]90 LXXXT. CEXTT.Vy.Vf'E.T'. 



Throughout the greater part of India, inure frequent near the sea, but not known in 

 Bengal ; Ceylon, Malaya, Tropical Africa, W. Indies. 



An infusion of the plant is used as a bitter tonic ; it is brought in considerable 

 quantity to Bombay from Gujarat. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. e. 



3. ERYTHR^A, Eeuealm. 



Annual or perennial erect brauehed herbs. Leaves opposite, sessile. 

 Flowers rosy or white, in dicbotomous often corymbose cymes. Calyx 

 shortly or deeply 5 (rarely 4) -cleft; lobes keeled. Corolla-tube long or 

 short ; lobes 5 (rarely 4), spreading. Stamens 5 (rarely 4), inserted on 

 the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers usually exserted, erect, 

 linear-oblong, often spirally twisted. Ovary 1-eelled, the placentas 

 however often much intruded ; ovules many ; style filiform ; stigma 

 2-lo'ied. Capsule oblong, 1- or almost 2-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded. 

 Seeds minute, foveolate. — Disteib. Chiefly in temperate and subtropical 

 regions of the northern hemisphere, rare in the Tropics, 1 species 

 extending to Chili and another to Australia; species about 20. 



1. Erythraea Roxburghii, G. Don, Gen. Syst. v. 4 (1837) p. 206. 

 A small erect herbaceous plant 2-8 in. high. Eadical leaves rosulate, 

 persistent, |-1 by g-i in., obovate or oblong, obtuse. Cauline leaves 

 smaller, linear-oblong. Flowers in dicbotomous cymes with a flower in 

 each fork on a pedicel \-h in. long. Calyx ^ in. long; segments 4- in. 

 long, linear-subulate. Corolla |-§ in. long; tube 3 in. long; lobes 

 pink, ^ in. long, elliptic, acute, spreading star-like (DalzeU). Anthers 

 twisted at the apex. Stigma large, 2-lobed. Capsule exceeding ^ in. 

 long, narrowly oblong. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 102; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 157; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 169; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 3, p. 268. — Flowers : Feb.-Apr. Vern. Luntal: 



Tolerably common in cultivated flelds. Konkan : Stocks I, Law I ; Feu, K(ni/t/,r(r I 

 Dec'Can : JVoodrow; Kolhapur, Cooke] S. M. Country : Belgaum, lillchu', 1878! — 

 DiSTRiB. Throughout India. 



The whole plant is very bitter, and is used as a substitute for chiretla. See Watf, 

 Diet. Ecju. Prod. 1. c. 



4. HOPPEA, Willd. 



Small nmch-branched glabrous herbs. Leaves opposite, small, Gessilt>. 

 Flowers shortly pedicellate or sessile, small, in 2-3-chiitomous cymes. 

 Calyx campanulate, membranous; lobes 4, lanceolate. Corolla tubular; 

 lobes 4, more or less unequrJ. Stamens inserted in the throat of the 

 corolla, 1 perfect, 3 barren ; filaments short, filiform ; anthers small, 

 ovate, erect, with pai'allel cells. Ovary 1-celled, placentas little intruded; 

 style short ; stigma subentire. Capsule globose or ellipsoid, septicidally 

 2-valved. Seeds numerous, minute, obscurely reticulate. — Disthib. 

 I'jast India and Ceylon ; ,sp(>cies 2. 



1. Hoppea dichotoma) Willd. in Ges. Natnrf. Fr. Neue Sclir. v. 3 

 (1801) p. 4;')4. A snmll divaricately branched herb 2-5 in. high ; stem 

 and branches ([uadrangular, more or less winged. Leaves \ b)'^ ^ in., 

 ovate, acute. Cymes dense or lax; pedicels short; bracts lanceolate. 

 Calyx campanulate, ^V^h "'• '<^"o' "lembranous ; lobes y'^r in. long, 

 overtopping the corolla, lanceolate, very acute, with a strong greiMi nerve 

 at each margin. Corolla tnbidar, -,-'77 in. long, pale-yellow ; lobes .] as 

 long as the tube, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Antliers, 1 fertile, 3 barrcji. 



