Ss gree Rie Ee an ee a 
= twisted in bud, spreading in flower. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 
Phaylopsis.] ACANTHACE, 805 
1526. Hemicraruis areta T. And.; F. B. I. iv. 422. Ruellia 
hirta F. I. iii. 46. 
Behar ; W. Bengal; C. Bengal. 
1527. Hemierapuis nateBrosa Nees; F. B. I. iv. 423. Ruellia 
ala F, I. iii. 47. 
Behar ; Chota Nagpur. 
A diffuse, hirsute herb. 
1527/2. Var. rupestris; F. B. I. iv. 424. 
Behar. 
A tack viscidly pubescent herb. 
698. Petalidium Nees. 
Undershrubs, minutely pubescent; leaves ovate or narrow- 
oblong, entire or toothed. wers solitary, sessile or subsessile, 
usually crowded on shortened lateral branchlets; bracts 0; brac- 
teoles large, ovate, reticulately veined, ultimately scarious. Sepals 
5, linear-lanceolate, subequal, connate below, or with the 2 lower 
connate higher up and the calyx 4-fid. Petals 5, connate in a 
straight corolla ; tube swollen from near the base ; lobes rounded, 
twisted to the left in bud, spreading in flower. Stamens 4, didy- 
namous; anthers subsimilar, 2-celled; cells parallel, spurred at 
the base. Car. els connate in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules 2 in eac 
capsule, compressed parallel to the septum. Seeds 2 or 4, on 
placentas that separate elastically from the bottom of the capsule, 
carrying with them the discoid seeds. 
PETALIDIUM BARLERIOIDES } Nees; F. B. I. iv. 416. Ruellia 
bracteata F. I. iii. 47. 
Orissa ; Chota Siietiees Behar. 
An undershrub. 
699, Phaylopsis Willd. 
Perennial prostrate herbs; leaves —— petioled, ovate, 
entire or obscurely crenate. Flowers in dense, terminal, 1-sided 
spikes ; bracts orbicular, closely imbricate, each ae 3-flowered ; 
bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, shortly connate below; one large, ovate, 
_herved, the others linear, bract-like. Petals 5, connate in as 
; tube slender, cylindric; lobes slightly unequal, rounded, 
