192 A CANTHACE^}. [ DYSCHOBISTB. 



placeDtas separating elastically from the base of the capsule, carrying 

 the seeds with them ; retinacula hard, curved. Species 18, one in 

 India, the rebt in Africa and the Mascarene Islands. 



P. fcarlerioides, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. Hi, 82; Royle III. 298 1 

 F. B. I. iv, 416 ; Kanjlal For. Fl. 261 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 518 / 

 Ccllett FL Siml. 371; Prain Beng. PL 805; Cooke FL Bomb. ii } 359. 

 Buellia bracteata, Roxb. FL Ind. iii } 47. 



An undershrub, 4-5 ft. or more, minutely hairy. Stems several, straight, 

 woody, subterete, glabrous. Leaves on the main stems 2-4 in. long, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, crenate-serrate, glabrous except on the nerves 

 and veins beneath ; main lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, prominent beneath, 

 petioles about in. long ; leaves on the shortened flowering branches 

 much smaller. Brads none, bracteoles leaf -like, | in. long, ovate, 

 acuminate, strongly nerved and veined, scarious when old, margins 

 ciliolate, pedicels 5-! in. long. Calyx glandular-hairy, about f in. long. 

 Corolla H i n - l on g> yellowish-white, hairy outside, the palate clothed 

 within with long deflexed fulvous hairs, tube dilated upwards ; lobes 

 obovate, obtuse, the margins crenate. Filaments hairy at the base, 

 anthers slightly pubescent. Ovary glabrous, style hairy. Capsule \ in. 

 long, compressed, glabrous. Seeds usually 2, clothed with soft hairs 

 along the margins. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range and eastwards through the Sub -Himalayan 

 tracts of N. Oudh, also in Bundelkhand and Merwara. Flowers March 

 May. DISTRTB. W. Himalaya up to 3,000 ft. ; also in Chota Nagpur, 

 Rajputana, and in C. A W. India and in the Bombay Presidency. 



12. DYSCHORISTE, Nees. 



UNDER CALOPHANES IN FL. BRIT. IND. iv, 410. 

 Perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, petioled. Flowers in axillary 

 clusters or short cymes ; bracteoles, small, narrow. Calyx tubular"; 

 lobes 5, subequal, lanceolate or subulate. Corolla tubular, obscurely 

 2-lipped ; lobes 5, obtuse, twisted to the left in bud, spreading in 

 flower. Stamens didynamous, perfect, filaments glabrous or hairy, 

 anthers similar, ^-celled ; cells oblong, parallel, minutely mucronate 

 or spurred at the base ; pollen globose, ribbed. Ovary glabrous, 

 ovules 2 in each cell ; style linear, hairy ; stigma linear, the upper 

 lobe minute or obsolete. Fruit an oblong capsule, narrowed below 

 into a short solid base. Seeds 4, orbicular, much compressed, hygros- 

 copically hairy when moistened ; retinacula strong, carved. Species 

 60, in S. E. Asia, Tropical Africa and America. 



D. depressa. Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. Hi, 81 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 

 361. Calophanes Nagchana, Nees ; F. B. I. iv, 410 ; Prain Beng. PL 806. 

 Yern. Nagchana. 



