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(1) H. PoiYSPEEMA. (Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. prod, XT. p. 80.T-Wall, PI. As. Rar. Ill, 

 p. 80. 



Syn. Justicia polysperma, Roxb. — Ruellia polysperma, Roth. — ; 

 Adenostna polysperma, Spreng. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1492. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, creeping, glabrous ; leaves elliptic- 

 oblqng, somewhat crenate : spikes short, terminal in the branches 

 and branchlets : common bracts obovate or oval, roughish : flowers 

 small, pale yellow. 



Bengal. Oude. Silhet. Assam. Flowering in the cold 

 Reason. 



GENUS XI. PHYSICHILUS. 

 Dldyimmia Angioaperniia. Sex: Syat: 



Beriv. From Physis, a bladder, and Cheilos, a lip ; in allusiioa. 

 to the corolla. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx deeply 5-parted, equal, segments narrow : 

 eoroUa personate ; palate densely blisteired ; upper Kp 2-cleft or 

 entire, lower 3-cleft, of the middle segment smaller : stamens 

 joined in pairs at the base : filaments inflexed : anthers attached 

 above the base, linear-oblong : cells contigaous, parallel, muti- 

 <i0us, never twisted, those of the shorter stamens smaller : cap- 

 sules oblong, depressed, 8-seeded from the base : seeds subtended 

 •5vith scale-shaped retinacula, orbiculate, convexo-concave, mar- 

 ginate. — ^Herbs or undershrubs : leaves narrow : flowers violet, 

 pither axillary, snbsessile and collected into a somewhat secunc^ 

 terminal spike or verticillate. 



(1) P. SERPHYLLUM. ^Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. X. p. 525. — ^Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 184. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1493. 



Spec. Char. Diifuse, branc]ied, creeping : leaves strigose and 

 hirsute, those on the stem nearly orbicular : floral ones oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate : flowers subsessile, collected into a terminal 

 spike, axillary, purple. 



Common in rice fields. Bombay. Mysore. Malwan. 



