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Erect, 4-16 in,, branches numerous, opposite, Cauline Zcav^s 1-1^ JDm^'^^P" 

 often white cartilaginous, younger leaves usually puberulous punctate or tfubput^es- 

 cent. Flowers not congested, often whorled ; bracteoles linear, obtuse, green, ^s^^^°| 

 as the calyx. Calyx-tube campanulate, ovoid; teeth 4, triangular, short, wita ^ 

 shorter triangular exterior teeth. Petals exceeding much the calyx, large5* than m 

 any other species of Eu-Ammannia, Capsule globose. Seed subhemisphenc, ex- 

 cavated on the plane face. 



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Plains of the Punjab and of North-West Hindostan, ascending to ^^^^. } 

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Glabrous, erect, 6-24 in., branches sharply quadrangular. Cauline leaves 1-^^ ^ 

 Bractioles on the cyme-branches minute, linear. Calyx campanulate, ^'P^ , ^^^ye. 

 green lines becoming indistinct in fruit; teeth 4, broad-triangular, ^^^^^ ? p^uch 

 Petals or caducous. Stamens 6 or 8. Capsule becoming ultimately ^^^'^r^j^jj 

 exceeding the calyx-tube. Seeds half-elUpsoid, excavated on the plane ^^^^- ^j, 

 species is distinct so far as the Indian material is concerned. ^^^ j^^UcifoU^ 

 amples have the cyme much closer and are doubtfully separable from A. s J^^^^ 

 above. Kurz (in Journ, As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 85. 86) gives Chittagong as a 

 for this plant: which may be so, or his plant may have been A. cordata JNo. < 



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16. A. multiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 426; leaves opposite elongat^ 



lie subaurigulate at the lase, cymes peduncled compound, ^Pl"^ 



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folds usually present but small. Capsule reddish, exactly like that of A. haccifera. 

 Seed half-obovoid, excavated on the plane face, one end much smaller than the 

 other.— ^. verticillata, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 743, has the leaves attenuated to the 

 base; and is therefore A. haccifera, Linn., for the only character by which A, hacci- 

 fera can be distinguished from A, salicifolia, 



- 13. A. cordata, W. ^ A. Prodr. 304; glabrous, leaves sessile oblong cor- - 

 date subamplexicaul, flowers 2-5 shortly pedicelled iu each axil, capsule globose 

 covered by the calyx-teeth. Wall. Cat. 6322, A. salicifolia, Monti var. 3. : 

 Thivaites Enum. 121. ' 



East Bengal, Noakhali, C. B. Clarke. Deccan Peninsula ; Wight. Ceyion ; 



Thwaiies. 



Glabrous, erect, 12-18 in., leaves and branches opposite. Cauline leaves I-Uin., 

 margins often white cartilaginous. Flowers very shortly pedicelled, but not congested. '; 

 Ca(yj:-^MZf^ campanulate with 4 green striations ; teeth 4, triangular, connivent over 

 the capsule; accessory teeth as 4 small prominent horns. Capstde globose, much 

 larger than that of A, salicifolia^ not becoming red pseudo-baccate as does that ot 

 A. haccifera and A, salicifolia. Seeds subhemispheric, excavated on the plane face. 



14. A. lanceolata, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 2106 J5., C. ; leaves opposite 

 oblong-elliptic attenuate to the base scarcely petioled. flowers 2-5 shortly pedi- 



