Sub-class II. — Sympetalae. 



Fam. 66. PLlIHbAGmC^-ti. 



Herbs or undershrnbs with alt. leaves and fls. in terminal 

 heads, spikes or panicles. Bracts usually sheathing the 

 flowers and with scarious margins. Calyx inferior, tubular, 

 5-10-ribbed, scarious. Petals 5, polypetalous or gamopeta- 

 lous. St. 5 opp. the petals. Ovary superior 1-celled, 5- 

 angnlar above; styles 5, free or only connate below. Ovule 

 1, pendulous from a basal funicle, anatropous. Fruit mem- 

 branons or the apex hardened, circamsciss or rupturing or 

 apex 5-valved. 



Calyx glandular, fls. spicate, styles connate 

 except above 1. P lumbago. 



1- P. zeylanica, L. Ciiar Kathi, Jog Kathi, S t 



A shrub with long rambling green branches very glan- 

 dular above, pale green clustered leaves and long panicled 

 spikes of pretty long- tubed white flowers |-f" diam. 



Among rocks on the Banchi plateau ; Manbhum, Camp- Fls. Bejpt- 

 Nov. Fr. Nov. 



L. ovate or ovate oblong, the base suddenly narrow eu into a short 

 amplexicanl petiole. Calyx persistent \" densely covered with stalked 

 glands. Filaments slender free the whole length of the tube, with purple 

 anthers. Fruit as long as the calyx included E-angled. Seed large 

 albumiuous. 



P. rosea, L-, with red flowers, and P. capensis. Thurib., a very 

 pretty plant with blue flowers, are often cultivated. 



Fam. 67. JHYItsmCE^. 



Shrubs or small trees with alt. simple exstipulate leaves 

 often with minute glands (generally red) on the leaves and 

 flowers. Fls. reg. often polygamous or dioecious. CalyxhyipO' 

 gynous or perigynons (Msesa), persistant and often enlarged 

 in fruit. Corolla polypetalous (some Kmbelia), or usually 

 gamopetalous with 4-5 petals and as many stamens opp. 

 the petals. Ovary 1-celled with few or many ovules on a 



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