774 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Alectra. 
late, subfoliaceous calyx ; ‘gpa of limb valvate or open in bud. 
Petals 5, connate in a wi rolla; tube subglobose, campanu- 
late or shortly funnel- enarg “limb oblique ; lobes spreading, the 
lowest outermost. Stamens 4, didynamous, adnate low in the 
corolla-tube ; anthers in contact by pairs, naked or bearded ; cells 
parallel, bases mucronate. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; 
ovules many in each cell; style long, inflexed; stigma elongated, 
ifo: Fruit a subglobose, loculicidal capsule; valves entire 
2-fid. Seeds very many, minute, linear; testa very lax, 
reticulate. 
Leaves ovate- rama si" or mere: green; stem scaberulous; bracts 
longer than the sessile flower indica. 
Leaves reduced to heett sale ; stem not scaberulous; bracts minute ; 
flowers pedicelled Thomsont. 
1458. ALEcTRA rinpIca Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 297. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A herb, 6-18 in. high. 
1459. ALectrA THomsonti Hook. f.; F. B. I. iv. 297. 
ota Nagpur. 
A herb, parasitic on roots of Strobilanthes auriculatus ; 
6-18 in. high 
665. Buchnera Linn. 
Annual, rigid ng black when dry ; leaves, lower broad, oppo- 
site, upper narrow, alternate. Flowers Ss axillary, or in 
bracteate spikes, 5: durichenlaaes Sepals connate in a 5-toothed 
and 10-nerved, sometimes 5-ribbed, niveaat ae Petals 5, con- 
nate in a slender, tubular corolla; lobes flat, subequal, spreading, 
the 2 uppermost inmost in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, in- 
cluded; anthers 1-celled, vertical, dorsifixed, bases obtuse; con- 
nective sometimes mucronate. Carpels connate in a 2-celled 
capsule; valves entire, coriaceous, NEON separating from 
the placentas. Seeds very many, es or a ies reticulated. 
1460. Bucunera nisprmpaA Ham. ; F. B. 8, 
Chota Nagpur. 
A herb, 6-18 in. high. 
