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GENUS VII. ADENOSMA, 

 Dldyiiantla Anglospe-rmla. Sex: Sytti 



Deriv. From Aden, a gland, and Osme, smell ; from the fra- 

 grant glands of the leaves, like Mint. 



Gen. Ghar. Calyx 5»parted, equal or the upper segment larger r 

 cotolla ringent : stamens 4, didynamous : anthers 2-celled : celis 

 parallel : capsule narrow, beaked, many-seeded : retijiacula none. 

 ■ — Herbs or undershrubs, growing in swampy places a?d by the 

 Bea-shore, erect or diffuse : leaves serrated or crenated., scattered 

 with glands, pubescent or glabrous : flowers middle-sized, pur- 

 plish, sessile in the asdls of the smaller upper leaves, single or ii^ 

 threes, opposite, forming a leafy spike, 



(1) A. BALSAMEA. {Spretiff.) 



Ident. Sprang. Syat. II. p. 829.^Dec. prod. XI. p. 68. 

 St/n. Ruetlia balsamea, Linn. 

 Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 446. 



Spec. Char. Stem erect : leaves lanceolate, callosely-toothe4.. 

 glutinous, glabrous : flowers axillary, verticilled : upper segment 

 of the calyx oblong, the rest linear, obtuse. 



Very common in rice fields after the harvest. Neilgherries. 

 Couitallum. 



(2) A. TRiFLORA. (Nees.) 



Ident. N. ah. E. in Wall. PI. As. III. p. 79.— Dec. prod. XI. 

 p. 68. 



Syn. Ruellia triflora, Roxb. — Cardanthera triflora. Ham. 



Spec. Char. Stem ascendent and with the ovate crenate-ser- 

 rated leaves glandulosely pubescent: all the segments of the corolla 

 retuse:' flowers axillary, verticilled, in threes, deep and light blup, 

 ";with a white reddish tube and a yellow-stained throat. 



Ditches in Bengal. Silhet. Coromandel. Flowering in the 

 cold season. 



(3) A. vittosA. (Ben,t%,) 



Jdent. Dec. prod. XI. p. 68. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, villous : leaves ovate, acute at bot)t^ 

 ends, sharply serrated, slightly villous : flowers axill:iry. 



Khasia hills. 



