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of 5 almost free sepals ; in flower herbaceous, sub-equal ; in fruit mem- 
branous, reticulate, the 3 outer enlarged, -25 in. wide, ovate-lanceolate 
with truncate bases, the 2 inner unaltered, narrow lanceolate, all -25 in. 
long. Corolla blue. Capsule lanceolate, about as long as the sepals 
but hidden by the enlarged outer ones. 
Malacca : Griffith ! Singapore : Anderson ! King’s Collector ! 
Very nearly allied to A. ovatum, Benth., and A. subrepens, Benth. It differs from 
both by its acute leaves, but except in this respect and as regards its distribution it is 
hardly separable from A. subrepens of Ceylon. From A. ovatum of Tenasserim, with 
■which it has been confused, it further differs in its larger size, coarser habit of growth, 
and much narrower outer sepals. It has also been confused with A. cceruleum, from 
which it differs by its flowers being all axillary and by its enlarged fruiting sepals. 
3. Adenosma capitatum, Benth. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IY. 264. 
A stout, erect, glandular-villous herb, 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves ovate or 
oblong, sub-acute, serrate, often reflexed ; base cuneate ; blade 1 to 
2 in. long, -5 to -75 in. wide ; petiole very short. Floivers in dense cylin- 
dric or globose terminal or axillary heads, with basal involucres of floral 
leaves ; peduncles 1 in. or less, sometimes in the lower clusters sub- 
obsolete and the flowers in axillary whorls ; heads usually -5 in. across, 
sometimes longer up to 4 in. long ; bracts linear, hardly exceeding the 
sepals. Calyx of 5 almost free sepals, villous with long hairs, - 25 in. 
long, the uppermost ovate-lanceolate, broader than the other lanceolate 
4. Corolla blue. Capsule ovoid, '2 in. long. Stemodia capitata, Benth. 
in Bot. Beg. under t. 1470 ; Wall. Cat. 3926. Ptcrostigma spicatum, 
Benth. Scroph. Ind. 21. P. capitatum, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 31, and 
in DC. Prod. X. 380. Erinus bilabiatus, Boxb. FI. Ind. III. 92. 
Prov. Wellesley: King! King’s Collector. Penang: Wallich; 
Deschamps ! Curtis ! Singapore : King ! Bidley ! Malacca : Cuming ! 
Ayer Keroh, Ridley! Griffith; Wallich. Negri Sembilan : Kwala 
Pedas, Bidley ! Pahang : Bidley !— Distrib. Throughout S.E. Asia. 
4. Adenosma cosruleum, B. Br. Prod. 443. An erect herb, 1 to 
2 feet high, viseidly pubescent. Leaves ovate-acute, crenate, base 
rounded or cordate ; blade 1'5 to 2'5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide ; petiole 
■5 to 1 in. long. Flowers in long slender strict spikes ; bracts lanceo- 
late, about as long as calyx. Calyx of 5 almost free sepals, the upper 
lanceolate the rest linear, not very greatly altered in fruit. Corolla 
blue. Cajjsule lanceolate, rather longer than the sepals. Benth. Flor. 
Austral. IV. 484; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IY. 263. Pterostigma 
villosum, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 21, and in DC. Prod. X. 380 partly ; Miq 
Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 678. P. strictum, Griff. Not. IV. 96 ; Ic. PL Asiat. 
t. 417, f. 3. Stemodia ccerulea, Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 381. Herpestis 
lanuginosa, Bl. Bijdr. 747. 
