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more or less iipaitz! Flowers in short-axillary or peo racemes or 
singly. Calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, subtended by 2 large foliaceous 
bracts. Corolla 13 to 2 in. long, whitish ; lobes 5, roundish, with yellow 
and purple blotches. Stamens 2, fertile. Capsule obliquely half- 
elliptical, rugose, coriaceous, with 2 short incurved sha rp beaks 
apn longitudinally by 2 ‘valves, oA bearing + thick ribs. ~ 
: Tropics of America, but now over-run many tropical and semi-tropical 
Seaudotag. Specimen received from Woothakata as a noxious weed. 
Sus-GEenus PrRoposciDEA. 
M. fragrans, Lindl. (Flowers fragrant.) A plant 1 to 8 ft. 
high, clothed with glandular hairs. Stem terete, erect, flexuous. Leaves 
usually opposite, petiolate, cordate in outline, 3-lobed ; lobes 
rounded, achat sinnate, the middle one the longest. Racemes 
terminal ; flowers large and fragrant. Pedicels as long as the flowers. 
Calyx large, inflated, plaited ; or striated; teeth short, furnished at the 
base with two appressed leshy br acts. Corolla scarcel longer than 
the calyx; mouth oblique tok of 4 rounded spreading lobes, the 
upper bifid. Colour purplish red, with yellow in the a Stamens 5, 
= with the style included. Capsule curved u wrinkled, 
rested ve terminating in 2 incurved beaks, muc oie rong ibe the 
canis and hooked at the end. 
b.: A Mexican plant now become naturalised, and a noxious weed to the 
sheep farmer, but fortunately dost not spread at a rapid rate. 
Order LABIATA, 
Trize STACHYDE. 
LEUUCAS, R. Br. 
L. linifolia, Spreng Syst. ii 743; Hook. Flora of Brit. Ind. 
iv. 690. An erect plant of 2 or 3 ft. stems, smooth o r scaberulous. 
Leaves 2 to 4 in. long, and rarely in. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate 
oblame, entire, or subserrate ; ; petiole none, or on a plants attaining 
3 In. orls of flowers axillary and terminal, 3 1 to $ in. diameter 
Bracts setaceous, fewand short. Calyx 4 to 4 in., " oborold, the upper 
lip projecting, acute, 3-toothed, lower 2 -fid, of a *pale colour ilo 
not striate above, sometimes spinescent, corolla white, nuts smoo 
angular. 
a This Indian plant has become a weed about Kamerunga, ©. Cone 
e plant has a pleasant aromatic smell, and its flowers are used by 
Brahmins to decorate their aay Iswara, according to Roxburgh. 
Order MONIMIACEZ. 
“ ta, (n.sp.) (The leaves often a earing 
of three). A tall shrub or small tree, with lo PT penaaal branche 
which, with the petioles, midrib, and primary nerves, are Clo 
greyish tomentum. aves in whorls of 3 i 
