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-calyx ciliate slightly hairy, segments |-1 line long, corol-tube slender more or less contracted at the apex just below the lobes, the 
lobes broad, anthers a little above the middle of the tube, filaments very short and hairy, or almost obsolete and a few hairs on the 
corol tube at their insertion, style elongate or obsolete, stigma mitriform thickened, with a terminal apiculatiou, fruit not seen. 
Malabar on the Careoor ghat 2000 feet elevation, South Canara in dense moist forests in the plains. My South Canara 
specimens have an obsolete style and obsolete filaments and rather larger flowers but they are undoubtedly the same species. 
PLATE No. OLXXV. 
GESNERIACEiE. 
DlDYMOCARPUS MEMBRANACEA. (Bedd.) Leaves all radical very delicately membranaceous, from obliquely 
cordato-ovnte to cordato-lanceolate quite entire rather densely scattered over or both sides with long white pellncid hairs, 3-4 inches long 
by l£-2£ broad, venation penninerved very inconspicuous above, petioles 2J-4 inches long densely covered with transparent scales and 
hairs. Scapes considerably longer than the leaves (10-12 inches) sparingly furnished with hair-like scales racemose towards the apex or 
for about one-third down, flowers 10-12 lines long pale blue, calycine-segments linear acute half or more than half as long as the 
corol-tube ciliate.and hairy, corol-tube subinfundibuliform glabrous, lobes 5 rounded, anthers slightly hairy, fruit 1-1^ inches long finely 
apiculated glabrous. 
A most delicate species apparently very rare, I have only met with it in one place on the South Travancore ghats, moist rocks, 
Packem&llay (2000 feet elevation). 
PLATE No. CLXXVT. 
SABIACELE. 
SABI A MaLABARICA. (Bedd.) A glabrous climber, leases from oblong to lanceolate with a gradual acumination 
ending in a mucro-coriaceous with the margin tliickeued, 3-4 J inches long by 1-2 broad, primary veins looped well within the margin 
and the reticulated veinlets very prominent on the under side, petioles § to 1 inch long, racemes axillary few flowered, or in axillary leaf¬ 
bearing panicles, flowers very Bmall hermathrodite pentamerous, calyx minutely hairy, styles 2, petals oval, stamens shorter than the 
.petals, filaments flat, ovules superposed, drupes flat reniform scrobiculate. 
Anamallay forests, 3000-4000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CLXXVII. 
AOANTHACILE. 
AsYSTASIA TraVANCORICA. (Bedd.) A large woody erect shrub 6-8 feet high, young branches terete 
strigosely hairy, leaves linear lanceolate, punctate and lineolate and sparingly hairy on the costa and veius, 3-4 J inches long by inch 
broad, petioles £ to 1 inch long, racemes terminal often more or less branched strigose, bracts subulate, pedicels slender 3-6 Hues long 
calyx minutely puberulous deeply 5 cleft, segments subulate, corol slightly puberulous or glabrous deep violet or white, about 1£ inch 
long, tube suddenly narrowed at the base swollen upwards, limb subcampanulate, lobes subequal rounded, anthers included, their inner 
lobes considerably the longer, all the lobes bifurcate at the base, ovary aud style slightly hairy, stigma long linear slightly truncated and 
2 lobed at the apex. 
This differs from all our other S. Indiau- species in being a woody shrub, it is very abundant iu the beds of rivers in the 
Paupanassam and Calcad hills in South Tinnevelly, and on the South Travancore hills, but I have never seen it as far north as Courtallum ; 
it is by far the handsomest of the species. I introduced it into Madras some years ago, and it is now common in most gardens in Madras 
and Bangalore. It grows well from seed; the flowers are generally of a very beautiful deep violet purple, but one variety has white 
flowers. 
PLATE No. CLXXVIII. 
PHLOG A€ ANTHUS GRANDIS. (Bedd.) A large shrub 8-12 feet high, glabrous, leaves 8-18 inches long, lanceolate- 
broadest above the middle and very gradually attenuated down to the base, ralher suddenly attenuated at the apex and acute glabrous 
on both sides obscurely creuated, primary pinnate veins prominent, petioles 1-2 inches long, panicles axillary from as long to somewhat 
longer than the leaves, the rachis very flat and winged, ramifications rather distant and few flowered, the lowest pair of bracts on the 
rachis large and leafy, smaller upwards, flowers crimson 10-12 lines long, bracteoles at the base of the pedicels subulate, those below the 
calyx stem clasping and ovate, calyx or corol slightly puberulous, the former of 5 equal subulate segments, corol tube very short, upper 
lip entire concave scarcely emarginate at the apex prominently auricled at the base just at the apex of the tube, lower lipshortly 3 lobed 
slightly auricled at the base hairy and rough inside at the base along the centre, lobes not more than a 5th the total length of the lip, 
