810 BENGAL PLANTS. ( Gymnostachyum. 
Sic oblong or ovate, hairy or glabrous. Carpels connate in a 
e 
Se ae stigma subentire. Fruit a linear, pubescent or glabrous 
1541. Gymnostacuyum ListTERI Prain. 
Chittagong. 
A small undershrub, on rocky hills. 
705. Phlogacanthus Nees. 
arge herbs or shrubs ; leaves entire or faintly crenate. Flowers 
in terminal thyrses or narrow panicles, rarely in axillary racemes 
or cymes; bracts small; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in a 
deeply lobed calyx ; segments very narrow. Petals 5, connate in 
a curved corolla; tube narrowly funnel-shaped ; limb more or less 
2-lipped ; lobes ovate or oblong, connivent, spreading or ee 
in flower, imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, with occasionally 2 : 
tional rudimentary ; anthers 2- salted, oblong, muticous, "ebro 
Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary, usually glabrous ; ovules 
in each cell; style filiform; stigma subsimple. Fruit an elon- 
gated capsule, slightly 4-angled, seed-bearing from the base. Seeds 
lenticular, ovate, glabrous or densely shortly puberulous. 
Flowers in dense thyrses ; corolla brick-red, nearly 2 in. long, tubular, 
cu) 
curved, hardly widened upwards 
Flowers in terminal, narrow panicles; corolla pink-purple, with usually 
yellow marks, °5 in. long or less, abruptly incurved, much widened above 
asperulus. 
i viflorus. 
1542. PHLOGACANTHUS CURVIFLORUS Nees; F. B. I. iv. 511. 
rigeaes 
outish undershrub. 
1543. be cca ASPERULUS Nees; F. B. I. iv. 512. Jus- 
ticia vitellina F. I. i. 115. 
Chittagong. 
A stoutish undershrub. 
706. Crossandra Salisb. 
Undershrubs; leaves entire or undulate, slightly toothed. 
Flowers scadtie., yellow, in linear-oblong spikes; bracts imbricate, 
leafy; bracteoles linear. Sepals 5, ovate, acute, the 2 inner much 
ns 
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