JSbermaiera.] cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 403 



petiole \\ in., pubescent; the uppermost leaf sometimes short-petioled, rounded at the 

 base. Peduncle in.; raceme 4-5 in. ; bract near the base of the pedicel T ' n in., linear- 

 lanceolate ; bracteoles 7 ' 5 in., linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent. Calyx-segments 

 5, unequal, T ' 5 -| in., linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent. Corolla funnel-shaped, 



tube very short. Filaments glabrous ; anther-cells ovoid, irregularly subdivaricate. 



Allied to E. coriacea, T. Anders. 



Y. OPHXORRHXZXPHYX.X.ON, Kurz. 



An erect herb. Leaves opposite, petioled, elliptic, entire. Spikes very 

 long, many-fld. ; bracts narrowly oblong, exceeding the calyx ; bracteoles 

 small. Sepals 5, subequal, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla shortly tubular, 

 curved at the mouth ; lobes 5, elliptic, suberect. Stamens 2 ; filaments long, 

 exsert, glabrous ; anther-cells 2, oblong, muticous, separate, approximate, 

 erect. Disc inconspicuous. Ovary glabrous ; style long, glabrous, 

 shortly 2-lobed ; ovules very many. Capsule oblong and seeds as of 

 JEbermaiera. 



0. macrobotryum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 76* 



MARTABAN ; Thoungyen, Brandis. KAREN HILLS ; Kurz. 



Stem 6-10 in., undivided, pubescent upwai'ds. Leaves 6 by 2^ in., cuneatej sub- 

 acute at each end, glabrous, or pubescent on the nerves beneath ; petiole i-l^ in. 

 Peduncles 1-3, subterminal, 1-3 in. j spikes 3-7 in.; bracts \ in., glabrescent ; 

 bracteoles | in., linear. Sepals ^-\ in., pubescent Corolla % in.j white or pale rose, 

 minutely pubescent without. Stamens inserted in a ring of hairs, 2 small staminodes 

 added. Capsule % in. 



YI. CARDANTHERA, Ham, 



Herbs, often viscid, aromatic* Leaves opposite, upper toothed rarely 

 entire, lower often pinnatifid or in water pectinate. Flowers spiked or 

 whorled, or 1-3 together in opposite axils ; bract or bracteoles often sup- 

 pressed. Sepals narrow, often unequal. Corolla nearly straight, tube 

 shorter than the calyx ; limb long, 2-lipped, twisted to the left in bud ; 

 palate transversely plicate-rugose, purple-rose and white. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous ; anthers of the posterior often smaller ; anther-cells parallel. 

 Ovary narrow; style sparsely hairy. Capsule sessile, narrow, 40-100- 

 seeded, bearing seeds from the very' base. Seeds small, ovoid, somewhat 

 compressed, glandular-puberulous or glabrous ; retinacula minute, conical, 

 soft, not curved. Species 10, Indian and Tropical African. 



C. Thwaitesii has solitary flowers) a plane palate, 2 stamens, and stronger 

 retinacula. 



Subgenus 1 . Eucardanthera. Stamens 4, fertile. Flowers mostly 

 in opposite axils. 



* Spikes terminal, Iracts ^-ranked imbricated in fruit* 



1. C. uliginoBa,,Ham.mss.', Senth.inGeniPLii.l074>; stem pubescent 

 upwards, leaves subsessile oblong or subovate entire or crepate, bracts round 

 ovate. Euellia uliginosa, Linn.fi Suppl. 290; Both Nov. Sp. 3u6, ols. ; 

 Roxt. FL Ind. iii. 52; Wall. Cat. 2378, chiefly. Adenosma ohgmoBa, 

 Nees in r. Verm. Schrift. iii. 298, and in Wall PI. As. Ear. m. 79, and m 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 69 (excl. syn. Buellia ringens); T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 



Soc. ix. 455. . ,, 



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