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i in. in fruit, ciliate. Corolla white, ^ in. long ; tube broad, somewhat 

 infundibuliform, densely clothed with silky hairs in the throat, which 

 radiate towards the centre and quite close the entire corolla; lobes 

 equalling the tube, oblong, rounded at the apex, slightly crisped on the 

 mai'giu, strongly veined. Stamens inserted at the sinuses of the corolla; 

 filaments very short; anthers about tj^j in. loiig, oblong, at length ex- 

 serted beyond the corolla-lobes. 0\ary 4-lobed; style -t^j in. long, 

 cylindric, slender ; stigma capitate, sub-2-lobate. Nutlets -^ in. long, 

 usually 2, with a short sublateral stalk, keeled or angled on the ventral 

 face, rounded and granular on the back, acuminate at the apex, longer 

 than the style, but shorter than the closed persistent calyx. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 4, p. 175 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 172 ; Hook. Icon. t. 804 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 170.— Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



Gujarat: Baikar near Deesa, Stocks, 61 ! ; Broach, Kanitkar ! ; coast of Katliiawar, 

 very common, JJuLcii ] ; Veriivval (Kathiawar), Woodrow ; Pahbuipur, Woodrow. 

 SiND : Stocks, 473! ; Jeraadai- ka Landa near Karachi, Stocks, 01 !; Karachi, Vicary\ 

 — DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



10. ARNEBIA, Forsk. 



Annual or perennial erect or diffuse hispid herbs ; root often staining 

 red. Leaves alternate. Flowers dimorphic, yellow or violet, sessile or 

 very shortly pedicellate, in simple racemes or spikes or slightly branched 

 cymes ; bracts foliaceous. Calyx deeply 5-fid or 5-partite ; lobes lanceo- 

 late or linear, not or slightly enlarged in truit. Corolla-tube slender, 

 straight, the throat naked inside ; lobes 5, imbricate, obtuse, spreading. 

 Stameus 5, much below the mouth of the tube in the long-styled, or in 

 the throat and g-exserted in the short-styled forms ; anthers small, 

 oblong, obtuse. Ovary dee|)ly 4-lobed ; ovules erect, with short f unicles ; 

 style filiform, 2-partite ; stigmas capitate. Nutlets usually 4 (rarely 

 fewer by abortion), erect, oblong or acuminate from a broad base, rugose 

 or more or less tuberculate ; scar basal, large, triangular, flat, shortly 

 produced up the inner face. — Distrib. N. Africa, W. & Central Asia ; 

 species about 12. 



Calyx-lobes linear-subulate, nearly h in. long ; corolla with 



purple spots at the base of the lobes 1. A. Grifflthii. 



Calyx-lobes lanceolate, ^ in. long ; corolla without purple 



spots at the base of the lobes 2. A. hispidissima. 



1. Arnebia Griffithii, Bolss. Diagn. ser. ii. n. 3 (1856) p. 135. A 

 small annual 3-6 in. high, hirsute with white spreading hairs mostly 

 from bulbous bases. Leaves reaching 2 by \ in., oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, sessile, obtuse or subacute, densely hairy on both sides with 

 stiff hairs from bulbous bases. Flowers dimorphic, secund, in racemes 

 or spikes 1-3 in. long ; pedicels O-^Iq in. long. Calyx densely hairy, 

 nearly \ in. long, divided to the barie or nearly so ; segments linear- 

 subulate. Corolla yellow with 5 purple spots at the base of the lobes 

 w^hich fade as the flowers grow old, and which are considered in 

 Afghanistan to be the impression of the 5 fingers of the prophet 

 Mahomet : tube | in. long, a little swollen from the mitldle upwards 

 and then slightly constricted below the hypocrateriform limb, which is 

 about ^ in. long; lobes ^ in. long, suborbicular. Anthers -^^ in. long, 

 oblong; filaments very short. Style slender, very loi-'g in the long- 



