Lancea.] cm. S0EOPHui,ARiNiLa3. (J. D. Hooker.) 261 



sunk amongst the leaves, pedicels very short, bracts lanceolate. Calyx-lobes acute. 

 Corolla |-1 in. long, blue, lower lip hairy within. Fruit the size of a pea, hardly 

 fleshy. Seeds brown. 



14. Z.XNDENBERGXA, Lehm. 



Annual or perennial herbs, woody below ; brandies erect, straggling or 

 ascending. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, toothed. Flowers 

 axillary or ^icate or racemed, bracteate, ebracteolate, yellow. Cah/x cam- 

 panulate, 5-fid. Corolla-tube oylindric ; upper lip the outer, short, broad, 

 notched or 2-fid; lower larger, 3-lobed, spreading, base with two plaits. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anther-oells separate, stipitate, all with 

 pollen. Capsule %gtoav%A., looulicidal ; valves entire, separating from the 

 placentiferous axis. Seeds numerous, minute. — Species 8, African, Indian 

 and Malayan. 



1. Ii. grandiflora, ^era^^. Scroph. Ind. 22, and in DC. Prodr. z. 576; 

 softly hairy, subscandent, leaves petioled ovate acuminate coarsely serrate, 

 flowers secund in terminal lax-fld. spikes, calyx-lobes obtuse, ovary villous. 

 Stemodia grandiflora, Sam. in Don Prodr. 89 ; Wall. Cat. 3924. 



SuBTBOPlOAli HlMAiATA, alt. 2-6000 ft.; from Sirmore to Bhotan, abundant. 

 PEGtr, Kurz. 



A rambling perennial, with flexuous stem and branches. leaves 2-8 in., pubescent 

 on both surfaces ; nerves 6-8 pair ; petiole J-li in. Spikes 6-10 in., sometimes 

 panicled ; bracts ^i in., ovate, sessile or shortly petioled ; flowers 1 in. long, sessile or 

 very Shortly pedieelled. Corolla pubescent, tube 3 times as long as the calyx. Capsule 

 ovoid, tip exserted. 



2. Xi. Kookeri, ClarJce mss. ; glabrous except the inflorescence, sub- 

 scandent, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate, 

 flowers secund in terminal lax-fld. s^kes, calyx-lobes acute, ovary glabrous. 

 Lindenbergia n. 3, Herh. Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



Tbopical Sikkim Himaiata j foot of the outer hills, alt. 3-4000 ft. ; J. D. S., 

 Clarice. 



Habit of X.^rujodj/^ora, but more slender and nearly glabrous, ieose* 2-3 in., 

 -base cuneate j petiole ;|— J in. Spikes 1-2 in., shortly peduncled, glandular, puberulons ; 

 bracts sessile, ovate, acute, about equalling the calyx ; lower flowers sometimes shortly 

 pedieelled. Calyx cleft to the middle, teeth triangular. Corolla 1 in. long, glabrous 

 without, tube nearly straight, two to three times as long as the calyx ; upper lip 

 short, 2-fid ; lobes of lower rounded, crenate, densely pubescent within. Anther-cells 

 sausage-shaped, quite separate, pendulous from the top of the filament. 



3. Ii. philippensis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 377 ; softly pubescent or 

 villous above, stout, strict, erect, leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, toothed, 

 flowers unilateral in rigid erect dense-fld. spikes or racemes, calyx longer 

 than the bracts, lobes ovate-lanceolate acuminate, ovary villous. Stemodia 

 phiHppensis, Cham, in lAnnisa, iii. 5. Stemodia sp., Ghriff. Notul. iv. 99, and 

 Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 421. 



Chittagong, Clarke. Pegu, Kurz. BtTBMA ; common about pagodas, Griffith. 

 TElfASBBEiM, Kelfer, Lotib. — Distsib. Siam, China, Philippine Islands. 



Stem 2-8 ft. Leaves 2-4 in., much produced below into a slender petiole about 

 half the length of the blade. 2aceme« or spikes 1 ft. and upwards ; rachis very stout ; 

 flowers shortly pedieelled or not j bracts lanceolate. Calyx J in. long. Corolla ;J-| in., 

 pubescent. Capsule lanceolate, tip exserted. 



