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short loose Bheaths, cordate-ovate, obtuse, succulent, floccose : pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary or two or three from the same axil, longer 

 than the leaves : spike short, imbricated ; bracts falcate, woolly : 

 calyx diaphonous, thickly clothed with long woolly hairs : corolla 

 longer than the calyx, deep rose colour: stamens exceeding the 

 corolla, sparingly bearded towards the apex : stigma inflated, clavate : 

 capsule 3-celled with 2 oblong deeply corrugated seeds in each cell. 



Near Coimbatore, flowering in November and December. 



(12) C. lAWIASA. fR. W.J 



Ident. Wight 1. e. t. 2086. 



Spec. Chae. Procumbent, diffuse, succulent, villous : leaves 

 sheathing, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, succulent, villous : peduncles 

 axillary, solitary or paired, slender, longer than the leaves : spikes 

 short, few-flowered, woolly: involucral leaf folded, lanceolate- 

 acuminate : bracts falcate, 2 — 4 pairs : ' sepals free to the base, 

 lanceolate : filaments simple, bearded near the apex : style and 

 stigma simple : capsule ovate obtuse, hairy on the apex : cells 

 2-seeded, flowers red. 



Dharwar. 



(13) C. SABMBNTOSA. fR. W.J 



Ident. "Wight 1. c. t. 2087. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot tuberous : stems long, succulent, pubescent, 

 sarmentose : leaves radical, distichous, linear, blunt, villous : spikes 

 secund, short peduncled, scapose, many-flowered : spathes short, 

 ovate acute : bracts numerous (5 — 10 pairs), falcate, acute, some- 

 what woolly : petals connate to near the apex, Umb roundish cus- 

 pidate : filaments much longer than the perianth, bearded and 

 twined near the apex : style glabrous, twined : stigma sub-capitate : 

 capsule 3-ceUed, seeds 2, superposed, flowers and stamens pale 

 rose colour. 



Bolamputty hiUs, near Coimbatore. 



(14) C. DECUMBEKS. (R. W.J 



Ident. Wight 1. c. t. 2088. 



Spec Chas. Decumbent, very branchy, wooUy all over, 

 especially the sheaths of the leaves : leaves linear lanceolate, 

 bluntish : above sparingly, beneath densely woolly ; sheaths short, 

 loose : peduncles axillary and terminal, - solitary or two or three 

 aggregated, longer than the leaves: spikes short: 4 — 6 pairs of 

 imbricating falcate bracts : calyx 3-parted, wooUy, as long as the 

 capsule : filaments bearded, simple : style glabrous, twined at, the 

 apex : capsule furnished on the apex with a tuft of rigid hairs. 



Quilon, Malabar. 



