EUELLIA. ] A6ANTHAOMJ& 189 



closely allied R. cernua, as well as in R. tulerosa, a native of America 

 and now naturalized in C. Bengal. See also under ticbolium Linnea- 

 num. 



9.-JECHMANTHERA, Nees ; Fl. Brit. Iiid. iv, 428. 



Small villons shrubs. Leaves broadly elliptic, acute, crenate, often 

 viscid. Flowers pale-violet or purplish, in sessile close or distant 

 clusters arranged on the branches of a 3-chotomous or 1 -sided 

 panicle; bracts linear, as loner as the calyx; bracteoles, similar, 

 smaller. Calyx 5 -partite ; segments linear, subequal. Corolla 

 nearly straight ; tube cylindric at the base, suddenly widened near the 

 middle, palate with 2 hairy lines within ; lobes 5, subequal, rounded, 

 twisted to the left in bud. Stamens didynamous, included, longer 

 filaments hairy ; anthers ovate or oblong, 2-cel)ed, cells blunt, 

 connective sometimes produced. Ovary densely hairy at the apex ; 

 style sparsely hairy, thickened upwards, stigma large, simple, linear- 

 lanceolate, ovules 4-6 in each cell. Fruit a narrowly oblong capsule, 

 seed-bearing from the base. Seeds 6-8 (sometimes 12), discoid and 

 densely hairy, or thicker and glabrous ; retinacula strong, booked. 

 Species 2, both Indian. 



A. tomentosa, NeesinWall. PL As, Ear. Hi, 87; F. B, I. iv, 428; 

 Kanjilal For. Fl> 257 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 518, 



A. small erect shrub, 1-3 ft. high, clothed with grey or whitish (not snowy 

 white) hairs. Leaves petioled, 2-4 in. long, elliptic or lanceolate, acute, 

 slightly crenate, base rounded ; upper surface coarsely pubescent, lower 

 densely grey-tomentose. Flowers arranged in small 3-8-flowered clusters 

 which are sessile along the spreading branches of a large terminal panicle ; 

 bracts in. or more long, linear, glandular-hairy, bracteoles similar but 

 smaller. Calyx %-% in. long, segments linear, glandular-hairy. Corolla 

 pale-blue, 1 in, long ; lobes spreading, about f in. across. Anthers with 

 the connective very slightly excurrent. Capsule about as long as the 

 calyx, linear, usually 8-seeded. 



Summit of Siwalik range. Flowers during the cold season. DISTKIB. 

 W. Himalaya, up to 5,000 ft. in Kumaon, also in Nepal. 



VAB. Wallichii, F, B. L iv, 428; Watt E< D., Kanjilal I c,; Gamble I, c. ; 

 Prain Beng. Pi. 804. &. gossypina, Nees ; Royle III. 298. Vern. Bharara. 

 Stems and leaves densely clothed with snow-white wool. Anthers with 

 the connective distinctly excurrent, - Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. 

 Flowers in the late autumn, and abundantly every 4 and 5 years after the 

 manner of some species of StrobilantJies. DISTRIB. W. Himalayan, Simla to 

 Kumaon up to 5,000 ft., also in N. Bengal and Chittagon?. Madden says 

 that beea are particularly fond of the flowers of this plant. It usually 



