408 



(4) H. iNCANA. {I^ees.") 



Ident. Dec. prod. XI. p. 91. 



Sgn. Ruellia hirsuta, Roxb. fior. Ind. III. p. 51. 



Spec. Char. Stem procumbent or erect, tetragonal, geniculate: 

 branches ascending : leaves lanceolatej quite entire, subsessile, hairy- 

 rillous : flowers verticilled: verticils complete: brabts and calyces 

 very hirsute. 



Chittagong. 



(5) H. RADicANS. (Nees.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. 81.— Dec. prod. 

 XI. p. 9-2. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, procumbeiit, creeping : leaves oblong, 

 acute at both ends, repandly subcrenate, lineolate, glabrous : ver- 

 ticills dimidiate : Segments of the balsx sdbulate, hirsute. 



Silhet. 



GteKUS XV. CkfPTOPHRAGMluM. 



Dlandria TUlonogynla,. Sex: Syat.- 



Derh. Prom Kryptos, concealed, and Phragmion, a partition ; 

 .jiilluding to the division of the cells of the anthers. 



Gin. Chab. Calyx 5-parted, equal : corolla either 2.1ipped dt 

 ringent, tube straight or incurved : stamens two, lower side in- 

 serted on the tube : anthers 2-celled, especially contiguous in 

 front and dehiscing with a Minple cleft, the bottom of the cell 

 divided by a common bilamellate partition : capsule! tetragonal; 

 2-celled with an adnate partition, many-sebded, seed-bearing from 

 the base : sebds subtended with retinacula. — ^Herbs, often mucH 

 branched : leaves toothed, or repandly toothed : flowers nodding; 

 purplish, arranged in small cymes : bracts and bracteoles smaU, 

 nearly equal. 



(1) C. CANESCENS. (iVfieSiJ 



Ident. Dec. prod. XI. p. 95. 



Syn. Justicia piibescens, Lam. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1495. 



Spec. Char. Spikes axillary, passing into terminal, bifidj se- 

 cuud-flowered, glandulosely-hirsute ; leaves ovate, aculish, cuiiei- 



