60 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. RuelUu. 



a little liaiiy. Spikes terminal, crowded, sessile, sub-cylindric, 

 secund. Brnctes, on the back of the spike are two rows, of al- 

 ternate, bifarioiis, lanceolate, spinous-pointed ciliatc ones; on 

 the floriferoiis side three similar ones to each flower. Calt/x, 

 to the base tive-cleft ; clivisiotis unequal, ciliate. Carol rin- 

 gent; tube as long- as the calyx, gibbous; iippei' 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. salicifolia. Willd. iii. 374. Vahl. Symb. 384. 

 Annual, sub erect. Leaves lanceolate, serrate. Floicers 



sessile, fascicled in alternate axills. Carols ringent, erect. 

 Bractes lanceolate. 



Is very much like Barleria longifolia ; it is annual or 

 biennial, and a native of the same wet swampy places as that 

 plant. It flowers during the wet season. 



Stem towards the base resting on the ground, and there 

 striking 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. Floicers sessile, froiu 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. Coral ringent. Capsules long, 

 round, smooth. Seeds small, very numerous. 



18. R. longifolia, Ro.vb. 



Herbaceous. Leaves verticelled, lanceolate, hairy. Spines 

 of the verticells six-fold. 



Gecantaca, its Sanscrit name. See Asiat, Res, v. p. 291. 



Beiig. Kanta koohka. 



Barleria longifolia. Linn, sp. pi. ed. Willd. iii. 375. 



Bahel-schulli. Rheed. Ma', ii. t. 45. 



Is common in low wet places all over India. Flowering 

 time, the cold season. 



