7. AsTERACANTHA.] 104. ACANTHACEM. 



Sanchezia nobilis, Hoolc /,, is a handsome evergreen shrub with 

 large oblong-obovate leaves 4-10* long conspicuous for the usually 

 yellow nerves. Flowers 1-8* long in dense thyrses, yellow with long 

 tube and short rounded lobes and with conspicuous reddish bracts. 

 Common in the moister districts in gardens and plant-houses. Native 

 of Ecuador. 



8. HEMIGRAPHIS, Nees. 



Shrubs, undershrubs or herbs with opp. toothed or sub-entire leaves, 

 and small or moderate-sized flowers sessile in heads or spikes, rarely 

 solitary. Heads terminal or on abbreviated lateral branchlets, Avith 

 imbricate large 1-fld. bracts ; bracteoles small narrow or 0. Calyx 

 5-partite, segments narrow. Corolla tubular-ventricose or -funnel- 

 shaped ; tube long, limb sub-regular with 5 rounded lobes contorted 

 to the left. Stamens didynamous, included or nearly so; anther- 

 cells muticous, bases acute. Style long with one linear and one short 

 lobe. Ovules 3-8 in each cell. Capsule linear or linear-oblong, 6-20- 

 seeded. Seeds compressed discoid, margined, densely hyo-roscopicallv 

 hairy. 



Leaves 'S-l" long. Corolla tubular-ventricose .... i hirfa 



Leaves 1-5-4". Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped . . . . . 2. latehrom. 



1. H. hirta, T. Anders. 



A small prostrate softly hirsute or villous plant with ovate crenate 

 leaves •5-1-2" long and small few-flowered heads of pale-blue or 

 lilac flowers Avith sub-regular corolla •4--5" diam. Capsule -3--35'' 

 about 12-seeded. 



Anderson describes it as occurring throughout Bengal in grassy places and 

 spreading into the Gangetic plain. It should therefore occur commonly in our 

 area Yet the only specimens certainly collected inside the province are from 

 Manbhum ! and Monghyr A.«- Herh. ! It is common near Calcutta and probably 

 extends to Cuttack. PI. March- Aug. , expanded only in the early morninc. 



Generally grey m appearance from the numerous hairs. Leaves rather rugose 

 obtuse sessie or subsessile, sec. n. 5. Bracts -5". Sepals linear, or spathulate in 

 fruit. Corolla -5 , ventricose portion nearly as long as the cylindrical. Longer 

 filaments laxly hairy below, glabrous above. 



2. H. latebrosa, Nees^. 



A diffuse or erect softly hairy herb attaining 12-18" in heio-ht Avith 

 long-petioled coarsely toothed ovate leaves 2-45" long and pretty 

 bright-blue flowers -3" diam. in capitate or subcapitate bracteate 

 spikes. Corolla curved or nearly straight -T-'TS" long. Lono-er fila- 

 ments densely bearded by long Avhite papillose hairs, shorter glabrous. 

 Capsule •25--3" "minutely patently hairy, 6-seeded" (Clarke). 



Common chiefly in rocky places under shade. Monghyr Hills. Cal Herb ' 

 Smgbhum, Hazaribagh and Palamau, common in rocky jungles ! Santa'l Parg! ' 

 ^^Ili ^T^T'^^^^T' T,^^^^-'^f«^-^ probably the whole of the Central and Southern 



stems 4-angled, patently hairy. Leaves crenate-dentate acuminate, base suddenly 

 contracted on the petiole, sec. n. about 6 distinct but fine. Petiole 1-2-5". Small 

 axillary branchlets bearing terminal heads often have very small leaves. Bracts 

 ovate or elliptic, petioled, about -3" but variable in size. Sepals -2--25" linear- 

 lanceolate, hairy, pale. Corolla-tube sometimes yellow, lobes of limb rounded 

 always pure blue. wia^xucu., 



«,?«rfLf/ ^}^^ *^-l'°*.* Nagpur specimens apparently belong to Clarke's variety 

 rupestr s, described as "more pubescent, often viscid aromatic, heads denser'' 

 It is said to be more rigid and growing in drier places. uciisci . 



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