XCVI. AfANTIIACE-B. 391 



the lowest lobe of the corolla of which is dotted with purple. It is a 

 native of the Philippine Islands. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 357 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 415. Eranthemum aspersum, 

 Hook. f. Bot. Mag. (1868) t. 5711. 



27. LEPIDAGATHIS, Willd. 



Herbs or undershrubs often pubescent. Leaves entire or crenate- 

 serrate. Flowers sessile, usually capitate, sometimes opposite or solitary ; 

 heads axillary or terminal, almost always dense, often 1-sided, sometimes 

 fascicled; bracts usually conspicuous; braeteoles usually smaller tliau 

 the bracts. Calyx 5-lobed, the lobes unequal, the 2 lower often more or 

 less conna*'e, making the calyx 4-parrite, the connate segments usua'ly 

 easily separable. Corolla small, 2-lipped ; tube narrowly cyliudric 

 below, often constricted beneath the throat, suddenly swollen at or 

 above the middle ; upper lip erecto-patent, usually notched or 2-fid ; 

 lower lip with 8 spreading lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, attached at 

 the base of the throat, included ; anthers 2-celled, 1 of the cells oftea 

 attached higher up than the other, the cells frequently bearded, some- 

 what divergent. Disk annidar. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 (rarely 1) in 

 each cell ; style recurved ; stigma capitellate, shortly 2-lohed or entire. 

 Capsule ovoid-oblong or lanceolate, compressed. Seeds 2 or 4, com- 

 pressed, ovoid, oblong or orbicular, hairy. — Distrib. Warmer parts of 

 the world, few in America ; species 80. 



Seeds 2. 



Ciipsule wilhscarious back, irregularly rupturing, only ulti- 

 mately 2-valved ; seeds with long, mucilaginous liairs. 

 Calyx 4-partite. 



Bracts spinous-pointed 1. L. cristata. 



Bracts not spiuous-poiuted 2. L. mitis. 



Calyx 6-partite. 



Bracts glabrous, vrith recurved apical spines; calyx- 

 segments thinly membranous, not spinous-pointed. 3. L. frinervis. 

 Bracts softly hairy, with straight apical spines ; calyx- 

 segments thick, spinous-pointed 4. L. liifea. 



Capsule early 2-valved, not scarious on the back ; seeds with 

 short, not mucilaginous hairs. 



Erect; bracts and braeteoles silky-hairy 5. L. cJavata. 



Prostrate, creeping and rooting ; bracts and braeteoles 



gland ular-hairy 6. L. prosfrafa. 



Seeds 4. 



Leaves longitudinally folded 7. L. rigida. 



Leaves not longitudinally folded. 

 Erect undershrubs. 



Leaves of the stem exceeding 2 in. long ; bracts and 



calyx-segments thick, glandular-hairy 8. L. ciispida/a. 



Leaves of the stem less than 1 in. long ; bracts and 



calyx-segments scarious 9. L. ccdycina. 



Diffuse or prostrate herbs. 



A prostrate perennial herb ; bracts ^^ in. broad, 



scarious; calyx-segments finely spinous 10. L. incurva, 



var. mucronata. 

 A diffuse weak herb ; bracts \ in. broad, herbaceous ; 



calyx-segments not spinous 11. L. fasciculafa. 



1. Lepidagathis cristata, Willd. Sp. PL v. 3 (1800) p. 400. 

 Rootstock perennial ; stem scarcely any ; branches numerous, spreading 



