192 ACANTHACEJE. [ Dyschobistf. 



placentas separating elasticaliy from the base of the capsule, carrying 

 the seeds with them ; retinacula hard, curved. — Species 18, one in 

 India, the rest in Africa and the Mascarene Islands. 



P. barlerioides, Nee s in Wall. PL As. Bar. Hi, 82; Boyle Hi. 298 1 

 F. B. I. iv, 416 ; Kanjlal For. Fl. 261 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 518 ; 

 Ccllett Fl. Biml. 871 ; Prain Beng. PL 805 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 359, 

 Kuellia bracteata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 47. 



An undershrnb, 4-5 ft. or more, minutely hairy. Steins several, straight, 

 woody, subterete, glabrous. Leaves on the main stems 2-4 in. long, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, crenate-serrate, glabrous except on the nerves 

 and veins beneath ; main lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, prominent beneath, 

 petioles about £ in. long ; leaves on the shortened flowering branches 

 much smaller. Brads none, bract eoles leaf -like, f in. long, ovate, 

 acuminate, strongly nerved and veined, scarious when old, margins 

 ciliolate, pedicels £-§ in. long. Calyx glandular-hairy, about f in. long. 

 Corolla H i n - long, yellowish-white, hairy outside, the palate clothed 

 within with long deflexed fulvous hairs, tube dilated upwards ; lobes 

 obovate, obtuse, the margins crenate. Filaments hairy at the base, 

 anthers slightly pubescent. Ovary glabrous, style hairy. Capsule | in. 

 long, compressed, glabrous. Seeds usually 2, clothed with soft hairs 

 along the margins. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range and eastwards through the Sub-Himalayan 

 tracts of N. Oudh, also in Bundelkhand and Merwara. Flowers March 

 May. Distbtb. W. Himalaya up to 3,000 ft. ; also in Chota Nagpur, 

 Eajputana, and in C. & W. India and in the Bombay Presidency. 



12. DYSCHORISTE. Nees. 



Under Calophanes in Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 410. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, petioletL Flowers in axillary 

 clusters or short cymes ; bracteoles, small, narrow. Calyx tubular ; 

 lobes 5, subequal, lanceolate or subulate. Corolla tubular, obscurely 

 2-lipped ; lobes 5, obtuse, twisted to the left in bud, spreading in 

 flower. Stamens didynamous, perfect, filaments glabrous or hairy, 

 anthers similar, 2-celled. ; cells oblong, parallel, minutely mucronate 

 or spurred at the base ; pollen globose, ribbed. Ovary glabrous, 

 ovules 2 in each cell ; style linear, hairy ; stigma linear, the upper 

 lobe minute or obsolete. Fruit an oblong capsule, narrowed below 

 into a short solid base. Seeds i, orbicular, much compressed, hygros- 

 copically hairy when moistened ; retinacula strong, curved. — Species 

 60, in S. E. Asia, Tropical Africa and America. 



D. depressa, Nees in Wall. PL As. Bar. Hi, 81 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 

 361. Calophanes Nagchana, Nees ; F. B. I. iv, 410 ; Prain Beng. PI. 806. 

 Vern. Nagchana. 



