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Western ghats from the Konkan to the Bababuden Hills and Nilgherries. 

 On the ghats of the Konkan and North Kanara, common in the ever- 

 green forests between the Nilkund and Gairsoppah ghats. Flowers appa- 

 rently every year during Nov. -Dec. The bracts are white, glabrous. 

 Corolla blue. A large shrub. I have a small shrub from the Bababuden 

 hills of Mysore 50^'0 ft. alt., which has. the red bracts and deep blue 

 flowers of 8. riujosus, Wgt. Ic. t. 1619, and reduced by C. B« Clarke to 

 8, Heyneanus, in the Flora of British India. Fl. during Aug.-Sept. Fr. 

 C. S. 



7. S. ixiocephalus, Benth. in Flora. 1849. p. 557 ; Fl. Br. I. 4 444 ; 

 Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 203. 8. Neesianiis, Wight. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 188. 8. glutinosus, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 162 ? Qurgi or Pit Karvi, K. 



Western Deccan peninsula and South Madras. Throughout the Konkan 

 ghafts, very common in North Kanara from the coast -inland in both 

 evergreen and deciduous forests, often on laterite. Flowers annually 

 during the cold season. Fr. H. S. A large gregarious shrub; with pale 

 blue or almost white flowers in viscous hairy heads. The branchlets are 

 sometimes clothed with long woolly hairs . 



8. S. minor, Talb. sp. nov. Herb. No. 1338. 



A small shrub, 1-2 -feet high, with numerous branches. Leaves small, 

 ovate, bluntly acuminate, crenate-repand, narrowed into the petiole, con- 

 spicuously lineolate above, paler beneath, ciliate on the margins and 

 nerves; blade 3 — 1-5 by r75 — -75 in. ; petiole 1 — "25 in. Flowers J in. 

 in dense, small, sub-globose heads. Bracts green, ovate, ciliate on the 

 margins, '25 in. across, bracteoles ciliate. Calyx 5-divided. Corolla blue, 

 slightly hairy without at the tip, very hairy within. Stamens 4, filaments 

 haii'y downwards. Style entire, long, twice the corolla, hairy. This 

 small shrub agrees in some respects with the plate in Wight's Icones. 1562. 

 of 8. campamdata, Wight, which C. B. Clarke has made a variety of 

 S. Eeyneanus, Nees, in the Fl. Br. I. I think that my plant differs 

 specifically from 8. campanulata, Wgt„ and is certainly not 8. HeyneanuSf 

 Nees. Banks of the Kalanuddi near Supa, North Kanara. Fl. & Fr. 0. S. 



9. S. scrobiculatus, Dalz. MS. Fl. Br. I. 4. 455. 



Western ghats of Bombay. On the higher ghats of the Konkan and 

 North Kanara, common on the summit of Dursing gudda in the Supa 

 taluka of North Kdnara, 3,400 feet elevation. Fl. annually Dec.-Jany. 

 Fr. Jany.-Feb. I have a shrub from a lower level (2000 ft.) in the 

 same taluka, which differs somewhat from 8. scrobiculatus, in having 

 longer spikes, larger persistent bracts and much smaller corollas. It 

 grows in the beds of streams or on the rocky banks. Fl. Fr. Feb.-Mch. 



10. S. callosus, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. IIT. 85 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 188. 8. GrahamianuSy Wight Ic. t. 1520 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 187. Karvi, Vem. 



Western ghats from Bombay southwards. Covers large areas on the 

 Konkan and North Kdnara ghats, and forms the undergrowth in many 



