PbHIGBAFHIS.] AC \ \THA r 1\V. 191 



2. H. hirta. V'. Anden. in Jiotirn. Linn. », 402; l'.l'.I. iv, 422 • 

 Train Beng. PI, 905, Ruellia hirta, Vahl .- Roab. Fl. Tnd. Hi, 46. 



A boMj pubesoenl herb. Statu fi-18 in, long, creeping, 1-sided. Leavei 



\-l in. long, ovate or oblong, orenate. Ileitis 8-8 flowered or the floweri 

 ■.isinnally solitary s bracts, . in, elliptic pubcseent. l.raeteoics none. 

 « a/jy.r ?, in long, greeny segments (in emit) ipathnlate. Corolla pale- 

 bine, J in. long, soon falling, glabrous exoepl tor the ii lines of hairs on 

 the palate, the Bwollen upper portion nearly as long as the cylindric 

 se; Lobes Bubequal, obliquely oval. Filament* it lie lunger ones) 

 laxly hairy below. Style liairy. Capsule J in. long, linear, about 12- 

 Beeded, glabrous. 



Abundant in most parts of the area. Flowers in early part of the hot 

 Beason. Distrib. Behar and in C. and W. Bengal ; *W. Himalaya, up 

 to 5.000 ft. in Kumaon. 



3. H. latenrosa. UTeet in DC. rrorf. sci, 723, var. rupestris, ft B. 



Clarke in F. B. I. ir, 423 ; Prain Beng. PL 805 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 358. 



A diffuse rather rigid viseidly pubescent herb. Sterna slender, obtusely 

 4-angled. clothed with soft white hairs. Leaves petioled, 1-3 in. long, 

 ovate, acuminate, crenate-serrate, tapering towards the base, petioles 

 •J-l£ in. long, leaves ; of the flowering branches much smaller. Flowers 

 in rather dense heads ; bracts ovate or elliptic, acute, hairy and with 

 ciliate margins, the outer ones largest. Calya \ in. long, linear, acute, 

 whitish with green tips, hairy and with ciliate margins, one segment 

 larger than the others. Corolla about £ in. long, narrowly funnel-shaped 

 and nearly straight ; tube yellowish, limb blue ; lobes obovate, obtuse. 

 Filaments (the longer ones) densely woolly above. Capsule i in. long, 

 puberulons, 6-seeded. Seeds hairy. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. Bundelkhand (Duthie), in shady places. 

 Distrib. W. Himalaya up to 5.000 ft. ; also in Behar, Eajputana, C- 

 Provinces, Bombay and S. India. 



11. PETALIDIUM, Nees ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 416. 



Under8hrubs, minutely pubescent. Leaves ovate or narrowly 

 obl<>ng, entire er toothed. Flowers solitary, sessile or nearly so, 

 usually crowded on short lateral branches ; bracts narrow ; small or 

 none ; bracteoles large, ovate, reticulate-veined, at length scarious. 

 Calyx unequally 5-fid. or 5-partite, segment'* narrowly lanceolate. 

 Corolla straight or curved, dilated upwards or funnel-shaped at the 

 top ; lobes 5, rounded, twisted to the left in bud, spreading in flower. 

 Stamens didynamoas ; anthers subsimilar, 2-celled ; cells parallel, 

 spurred at the base. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell, style linear, 

 stigma unequally 2-lobed. Fruit a cl.ivate capsule, compressed 

 parallel to the septum. Seeds 2 or 4, discoid, hvgroscopically hairv ; 



