228 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



dominant features of the shrubby vegetation, and very handsome." 

 Himalayan Journals. 



(a) Stamens didynamous : 



1. THUNBERGIA. Climbers ; calyx very small annular or 

 with many teeth ; bracts 2, covering the calyx, corolla lobes 

 5, nearly equal ; capsule round, beaked. 



2. CARDANTHERA. Herbs, often with divided leaves ; corolla 

 tube short, limb long 2 -lipped ; anther cells parallel ; capsule 

 narrow, many-seeded. 



3. HYGROPHILA. Herbs, calyx 4 or 5 parted, segments 

 narrow, one pair of stamens sometimes smaller or obsolete, 

 anthers oblong, capsule as in the last. 



4. RUELLIA. Herbs or undershrubs, bracts large, exceeding 

 the calyx, corolla lobes about equal, anther cells oblong, 

 capsule solid below, with large thin seeds in the upper part. 



5. PETA.LIDIUM. Flowers solitary, or crowded on short 

 lateral branches, bracts large and leafy, anther cells parallel, 

 spurred at the base. 



6. PHAYLOPSIS. Prostrate herbs with flowers in densely 

 bracted one-sided spikesi ; sepals 5, one ovate, the rest linear ; 

 corolla tube slender, anther cells parallel, capsule 4-seeded. 



7. HEMIGRAPHIS. Herbs or shrubs, bracts large, crowded, 

 corolla tube long, swelling above, anthers oblong, stigma of one 

 linear and one very short lobe. 



8. STROBILANTHES. Shrubs or herbs, calyx deeply 5-eleft, 

 corolla tube bulging, lobes nearly equal, anthers oblong. 



9. CAL ACANTHUS. Calyx segments unequal, corolla deeply 

 2-lipped, otherwise as the last. 



10. BLEPHARIS. Kough creeping or prostrate plants with 

 verticilled leaves and crowded bracts ; sepals 4, in 2 unequal 

 pairs, corolla of short fleshy tube and lower lip only, which is 

 3-cleft, anthers 1 -seeded. 



11. ACANTHUS. Shrubs or herbs, leaves spinous, sometimes 

 pinnatifid, otherwise as the last. 



12. BARLERIA. Shrubs or large herbs with showy flowers ; 

 sepals in opposite pairs, the outer pair much the largest ; corolla 

 lobes 5, often divided into 4 and 1 ; stamens 2 perfect with 2- 

 celled anthers, and 2 rudimentary, capsule with seeds in the 

 lower half. 



13. CROSSANDRA. Undershrubs, bracts crowded, sepals 5, 

 2 much smaller, corolla long-tubed, one-lipped, the lip 5-lobed, 

 anthers 1 -celled. 



