Stylidium. ] STYLIDEZ. 631 
calyx, adnate to ovary; upper lip 3-lobed, lower 2-lobed. Petals 
connate in a 5-lobed, irregular corolla ; lobes imbricated, the 
lowest usually dissimilar (lip). Stamens 2, the fi aments discrete 
om corolla, connate in a column with the style; anthers sessile 
on the apex of column, their cells at length confluent at the tip. 
k small, epigynous, or obsolete. Carpels 2, connate in an 
each cell on the middle of the septum, numerous ; stigma at apex 
dehiscent at apex or only in the middle. Seeds many, rarely (by 
absorption) solitary, small; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute. 
504. Stylidium Sw. 
Herbs with slender stems; leaves subrosulate or scattered. 
elastically recurved when irritated ; stigma undivided. Carpels 
connate in a 2-locular ovary. Frwit a capsule; valves dehiscing 
from apex downwards, or opening in the middle but united at apex 
and base. Seeds minute; albumen fleshy. 
Stems short, stout; leaves terminal, subrosulate; peduncles one or 
more, leafless, dichotomous ; corolla white «.---+++rrrerrsrerrerrttts Kunthii. 
Stems erect, slender, simple, leafy; leaves scattered; corolla rosy or 
purplish :— 
Stems 4-8 in. high ; flowers rather DUMEFOUS....-.-.-+++e+-100°7 
Stems 1-2 in. high; flowers few, 1-4 --.-+-+1+-++++ tenellum var. minima. 
1130. Srytiprum Kuntau Wall.; F. B. I. iii. 420. 
N. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A small herb of grassy places, 1-8 in. high. 
1131. Sryiprom TeNELLUM Sw. ; F. B. I. iit. 420. 
E. Bengal; Chittagong. 
: A small herb of swamps and rice-fields. 
1131/2. Var. mnmua Clarke; F. B. I. iii. 420. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A minute herb of wet places. 
