793 BENGAL PLANTS. [Ebermaiera, 
and branching at the base, then erect, longer than the branches ; 
corolla ‘3 in., white or nearly so; flowers in cylindric, thyrsoid spikes 
thyrsoidea. 
Bracts, bracteoles, and sepals with long, subulate, awned tips; awns 
of bracts ciliate; stems short, prostrate, rooting; corolla °6 in. long, 
ia e, with rose markings; flowers in short cylindric, or subcapitate 
pikes angustifolia. 
1504. Epermarera GuLAuca Nees var. spaATHULATA; F. B. I. 
iv. 396 
N. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
An erect herb, in rice-fields. 
1505. EBERMAIERA POLYBOTRYA Nees; F. B. I. iv. 396. 
N. Bengal. 
An erect herb, in swamps. 
1506. EBERMAIERA GLUTINOSA Wall. ; F. B. I. iv. 396. 
Tirhut; Behar; N. Bengal; C. Bengal. 
A trailing waa: in rice-fields. 
1507. EBERMAIERA THYRSOIDEA Nees; F. B. I. vi. 397. Capraria 
esc F, I. iii. 93. 
hittagong. 
A eiak herb. 
1508. EBERMAIERA ANGUSTIFOLIA T. And.; F. B. I. iv. 398. 
Chittagong. 
A prostrate herb. 
691. Cardanthera Ham. 
Aromatic, often viscid herbs ; leaves opposite, the upper toothed, 
ely entire; lower often pinnatifid, or if su ed pectinate 
Flowers spik r wh or 1 ther in opposite axils ; 
bracts or bracteoles often suppressed. Sepals 5, narrow, often 
unequal, slightly connate be e , connate in a 2-lipped 
ow. a 
olla; tube nearly straight, shorter than the calyx; limb long ; 
lobes twisted to the left; throat with a transversely plaited palate. 
Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers of posterior pair often smaller ; 
cells parallel. Carpels connate in a narrow, 2-celled ovary ; ovules 
many; style sparsely hairy. Fruit a sessile, narrow capsule, 
compressed, dular-puberulous or glabrous; retinacula minute, 
conical, soft, straight. « 
