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3. COLDENIA, Linn. 



1. PitocuMBENS, Linn. sp. 182. — Herbaceous; stems procum- 

 bent, hirsute ; leaves shortly-petioled, obovate, plicate, coarsely- 

 toothed, with adpressed hairs above, hirsute beneath ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, sessile, white ; nuts rugose, rough. Common in 

 rice-fields, in the cold weather. 



4. IIELIOTROPIUM, Tourn. 



1. RoTTLERi, Lehm. Asp. p 66. — Shrubby; stems short, divid- 

 ing into many horizontal |)ri)strate branches ; branchlets and 

 leaves stiigose ; leaves subsessile, ovate lanceolate-acutish ; spikes 

 lateral, 1 to 2 inches long; flowers subsessile, secund, the under- 

 side of the rachis bearing the bract ; bracts ovate, strigose ; calyx 

 lobes ovate-acute, a little shorter than the corol tube ; corolla hairy 

 externally, throat closed with hairs; fruit strigose, globose. At 

 Domus. 



2. SuPiNUM, Linn. sp. 187; B Malabaricum, Benth. in Royle. 

 lUustr. 306. — Herbaceous ; stem* ascending ; leaves oval, obtuse, 

 plicate, hoary, and tomentose on both sides ; spikes mostly solitary ; 

 calyx 5-tootbed, shut, very hirsute ; corol scarcely longer than the 

 calyx, white. Common in rice-fields, in the cold weather. Lyn. 

 H malabaricum, Retz. Obs. iv, p 24 ; Piptoclaina malabarica, Don. 

 Gon. s/^st. iv, 364. 



3. CoROMANDELiANUM, Lehni. Asp. 46, and obovatum. —Her- 

 baceous, pubescent, erect ; leaves obovate obtuse mucronate, clothed 

 with soft, white hairs ; s|)ikes terminal, generally paired ; flowers 

 numerous, small, white, placed in a waved row on the upperside of 

 the spikes. Beemasunker. 



4. Marifohum, Retz. Obs. 2. p 8. — Suffruticose ; stems pro- 

 cumbent, diffuse, much-branched ; leaves and calyx strigose ; leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, revolute on the margin, racemes subspicate, 

 solitary, alternate, the uppermost ones twin ; flowers minute, white, 

 with yellow eye ; nuts densely-hiswid. At Vingorla. 



5. Laxiflorum, Roth. nov. sp. p 102. — Erect-branched, strigose 

 with minute adpressed hairs; leaves linear-lanceolate, entire; 

 racemes sim[)le, subspicate, solitary or twin, elongated ; flowers 

 rather lax ; lobes of the calyx strigose, as long as the tube of the 

 corolla, nuts globose, strigose, not glabrous as described by Roth. 

 Worlee hill, Island of Bumbay ; Deccan. 



5. TOURNEFORXIA, Linn. 



1. T SuBULATA, Hochst. — Stem suffruticose, erect, sparingly- 

 branched, clothed with stiff, bristly hairs ; leaves linear-lanceolate. 



