288 A canthaceCB. [ Tlumber^ia. 



Anth. -cells parallel. 



Bracts inconspicuous, scat- 

 tered . . . .25. Ptyssiglottis. 

 Bracts large, imbricate . . 26. ECBOLIUM. 

 Placentas separating from base of 

 capsule. 

 Bracts imbricated in four ranks 27. RUNGIA. 

 Bracts in adpressed pairs. . 28. Dicliptera. 

 Cor. without an upper lip. 



Seeds 2 12. Blepharis. 



Seeds 4 13. Acanthus. 



I. THUNBERGIA,*Z./ 



Perennial, with twining stems, 1. angled, fl. rather large,, 

 solitary, axillary, bracts none, bractlets very large, completely 

 enclosing bud ; sep. small, 12-20 in a ring; cor.-tube narrow, 

 ventricose, laterally compressed, lobes 5, large, nearly equal, 

 contorted, overlapping to left ; stam. 4, didynamous, distinct, 

 included, disk annular, ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, stigma 

 dilated, 2-lobed ; capsule didymous, terminated by a long 

 sword-shaped obtuse empty beak ; seeds 2 in each cell, nearly 

 globose, without retinacula. — Sp. 30; 10 in Fl. B. Ind. 



T. frag-rans, Roxb. PL Coroni. i. 47 (1795). 

 Moon Cat. 46. Thw. Enum. 224. C. P. 2020. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 390. Roxb. PI. Corom. t. 67. Bot. Mag. t. i88r. 



Stems slender, long, twining, dilated at nodes, rough with 

 deflexed hair ; 1. \\-2\ in., deltoid-ovate, obtuse, apiculate, 

 with a few large angular apiculate lobes at the base, very 

 finely hispid on both sides, petiole l-\\ in., divaricate, stiff, 

 channelled above, hispid with deflexed hairs ; ped. 1-2 in. 

 long, hispid, bractlets over i in., ovate, acute, pubescent ; sep. 

 about ^ in., cor.-tube about i in., pubescent outside, limb 2\ 

 in. diam., lobes truncate, coarsely toothed ; capsule a little 

 over I in., glabrous, much compressed, 2-valved ; seeds \ in., 

 glabrous, brown mottled with black. 



Var. /3, vestlta, Nccs in DC. Prod. xi. 57. 



Whole plant much more hispid ; capsule pubescent. 



Var. y, parviflora, Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 165. 



L. glabrous, smaller, more deeply cut, very acute, bractlets 

 narrower, glabrous ; cor.-limb. under i in. diam. 



* In memory of Charles Peter Thunberg, Prof, of Botany at Upsala 

 University, the celebrated botanical traveller, who visited S. Africa, Java, 

 and Japan. He was in Ceylon in 1777-S. Died 1822. 



