KruLLiA. ] ACANTHAOEM 189 



-« ly allied T\. cemua. M well M in R, tuierota, a native of America 

 ami now naturalised in C. Bengal. Sec also under tcboliuui Lum«a- 



i in - 1. 



9.-ffiCHMANTHERA, Nees ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 428. 



Small villous shrubs. Leaves broadly elliptic, acute, crenate, often 

 viscid. Flowers pale-violet or purplish, in sessile close or distant 

 clusters arranged on the branches of a 3-chotomous or 1 -sided 

 panicle; bracts linear, »s lout; as the calyx ; bracteoles, similar, 

 smaller. Caly-r 5-partite ; segments linear, subequa). Corolla 

 nearly straight ; tube cylindric at the base, suddenly widened near the 

 middle, palate with 2 hairy lines within ; lobes 5, subequal, rounded, 

 twisted to the left in bud. Stamen* didynamous, included, longer 

 filaments hairy ; anthers -ovate or oblong, 2-oelled, cells blunt, 

 connective sometimes produced. Ovary densely hairy at the apex j 

 style sparsely hairy, thickened upwards, stigma large, simple, linear- 

 lanceolate, ovules 4-6 in each cell. Fruit a narrowly oblong capsule, 

 seed-bearing from the base. Seeds 6-8 ((Sometimes 12), discoid aud' 

 densely hairy, or thicker and glabrous ; retinacuh strong, hooked.— 

 Species 2, both Indian. 



A. tomentosa, Xecs in Wall. PI. As. Ear. Hi. 87; F. B, I iv 4*8 ■ 

 Kanjilal For. Fl- 257 ; Gamble Man. Lid. Timb. 518. ' ' 



A small erect shrub, 1-3 ft. high, clothed with grey or whitish (not snowy 

 white) hairs. Leaves petioled, 2-a in. long, elliptic or lanceolate, acute 

 slightly crenate, base rounded ; upper surface coarsely pubescent, lower 

 densely grey-tomentose. Flowers arrange! in small 3-S-flowered clusters 

 which are sessile along the spreading branches of a large terminal panicle • 

 bracts £ in. or more long, linear, glandular-hairy, bracteoles similar but 

 smaller. Calyx H in, long, segments linear, glandular-hairy. Corolla 

 pale-blue, 1 in. long; lobes spreading, about } in. across. Anthers with 

 the connective very slightly excurrent. Capsule about as long as the 

 calyx, linear, usually 8-seeded. 



Summit of Siwalik range. Flowers during the cold season. Distrib 

 W. Himalaya, up to 5,000 ft. in Kumaon, also in Nepal. 



Vae. WaUichii, F. B. I. iv, 428 ; Watt E, D.. Kanjilal 1. c; Gamble I c ■ 

 Pram Ben,,, l'l. 804. M. g fcsypina, Xecs ; Royle III. 298. Vera. Bharara 

 — Stems ana leaves densely clothed with snow-white wool. Anthers with 

 the connective distinctly excurrent. Dehra Dun and Siwalik ranjre 

 Flowers in the late autumn, ami abundantly every 4 and 5 years after the 

 manner of some species of Strobilanthes. Distrib. W. Himalayan Simla to 

 Kumaon up to 5,000 ft., also in N. Bengal and Chittagon*. Madden sava 

 that bee3 are particularly fond of the flowers of this plant. It usually 



