344 ICTI. AC.VXTnACE^. 



at the base ; pollen cog-wheel-shaped {KammradpoUen, Lindau, in Engl. 

 & Prantl, Pliauzenf.). Ovary 2-celled ; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule swollen 

 at the base, conical, attenuated upwards, 2-celled and 4-seeded at the 

 base ; dissepiment persistent, adnate to the valves. — Distmb. East 

 Indies ; species 1. 



1. Meyenia Hawtayneana, Nees, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. v. 3 (1832) 

 p. 78. Scandent, smooth, glaucous ; stem slender, angular. Leaves 

 opposite, sessile, coriaceous, 2-3 by 1-1 1 in., ovate, acute, entire, 

 glabrous, smooth and shining above, pale beneatli, reticnlately veined, 

 base cordate. Elowers in opposite axils; pedicels ^-1| in. long, with 

 a tuft ot" dirty-white hairs at the base; bracteoles 1-1^ in. long, 

 ovate-oblong, reticnlately veined, apiculate. Calyx about -r,\j in. long, 

 glabrous; lobes obscure. Corolla bluish-purple, yellow within the tube, 

 l|-lf in. long, glabrous ; lobes rounded, subequal. Stamens 4, didy- 

 namous ; filaments hairy at the base and in the upper part below the 

 anthers ; anthers bearded at the apex, the anther-cells ot" the longer 

 pair of stamens unequal, one cell almost abortive, narrow, -i- in. long, 

 glabrous, the other cell shorter, broader, hirsute, spurred at base ; 

 anther-cells of the shorter pair of filaments subequal, glabrous except 

 at the apex, not spurred at the base. Stigma ^ in. long, deeply 2-lobed, 

 each lobe subfunnel-shaped, again divided. Capsules 1-1^ in. long, 

 swollen at the base, acutely conical above, glabrous ; the valves woody, 

 retrorsely curved. Seeds subhemispheric, excavate at the base. Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1487; DC. Prodr. v. 11, p. 60. Tlmnhergia Hawfdi/neaiia, 

 Wall. Tent. Flor. Nap. (1826) p. 49 in Obs. ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. 

 El. P>. I. v. 4, p. 391 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 354. 



Rare. S. M. Country: Dbarwar, Law], Woodrow. Kanaka: Law'. — Distrib. 

 India (W. Peninsula). 



3. TUBIFLORA, J. F. Gmel. in Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13, v. 2 

 (1791) p. 27. 



ELYTBAEIA, Michaux, El. Bor. Am. v. 1 (1803) p. 8 ; 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. v. 2, p. 1073. 



Herbs ; stems short or almost 0. Leaves alternate, crowded, sub- 

 radical. Elovvei'S in close rigid simple or divided spikes. Scapes covered 

 by spirally imbricate (not opposite) bracts ; bracteoles smaller than the 

 bracts. Calyx 4-partite ; segments unequal, the largest sometimes 2-fid. 

 Corolla small, white or bluish, 2-lippcd ; tube linear; lobes 5, oblong, 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, perfect, inserted in the corolla-throat ; 

 anthers elliptic, acute, the cells 2, parallel, with or without a minute 

 spur at the base. Disk small. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 6-10 in each 

 cell, superposed ; style short ; stigma shortly 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 

 acute. Seeds minute, ovoid, reticulate, minutely papillosp, not supported 

 on retinacula. — Distrib. Species about 3, of which 1 is widely spread 

 in Tropical Africa and Asia. 



Though f.he term Tuhijlora, a word whicli is invariably used as an adjeitive and 

 not a substantive, i.s objectionalile when employed to denote a genus, si ill t lie fact 

 remains that tliis name is 12 years prior to that of Kli/fraria, and its adoption 

 therefore necesary. It has been adopted by Lindau in \ing\. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 



