104. ACANTHACE.^. [6. Htgrophila. 



calyx-lobe -18" broader than the others, all p^land-pubescent. Filaments thinly 

 hairy. Flowers^hortly pedicelled in my specimens (always ?). Capsule glabrous 

 narrow-oblong, grooved on two sides, "IT-'IS" long. 



3. S. glauca, 0. Kntze. 



Habit looks different from at least the upper leaves being alternate, 

 and the lower alternate spreading bracts on the spikes far exceeding 

 the flowers, linear- spathulate. 



Found in the Darieeling Tarai close to our area and may be found in Purneah. 

 Fl., Fr. c.s. 



5. CARDANTHERA, Ham. 



(Synnema, Benth.) 

 Herbs, often glandular hairy and aromatic or foetid. Leaves 

 opposite, lower often pinnatifid or in water pectinate. Flowers 1-3 

 axillary or in whorls or spikes, the bract or bracteoles often 

 suppressed. Sepals narrow often unequal. Corolla-tube shorter 

 than calyx, limb 2-lipped, lobes twisted to left in bud, palate 

 transversely plicate- rugose. Stamens didynamous, anther cells 

 parallel, those of the posterior stamens often smaller. Capsule 

 narroAv, very many seeded. Seeds small, ovoid, somewhat compressed 

 glabrous or glandvilar-puberulous. Retinacula inconspicuous, very 

 small and conical, not curved nor hardened. 

 Some species remind one strongly of Scrophulariacefe. 



1. C. triflora, Ham. 



A glandular-hairy rather foetid herb 8-18'' high with decumbent 

 and rooting base, membranous broadly oblong-ovate crenate leaves 

 2-3" long somewhat deciu-rent on the short petiole, and purple flowers 

 *5' long in axillary sessile 3-fld. cymes, the lateral flowers in the axils 

 of the foliaceous bracteoles of the central flower. Capsule •25--3''' long 

 pubescent. 



Swampy places, Purneah ! Rice-fields, along the Grand Trunk Road (probably 

 Manbhum) Anders ! Fl., Fr. Aug.- Jan. 



Lower leaves sometimes pinnatifid. glandular hairy both sides, lower sometimes 

 pinnatifid. Calyx "3", sepals linear-subulate, gland-hairy and also villous at base. 

 Corolla pubescent outside, shorly tubular, then ventricose ; upper lip erect, inflated 

 below the flat emarginate or shortly 2-lobed limb, pale ; lower lip "So'' broad, purple 

 with darker veins, sparsely hairy within. Stamens inserted on 2 calli at base of 

 lower lip, anther-cells mucronate at base. Ovary oblong, pubescent above. 



It assumes two forms, one smaller with smaU orbicular or ovate crenate-ser- 

 rate leaves only '5-1" long, the other much larger and coarser with oblong-ovate 

 crenate leaves 2-3" long and membranous. 



6. HYGROPHILA, Br. 



Herbs. Leaves entire. Flowers sessile in heads or spikes or Avhorls, 

 with bracts and bracteoles. Calyx 5-fid, teeth narrow. Corolla 

 purple, tube ventricose at the mouth, limb deeply 2-lipped. Posterior 

 pair of stamens sometimes smaller than the anterior or rudimentary, 

 filaments glabrous, anthers oblong, cells equal. Ovary with hairy 

 tip, style hairy, stigma simple linear. Capsule narrow, many-seeded. 

 Seeds ovoid, compressed, elastically hairy when wetted on hardened 

 curved or nearly straight acute retinacula. 



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