822 : BENGAL PLANTS. (Dicliptera. 
cymes; bracts proper ea unequal, exceeding the calyx; 
bracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, as long as calyx. Sepals 5, 
connate below in a short nie lobes equal, linear-lanceolate, 
more or less pubescent. Petals 5, connate in a red or rose-pink 
corolla, ou le spots; tube slender; upper lip entire or 
emarginate; lower lip 8-lobed, recurved. Stamens 2; anthers 
2-celled, naiiigcneds muticous. Disk cup-like. Carpels connate 
in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules 2 in each cell; style filiform; stigma 
shortly 2-fid. Fruit a clavate capsule, narrowed below into a 
solid stipe ; placentas elastically separating from their base. Seeds 
ovoid, compressed, glabrous, verrucose or subpapillose-glandular. 
Corolla under °25 in. long; flowers mostly in axillary clusters ; bracts 
glabrous except the ciliate margins; leaves ovate, acuminate 
micranthes. 
Corolla -75 in. long; flowers in terminal as well as muilloey clusters 5 
bracts thinly pubescent as well as ciliate; leaves elliptic, acute :— 
Bracts obovate or cuneate, elliptic, apiculate, not acuminate 
oxburghiana. 
Bracts linear or linear-oblong, with nearly parallel margins, acuminate- 
PUSPIMA bese ori FS Riknn eenccsgsccadgenscnes Roxburghiana var. bupleuroides. 
1575. anes MICRANTHES eee B.-B. diay. 553. 
r; Chota Nagpur 
A ‘tiie herb. 
1576. Dicuiprera Roxspureuiana Nees; F. B. I. iv. 5538; E. D. 
. 410. 
In all the provinces. 
A herb, 1-8 feet high. 
1576/2. Var. BUPLEUROIDES; F. B. I. iv. 554; E. D. D. 411. 
ttagong. 
A herb, 2-3 feet high, 
Order XCIX. VERBENACEZ. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves opposite or whorled; simple 
or digitate, very rarely pinnate; stipules 0. Flowers hermaphro- 
dite or, by abortion, polygamous, almost always irregular, in 
ae rirty pana or — simple or, especially if cymose, com- 
connate in a 5- or 4-, very rarely 
poun als : 
6-8-toothed, ate font: Petals connate in a tubular corolla, 
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