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BaRLERIA PILOSA. (Wall.) A small weak muck branched undersbrub, tbo young branches glandUloso-pilose, leaves ex¬ 
actly ovate inconspicuously toothed or subentire, acute, 1-2 inches long by §-fincIi broad glanduloso-pilose, petioles 3-5 lines long pilose, 
peduncles axillary very short 1-flowered, bracteoles linear reflexed mnch shorter than the calyx pilose, the larger calyx segment 6-8 
lines long equal ovato-orbicular repando-deutate ciliate and slightly hairy subscariose and prominently 7-nerved and reticulated, the 
interior segments small narrow lanceolate dentate, corol about l£-2 inches long pale sky-blue glabrous or snbglabrous, tube incurved, 
lobes obtuse, stamens 2 fertile, and 3 perfectly sterile apiculate Btarainodes, stigma truncate. DC. Prod. xi. 234. 
Tinnevelly, common on the hills about Courtallum, 1000-1500 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CCLVI. 
BAKLERIA MONTANA. (Nees.) Suffraticose, branches glabrous the nodes distant, leaves oblongo-elliptic acute attenu¬ 
ated into the petiole, sparingly hairy and the margin ciliate when young, at length glabrous but lineolate above, about 5 inches long by 
1 £ broad, petioles 4-10 lines long, flowers axillary solitary sessile, bracts linear small a little hairy, the larger calyx-segments herbace¬ 
ous oblongo-elliptic 1-1J inch long equal entire ciliate and a little hairy or glabrous, the inner segments linear subulate much shorter, 
corol 2-3^.inches long blue, lobes obtuse, staminodes 2 setaceous and without any approach to anthers. DC. Prod. xi. 232. 
Anamallays and elsewhere on our Western ghats trp to 4000 feet, but not common; also in Central India, Jubbulpore, &c. 
PLATE No. CCLVII. 
BARLERIA BEDDOMEr. (Anders. MS.) Shrubby, stems terete strigose, leaves lanceolate acute entire 3-4 inches long 
by 1-1 i broad strigose, petioles 2-3 lines long, flowers axillary aubsesaile solitary, bracteoles 2 small linear recurved strigose as is the 
calyx, the exterior calyx-segments large foliaceous lanceolate the lower one minutely bifid at the apex, the interior segments much 
smaller linear-subulate, corol hirsute on the outside 3J-4 inches long pure white, tube long slender, the fertile pair of stamens nearly as 
long as the corol, a pair of very short effete stamens with the connective of the sterile anthers spurred at the back, a 5th minute per¬ 
fectly effete filament between the latter. 
Siughur, Bombay presidency. 
PLAT& No. CCLVllt 
StROBILANTHES (jtA RLNERIANUS. (Nees.) 1-2 feet, stems hirsute upwards, leaves ovate obtuse subcordate at the 
base, sessile crenato-serrate scabroso-hirsute ou both sides about 2 inches long by 1£ broad, spikes axillary and terminal, bracts large 
oval glanduloso-hirsute as are the calyx and bracteoles, bracteoles lanceolate large, calyx cleft about i- way down, the segments lanceolate 
acute, corol purple about 1 iuch long a little hairy outside the lower half of the tube much contracted. Stamens 4 monadelphons the 2 
miMe ones shorter, filaments hairy at the very base only, ovary hairy at the apex, style glabrous. Endopogon Gardnerianus, DC, Prod . 
Ceylon, Bantani, at 4000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CCLIX. 
STROBILANTHES VESTITUS. (Nees.) Herbaceous hirsute. Stem 'erect, leaves oval or oval-oblong acuminate, the base 
obtuse or acute, dentate, hirsute on both sides, 5-8 inches long (without the petiole) by l£-3* broad, petioles up to 3 inches long. 
Spikes axillary simple or branched the peduncles often geniculate at the apex, flowers 6-8 in a short oblong head, bracts oval sessile 
icuminate longer than the calyx densely ciliate and sparingly hairy, bracteoles lanceolate hirsute a third shorter than the calyx, calyx- 
lobes subequal lanceolate hirsute, flowers glabrous large l-l | inch long the tube contracted only at its base, the mouth widely campantt- 
hte, stamens monadelphous equal much exserted, filaments ovary and style glabrous. Nees. in, DC. vol. xi. p, 180. 
Ceylon, Matturate, elevation 5-7000 feet. 
PLATE No. CCLX. 
