HEMIGIUPHIS.] ACASTHACE&. 191 



2. H. liirta, T. Anders, in J^urn. Linn. Soc. ix, 462 ; F. B. I. iv, 422 ; 



Train Beng. PL 805. Kuellia liirta, Vahl ; ROOL!J. FL Ind. Hi, 46. 



A softly pubescent herb. Stems 6-18 in. long, creeping, 4 -sided. Leaves 

 -1 in. long, ovate or oblong, crenate. Heads 2-0 flowered or the flowers 

 occasionally solitary ; bracts J in , elliptic, pubescent, bracteoles none. 

 Calyx $ in long, green ; segments (in fruit) spathulate. Corolla pale- 

 blue, \ in. long, soon falling, glabrous except for the 2 lines of hairs on 

 the palate, the swollen upper portion nearly as long as the cylindric 

 base ; lobes subequal, obliquely oval. Filaments (the longer ones) 

 laxly hairy below. Style hairy. Capsule % in. long, linear, about 12- 

 seeded, glabrous. 



Abundant in most parts of the area. Flowers in early part of the hot 

 season. DISTBIB. Behar and in C. and W. Bengal ; W. Himalaya, up 

 to 5 ; 000 ft. in Kumaon. 



3. H. lateferosa, Nees in DC. Prod, xi, 723, VAR. rupestris, C. P,. 



Cl arl-e in F. B. I. iv, 423 ; Prain Beng. PL 805 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 358. 



A diffuse rather rigid viscidly pubescent herb. 8! ems slender, obtusely 

 4-angled, clothed with soft white hairs. Leaves petioled, 1-3 in. long, 

 ovate, acuminate, crenate-serrate, tapering towards the base, petioles 

 i-l in. long, leaves ; of the flowering branches much smaller. Flowers 

 in rather dense heads ; bracts ovate or elliptic, acute, hairy and with 

 ciliate margins, the outer ones largest. Calyx $ in. long, linear, acute, 

 whitish with green tips, hairy and with ciliate margins, one segment 

 larger than the others. Corolla about in. long, narrowly funnel-shaped 

 and nearly straight ; tube yellowish, limb blue ; lobes obovate, obtuse. 

 Filaments (the longer ones) densely woolly above. Capsule in. long, 

 puberulons, 6-seeded. Seeds hairy. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, Bundelkhand (Duthie), in shady places. 

 DISTRIB. W. Himalaya up to 5 ; 000 ft. ; also in Behar, Eajputana, C. 

 Provinces, Bombay and S. India. 



11. PETALIDIUM, "Nees ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 416. 



Undershrubs, minutely pubescent. Loaves ovate or narrowly 

 obl->ng, entire or toothed. Flowers solitary, sessile or nearly so, 

 usually crowded on short lateral branches ; bracts narrow : small or 

 none ; bracteoles large, ovate, reticulate-veined, at length scarious. 

 Calyx unequally 5- fid. or 5-partite, segments narrowly lanceolate. 

 Corolla straight or curved, dilated upwards or funnel-shaped at the 

 top ; lobes 5, rounded, twisted to the left in bud, spreading in flower. 

 Stamens didynamous ; anthers subsimilar, 2-celled ; cells parallel, 

 spurred at the base. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell, style linear, 

 stigma unequally 2-lobed. Fruit a chivate capsule, compressed 

 parallel to the septum.- Seeds 2 or 4, discoid, hygroscopically hairy ; 



