802 BENGAL PLANTS. [Hygrophila. 
1517/2. ngs AssuRGENS FB. I. iv. 407; E. D. H. 506. 
E. Bengal. 
ng' 
A prostrate herb. 
1518. rie seciooe QUADRIVALVIS Nees; F. B. I. iv. 408. 
| the provinces. 
hs erect her 
1519. HyGropHILA PHLOMOIDES ai F. B. I. iv. 408. Ruellia 
hirsuta F. I. iii. 51. 
. Bengal ; Ching 
An erect her 
1519/2. Var. pean F. B. I. iv. 408. Ruellia obovata 
F 
1520. HyGropHiLa s . And.; F. B. I. iv. 408; HE. D. 
508 vallia eee F. L. iii. 50. 
In all the provinces. 
An erect, spinous herb. Hind. Talmakhana, 2 eal 
kanta, kanta kélika; Beng. Kanta kalika, kiliakhar 
Santal. Gokhula janum 
695. Rueilia Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs ; leaves opposite, entire. Flowers sessile 
or subsessile, solitary or clustered or racemed ; bracts 0; bracteoles 
large, usually exceeding the calyx. Sepals 5, subequal, narrow, 
acute, more or less connate below. etals 5, connate in an oblique 
left, spreading in flower. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments 
glabrous or sometimes hairy at the base; anthers subequal, 
2-celled ; cells ey muticous, glabrous. Carpels connate in a 
glabrous, 2-celled ovary; ovules in each cell 3-10; pan linear, 
airy; stigma ak Fruit a clavate, cylindric, ellipsoid cap- 
sule, solid below, seed-bearing upwards. Seeds large, thin, discoid, 
marginate, overlapping ; retinacula large, strong, hooked. 
*Inflorescence few-flowered, contracted ; capsule markedly clavate, with 
long barren base; bracteoles large, leafy :— [p. 803 
J 
tLeaves ovate ; bracteoles spathulate ; flowers pale a fe concaee stems 
prostrate or rambling; swollen part of corolla-tube twice as 
— base ; all parts glabrous or nearly so :— [p. 803] 
