xcvi. ACA^•TIlA.CE.l;. 403 



angular, usually glabrous. Leaves 1|-3| by |-1| in., ovate or elliptic, 

 acuminate, lineolate, glabrous or nearly so ; main nerves 5-6 pairs, 

 slender; petioles g-lg in. long. Flowers in axillary clusters of usually 

 3-5, small sessile, sometimes umbel-like cymes; bracts herbaceous, 

 veiued, unequal, the longer of the pair 5 by ylg- in., obloug-obovate, 

 cuspidately acuminate, nearly glabrous, the lower half of each bract 

 with scarious densely ciliate margins, each pair of bracts enclosing 

 usually 3 flowers very closely packed together ; bracteoles 4- in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, hairy. Calyx ^-^ in. long, hairy, 5-partite to about 

 3^Q- in. from the base ; segments lanceolate-subulate, very acute. 

 Corolla 3- in. long, pubescent outside; tube narrow, scarcely enlarged 

 above ; upper lip yL jn, long ; lower lip -pL in. long. Capsules 

 1 by y^r in., ellipsoid, compressed, subacute, very shortly stalked, 

 pubescent at the apex, the sides glabrous, 4-seeded. Seeds -^j^ in. in 

 diam., orbicular, echinulate with small tubercles with stellately radiating 

 tips. n. B. I. V. 4, p. 553; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 197; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. jVat. v. 12 (1800) p. 358. — Flowers : Oct. A^ekn. A' mjjhuiavdni. 



KoNKAN : Sagfirgarh (N. Konknn), Sfoc/iSl, Dalzell ^ Gibson. Gujarat: DalzcUl; 

 Neriad, Ka.niLh<(r\ Sisd : Sakhpur, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Bebar, Cbota- 

 Nagpur, Central India, VV. Peninsula) ; Tropical Africa. 



2. Dicliptera zeylanica, Nees, in DC. Proclr. v. 11 (1847) p. 474. 

 A prostrate or subscandent herb ; stems long, glabrous or hairy, or 

 sometimes densely woolly ; branches 4- or 6-sided. Leaves l^-^j by 

 |-2| in., ovate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, lineolate, glabrous or 

 somewhat scabrid above, paler and moi-e or less hairy on the nerves 

 beneath, mucronate, base acute ; petioles ^-g in. long. Flowers in 

 axillary and terminal umbel-like few-flowered sometimes clvistered 

 cymes, rarely reduced to a single head ; peduncles of the cyme 5-I in. 

 long ; branches of the cyme very often 3, less commonly 4 or 5, usually 

 short, pedicel-like, each supporting a pair of bracts which enclose 1-3 

 sessile flowers of which usually 1 only is fertile ; bracts herbaceous, in 

 opposite pairs, equal or unequal, connate at the base, broadly ovate, 

 |-| in. long and nearly as broad as long (occasionally reniform and 

 broader than long), mucronate, more or less hairy on both sides, re- 

 ticulately veined ; bracteoles | in. long, linear-subulate, very hairy. 

 Calyx I in. long, hairy, 5-partite to about y^g" i^- from the base; 

 segments lanceolate, very acute. Corolla deep-rose, often exceeding 

 I in. long, pubescent outside, deeply 2-lipped ; tube slender below, 

 slightly enlarged above; upper lip g in. long and as broad, obovate, 

 entire; lower lip nearly h by i in., oblong, truncate, shortly 3-lobed, the 

 lobes yL in. long, subequal, oblong, rounded. Filaments flat ; one anther- 

 cell attached much higher up than the other, the lower cells not appen- 

 daged at the base. Style filiform, more or less pubescent. Capsules 5 in. 

 long, obovoid, truncate or rounded, shortly mucronate, comprei-sed and 

 with a stalk about -^-^ in. long, densely pubescent all over. Seeds -^ in, 

 in diam., compressed, minutely tubercular, the tubercles on the margins 

 minutely glochidiale. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 552; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, 

 p. 344; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 358. Dicliptera 

 hivalvis, Nees, 1. c. p. 475 {yiot of Juss.) ; AVight, Icon. t. 1551 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. p. 196. Jusficia bivahis, Grab. Cat. p. 164 (not of Linn.). — 

 Flowers : Dec. -Mar. 



