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246 ACANTHACER. [ Phlogacanthus, 
PHLOGACANTHUS, N.E. 
Calyx 5-parted, the segments linear, equal. Corolla curved, 
obliquely 2-lipped, = upper lip broader, longer and 2-cleft, the 
lower 3-cleft. Stamens 2, with or without 2 minute staminal 
rudiments ; anthers 2-celled, the cells parallel, pte hastately 
diverging. Stigma simple, acute; ovary-cells 4-ovuled. Capsule 
compressed-linear, 4-8-celled from near the base. Shr ubs or under- 
shrubs, with entire leaves. Flowers often showy, in terminal or 
lateral, simple or branched racemes or spikes. Bracts narrow. 
* Calyx and racemes velvety or puberulous. 
© All parts glabrous. 
Flowers yellowish brown E 3 : 3 . Ph. thyrsiflorus. 
Flowers white or faintly rose- iblcieed... ; ‘ ‘ * . Ph. viteliinus. 
Flowers purplish FINE. 14-2 in. long, tabular ‘ fi é . Ph, curvifiorus. 
OO Not glabrou 
Petioles and nerves beneath wasgeres! — 9 former — 
. Ph. pulcherrimus. 
All parts more or les glandular- a. cymosus. 
* * Caly we quite glabrous 
Flowers more hens an inch long; branches white . Ph. insignis. 
Flowers only 4-5 = long shortly peal 5" “branches sree, 
sharply 4-gono . Ph. elongatus. 
Pe stages , N.E,—An evergreen branched shrub, fi . 
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curved insertion of the glabrous filaments ; style q@shrasss ou 
subulate te; capsules rather woody, fully an ineh long, 
owed, blunt and callose at the apex; seeds 8 or fewer, shortly 
sinwiosa 
Has.—Ava and Martaban.—Fl. Feb.-March. i 
Ph. insignis, Kz.—An evergreen meagre shrub, 3 to to 5 ft 
high, all parts oon, the toon eee with 4 elevated 
lines, white ; lea uneate-oblong to oblong, shortly : 
shortly aiid naan membranous, quite glabrous, 7 to 8 ine 
pet: flowers dark violet, _ terminal racemes or rarely forming 
contracted pani the racemes about 2-3 times longe 
te the petiole, minately ee eas or glabrous 5 bractlets linea 
