760 BENGAL PLANTS. [Lindenbergia. 
649. Lindenbergia Lehm. 
ual or perennial herbs, woody below; branches erect, 
straggling or ascending; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 
toothed. Flowers yellow, axillary, or passing into terminal spikes 
or racemes ; bracts small, leafy; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in 
a campanulate calyx; lobes leafy. Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped 
canes tube cylindric ; upper lip outermost, short, wide, notched 
2-fid; lower larger, 3-lobed, spreading; throat and lip with a 
2-plie ate palate. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers with 
discrete, stipitate cells, all fertile. Carpels connate in a 2-celled 
ovary; ovules in each cell many; style filiform, clavate upwards; 
stigma capitate. Fruit a 2-grooved, loculicidal capsule, the entire 
valves separating from the placentiferous dissepiment. Seeds 
many, minute. 
Calyx longer than the bracts, with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate lobes ; 
leaves ovate-lanceolate; apex acute; margins dentate ; petiole long 
philippinensis. 
Calyx shorter than the bracts, with obtuse lobes; leaves ovate; apex 
btuse; margins crenate-serrate :— 
Leaves usually very shortly petioled, always under -75, generally only 
‘5 in. long; flowers sessi polyantha. 
Bs 
Leaves long-petioled, blade 1 in. or more long ; flowers pedicelle 
urticifolia. 
1412, LInDENBERGIA PHILIPPINENSIS Benth.; F. B. I, iv. 261. 
ittagong, 
A tall, erect herb, 2-8 feet high. 
1413. LinDENBERGIA POLYANTHA Royle; F. B. I. iv. 262. 
Behar; Bengal. 
much-branched herb, on walls shai banks. 
1414. Saneeieran URTICIFOLIA Lehm . I. iv. 262; BE. D. 
Stemodva ieee F. Li iii. 94 
In all the provin 
An annual herb ‘ib brittle stem and branches, on walls 
and banks everywhere. 
650. Adenosma R. Br. 
ual, villous or glandular, aromatic herbs ; leaves opposite, 
Fil 
