XCVir. VEIlBEIfAC'E.E. 421 



long, lanceolate, pubescent, with scarious ciliate margins. Calyx 

 tubular, J-g in. long, densely pubescent, 5-ribbed, ultimately splitting 

 down one side, truncate at the fop, the teeth very minute. Corolla 

 glabrous outside ; tube slender, ^ in. long, slightly enlarged below the 

 limb ; limb ^ in. across ; lobes 5, rounded, spreading. Filaments 

 slender, glabrous. Ovary and style glabrous. Fruit ^ in. long, en- 

 closed in the calyx, rounded at the apex, consisting of 2 oblong glabrous 

 pyrenes. Fl. B". I. v. 4, p. 564; Wight, Icon. t. 1461; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359. 



In the Bombiy Presidency confined to Sind. Sind : DalzeUl, Bliola Puranl ; 

 roeky ground, Stocks ] ; Karachi, Cooke !; spur of the Hala range, Vicarij\ ; hills in 

 Sind, Stocks, 498! — Distkii?. Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia, Tropical Africa. 



4. STACHYTARPHETA, Vahl. 



Herbs or shrubs, hairy or glabrous. Leaves opposite or alternate, 

 toothed, usually rugose. Spikes terminal, long and slender (in the 

 Indian spei^ies) ; flowers solitary in the axils of bracts, sessile or half 

 immersed in the rhachis of the spike; bracts lanceolate, long or short ; 

 braeteoles 0. Calyx elongate, narrowly cylindric, shortly 4-o-toothed, 

 often vario'isly slit in a late stage. Corolla-tube slender, cylindric ; 

 limb oblique, with 5 equal or unequal flat spreading lobes. Perfect 

 stamens 2 (the lower pair), included in the corolla-tube ; staminodes 2, 

 minute or ; filaments short ; anthers without appendages, the cells 

 vertical, divaricate. Ovary 2-celled ; o\'ul.e solitary in each cell, attached 

 laterally near the base of the cell ; style long, filiform. Fruit enclosed 

 in the calyx, linear-oblong, separating into two hard 1-seeded pyrenes. — 

 DrsTEiB. Mostly Tropical American ; species about 40. 



1. Stachytarpheta indica, VaJil, Enum. v. 1 (1805) p. 206. 

 Annual, 1-3 ft. high ; stems erect, dichotomoiisly branched, nearly 

 glabrous ; young branches nearly quadrangular. Leaves 2-4 bv 1-^h in., 

 elliptic, obtuse or acute, coarsely serrnte, glabrous or nearly so, base 

 much tapering and decurrent into the petioles which are consequently 

 obscure. Flowers sessile, in long, slender, nearlv continuous glabrous 

 spikes reaching 1 ft. long, the rhachis hollowed out beneath each flower ; 

 bracts i in. long, lanceolate-subulate, scariously margined near the base. 

 Calyx \ in. long, membranous, tubular, glabrous ; teeth 4, short, acute. 

 Corolla deep-blue, glabrous ; tube g in. long, slightly curved, hairy 

 inside ; limb about | in. across, 5-lobed. Filaments slender, hairy 

 below. Ovary glabrous; style long, filiform, glabrous. Fruit ^-^ in. 

 long, oblong, ribbed, splitting into 2 pyreues. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 564 ; 

 Grab. Cat p. 154 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 348 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 359. Stachytaijiheta urtici folia, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Suppl. p. 68. S. jamaicensis,Yah\, Enum. v. 1, p. 206; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 154. — Flowers : Aug.-Nov. 



Though common as a weed in gardens and as an escape, the plant cannot be 

 considered indigenous. It is very abundant along roadsides about Dharwar. — 

 DiSTiUB. Throughout India; Ceylon; Tropical Asia,. America, Africa, sometimes 

 cultivated. 



