32 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Acauthus. 



2. B. evplmmoidcs. Vahl. Si/nih. iii. 81. Wi/hl iii. 338. 



Annual, erect, ranions, four sided and siabrous. Leaves 

 opposite and alternate, linear, scal)rou.s, willi short stiff bris- 

 tles. Corol clavate. Capsule cordate, hid in the scabrous 

 calyx. 



A native of Prince of Wales' Island and the islands east- 

 ward of the Bay of Bengal. 



ACANTHUS. Schrch. gen. N. 1065. 



Calyx two-leaved, bifid ; (in the East India species it con- 

 sists of three pairs of leaflets). (7oro/ one-lipped. Anthers 

 bearded. Capsule two-celled, opening with elasticity across 

 the partition. Seeds few. 



1. A. iUcifolius. Willd. iii. 3.98. 



Shrubby, armed. Leaves oblong, sinuate, spinous, dentate. 

 Spikes terminal. 



Aquifolium indicum. Rumpk. Ainh. iv. t. 11. f. 1. 



Harik«sa, the Sanscrit name. 



Beng. Harcooch Kanta. 



Paina schulli. Rheed. Mai. ii. /. 48. 



A common shrub in and on the edges of salt or brackish 

 lakes, marshes, &c. Flowers all the year on the coast of Co- 

 romandel. In Bengal during the rains. 



Roots ramous. Stems many, erect ; branches few ; bark 

 smooth. Prickles slipulary, fourfold, short, but very sharp. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, scolloped, Avaved, 

 spinous, dentate, polished on both sides, of a firm texture, from 

 four to six inches long, and about two broad. Spikes gene- 

 rally terminal, though sometimes from the axills also erect. 

 Flowers solitary, opposite, large, blue, inodorous. Bractes^ 

 a single cordate, pointed one below each flower, it presses on 

 the calyx, and seems a seventh leaflet thereof. Calyx as in 

 the fan)ily. Corol many times longer than any of the leaf- 

 lets of the apex, three- toothed. Filaments rigid. Anthers 



