804 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Achmanthera. 
long as calyx; bracteoles similar, smaller. — 5, linear, sub- 
equal, connate below. Petals 5, connate in almost straight 
rolla; tube aieanie tein suddenly widened near the middle ; 
palate with 2 hirsute lines within ; lobes su ubequal, rounded, twisted 
to the left in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; longer pair 
of filaments hairy, the shorter pair glabrous; anthers subsimilar, 
ovate or oblong, 2-celled; cells muticous; connective sometimes 
uced. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary, with densely hairy 
apex; ovules 4-6 in each cell; style sparsely hairy, thickened 
upwards ; stigma large, simple, linear-lanceolate. Fruit a narrow- 
oblong capsule, seed-bearing throughout. Seeds 6-8, sometimes 
12, discoid and hirsute or thicker and glabrous; retinacula strong, 
hooked. 
1525. AScHMANTHERA TOMENTOSA Nees var. Waxuicum; F. B. I. 
N. Bengal, Duars; Chittagong. 
A small shrub. 
697. Hemigraphis Nees. 
shrubs ; leaves beeweiry toothed or subentire. Flowers 
ae in Tak or spikes, terminal or pseudo-axillary on shortened 
ranchlets, rarely tiga tatae aah flowers se aatile =< 
large, sear wn each 1-flowered; bracteoles small, narrow 
obsolet pals 5, shortly connate below, subequal, Tanecaial 
or ee Petals 5 5, connate in an elongated corolla ; tube cylindric 
below, Sead or swollen above; lobes rounded, subequal, 
twisted to the left. Stamens 4, didynamous, included or nearly 
anthers oblong,.2-celled, muticous, sometimes triangular ; 
bases acute. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules 3-8 in 
each cell; style long; stigma 2-lobed, one lobe linear, the other 
very short. Fruita linear or linear-oblong capsule, seed-bearing 
almost from the base. Seeds 6-20, compressed, discoid, brown 
with a white margin. 
Corolla-limb ventricose ; longer filaments glabrous in their upper half 
hirta. 
Corolla-tube narrowly ak peek ssl throughout; longer filaments 
densely bearded in their upper half 
Heads looser, hairs less viscidly anoliidin latebrosa. 
Heads denser, hairs more viscidly aromatic ...latebrosa var. rupestris. 
