776 BENGAL PLANTS. [Centranthera. 
— sciences the 2 uppermost inmost in bud. Stamens 4, 
didy. us, included ; anthers in contact by pairs; cells trans- 
verse, sgt spurred or sea, often one cell sterile. Carpels 
connate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules in each cell numerous; style 
simple, dilated above ; seh linguiform, acute. Frwit an ovoid 
or subglobose, loculicidal capsule ; enines entire, carrying away 
the placentas. Seeds very many, oblong-cuneate; testa lax, 
reticulate 
Erect, hispid, hoary ; leaves oblong or linear-oblong; corolla settend 
hispida. 
Diffuse, usually glabrous ; leaves linear; corolla yellow ......... humifusa. 
1464. CENTRANTHERA HIspipa R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 301. Digitalis 
stricta F, I. iii. 99. 
Behar; Tirhut; N. pouee e E. Bengal. 
A rigid annual, 1-2 feet hig 
1465. CENTRANTHERA HUMIFUSA a FB; By ;-iv. B04: 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; N. Bengal. 
diffuse annual, with slender, spending: branches. 
668. Sopubia Ham. - 
Erect herbs; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, narrow, 
usually laciniate. Flowers spicate or racemose; bracts leafy ; 
ate. eta , nate in a funnel- 
tube short, rarely exserted ; throat dilated ; lobes broad, spreading, 
subequal, the 2 upper inmost in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 
anthers of upper or both pairs of stamens in contact by pairs, one 
cell of each stamen perfect, ovoid, the other small, empty an 
stipitate. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules in each 
cell many; style simple; stigma thickened, linguiform, obtuse. 
Fruit an ovoid or oblong, loculicidal capsule; apex rounded or 
compressed, retuse or notched; valves entire or 2-fid, separating 
from the placentiferous dissepiment. Seeds numerous; testa 
rather lax 
Flowers SURI, ; calyx-teeth subulate; capsule rounded at top; 
leaves much cu delphinifolia 
Flowers aaa: aes lanceolate, acute; capsule compressed at 
top; leaves sparingly cu icta. 
