296 AcanthacecE. {Phaylopsis. 



recurved ; capsule nearly \ in., oblong-clavatc, lower half 

 solid and stalk-like. 



Low country up to 3000 ft.; very common. FI. all the year; clear 

 pale mauve-violet. 



Throughout India and in N. Africa. 



LinniLUs's name has Jong priority over Lamarck's ; but he quotes for 

 it the plate in Hort. Malab. ix. t. 64, which is very bad, and seems tcv 

 represent something else — hence his name has been dropped or mis- 

 applied by systematists. 



\R. repens, L., is given as found near Galle, T. Thomson, by Anderson 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. 460. The specimen is not now in Herb. Kew under 

 that name, and the locality is omitted in FI. B. Ind.] 



2. R. patula, /(i:r^. Misc. Bot. ii. 358 (1781). 



Thw. Enum. 225. C. P. 2628. 



FI. B. Ind. iv. 412. Wight, Ic. t. 1505 {Dipteracanthus patulus). 



Stems long, straggling, much branched, cylindrical or sub- 

 quadrangular, densely pubescent ; 1. -^-i in., broadly oval, 

 rounded at base, obtuse or apiculate, closely pubescent on 

 both sides, petiole \-\ in. ; fl. nearly sessile, solitary or rarely 

 2 or 3 together, bractlets leafy, oval, densely pubescent ; cal. 

 much shorter than bractlets, cut nearly to base, segm. linear- 

 lanceolate, very acute, hairy; cor.-tube |-i in.; rest as in R. 

 riiigens. 



Dry region near the coast; rather rare. Trincomalie (Glenie); 

 Puttalam (Ferguson); Jaffna. Fl. Jan.; very pale purplish-blue. 

 Also in India, Burma, Arabia, Abyssinia. 



8. FKAYI.OFSZS, Willd. 



Perennial herb, 1. opp., on long petioles, unequal, fl. sessile, 

 in threes in axils of large densely imbricated bracts in a close 

 one-sided strobilate infl., bractlets none ; sep. 5, one much 

 larger than the rest and like the bracts ovate and membranous, 

 the rest setaceous ; cor. small, 2-lipped, tube exserted, cylin- 

 drical, slender, lobes 5, nearly equal, contorted in bud; stam. 

 4, didynamous, capsule clavate, compressed ; seeds 4, com- 

 pressed with elastic hygroscopic hair. — Sp. 10 ; i in FL B. 

 Ind, 



P. parviflora, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 342 (1800). 

 ALtlicile))ia reniforme, Nees, Thw. Enum. 225. C. P. 398. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 417. Wight, Ic. t. \^i'^{^-Ethcilema 7-cnifornie). 



Stems long, diffuse, slender, often prostrate, much divari- 

 cately branched, thickened at nodes and often rooting at 

 lower ones, hairy ; 1. of each pair very unequal in size, the 

 larger i-i^ in., ovate-oval, very unequal-sided at base, acu- 



