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heads ; braeteoles conspicuous or absent. Calyx deeply 5-lobed ; lobes 
imbricate, the upper the largest; sometimes in fruit all enlarged. 
Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip erect, entire or notched, outmost in bud ; 
lower 3-lobed, spreading ; throat not plicate ; tube cylindrie. Stamens 
4, didynamous, included ; anther-cells discrete, stipitate, one cell of 
each anterior stamen or of all four stamens empty. Ovary 2-celled ; 
ovules in each cell numerous ; style filiform below, winged upwards 
under the entire or 2-lamellate stigma. Fruit an ovoid, ellipsoid, or 
lanceolate 2-grooved and 4-valved capsule, opening both loculicidally 
and septicidally. Seeds many, minute, reticulate. — Distrib. Species 
about 10, in S.E. Asia and Australia. 
Flowers axillary ; outer fruiting sepals enlarged : — ■ 
Leaves ovate-obtuse, erenate-serrate 
Leaves ovate-acute, serrate . . 
Flowers in terminal heads, spikes or racemes ; sepals little 
altered : — 
Bracts linear, hardly exceeding the calyx : — 
Spikes short, dense, cylindrie or capitate 
Spikes long, slender . . . . . . . . 
Bracts leafy, elliptic, acute, longer than calyx 
1. A. ovatum. 
2. A. inopinatum. 
3. A. capitation. 
4. A. coeruleum. 
5. A. hirsutum. 
1. Adenosma ovatum, Benth. in Hook. fil. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 263. 
A puberulous or glabrate herb, branched from the base ; branches root- 
ing below, prostrate or ascending, 6 to 18 in. long. Leaves ovate- 
obtuse, erenate-serrate, base wide-cuneate, rounded or truncate ; blade 
•75 in. long, ’5 in. wide ; petiole - 3 in. Flowers axillary, sessile ; bracts 
lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx of 5 almost free sepals ; in 
flower herbaceous, sub-equal; in fruit membranous, reticulate, pubescent, 
the 3 outer enlarged, -35 in. wide, ovate-cordate, the 2 inner un- 
altered, narrow lanceolate, all - 25 in. long. Corolla blue. Capsule 
lanceolate, about as long as the sepals but hidden by the enlarged outer 
ones. Herpestis ovata, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30 ; Wall. Cat. 3896. H. 
javanica, Bl. Bijdr. 748. Pterostigma ovatum, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 
380 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 678. 
Perak : Gunong Tundul, Ridley 9444 ! Penang : Waterfall, Curtis ! 
Malacca: Ghriffith ! Singapore: Bukit Timah, Ridley 6894! “a 
garden weed,” Ridley 8910 ! — Distrib. Indo-China, Malay Archi- 
pelago. 
2. Adenosma inopinatum, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXII. 2, 
16. A pubescent herb, branched from the base; branches rooting 
below, ascending, 6 to 18 in. long. Leaves ovate-acute, serrate, base 
cuneate; blade 1 to 1‘5 in. long, -75 to 1 in. wide; petiole -3 in. 
Floivers axillary, sessile ; bracts lanceolate, shorter than calyx. Calyx 
