]90 ACANTHACEM. [ HEMTGRAPHIS. 



grows gregariously, and is therefore a conspicuous feature during the 

 periods of prof use flowering. The thick white wool which covers the 

 stems and the under surfaces of the leaves is much used by the natives 

 for making a kind of cloth. The wool when young is often tinged with 

 lilac. 



10, HEMIGRAPHIS, Nee?, PI. Brit, Ind. iv, 422. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, toothed or sabentiro. Flowers 

 blue or yellow, sessile, in heads or spikes, rarely solitary ; heads ter- 

 minal or pseudo-axillary OQ shortened branchlets, rarely in panicles or 

 solitary; bracts large, imbricate, each 1- flowered ; bracteoles small, 

 narrow or none. Calyx 5- partite nearly to the base ; segments 

 subequal, lanceolate or linear. Corolla elongate, tube cylindric 

 below, funnel-shaped or ventricose above ; loboa 5, sub-equal, rounded, 

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

 nearly so ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, muticous, sometimes triangular, 

 bases acute. Ovary with 3-rnany ovules in each cell, style long, 

 stigma unequally 2-lcbed. Fruit a linear or linear-oblong capsule, 

 seed-bearing almost from the base. Seeds 6 to 20, compressed, discoid, 

 brown with a white ^ margin. Species about 30, Indian and Mala- 

 yan, & three in Africa. 



Corolla-limb ventricose, longer filaments hairy belo;v : 



Bristly, corolla purplish . . . . . 1. //. dura, 



Softly hairy, corolla pale blue ... , 2. H. hirta. 



Corolla-tube narrowly funnel-shaped throughout, 

 longer filaments densely bearded in their upper half 3, H. latebrosa, 



1, H. dura, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix, 461 (easel, syn. Ruellia 

 crispa)', F. B. I. iv, 422 ; Coolie FL Bomb, ii, 357. 



A procumbent or diffuse herb, hispid or almost prickly. Stems 1-2 ft, high, 

 clothed with stiff white deflexed bristles, Leaves hispid, 1 -If in. long, 

 spathulate-oblong, obtuse, subcrenate, tapering below into a short petiole. 

 Heads many-flowered, densely clothed with white and yellowish-brown 

 hair ; bracts f -1 in. long, oblong or spathulate, subacute, densely hairy. 

 Calyx | in, long ; segments linear, acute, densely hairy and ciliate with 

 jointed hairs. Corolla f in, long, blue ; tube slender, lower cylindric 

 portion about as long as the upper ventricose part ; lobes obovate, rounded* 

 Filaments (the longer ones) laxly hairy below. Ovary glabrous, style 

 hairy. Capsule | in. long, glabrous, 6-8-seeded. 



Bundelkhand (Duthie). Flowers in the cold season. DISTRIB. C. India 

 in black soil (Edgeworth), Sincl, Gujarat, Konkan and C, Provinces ta 

 S, India. 



