fowers single in the angle of each fertile bract small, purplish 

 pr whitish. > tf r 



