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3. WAHLENBERGIA.. 



I. W Aghestis, Alph. DC. Prod. 7, p 434.— Stem erect- 

 branched from the base, hairy below ; leaves approximated at the 

 base, linear-narrow, almost entire, margins waved ; peduncles often 

 dichotomous, with very short bracts, calyx lobes erect linear, very 

 narrow; corol tubular, bluish-white, capsule obovoid. Syn. W 

 dehisceus, A. DC; W. indica, A. DC. At Mahableshwur, and 

 on other high Ghauts. 



LXXVIII. GOODENOVIE^. 



1. SCiEVOLA, Linn. 



1. S Taccada, Roxb. FJ Ind. ii, p 146. — A shrub, with obo- 

 vate, smooth, shining, entire leaves ; peduncles axillary, short, 

 dichotomous ; flowers whitish, with a cleft tube ; berries spherical, 

 small, white when ripe. Syn. Lobelia taccada, Gaert ; Buglossum 

 littoreum, Rumph Amb. iv, t. 54 (?). On the sea-shore near 

 Rutnagherry, also at Raree Fort. A species with purple fruit 

 (S uvilera) grows at Kurrachee. 



LXXIX. GESNERACE^. 



L DIDYMOCARPUS, Wall. 



1. Cbistatus,. Dalz. in Hook. Jour.. Bot. iii, 225. — Stem her- 

 baceous, 8 to 9 inches high, simple erect, round, fleshy; leaves 

 large, opposite-petioled, broadly cordate, ovate-obtuse, slightly hairy 

 on both sides, inflorescence in the opposite axils and connate with 

 the petioles, crested hairy, shorter than the leaf, consisting of 

 numerous pedicels, rising upwards, and united below into a short 

 thick peduncle; corolla white,. half inch long ; capsule long, slender, 

 curved, |)ubescent, seeds 5-angled, oblong. On rocks near Parwar 

 Ghaut ; flowers in September and October. Allied to D crinita, 

 Jack. 



2. KLUGIA, Schlt. 



1. Scabra, Dalz. Mss. — Stem terete, herbaceous, scabrous; 

 leaves obliquely ovate-acute, entire, penni-nerved, upperside of the 

 leaf and nerves beneath scabrous ; flowers disposed in a long 

 terminal raceme, alternate, drooping, of a deep-blue colour; 

 pedicels shorter than the fiUform bract, lower lip of corolla subentire, 

 with a triangular acute apex ; leaves 4 inches long. Warree country ; 

 flowers in the rains. Syn. Rhyncoglossum scabrum, Dalz. in 

 Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 140. 



