353 XCTI. ACANTIIACE.E. 



Corolla blue, 1 in. long ; tube slender, the cylindric part about as long as 

 the ventricose portion ; lobes obovate, rounded, nearly ^ in. long. 

 Stamens scarcely exserted beyond the corolla-tube ; filaments glabrous. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style pubescent. Capsules | in. long, linear-oblong, 

 pointed, grooved, glabrous. Seeds 6-8, bi'oadly ellipsoid or suborbicular, 

 -fli- in. ill diam., yellowish-brown. Yl. B. I. v. 4, p. 422 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355. Ruellia dura, Nees, in DC. 

 Prodr. V. 11, p. 146; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 180.— Flowers : Jan.-Feb. 

 VEms". Ganielbu. 



KoNKAN : Gihson\ S. M. Country: Belgaum, Bifchie, HOG! Gujarat: Surat, 

 Dalzell \, Kanitkar \, Bhiva\ Sind : Cooke \ — Distrib. India (Central India, 

 W. Peninsula). 



2. Hemigraphis latebrosa, Nees, in DC. Prodr. v. 11 (1847) 

 p. 723. A diffuse weak herb ; stems slender, obtusely subquadrangular, 

 clothed with soft white hairs. Leaves 1-3 by |-1| in., ovate, acuminate, 

 coarsely crenate-serrate, sparsely hairy on both sides with short often 

 bulbous-based hairs (the leaves on the secondary flowering branches 

 smaller), base cuneate ; petioles |-li in. long. Flowers in axillary and 

 terminal heads (reduced spikes); bracts elliptic, acute, those of the 

 outer flowers much longer than the calyx, those of the inner flowers 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, all hairy and with densely ciliate margins; 

 bracteoles 0. Calyx 3 in. long, divided nearly to the base, one of the 

 segments longer than the other 4, all linear, acute, whitish below, green 

 at the tip, hairy and ciHate. Corolla |-f in. long, narrowly tubular, 

 nearly straight; tube whitish, slightly enlarged upwards; limb blue, 

 with obovate obtuse lobes i in. long. Longer filaments of the stamens 

 densely bearded in the upper part with long white hairs, the shorter 

 filaments glabrous. Ovary minutely pubescent at the apex. Capsules 

 \ in. long, minutely pubescent, G-seeded. Seeds y^r- in. in diam., broadly 

 ellipsoid or suborbicular, yellowish-brown, clothed with white hairs, 

 ri. B. I. v. 4, p. 423 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1504 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355. Ruellia elegans, Bot. Mag. (1S35) t. 3389; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 162; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 186.— Flowers : Dec. 



Konkan: Stocks'., Law I; Kanheri, I)alzeU\; Eevadanda, Woodrow; Marmagao, 

 Kanitkar \ Deccan : bills about Par, Slocks \ ; Kbandala, Cooke \, Woodrow \ 

 Kanaka : Kala naddi, Ritchie, 580 ! —Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Vae. 1. rupestris, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 424. 

 More rigid and pubescent, often viscidly so ; heads denser. 

 Konkan : Law '., Stocks I, Ritchie ! 



Var. 2. ehracteata. Leaves smaller, |-1^ by i-l in., broadly ovale, 

 acute or subobtuse; hairs stiff, almost bristly, especially on the nerves 

 beneath. Capsules ^—^ in. long, pubescent, 6-seeded (C. B. Chirhe). 

 Jlrmif/rajyJiis ehrncteolata (sp.), C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. FI. B. 1. v. 4, 

 p. 424. liuelUa ehracteata (not ebracteoJata as cited in Fl. B. I. 1, c.), 

 Dalzell, in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2 ( 1 850) p. 342. Eaellia latchrosa, Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bo. Fl. (1861) p. 186. — Flowers: cold season. Dalzell, who in 

 1850 (Kew Journ. Bot. 1. c.) made this a species distinct from //. late- 

 brosa, combined it with that species in 1861 (Bo. Fl. 1. c). 



Konkan : Stocks'., Dalzell'. 



