Canscora.} GENTIANACES. 707 
an oblong capsule, nearly as long as calyx, almost 2-celled, septi- 
ey 2-valved. Seeds very small, reticulated. 
. Eryrorea Roxgurcum G. Don; F. B. I. iv. 102; E: D, 
B. 338. Chironia centaurioides F. I. i. 584. 
N. Bengal; C. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
A small, erect annual, 2-8 in. high. Hind, Charayatah; 
Santal. Gada-sigrik’; Beng. Gima, girmi. 
598. Hoppea Willd. 
Small, much-branched, glabrous herbs; leaves small, sessile, 
ovate or elliptic. Flowers sessile or short-pedicelled, in 2-3- 
chotomous cymes. Sepals connate in a campanulate, 4-ribbed 
calyx; lobes 4, ovate, acuminate. Petals 4, connate in a sub- 
globose or elongated corolla; lobes short or long, more or less 
unequal. Stamens only 1 perfect, with 3 rudimentary, attached 
to corolla-throat; filament linear, short; anther ovate, dehiscing 
introrsely by 2 longitudinal slits; barren anthers similar but 
smaller, or absent. Carpels connate in a 1-celled ovary ; placentas 
not far intruded; ovules many; style short; stigma subentire. 
Fruit a globose or ellipsoid capsule, dehiseing by vena of 
the carpels. Seeds very many, minute, nearly black, obscurely 
ed. 
285. Hoppza picnworoma Willd.; F. B. I. iv. 100. Pladera 
pusilla F. I. i. 403. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; C. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A small, much-branched, glabrous herb, 1-5 in. high. 
599. Canscora Lamk. 
Annual, dichotomously branched herbs; leaves opposite, petioled, 
Sessile, or perfoliate. Flowers in terminal or central cymes, or 
solitary axillary, or densely spicate on scapes. Sepals connate in 
a 4-toothed, terete, striate, keeled, or winged, tubular calyx. Petals 
4, connate in a cylindric corolla ; tube about as long as calyx; 
lobes more or less unequal, i imbrieate. Stamens 4, adnate high up 
obsolete. Carpels connate in a 1-celled ovary; placentas hee 
intruded; ovules many; style inal stigmas 2, short, 
spheric. Frwit a -valved eae the 2 ne sr or 
