appressed, matted pubescence. The characters,
however, agree, generally, so well with those of
E . hypoleucas, that, but for having an authentic
specimen for comparison, I should scarcely have
ventured to consider them distinct. The character
of the calyx associates it with Stenosiphonium, but
it differs in all other respects.
1498. Endopogon viscosus (Nees), bracts oblong,
lanceolate (the lower ones sometimes oval),
obtusely unguiculato-cuspidate, carinate; as long as
the calyx, rigid, and with the raches, hirsuto-glandu-
lose: leaves oval-oblong, or oval-attenuated at both
ends, hispid: seed oval. Var. a. viscosissimus, spikes
very dense, villous: upper leaves shorter, oval, with
a short point, strigillose above.
Ceylon.
Var. a * humilis, spikes shorter, more compact;
lower bracts somewhat oval; otherwise as in a.
—Courtallum.
The drawing was made from one of the same set
of specimens, as the one referred to by Nees under
the second variety. It is a low, shrubby, very
ramous plant. The whole .height of one now lying
before me is only six inches, another is about 9 inches
high.
1499. Endopogon capitatus (R. W.), spikes
abreviato-capitate: exterior bracts leaf-like, limb
glabrous, the dilated base, calyx, ramuli, and
petiols, thickly covered with rigid, glandular hairs:
leaves ovate, acuminate, serrated; limb glabrous,
densely lineolate.
Neilgherries, flowering March and April.
A large, ramous shrub, flowers pale blue, capsule
about the length of the calyx, 4-seeded. In the
figure it seems as if two-seeded, that is an error of
the artist.
1500. Endopogon Strobilanthes (R. W.), spikes
elongated, glabrous, exterior bracts foliaceous, oblong,
lanceolate, or ovate, acuminate, longer than
the calyx: calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate: stamens
4-didynamous: leaves broadly ovate, acuminate,
serrated, glabrous, lineolate on both sides.
Neilgherries, flowering during March and April.
A large, ramous shrub, each ramulus terminating
in a spike of pale blue flowers. In habit and in
the foliaceous character, but not in leaf-like form of
its exterior bracts, this species quite accords with
both the preceding and following species; it also
agrees in the form of the corolla, but differs in
having 4, not 2 stamens. When in full flower it is
a very handsome shrub.
1501. Endopogon foliosus (R. W.), spikes abreviato
capitate, glabrous; exterior bracts leaf-like;
limb ovate, acuminate, serrated: flowers diandrous:
leaves long, petioled, glabrous.
Neilgherries, flowering March and April.
In habit and general appearance like the two
preceding species, differing from the first in being
every where glabrous, and from the second in its
capitate not elongated spikes.
The three form a very distinct section of the
genus, characterized by their large, exterior, foliaceous
bracts.
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