Lepidagathis.} ACANTHACEZ. 815 
connate, and the calyx almost 4-partite. Petals 5, connate in a 
small, 2-lipped corolla; tube slender below, — swollen in 
the middle ; lower lip 3-lobed, spreading, often s tamens 
4, didynamous; anthers 2-celled; cells oblong, mateo, a 
nate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules 2, rarely 1 in each atl. ithe 
recurved; stigma ~~ shortly 2-lobed or ares Fruit an 
elongated, conic, or o ong ee Seeds 4 or 2, compressed, 
ovate-oblong or hee i hair 
Capsule 2-seeded, long-conical, scarious on the back, thin and irregularly 
hairs: 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate, spinescent .........cescseseeeeeeeeeeeees Hamiltoniana. 
Calyx-lobes not spinescent trinervis 
Capsule 4-seeded, Bai early 2-valved from apex ; seeds short, ovate or 
orbicular, with short hairs 
Leaves entire or eR ee — 
Bracts striate purpuricaulis 
Bracts not striate :— , 
Leaves more or less pubescent, some at least ovate :— 
Lower leaves ovate, upper narrower, minutely viscid-pubescent 
hyalina. 
Leaves all ovate, hairy on both sides ......... hyalina var. mollis. 
Leaves glabrate, often shining, all linear-lanceolate 
wyalina var. aL 
ciculata 
Leaves crenate-serrate, margined 
1555. Lepipacatuis HaAMILTONIANA nas Beeb. 3. iv. 616. 
L. cristata var. rupestris E. D, L. 278. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur 
perennial herb. Santak Ot’ dhompo. 
1556. Leprpacatuis TRineRvIs Nees; F. B. I. iv. 517. 
ota Nagpur. 
perennial herb. 
1557. presen ely PURPURICAULIS Nees; F. B. I. iv. 519. 
ota Nagp 
As seoit or pian perennial herb. 
1558. LeprpacarHis HYALIN a Nees; F. B. I. iv. 521. Ruellaa 
dependens F., I. iii 
Behar ; Chota sel Chittagong. 
A suberect, perennial herb. 
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