Ebermaiera. | CIX. ACANTHACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 403 
petiole 14 in., pubescent; the uppermost leaf sometimes short-petioled, rounded at the 
base. Peduncle $ in.; raceme 4—5 in.; bract near the base of the pedicel ty in., linear- 
lanceolate ; bracteoles j^, in., linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent. Calyx-segments 
5, unequal, 45-3 in., linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
tube very short. Filaments glabrous; anther-cells ovoid, irregularly subdivaricate.— 
Allied to E. coriacea, T. Anders. 
V. OPHIORRHIZIPHYLLON, Kurz. 
An erect herb. Leaves opposite, petioled, elliptic, entire. Spikes very 
long, many-fld.; bracts narrowly oblong, exceeding the calyx ; bracteoles 
small. Sepals 5, subequal, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla shortly tubular, 
curved at the mouth ; lobes 5, elliptic, suberect. Stamens 2; filaments long, 
exsert, glabrous; anther-cells 2, oblong, muticous, separate, approximate, 
erect. Dise inconspicuous. Ovary glabrous; style long, glabrous, 
shortly 2-lobed; ovules very many. Capsule oblong and seeds as of 
Ebermaiera. 
O. macrobotryum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 76. 
ManrTABAN; Thoungyen, Brandis, Karen HILLS; Kurz. ——— 
Stem 6-10 in., undivided, pubescent upwards, Leaves 6 by 2§ in., cuneate, sub- 
acute at each end, glabrous, or pubescent on the nerves beneath E petiole 4-1} in. 
Peduncles 1-3, subterminal, 1-8 in. ; spikes 3-7 in.; bracts 4 in., glabrescent ; 
bracteoles | in., linear. Sepals 3-4 in., pubescent. Corolla } in., white or pale rose, 
minutely pubescent without. Stamens inserted in a ring of hairs, 2 small staminodes 
added, Capsule X in. 
VI. CARDANTHERA, Ham. 
Herbs, often viscid, aromatic. Leaves opposite, upper toothed rarely 
entire, lower often pinnatifid or in water pectinate. Flowers spiked or 
Whorled, or 1-3 together in opposite axils; bract or bracteoles often sup- 
pressed. Sepals narrow, often unequal. Corolla nearly straight, i d. 
shorter than the calyx; limb long, 2-lipped, twisted to the left in ud; 
palate transversely plicate-rugose, purple-rose and white. Stamens b 
idynamous ; anthers of the posterior often smaller ; anther-cells parae . 
vary narrow; style sparsely hairy. Capsule sessile, narrow, wh i 
seeded, bearing seeds from the very base. Seeds small, ovoid, somew M 
compressed, glandular-puberulous or glabrous; retinacula minute, conical, 
soft, not curved.—Species 10, Indian and Tropical African. 
„C. Thwaitesii has solitary flowers, a plane palate, 2 stamens, and stronger 
retinacula, 
Subgenus 1. Eucardanthera. Stamens 4, fertile. Flowers mostly 
M Opposite axils. 
* Spikes terminal, bracts 4-ranked imbricated in fruit. 
l. C. uliginosa. Ham. mss.: Bent. in Gen: Pl. ii. 1074; stem pubescent 
Upwards, leaves eu bee sila oblong or subovate entire or crenate, bracts round 
ovate, Ruellia uliginosa, Linn. f. Suppl. 290; Roth Nov. Sp. n 30 3 
Rotb. FL Ind. iii. 52; Wall. Cat. 2378, chiefly. Adenosma uliginosa, 
ees in Br. Verm. Schrift. iii. 298, and in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. p 19, "Lina 
* Prodr. xi, 69 (excl. syn. Ruellia ringens); T. Anders. in Journ. Linn, 
€. 1x. 455, pd2 
