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HeDYOTIS LENTIGINOSA. (Bedd.) Herbaceous glabrous except the inflorescence and young parts, leaves lanceolate 
acuminate attenuated at both ends, 2-3 inches long by ^ to £ of an inch broad ; stipules pectinate with long filiform teeth; panicles 
terminal corymbose all the inflorescence and younger parts of stem, &e., covered with a minute dense yellowish pubescence, calyx seg¬ 
ments 4 small more or less recurved. 
Backwaters about Quilon and Trevandrum. 
PLATE No. VI. 
HeDYOTIS 1 RAVANCORICA. (Bedd.) Shrubby glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate about 1 inch long by l an inch 
broad, shortly petiolate ; stipules lacerated densely hoary with matted scaly pubescence; peduncles axillary 1 flowered, J to inch long, 
filiform solitary or 2-3 together, calyx 4 parted, segments erect with a long acumination. 
Travancore and Tinnevelly Mountains 3,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. VII. 
HeDYOTIS QUINQUENER.VIA. (Thw.) Shrubby erect, branches compressed, leaves ovate 3-8 lines long coriaceous 
sub-glabrous, shortly and bluntly acuminated, 5 nerved subsessile margins revolute ; stipules connate, cupuliform more or less lacerated 
into filiform teeth, externally pilose and setos6; capituli terminal sessile, calyx 4 cleft, segments sub-acute ciliated, corol white, purple 
outside, pilose in the jaws, anthers oblong purple. 
Ceylon Mountains 7—8,000 feet. 
PLATE No. VIII. 
ASIANTHUS TRUNCATUS. (Bedd.) Shrubby, ramuli terete and with the peiioles slightly strigose, leaves (on petioles 
2-3 lines long) narrow lanceolate about 5 inches long by \\ broad ending in an acumination with a ciliated muon -glabrous and shining 
above, strigose on the veins beneath, secondary veins numerous and parallel ; stipules triangular acute strigose; flowers axillary sessile, 
solitary or two together ; calyx cupuliform, truncated and sub-entire, and together with the corol strigose, corol tube elongate slightly 
recurved. 
Myhendra Mountains near Berhampore (Ganjam District), elevation 4,500 feet. 
PLATE No. IX. 
-L ASIANTHUS OBOVATUS. (Bedd.) Shrubby glabrous ramuli terete, leaves (on petioles 2-3 lines long), obovate glab¬ 
rous and shining 1| to 1| inch long, secondary veins inconspicuous; stipules triangular ; capituli sessile few flowered, calyx segments 
ovate, corol tube short, very villous inside. 
Ou the Athraymallay, Travancore Mountains 5,000 feet 
PLATE No. X. 
LASIANTHUS OBLONGIFOLIUS. (Bedd.) Shrubby, ramuli terete glabrous, leaves 6-7 inches long (of which the 
petiole is about | an inch) by 2 inches broad, oblong with a sudden long narrow acumination, glabrous above, slightly strigose on the 
costa and primary veins beneath and on the terminal acumination, very prominently veined, secondary veins parallel, tertiary very numerous 
and prominent; stipules triangular and with the petioles and inflorescence strigose ; capituli sub-sessile, 2-5 flowered, calyx segments 
lanceolate acute, corol tube very short. 
Panpanassum Hills (Tinnevelly) 3—4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XI. 
