784 BENGAL PLANTS. (Tetraphyllum. 
unequal-sided. Flowers blue, nearly sessile, in dense, subcapitate 
cymes ; bracts elliptic. Sepals connate in a rather large, obscurely 
2-lipped, 5 tite caly etals 5, connate in a wide, funnel-shaped, 
silly « sorilla : lobes of limb ovate, subequal. Stamens 2, perfect; 
filaments short; anthers 2-celled, apex submucronate; cells ellip- 
soid, ge parallel; dehiscence longitudinal. Carpels connate in 
, ellipsoid, 1-celled ovary; placentas deeply intruded, 
2- cna lamelle revolute; ovules many on both sides of each 
lamella; style linear; stigma small, obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit a 
narrowly lanceolate capsule, at length 4-valved to the base, leaving 
2 ribs united to the style and 4 papery, revolute placentas. Seeds 
ellipsoid, obtuse at both ends; testa laxly reticulate, rough. 
1484. TeTRAPHYLLUM BENGALENSE C. B. Clarke ; F. B. I. iv. 363. 
Chittagong. 
A tawny-villous undershrub. 
675. Rhynchoglossum Bl. 
Herbs, almost glabrous; leaves alternate, elliptic, acuminate, 
unequal-sided, cordate on one side, subentire or sinuate. Flowers 
ae ; 
Sepals connate in a 5-lobed, campanulate say? Petals 5, con- 
nate in a tubular corolla; tube cylindric; mouth contracted ; limb 
2-lipped ; upper lip short, 2-fid, lower longer, 3-lobed. Stamens 2, 
perfect, included ; anthers connivent, 2-celled; cells ellipsoid, sub- 
parallel, slits ultimately subconfluent at apex. Carpels connate in 
a 1-celled, ovoid ovary; placentas much intruded, 2-fid, the thick 
lamella bearing numerous ovules throughout; style linear; stigma 
minutely 2-lobed. Fruit an included, ellipsoid, membranous, 
loculicidally 2-valved cate Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, smooth ; 
testa minutely reticulate 
1485. Ru geoiies GLOSSUM OBLIQUUM Bl. var. parvirtora F. B. I. 
367. 
hots Nagpur 
A inuanibranone: succulent herb. 
676. Stauranthera Benth. 
Low, succulent, pubescent herbs; leaves alternate or sh tae 
one of each pair reduced to a small auricle, falcate, elliptic, 
F acuminate, an unequal-sided. Flowers in lax, shina sub- 
racemose cymes; bracts small. Sepals 5, connate in a wide 
