Nemb gi fe 
Pepe aaah amnion ns Rahn Rpts! eet 
Blepharis.] ACANTHACE. 799 
Flowers in terminal spikes, with 4 rows of imbricating bracts.. ee 
Flowers mostly in axillary whorls, basal leaves much divided . triflor 
1509. CarDANTHERA ULIGINOSA Ham.; F. B. I. iv. 408. Ruellia 
uliginosa F. I. iii. 52. 
N. Bengal, swamps in Duars. 
n annual erect or decumbent herb. 
1510. CarpanrHera tTrirLorA Ham.; F. B. I. iv. 405. Ruellia 
triflora F. I. iii. 52. 
Behar ; Tirhut; N. Bengal; C. Raabe E. Bengal. - 
An annual weed, near edges of ponds and ditches. 
692. Blepharis Juss. 
Harsh, often rigid or prickly herbs or undershrubs; leaves 
opposite or 4-nately whorled, subentire, toothed or prickly. 
1-flowered; bracts leafy; bracteoles linear. Sepals 4, unequal, in 
opposite pairs, the inner smaller ; one of the outer pair emarginate or 
lobed ; their bases shortly connate. Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped 
corolla, with ovoid, rigid tube; upper lip subobsolete, lower 
Spreading, 3-lobed, purple or blue. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 
filaments thick, rigid, those of anterior stamens produced beyond 
attachment of anthers; anthers with 1 large cell, its margins 
Disk 
C 
8 
cell; style linear; stigma shortly 2-fid. Fruit an oblong or 
ellipsoid, 2- oy 4. ‘eee capsule. Seeds compressed, orbicular, 
echinate-papillos 
Leaves acute, scaet stalked ; seeds densely covered with obtuse 
Leaves obtuse, subsessile; seeds shaggy, from a covering of annular 
tubes, connected at their bases o DIY” cc siccnceeienveteneseenwenns molluginifolia. 
1511. BuerHarts BOERHAAVIIFOLIA Pers.; F. B. I. iv. 478. Acan- 
thus maderaspatensis F. I. iii. 33. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; Orissa. 
A prostrate, wiry herb. 
1512. BuepHaris motnuGiniroLia Pers.; F. B. I. iv. 479. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A prostrate, wiry, perennial herb. 
