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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
(&) Leaves distant, broadly ovate or oblong, slightly or not 
at all villous, densely scabrid with stiff hairs arising 
from white tubercles .... . T. indicum R. Br. 
Var. amplexicaule (sp. 
Roth). 
2. Anthers connivent but free, included j backs of the connec- 
tives densely penicillate with straight, erect, glistening 
white, opaque hairs, which equal or exceed the tips of the 
connectives. Leaves as 1 (5) ..... T. amplexicaule D.C» 
The only safe way to sort these out in existing herbaria is by the 
andrcecium. Usually all forms of T. indicum show, even when mounted 
on sheets, ,one or more exserted androecium-cones. Where such cannot 
be found the corolla must be partially opened. Specimens in which the 
andrcecium is missing cannot be with certainty allocated. 
I would add that specimens of T. zeylanicum Br. are liable to 
become mixed into the bundles of T. indicum and T. amplexicaule in 
herbaria. In nature the calyx of T. zeylanicum is quite clearly rounded 
at the base, but under pressure it is liable to assume a slighly cordate’ 
form. 
As regards distribution T . indicum is widely distributed throughout 
British India, especially in the drier parts ; var. amplexicaule is probably 
commoner in the wetter tracts, and in localities subject to local inun- 
dation, such as canal regions. Of T , . amplexicaule D. C. I can say from 
my own observation that it is a common monsoon plant in the Bombay 
Carnatic, at any rate in the watershed region which we call the Mallad, 
and similarly in the above-ghat regions of the Deccan known as the 
Maval. Of its distribution in the rest of British India I cannot speak. 
* EXPLANATION OP PLATE XI. 
Trichodesma amplexicaule D.C. 
1. Corolla from above. 2. Flower. 3. Corolla opened. 4. Fruiting-ealyx'. 
5* Leaf (normal). 6. Fruit 
Trichodesma indicum R. Rr. 
7. Corolla from above. 8. Flower. 9. Andrcecium with corolla torn ofl& 
19. Fruiting calyx. 11. Leaf (normal). 12. Fruit. 
