XCVI. ACANTIIACEiE. 357 



short, obtuse. Filaments glabrous. Ovary pubescent ; style pubescent. 

 Capsules pubescent, |-| by g in., clavate, pointed. Seeds broadly 

 ellipsoid, much compressed, clothed all over (very densely on the margin) 

 with glistening white hygroscopic hairs, when dry appearing mucronate 

 by the hairs converging at the apex. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 412 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. Ill ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 589. Dipteracanthus longifolhis. 

 Stocks, in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) p. 177. 



Sind : Balzdl, 30 !, Stocks !, Woodrow. — Distrib. Beluchistan. 



Ruellia BaiJciei, Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5 (1889) p. 417. An 

 nndershrub, a native of Brazil, producing racemes of trumpet-shaped 

 scarlet flowers from September to April, grown in gardens. Siphona- 

 canthvs repens, Nees, in Mart. Fl. Bras. v. 9 (1847) p. 47. Stepliano- 

 jphysum BaiJciei, Hook. Bot. Mag. (1859) t. 5111. Steplianophysum 

 repens, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 7 (1864) p. 25. 



As there is already a Euellia repens, Linn. Mautiss. p. 89, the specific name given by 

 Nees cannot be adopted. 



12. HEMIGRAPHIS, Nees. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, toothed or subentire. Flowers 

 sessile, in heads or spikes tei*minal or pseudo-axillary on shortened 

 branchlets, rarely paniculate or solitary ; bracts large, imbricate, each 

 1-flowered ; bracteoles small, narrow or 0. Calyx 5-partite nearly to 

 the base ; segments unequal, lanceolate or linear. Corolla elongate ; 

 tube cylindric below, infuudibuliform or ventricose above ; lobes 5, 

 rounded, subequal, twisted to the left in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 included or nearly so ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, muticous, sometimes 

 triangular, the bases acute. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 3-8 in each cell ; 

 style long ; stigma 2-lobed, one lobe linear, the other very short. 

 Capsule linear or linear-oblong, seed-bearing almost from the base. 

 Seeds 6-20, compressed, discoid, brown with a white margin. — Disthib. 

 Species 20, mostly Indian and Malayan, 3 in Africa. 



Upper part of longer filaments glabrous ; capsule glabrous. 



A densely bristly (almost prickly) herb 1 . H. dura. 



Upper part of longer filaments bearded ; capsule minutely 

 pubescent. 



Bracts of inner flowers not longer than the calyx ; seeds 6 ... 2. H. latehrosa. 

 Bracts of inner flowers longer than the calyx ; seeds 8-10 ... 3. H elegans, 



var. crenata. 



1. Hemigraphis dura, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 9 (1867) 

 p. 461 (exclud. syn. EaelUa crispa). A procumbent or diffuse branched 

 densely bristly herb (almost prickly from the strong sharp bristles) ; 

 stems 1-2 ft. long. Leaves 1-1 g by g-g in., oblong, obtuse, subcrenate, 

 hispid with long hairs, attenuated into a short petiole. Flowers in 

 dense many-flowered heads densely clothed with white and yellowish- 

 brown hair ; bracts |-1 long, oblong or spathulate, subacute, densely 

 clothed and ciliate with jointed white and yellowish-brown hairs; 

 bracteoles 0. Calyx | in. long, divided almost to the base ; segments 

 linear, acute, densely hairy and ciliate with long jointed hairs, the hairs 

 near the apex yellowish-brown and stifPer than the white marginal ones. 



