16. Barleria.] 10-i. ACANTHACE^. 



7. B. longiflora, L.f. 



A grey velvety pubescent shrub 2-i ft. high with small ovate 

 leaves -TS-l'TS" long and very slender-tubed white flowers 2-3" long, 

 solitary axillary and in short dense but few-flowered spikes. 

 Bracteoles •5-1" linear laxly patent, softly pubescent. Sepals outer 

 ovate obtuse pubescent, scarioiis and very reticulate in fruit. 

 €apsule '7", 4-seeded. 



Puri, on dry rocky places near the Chilka Lake, Gamble ! PI. Nov. Fr. Jan. -Feb. 



Young parts tomentose. Leaves rounded at base, tomentose. Petiole *25-'5". 

 Spikes mostly l-4,.fld. Corolla-lobes S-'b", ovate. 



17. ASYSTASIA, Blume. 

 Herbs or undershrubs, sometimes rambling, with entire leaves and 

 opposite or alternate mod.-sized flowers in lax or dense visually 

 secund simple or compound spikes or racemes. Bracts and bracteoles 

 linear, usually shorter than the calyx. Sepals narrow. Corolla 

 with a short or long tube, narrow or funnel-shaped or ventricose 

 above, lobes 5 subequal imbricate in bud. Stamens didynamous, 

 subequal, anthers all with 2 parallel, approximate cells, minutely 

 spurred or Avith the bases only obscurely whitened. Ovary very 

 hairy. Stigma minutely 2-fid or subcapitate. Ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Capsule elliptic with contracted solid base. Seeds compressed 

 rugose or tubercular, glabrous. 



Rambling undershrub. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 2-5-4" . . 1. macroearpa. 

 DiiTuse or rambling herb. Leaves ovate or rhomboid, 1-2" . . 2. gangetica. 



1. A. macroearpa, Nees. 



A tall rambling weak shrub with elliptic lanceolate or narrowly 

 oblong leaves pubescent beneath 2-5-4" long and secund racemes of 

 light-purple flowers 15" long. Corolla thinly pubescent, narrow 

 part of tube only -3" long, then funnel-shaped. Anther-cells distinctly 

 spurred at the base. Capsule 13", pubescent, with seedless cylindric 

 base -Q-l" long. 



Sikkim Tarai and Jalpaiguri, to the north and east of Parneah and adjacent to 

 it so that it will probably be found in Purneah. Fl. Dec. -Feb. 



Leaves puberulous or glabrate above with 5-7 very oblique sec. n. and tapering 

 into a petiole "l-'i" long. Racemes rather lax, 2-3" (sometimes dense, Clarice). 

 Calyx pubescent, '25". 



2. A. gangetica, T. Anders. Syn. A. coromandeliana, Nees. 



A pretty procumbent herb or sometimes subscandent among bushes 

 with puberulous stems, ovate or rhomboid- oblong leaves 1-2" long 

 and blue, purple or pinkflowei's 1-1*5" long and 1" diam. (sometimes 

 with a yellow or greenish tube), in terminal racemes 2-5" long with 

 very short pedicels. Capsule 1-1'2" long pubescent with seedless 

 portion beloAV -3-5" and shortly beaked above the 4 seeds which are 

 corrugated at the edges and tubercled on the faces. 



Climbing in Pandaum hedges at the south end of the Chilka Lake, Alcoek ! It is 

 also common near Calcutta ! so is likely to be found in other parts of Orissa. Fl. 

 Nov. -Dec. and again from end of March to May. 



Leaves slightly hairy with slender petiole -5"' long. Calj'x '2", hairy. Narrow- 

 tubular portion of corolla only -3" then ventricose, puberulous, lower lobes some- 

 times more deeply coloured than the posterior. 



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