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GENUS XII. GYMNOSTACHYUM. 

 Diandria Honogynla. Sea^: Systi 



Deriv. From Gymnos, naked, and Siachys, a spike. 



Gen. Chak. Calyx 6-parted, upper segment usually shorter ; 

 corolla 2-lipped, upper lip narrower, 2-toothed, lower 3-cleft : 

 stamens two, inserted below the middle, included, no rudiments 

 of sterile ones : anthers 2-celled, cells equal, parallel, contiguous, 

 one or both sides mucronate at the base, when l-mucronate then 

 usually the anthers are 1-celled : stigma 2-cleft, segments com- 

 pressed : capsule tetragonal, 2-celled and seed-bearing from the 

 base to the apex, 12-seeded. — Herbs : raceme spiciform, slender, 

 subsecund, simple or 2-3-cleft, flowers distant, very shortly pedi- 

 pelled : bracts small, subulate, sub-opposite, one sterile a little 

 inferior : bracteoles none, except when the raceme has the flowers 

 fescicled in ^ihrees when the lateral ones are bibracteolate. 



(1) G. ALATUM. (M. W.J 



Idev.t. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t, 1S25. 



Spec. Char. Stemless : leaves glabrous, all radical, humifuse,1ong 

 p^tioled, cordately sub-orbicular, entire : petioles winged : spikes 

 ascending : flowers sessile, solitary, sub-alternate : calyx segments 

 all equal, sub-pubescent, acute : corolla many times longer than the 

 calyx, limb large, ventricose, upper lip emarginate, under 3-tooth- 

 (sd: anthers 2-celled, pubescent. 



Coorg. 



(2) G. polyanthum. ( R. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t. 1494. 



Spec Char. Glabrous : flowers fascicled on slender glabrous 

 racemes : fascicles short-peduncled, sub-aggregate ; fascicles fur- 

 nished with minute subulate bracts, glabrous : leaves cordately 

 orbicular, somewhat cuspidately acuminate: corolla cyhndrical: 

 anthers 2-celled, cells parallel, distinct, except at the apex, ecalcai 

 rate : capsules slender, many-seeded. 



Coorg. 



GENUS XIII. NOMAPHILA. 



nidynamia Angiospermia. Ser -. Sytt: 



Deriv. ¥rora Nomas, a pasture, and PA?7eo, to love ; alluding 

 ta. the habitat of the plants. 



