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6. EBERMEIERA, N. ab E. 



1. Glauca, N. ab E. — Stem erect, a foot high, pubescent and 

 rough, spikes leafy, axillary and terminal ; leaves oblong, attenuated 

 into the petiole, glabrous entire ; calyx pubescent and glandular ; 

 corolla very small, tubular ; capsule oblong-obtuse, glabrous. 

 Southern Concan. 



6. ERYTHRACAXTHUS, N. ab E. 



1. Elongatus, N. ab E. — Herbaceous; leaves oblong-oval or 

 oblong-pubescent, rough, obtuse at both ends; racemes axillary and 

 tepminal, simple or compound, elongated lax-flowered ; commofl 

 peduncle very short; bracts lanceolate; leaves red on the under- 

 side ; capsule oblong. Warree jungles. Syn. Adenosma elongatum, 

 Bl. Bijdr. p 757. 



Sub-Oeder II.— HYGROPHILEiE. 

 7. PHYSICHILUS, N. ab E. 



1. Sekpyllum, N. ab E. in DC. Prod. II, p 81.— Diffuse- 

 branched, creeping ; leaves strigose and hirsute, those on the stem 

 nearly orbicular, floral ones obl(mg or oblong-lanceolate ; flowers 

 purple, axillary, subsessile, collected into a terminal spike. Island 

 of Bombay ; the Concan, common. 



8. NOMAPHILA, Blume. 



1. Pinnatipida, Dalz. in Hook Jour. Bot. iii, p 38. — All 

 glandular and pubescent; leaves petioled, deeply pinnatifid, linear- 

 lanceolate, the segments hnear, oblong-obtuse, serrulated ; flowers 

 in the opposite axils of the leaves, sessile, or clustered in terminal 

 heads ; flowers purple. Tlie river-banks of the Southern Concan ; 

 flowers in January and March. 



9. HYGROPHILA, R.Br. 



1. Salicifolia, N. ab E. DC. Prod. 11, p 92. — Herbaceous; 

 stem erect, 1 to 2 feet high ; lower leaves obovate or oblong, rather 

 obtuse, upper lanceolate, attenuated at both ends ; flowers axillary, 

 clustered, about 7 together, pale-blue ; calycine segments subulate, 

 hirsute ; capsule narrow-compressed, quadrangular, half an inch long. 

 Wet places in the Southern Concan. Syn. Ruellia salicifolia, Vahl. 

 Symb. iii, p 84; Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 50 ; R longifolia, Roth. nov. 

 sp. p 306. 



