50 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Ruellia. 
a little hairy. Spikes terminal, crowded, sessile, sub-cylindric, 
secund, Bractes, on the back of the spike are two rows, of al- 
ternate, bifarious, lanceolate, spinous-pointed ciliate ones;on _ 
the floriferous side three similar ones to each flower. Calya, 
to the base five-cleft ; divisions unequal, ciliate. Corol rin- 
gent ;_ tube as long as the calyx, gibbous ; upper lip shorter, 
smaller and deeply emarginate; the under one three-parted, 
recurved, Anthers united by pairs. Capsule short, ensiform, 
with two seeds in each cell, 
‘17. R. salicifoha, Willd. iii. 374, Vahl. Symb, 384, 
Annual, sub-erect. Leaves lanceolate, serrate. Flowers 
sessile, fascicled in alternate axills, Corols aed erect, 
Bractes lanceolate. she aia 41 
Is very much like Barleria longifolia: it je. annual or 
biennial, and a native of the same wet swampy places as that” 
plats! It flowers during the wet season. 
Stem towards. the base resting on the ground, and there 
tibia root at the joints, above erect, round, smooth, joint- 
ed. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, lanceolate, slightly serrate, 
crenulated, or waved, smooth ; about three inches long, and 
half an inch broad. Flowers sessile, from two to six in each 
alternate axill, light-blue; in the opposite axill there is ge- 
nerally a small branchlet. Bractes several, lanceolate, slight- 
ly ciliate. Calyx five-parted. Corol rmgent. Capsules long, 
ae smooth, Seeds small, very numerous. 
18. R. longifolia. Roxb. or ey 
Herbaceous. Leaves verticelled, lanceolate, hairy, Spines , 
of the verticells six-fold. 
Gecantaca, its Sanscrit name, See Asiat, Res. v. Pe Q9h« i 
Beng. Kanta koolika. 
Barleria longifolia. Linn. sp. pl. eid. Willi ili, 375. 
Bahel-schulli, Rheed. Mal. ii, t. 45. — oa 
ds common in low wet <—— all over dada Flowering 
