Echmanthera,) ACANTHACE. 803 
Leaves subobtuse ; nodes of ane short prostrata 
Leaves often acute; nodes of stem long......... prostrata var. dejecta. 
tLeaves narrowly elliptic ; spate aa. acute ; flowers white ; 
stems erect; swollen part of corolla-tube not longer than cylindric 
p. 802 
base :— 
Leaves tapering from below the middle to an acuminate tip ; Biking 
‘) in. long ; corolla with rose or pinkish-purple marks......... ernua. 
Leaves widest a little beyond the middle, tip sometimes Bales 
ao cate acute but not acuminate; sepals °25 in “a corolla 
iffruticosa 
white 
HAAR laxly cymose, many-flowered; capsule linear- mchion with 
very short barren base; bracteoles not leafy; swollen part of corolla- 
ube much exceeding short, cylindric base ; flowers blue [p. 802] twberosa. 
1521. Ruewiia prostrara Lamk; F. B. I. iv. 411; E. D. RB, 633. 
rissa; Chota Nagpur; Behar; W. Bengal. 
A much- ug prostrate undershrub. 
1521/2. Var. pesecra; F. B. IL. iv. 412; E. D. RB. 633. Ruellia 
ringens F, I. iii. 44. 
In all the provinces except Chittagong. 
A diffuse, rambling undershrub. 
1522. Ruexura cernua Roxb.; F. I. iii. 45; F. B. I. iv. 413. 
Chota Nagpur. 
An undershrub with woody rootstock and annual, erect 
stem 
1523. ‘hoi SUFFRUTICOSA Roxb.; F. I. iii. 58; F. B. I. 
iv. 418; 35. 
Chota Nagar: Behar; Tirhut; N. Bengal. 
An undershrub with woody rootstock and annual stems, 
Santal. Chaulia 
1524. Rug iia TUBEROSA Vien: 
- Bengal, occasionally naturalise 
An undershrub with tuberous rootstock and annual 
ica 
The linear capsule of this species makes it very unlike our 
native Ruellias. 
696. AZchmanthera Nees. 
Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves broad, elliptic, acute, crenate, 
often viscid. Flowers in sessile, close or distant clusters on the 
branches of a 3-chotomous or I-sided panicle; bracts anions) as 
