Eranthemum.} ACANTHACES. 813 
subequal; anthers oblong; cells parallel, approximate, base 
minutely spurred or submuticous. Carpels connate in a hirsute, 
solid base. Seeds 4, compressed, orbicular or somewhat angular, 
glabrous, rugose or tubercled. 
Racemes lax, few-flowered, puberulous; leaves ovate, rounded, or some- 
times cuneate at base; perennial herbs ; cylindric base of dae °3 in. 
ong gan etica 
Racemes condensed, one-sided, less often lax, very pubescent ; poe 
oblong or = eae narrowed to both ends; undershrubs; cylindric base 
ong MACTOCAT PA 
of capsule -6 in 
1550. ane rage aanceTica T, And. A. coromandeliana F. B. I. 
Ruellia zeylanica F. I. iii. 
ae borders of Chilka lake ; C. Bengal, banks of 
anges. 
A procumbent, perennial weed; flowers in our provinces 
always blue, with pale (almost white) tube. 
1551. Asysrasra macrocarpa Nees; F. B. I. iv. 495. 
N. Bengal, Dua 
A diffuse, se a undershrub, flowers pink, 
709. Eranthemum Linn. 
Glabrous shrubs or undershrubs; leaves entire, rarely wide- 
othed. Flowers subsessile, solitary or ternate in the of 
opposite bracts, or in terminal, dense or interrupted, simple or 
branched spikes, or pedicelled, ternate at the tips of axillary 
peduncles. Sepals 5, connate in a 5-fid or 5-partite calyx ; lobes 
narrow, cylindric tube, rarely widened at the throat; lobes of limb 
Spreading, flat, subequal, or the 2 upper inner, narrower. Stamens 
fertile, with usually 2 posterior, small clavate staminodes ; 
anthers ovate or oblong; cells 2, equal, parallel, discrete ; connec- 
tive widened. Disk annular or shortly cup-shaped. Carpels con- 
nate in a 2-celled ovary, usually glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell; 
; style filiform; stigma entire or shortly 2-lobed. Frwit an oblong 
_- *apsule, contracted below in a long stipe. Seeds normally 4, com- 
-_ , orbicular or subquadrate, smooth or rugose; retinacula 
Be a 
