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tipped with blue. Salsette and the Concans ; pretty common in pas- 

 ture lands. Syn. E tetragonum, Roxh. Fl Ind. i, 398; Grisebach, 

 in DC. Prod. 9, 44, has made some mistake about this plant. He 

 says the flowers are not a quarter of an inch in size, although 

 Roxburgh describes them as large and beautiful. Sebsea carinata, 

 Grab. Cat. p 1 24. 



• 2. PuMiLUM, Griseb. in DC. Proc/. 9,' 46. — A small plant ; stem 

 quadrangular; leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 3- 

 nerved ; segments of the calyx subulate, winged ; flowers small, 

 bluish-purple. Very common among grass during the rains. 

 Grisebach's specimens were from Bombay; he has made a slight 

 mistake in describing the calyx as wingless. 



;i. Petiolare, Griseb. in DC. Pro'l. 9, 46. — Stem almost 

 simple, quadrangular ; leaves long-petioled, broadly ovate-obtuse, 

 6-nerved ; calyx segments acute, the wings semiovate ; flowers 

 pedicelled, larger and paler than in the preceding. Island of 

 Caranjah, during the rains. DCs specimens were collected by 

 Baron Hugel. 



3. ERYTHRiEA, Ren. 



1. RoxBURGHii, Don. syst. Gard. iv, p 203. — A small herba- 

 ceous plant ; stem erect, 4 to 6 inches high ; lowermost leaves rosulate 

 obovate, oblong-obtuse ; stem ones linear-acuminate ; cymes dicho- 

 tomous, spreading ; flowers of a beautiful pink, starlike. Common 

 in cultivated fields after the rains. Syn. Chironia centaureoides, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 584; Chironia brachiata, Willd. 



4. HIPPION, Sprengel. 



1. Orientale. — Stem ascending, simple 4-sided, leafy from the 

 base; leaves opposite, subsessile, linear-lanceolate or oblong, 

 3-nerved ; calyx with bracts; the lobes obtuse, longer than the 

 capsule ; flowers small, white, sessile in the opposite axils. Gujarat, 

 common ; Concan, rare. Syn. Stevoglia orientalis, Grisebach in 

 DC. Prod. 9, p 63 ; Cicendia hyssopifblia, W. and A. in Hook. 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. 



5. CANSCORA, Lam. 



1. Decurrens, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 136. — Stem 

 erect, broadly 4-winged ; branches opposite and alternate ; leaves 

 decurrent, lower ones oblong, attenuated towards the base, upper 

 ovate or lanceolate-acute ; calyx without wings, 3 lines long ; corolla 

 small, pale rose-coloured or white. In rice fields, Southern Concan ; 

 flowers in October and November, 



2. Pauciflora, Dalz. loc. cit. — Stem erect, 4-winged, scarcely 

 branched ; leaves very small, lower ovate-obtuse, upper oblong- 



