1. Htdrolea.] 93. EYBROPHYLLAGEM. 



Marshy ground and rice-fields. Pnrneah, common ! Bettiah, Hieronymus T 

 Gr»,j?i, Meeholdl Gliota Nasfpur, frequent ! A.i\gu.\, Chattarjeel Probably therefore 

 in all districts. FL, Fr. Jan. -Feb. There are two varieties, of which the erect 

 form is a very pretty plant when in full flower : — 



a. erecta. Erect with cauline leaves reflexed attaining 3-4' ", 

 shortly petioled (as in the next). Cymes terminating- the numerous 

 often elongate lateral branches, pubescent but not glandular. 

 Marshy places, Purneah ! 



/3. diffusa. Procumbent and rooting at the nodes, leaves rarely 

 exceeding 2". Cymes very numerous, glandular-hairy as well as. 

 pubescent. 



The common form in rice-fields. 



FAM. 94. POLEMONIACEiE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, sometimes scandent, often glandular, with 

 simple or jjinnate exstipulate alternate leaves or lower sometimes, 

 opposite. Flowers often showy, regular or {Cohsea) somewiiat 

 zygomorphous, usually cymose, hermaphrodite, 5-merous. Caly.x 

 inferior. Corolla gamopetalous, variously shaped, lobes twisted to 

 the right. Stamens on the tube, alternate with its lobes. Ov^ary 

 mostly 3-carpellary and 3 (-5)-celled. Style simple 1, sometimes 3- 

 fid. Ovules very many. Fruit capsular 3-valved, sometimes with 

 partial false septa in the middle of the valves. 



Cobaea scandens, Cav. A large climber with the rhachis of the pinnate leaves- 

 converted into tendrils at the end, and large campanulate somewhat zygomorphic 

 solitary axillary flowers with large cordate bracts. 



Often seen in gardens in the cooler parts of the i)rovince. 



Phlox Drummondl, Hook. A well-known garden plant. 



FAM. 95. BORAGINACEiE. 



Trees, shrubs or more frequently herbs, often with cystoliths or 

 hispid hairs, alternate (suboj)posite in some Cordia), or lower some- 

 times opposite, simple, e.xstipulate leaves and usually small regular,, 

 very rarely zygomorphous, flowers in dichotomous scorpioid cymes, 

 ■which are most often circinate Avhen young, rarely solitary or sub- 

 racemose. Flowers usually o-merous, exceptionally 4- or 6-8-merous. 

 Corolla often with scales in the throat, imbricate (rarely twisted) in 

 bud. Stamens on the tube, usually equal, anthers introi'se. Disc 

 often present annular hypogynous. Ovary of two median carpels, 2- 

 celled, but very soon 4-celled by the formation of false septa, and 

 ovary frequently (tribe Borageoe) 4-lobed with the style from 

 between the lobes. Ovules suberect, 2 to each carpel, one from the 

 inner basal angle of each cell. Fruit drupaceous and with a 4-celled 

 stone or two 2-celled stones or 4 pyreues or breaking up into 4 nutlets. 

 Seed straight or curved, usually scanty albumen. Embryo straight 

 or curved (not spiral as in Convolvulacese), with cotyledons flat» 

 plano-convex or plicate, radicle superior. 



I. Ovary entire with terminal style. Fruit drupaceous : — 

 A. Style twice 2-partite :— 



Trees oi- large shrubs. Calyx teeth short, often 

 unequal ....!.... 1. Cordia. 



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