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Spec. Chae. Stem creeping : sheaths with the mouth wooUy : 

 leaves lanceolate-acuminate : panicle terminal, sub-glohose, many- 

 flowered, pubescent : flowers purple blue. 



Ghauts. Coromandel coast in moist vallies, flowering in the rains. 



(2) D. PEIIOLATTTS. f R.W.J 



Ident. Wight 1. c. t. 2079. 



Spec. Chab. Ascending, spaiingly branched : leaves sheathing, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute, tapering at the base into a longish petiole : 

 sheath ciliated at the margin : flowers secund and with the rachis, 

 villous. 



Neilgherries. 



(3) D. UNDTOATTTS. (R.W.J 



Ident. Wight 1. c. t. 2080. 



Spec. Chae. Ascending : leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 waved on the margin, sheathing : sheaths large, the throat thickly 

 beset with coarse bristly hairs : calyx shaggy, viscid, lobes obovate- 

 obtuse : style curved : capsule 2-celled, 2-seeded. 



Station not given. 



GENUS IV. CTANOTIS. 



Hexandria Itfonog'ynia. Sex: Sysu 



Beriv. Prom Kyanos, blue, and Ous, a ear, alluding to the 

 flowers. 



Gen Chae. Mowers somewhat regular: sepals 6, outer ones 

 nearly equal, navicular, connate at the base, persistent, inner ones 

 longer, petaloid, connate by the claws, caducous : stamens 6, almost 

 equal, sub-hypogynous, scarcely adhering to the base of the tube : 

 filaments very long, bearded towards the apex : anthers of the same 

 shape, 2-ceUed, cells parallel, contiguous : ovary sessile, 3-celled : 

 ovules twin in each cell, superposed, sessile, upper one ascending, 

 lower one descending: style thickened at the top: capsule 3-comered, 

 3-celled, membranaceous, 3-valved : seeds twin, superposed, angled. 

 — Annual or perennial herbs, usually diffuse and creeping : leaves 

 entire, sheathing at the base, sheath entire : flowers spicately 

 collected in longish axillary and terminal peduncles, wrapped round 

 with a spathaoeous cordate folded leaf, each 1-bracteate externally : 

 bracts falcate, bifariously imbricated : interior calyx blue: flowers 

 sometimes conglomerate by two's or three's or more in the axUs of 

 the leaves, interspersed with bracts. 



