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10. CRYPTOPHRAGMIUM, N. ab E. 



1. Latifolium, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 137. — SufFruticose 

 glabrous; leaves very long-petioled, rounded-ovate, acuminate, 

 truncate at the base, crenulate, 1 font long, 4^' inches broad ; spikes 

 axillary, short, trichotomous ; flowers yellowish-white ; capsule 

 4 times longer than the calyx. Chorla Ghaut. Syn. Phloganthus 

 latifoHus, Wight Ic. t. 1537. 



2. Glabruji, Dalz. loc. cit. ii, 338. — Herbaceous ; leaves 

 elliptic-acuminate, denticulate, glabrous, runninij- down with a wing 

 into the petioles; spike terminal, compound; the branches opposite, 

 nearly a foot long. In shady places in the Southern Concan. 



11. ENDOPOGON, N. abE. 



1. Integrifolius, Dalz. in Hook. .Tour. Bot. ii, 342. — A shrub ; 

 leaves narrow-elliptic or lanceolate-acuminate, runninji- down with 

 a wing into the petiole; bracts and bracteoles linear, ciliated with 

 long hairs, and as long as the calyx; flowers bine, rather large; 

 rachis short, quadrangular, viscous and glandular. Hills near 

 Pan well. 



12. PETALIDIUM, N. ab E. 



1. Barlerioides, N. ab E., DC. Profl. 11, p 114. — Shrubby; 

 leaves oblong, crenate-dentate, "somewhat glaucous; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, 1-flowered; flowers an inch long, white or 

 pale-blue ; bracteoles large, opposite, covering tiie calyx. The 

 Ghauts; hills near Panwell. Syn. Ruellia barlerioides, Roth.nov. 

 sp. p 310 ; R bracteata, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 47 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4063 ; 

 Eranthemum barlerioides, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 114. 



2. P Patulus, N. ab E. DC Prod. 11, p 126.— Stern erect; 

 leaves ovate, oval or oblong-obtuse, hoary and puberulous ; flowers 

 fascicled in threes or fives, or solitary, smaller than in the preceding, 

 white ; bracteoles oval or oblong, longer than the calyx. The flowers 

 open in the evening, and fall off in the morning ; while in the pre- 

 ceding, the flowers open in the morning. 



13. DIPTERACANTHUS, N. ab E. 



1. Dejectus, N. ab E., DC. Prod. 11, p 125. — Stem herba- 

 ceous, suffrutiscent at the base, creeping, procumbent or ascending ; 

 leaves long-petioled, ovate-elliptic, acute at both ends, entire, 

 strigose or rough on the veins ; flowers pretty large, blue, axillary, 

 sessile, solitary ; capsule half an inch long, oblong, narrow at the 

 base, 12 to 16-seeded. Common in Borrirbay and the Coucans ; 

 flowers in October. Syn. Ruelha repens, Blume Bijdr. p 794 ; R 

 rigens, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 44. 

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