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the long petiole : spikes axillary, tricliotomously compound, crowd- 

 ed : peduncles shorter than the leaves : bracts herbaceo-scariose, 

 about half the length of the calyx, and, like the oblong somewhat 

 obtuse exterior lobes of the calyx, 3-nerved : bracteoles, like the 

 bracts, narrower, somewhat acute, 1-nerved. 



Courtallum. 



(9) L. GRANDIFLORA. (Dulz.) 



Ident. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. II. p. 138. — Bomb. flor. 

 p. 190. 



Sepc. Char. Stem erect, suffruticose, quadrangular, glabrous, 

 3 to 4 feet high : leaves ovate acuminate, entire, glabrous, attenu- 

 ated into the petiole : spikes axillary and terminal, simple or trifid, 

 long, slender, densely woolly : bracts, bracteoles and upper lip of 

 calyx of the same shape, obtuse, 3-nerved, reticulately veined, 

 woolly : corolla deeply bilabiate, large, blue, with two lines of 

 yellow hairs in the throat. 



The Ghauts. * 



(10) L. PROStRATA. (Z)afe.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. — Bomb. flor. p. 190. 



Spec. Char. Stem shrubby, creeping and rooting, glabrous, 

 obtusely quadrangular : younger branches softly tomentose ; leaves 

 small, sessile, opposite or tern, elliptic, spinous-pointed, younger 

 ones tomentose : bracts, bracteoles and calyx segments lanceolate, 

 spinous-pointed : spikes rarely axillary, more frequently terminal 

 and simple at the apex of short ascending branches. 



Malwan. 



(11) L. LUTE A. (Dalz.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. — Bomb. flor. p. 190. 



Spec. Char. Stems iseveral, erect, filiform, dichotomously 

 branched from the base, velvety and tomentose : leaves linear-fold* 

 ed, 3-nerved, minutely hispid above, glabrous beneath : spikes 

 clustered about the root, velvety and tomentose : bracts ovate-orbi-' 

 cular, with a long spinous point : anterior and posterior segments 

 of' calyx rhomb-cuneate, spinous-pointed, lateral ones linear : flow^ 

 6rs small, yellow. 



Malwan, on rocks. 



(12) L. MiTis. {Dalz.) 

 Ident. Dalz. 1. c. III. 226.— Bomb. flor. p. 191,' 



