XCTI. ACANTH.VCBK. 399 



glandular-hairy ; bracteoles ^ iu. long, linear, acute, glandular-liairy. 

 CaLx pubescent, ^ in. long, divided | the way down; segments linear- 

 subulate. Curolla light-purple (JS'airne), 1 in. or more long, pubescent 

 outside; lube slender below, slightly enlarged above; upper lip g by 

 g in., liguiate, truncate, shortly emarginate, parallel-nerved ; lower lip 

 as long as the upper, -1- in. broad, oblong, obtuse, shortly and equally 

 3-lobed, spotted witii dark purple at the base. Fdameuts flat, hairy, 

 purple ; anthers yellow-, 1-celled. Style filiform, glabrous ; stigma 

 2-torked. Capsules |-| in, long, with a long solid stalk, pubescent, 

 narrowly clavate, pointed, 2-seeded. Seeds ^ by ^^ ^^-^ oblong, rounded 

 at the apex, tuberculate. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 557 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 197 ; 

 Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 358.— Flowers : Oct.- 

 I'Vb. 



Rare. Ko.n'kan: Law'.; hills in tlie Koukan, Z'«L-c/'/ ! ; Eohe (N. Koiikan), Z>aL-c/^ 

 ^- Gibson. — Distkib. India (W. Peninsula). 



29. RUNGIA, Nees. 



Erect or diffuse herbs or undershrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers iu 

 terminal or axillary perfectly or imperfectly 1-sided spikes ; bracts in 2 

 or 4 rows, 2 of the rows often barren, the flowering bracts often with 

 scarious margins ; bracteoles narrower than the bracts. Calyx small, 

 5-partite : segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla 2-lipped, the lower lip 

 longer than the upper. Stamens 2 ; anthers 2-celled, the cells often 

 superposed, the lower cell often with a white basal appendage. Disk 

 annular or shortly cupular. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; 

 style filiform ; stigma minutely 2-fid. Capsule ovoid or oblong, shortly 

 stipitate ; placentas, together with the retinacula, elastically separating 

 from the base of the capsule after dehiscence, to scatter the seeds. 

 Seeds normally 4, compressed, orbicular, glabrous, minutely tubercular 

 or verrucose, often wirh concentric furrows. — Distrib. AVarmer parts 

 of the world; species 20. 



Bracts dimorphic; upper lip of coro'la acute, not notched. 



Corolla -2 in. long; barren bracts ^-.^ in. long 1. B. crenaia. 



Corolla ^ iu. long ; barren bracts I in long 2. E. parviflora, 



var. j)6ctinata. 

 Bracts uniform ; upper lip of corolla notched or emarginate. 



Spikes perfectly 1-sided ; bracts herbaceous ; corolla ^^ in. long. 3. R. linifolia. 

 Spike.s imperfectly 1-sided ; bracts with broad scarious margins ; 

 corolla exceeding + in. long. 



Stems decumbent and rooting, nearly glabrous ; capsules 



ovoid, acute 4. B. repens. 



Stems erect, densely hairy ; capsules obovoid, obtuse 5. R. elegans. 



1. Rungia crenata, T. Anders, in Jouni. Linn. Soc. v. 9 (1867) 

 p. 518. An erect branched herb 1-1| ft. high ; stems and branches 

 slender, terete or obscurely quadrangular, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 

 1-2^ by |-1 in., elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, lineolate, sparsely hairy 

 with hairs often bulbous-based, base acute ; petioles |-g in. long, hairy.. 

 Flowers in dense 1-sided spikes |-1 by | in., terminal or axillary, sessile 

 or pedunculate ; bracts on one side of the spike, dimorphic, the barren 

 bracts alternate, in 2 opposite rows, foliaceous, |— | by ^-g in., elliptic- 

 oblong or somewhat obovate, densely softly haiiy, strongly nerved. 



