40\ 



(4) A. VERTicinATA. (Nees\) 



„ ikent. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. 79.— Dec. prod. 

 XI. p. 69. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1524. 



Spec. Char. Stem ascending and like the oval obloiig serrulate'' 

 crenate leaves, hairy : segments of the calyx linear-spatbulatej ob-< 

 tuse : flowers verticilled, purplish. 



Mysore and Coorg. 



(5) A. ULIGINOSA. (/J. Br.) 



Ident. R. Br. prod. I. p. 398. — Dec. prod. XI. p. 69. 



Syn. Ruellia uligitlosa, Linn.—Roxb. fior. Ind, III. y. 52.^-^ 

 II. ringens, Linn. 



Spec. Char. Stem creeping, geniculate, much branched, hairy 

 above : leaves oval, crenate or quite entire, subsessile, pubescehtly 

 scabrous : flowers axillary, opposite, somewhat solitary, smallj 

 blue, arranged in a terminal tetragonal spike. 



Very common in ribe fields n^ir Tranqilebar and other jiarts of 

 the Peninsula, flowering in the cold season. 



(6) A. Thymus. (Nees.J 



Ident. N. ab. E. in Wall. 1. c. III. p. 79.— Dec. prod. XIJ 

 p. 69. 



Si/n. Ruellia cerniia, Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 45. 



Spec. Char. Stem creeping, much branched s leaves petioled, 

 idrooping, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire: flowers axillary, sessile^ 

 Opposite, small, pale pink. 



Mysore, flowering in the rainy season. 



GENUS Vm. ERYTHRACANTHUS. 

 Didynanila Aitg^iobpermia. Sex, Sysii 



Deriv. From ErythYos, red ; alluding td the cdlour of the 

 Jfeavea underneath. 



Gen. Char. Calyx deeply 5-parted, segments nearly equal, 

 lanceolate-subulate : corolla funnel-shaped, limb equal, 5-cleft, 

 obtuse : stamens four, didynamous : anthers 2-celled, cells muti- 

 cous, obliquely diverging into the hatchet-shaped connectivum : 

 stigma bilaniellate, lamellsB parallel, narrow, upper one shorter, 

 truncated : ovary girt with a ring at the base^ 2-celled abovBj 



