324 XCIII. GESyEUIACE-D. 



4. RHYNCHOGLOSSUM, Blume {Rhinchoglossum). 



Herbs, usually glabrous. Leaves alternate, elliptic, acuminate, 

 unequal-sided, cordate on one side of the unequal base, subentire or 

 sinuate. Flowers in long many-flowered racemes ; bracts small. Calyx 

 c.'impauulate, 5-lobed. Corolla tubular; tube cylindric ; mouth con- 

 tracted ; limb 2-lipped, the upper lip short, 2-tid, the lower longer, 

 3-lobe(l. Stamens 2, perfect, included ; anthers connivent, 2-celled, the 

 cells ellipsoid, subparallel, the slits ultimately subconfluent at the apex. 

 Ovary ovoid, 1-celled; placentas much intruded, divided into 2 thick 

 lamelljE bearing numerous ovules on all sides ; style linear ; stigma 

 minutely 2-lobed. Capsule included in the calyx, ellipsoid, membranous. 

 Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, smooth ; testa minutely reticulate. — Djstrib. 

 Species 2 in India and Malaya. 



1. Rhynchoglossum obliquum, Blume, Bijdr. (1826) p. 741 



(Rhiyichoglossum), tar. parviflora, C. B. Clarice, in DC. Monogr. v. 5 

 (1883) p. 162. A succulent herb usually glabrous or nearly so, very 

 variable in size, 2-20 in. high. Leaves 2-6 by 1-3 in., elliptic-oblong, 

 acuminate, thinly membranous, usually glabrous, unequnl-sided, the 

 smaller side acute at the base, the larger semicordate, extending much 

 lower on the petiole ; lateral nerves numerous, parallel, curved, pro- 

 minent beneath ; petioles |-1 in. long. Flowers in racemes reaching 

 4| in. long, solitary or 2 together ; rhachis glabrous ; bracts at the base 

 of the pedicels -^ in. long, subulate ; pedicels g-| in. long, filiform, 

 nodding. Calyx 4- in. long, divided about g-way down or less ; lobes 

 triangular, acute. Corolla blue ; tube 1 in. long; upper lip y'^ in. long, 

 with 2 triangular acute lobes ; lower lip | in. long, with 3 shallow 

 obtuse lobes. Capsules ^ in. long, ovoid. Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, 

 about -^ in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 367. Bh/nchoglossum ohliquum, 

 DC. Prodr. v. 9 (1845) p. 274 ; Wight, 111. v. 2, p. 182^ t. 159 bis, fig. 7 ; 

 C. B. Clarke, Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 88 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1898) p. 176. R. zeglanicum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4198.— 

 Flowers : Oct. 



KoxKAN : elevated parts. BahdC; Dasgaon, Wondrous; Western Ghats, IVoodrow ] 

 Deccan : Wada below MaLablcshwar, Wundrotn \ ; Pertabgarh Fort, on walls near tlie 

 gate, Woodrowl Xanara : Kala naddi, Ritchie, 1909! — DisTiuii. Throughout India 

 in and near the bills, common. 



5. EPITHEMA, Blume. 



Small succulent pubescent herbs ; stem simple or branched. Leaves 

 few or solitary ; lower alternate ; upper often opposite. Flowers small, 

 in dense pedunculate seorpioid cymes ; peduncles long, 1 or more from 

 the upper axils, free or confluent with the petiole or leaf-base ; bract 

 large, solitary, 1-sided, hooded or subspatbaceous ; bract(>oles small, 

 narrow, or ; pedicels very short. Calyx campanulate ; lobes 5, acute, 

 valvate in bud. Corolla small, blue or white, tubular, 2-lipped ; lobes 5, 

 slightly unequal. Stamens : 2 upper perfect ; 2 lower reduced to 

 staminodes; anthers cohering, 2-celled, cells short, divaricate, soon 

 confluent. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled; placentas stalked, peltate, bearing 

 ovules on all sides ; style filiform ; stigma small, snbcapitate. Capsule 

 globose, membranous, included in the calyx, dehiscing circumsoissilely. 



