814 ; BENGAL PLANTS. [Eranthemun. 
Corolla pale-purple :-— 
Capsule pubescent palatiferum 
fea glabrate palatiferum var. levicapsa. 
orolla whit lbum. 
1552. ERANTHEMUM PALATIFERUM Nees; F. B. I. iv. 498. 
me Bengal. 
rennial undershrub. 
1552/2. ee LEVicAPsA; F. B. I. iv. 498. 
Chittagon 
A anaeutel undershrub. 
1553. ERANTHEMUM ALBUM Nees; F. B. I. iv. 498. Justicia alba 
Mak..i, tL 
Chittagong. 
A perennial undershrub. 
710. Codonacanthus Nees. 
Erect or ascending, ote herbs; leaves membranous, entire. 
Flowers small, in pairs along one side of the rachis of simple or 
branched racemes ; phidisetis short; bracts and bracteoles minute. 
Sepals 5, somewhat connate below, short, narrow, subequal. 
Petals 5, connate in a short, obliquely campanulate, incurved 
corolla ; lobes fiat, obovate or oblong, subequal, imbricate in bud. 
Stamens 2 perfect, with 2 short, clavate, i aci staminodes ; 
filaments adnate to middle of corolla-tube ; anthers 2- pa. cells 
ovate, attached by their middle to a very aud connec Disk 
obscure. Carpels connate in a 2-celled —. a ‘+: in ere 
cell; style reraigr ; stigma capitate. Fruit an oblong capsule, ~ 
contracted below in a long, solid stipe. Hees normally 4, com- ~ 
pressed, died: smooth, shining. 
1554. CoDONACANTHUS PAUCIFLORUS Nees; F. B. I. iv. 500. 
agong. 
An erect, gregarious herb. 
711. Lepidagathis Willd. 
Herbs or undershrubs, often pubescent ; leaves entire or crenate- 
serrate. Flowers sessile, usually c¢ capi itate, sometimes opposite 
small ; bracteoles smaller than bracts. Sepals connate in a dee 
5-lobed calyx, the lobes unequal, the 2 anterior often more or less 
