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calyx ciliate slightly hairy, segments §-l*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 apiculation, fruit not seen. 
Malabar on the Carcoor 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. CLXXV. 
GESNERIACEiE. 
DlDYMOCARPUS MEMBRANACEA. (Bedd.) Leaves all radical very delicately membranaceous, from obliquely 
cordato-ovate to cordato-lanceolate quite entire rather densely scattered over or both sides with long white pellucid hairs, 3-4 inches long 
by 1^-2^ broad, venation peuninerved very inconspicuous above, petioles 2|-4 inches lo.ng 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-tbird 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 subinfuudibuliform glabrous, lobes 5 rounded, anthers slightly hairy, fruit 1-1J 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, 
Pachemallay (2000 feet elevation). 
PLATE No. CLXXVL 
SABIACEiE. 
SAB1A MaLABARICA. (Bedd.) A glabrous climber, leaves from oblong to lanceolate with a gradual acuminatiou 
euding in a mucro-coriaceous with the margin thickened, 3-4| 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 small hermatlirodite 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 CLXXVI1. 
ACANTHACEiE. 
Asystasia Tr AVANCORICA. (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 veins, 3-4J inches long by inch 
broad, petioles \ to 1 inch long, racemes terminal often more or Jess branched strigose, bracts subulate, pedicels slender 3-6 lines long 
calyx minutely puberulous deeply 5 cleft, segments subulate, corol slightly puberulous or glabrous deep violet or white, about lj inch 
loDg, 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 and 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 in 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. 
Pf-ILOGACANTHUS 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, rather suddenly attenuated at the apex and acute glabrous 
on both sides obscurely crenated, 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, coiol tube \e\y short, upper 
lip entire concave scarcely emarginate at the apex prominently auricled at the base just at the apex oi the tube, lower hp shortly o lobecr 
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, 
