487 



(11) A. AFFims. (Nees.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. 116.— Dec. 

 prod. Xl. p. 517. 



Spec. Crau. Herbaceous : leaves oval-oblong, obtuse, very 

 shortly petioied, strigose above, pubescent below : racemes axillary, 

 dimidiately cymose or 3-cleft, densely glandular-pubescent : bracts 

 and calycine segments lanceolate-subulate : flowers pale, marked 

 •with purple, anthers violet, distinctly bearded at the base. 



Neilgherries. 



(12) A. EtLANDULOSA. (B. W.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. 115.— Dec. 

 prod. XI. p. 518. 



Sifn, Justicia glandulosa. Roth. 



Spec. Char. Pruticose : leaves oval, petioied, gland ulosely 

 villous : racemes axillary, bifid, subcymose, glandulosely villous ; 

 stem softly pubescent, 



Mysore. 



OUBER GXXt. VESBEXACEiE. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely polygamo-dioicous, 4-5-me- 

 tous, rarely more : regular or irregular or bilabiate, unibracteate ; 

 bracts sometimes enlarging after blooming : calyx free, monose- 

 palous, 4-5-rarely 6-8'toothed, persistent, more or less enlarging 

 with the fruit : corolla hypogynous, monopetalous, tubular, de- 

 ciduous ; limb 4-3-sometimes 6-l2-lobed, usually unequal, se- 

 cund or more or less perfectly bilabiate, rarely equal : 8estiva-< 

 tion imbricate (in Symphoremat inflexed) ; stamens inserted on 

 the tube of the corolla, incluse or exserted, 4-5, rarely more ; 

 usually didynamous, and all fertile, or with a superior exanthe- 

 riferous or rudimentary one : anthers 2-celled : cells generally 

 opening longitudinally, parallel, divaricate or vertically super- 

 posed : connectivum sometimes produced beyond the cells: 

 ovary free, seated on an annular disk composed of 2 or 4-car-; 



