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sagittate at the base, iiiuticous or somSwLai mucronate, violet : 

 stigma simple, subulate, incurved : capsules narrow, 6-striated, 

 ■2-celled and seed-bearing to the b^se, many-seeded : seeds small, 

 orbiculate, compreRsed[, smoothish : retinacula short, obtuse. — ■ 

 Herbs : root stoloniferous : stems erect or procumbent, 4-angled ; 

 leaves quite entire, or here and there crenated, densely lineolate 

 '■above, furnished with often many-ribbed divisions, hairy or gla- 

 brous : flowers axillary, cymosely glomerate, forming dimidiate 

 or entire verticils : teeth of the calyX rough or bearded : corolla 

 .purple or yellowish. 



(1) H. OBovATA. (2Vee«.) 



Idenl. fiec, prod. XI. p. 91. 



Syn. Ruellia obovata, Roxsb. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1489.— Rheede Mai. II. t. 46. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect : cauline leaves oblongj" 

 those of the branches obovate, obtuse, attenuated into the petiole, 

 ■entire, slightly hirsute on both sides : flowers blue, half verticilled : 

 calyx 5-fid, the segments and the inferior lip of the corolla bearded. 



Courtallum. Chittagong. Malabar. Flowering during the 

 tainy season. 



(2) H. salicifolia. (Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. Xt. p. 92. — Dali. Bomb. flor. p. 184. 



Syn. Ruellia salicifolia, Fahl. — Rgich. flor. Ind. I. p. 50.— • 

 ll. longifolia, Roth. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1490. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, er^ctj tough round the joints s 

 leaV-es lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, lineolate, hirsute on thel 

 veins beneath : whorls dimidiate : segments of the calyx subulate^ 

 hairy : flowers axillary, about t together, pale blue : capsule quad* 

 rangular, narrow-Compressed. 



W«t places in the Southern Concan. ftuilon. 



(3) H. PHLOMOiDES. ('^eea.) 



Idenf. Neesi ab. Esen. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. lit. p. 80.—* 

 Dec. prod. XI. p. 90. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, Creeping at the base : stem quadran-i' 

 gular, hirsute ; leaves oblong-elliptic, subcrenated, sessile, hirsute : 

 flowers verticilled : bracts and calyces very hirsute. 



Siihet. 



