Hemigraphis.] cix. ACANTHACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 423 



Syml). iii. 84, t. 67; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 46 ; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi 145 

 exd. Var. ft. E. latebrosa, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 46 ? ; Wall. Cat. 2382, 'not of 

 Roth nor of Dalz. nor of Wight. E. sarmentosa, Nees in Wall. PI. As 

 Rar. iii. 83. 



BENGAL ; very common. UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN ; Moradabad, Thomson. 



Hirsute (not harshly) with white hairs. Stems 6-18 in., creeping in grass. Leaves 

 -1 in., obtuse ; petiole 0-fe in. Heads 2-6-fld. ; axillary solitary flowers not rarely 

 added ; bracts $ in., elliptic. Sepals linear, or in fruit subspathulate. Corolla f- in., 

 subequal, pale lavender-blue, fugacious, glabrous with 2 hairy lines in the palate'; 

 veutricose portion nearly as long as the cylindric. Longer filaments laxly hairy below! 

 Style sparsely hairy. Capsule J in., 12-seeded. It is doubtful whether Roxburgh 

 described this species under two names, or whether one of these applied to H. venosa 

 or some other species. Kurz (Journ. As. Soc. 1871, ii. 74) proposed (unhappily) to 

 unite this with Euellia Blumeana. 



3. K. venosa, Clarke ; scabrid-pubescent, leaves petioled ovate crenate, 

 bracteoles as long as the calyx. Euellia venosa, Heyne in Herb. Rottler. 

 E. crispa, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 83, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 146, 

 not of Linn. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; Rottler, Wight. 



Stems 6-12 in., branched, rooting, sparingly pubescent. Leaves 2 by 1 in., acu- 

 minate at both ends, crisp, lineolate ; petiole f in. Heads many-fld., axillary and 

 terminal ; bracts \ in. , obovate ; bracteoles ^ in., lanceolate, densely lineolate, white- 

 hirsute upwards. Sepals in., 5, subequal, lanceolate, below glabrous scarious, tips 

 hispid with white hairs. Corolla f in., tube for \ in. cylindric, for in. veutricose 

 or almost hemispheric ; mouth subequal. Anthers subequal, of the longer filaments 

 subexsert. Ovary glabrous, tip glandular-pubescent ; ovules 6-8, on retinacula. Cap. 

 sule not seen. Much resembling Cardanthera triflora, but the corolla is smaller, not 

 (or obscurely) bilabiate. T. Anderson placed this with his Stenosiphonium zeylani- 

 cum, which has 4 ovules and a differently shaped corolla, and is Strobilanlhes exsertus 

 described below. 



4. K. confinis, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 463 ; thinly softly 

 white-hairy, leaves petioled elliptic narrowed to both ends obsoletely crenate, 

 bracteoles hardly half as long as the calyx. Euellia confinis, Nees in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 148. 



MEBGTTI and MALACCA; Griffith, Maingay, Cuming. DISTEIB. Java, Borneo 

 (not Philippines). 



Stems 2 ft., sparsely hairy. Leaves 3} by 1 in., obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 

 raphides plentiful but obscure ; petiole J in. Spikes terminal, dense, often elongate 

 (especially in fruit) 2-3 in., oblong, or subglobose when young; bracts |-j| in., ovate, 

 subacute, imbricate, sub-4-seriate, hairy often viscidly ; bracteoles |- in., linear or 

 narrow. Sepals - in., narrowly lanceolate sublinear, one slightly larger. Corolla 

 in., with few white hairs within ; lower cylindric portion about as long as the sud- 

 denly ventricose. Filaments glabrous or nearly so ; anthers 2-celled, long. Ovary 

 and style glabrous. Capsule about in., usually 8-seeded. Kurz (Journ. As. Soc. 

 1871, pt. ii. 74) reduces this to Ruellia Blumeana, Nees, which differs much, by the 

 spikes short not quadrifarious, the filaments bearded, &c. 



Sect. 2. Corolla narrowly tubular-funnel-shaped, limb blue. Longer 

 filaments densely bearded in their upper half by long obtuse white papillose 

 hairs. 



5. K. latebrosa, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 723 ; diffuse, hairy, leaves 

 petioled ovate crenate or serrate, bracteoles 0, capsule less than in. 6- 

 seeded. Wight Ic. t. 1504. H. elegans, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 463, not of Nees. H. Pavala, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1870, pt. ii. 78. 



