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(3) D. PROSTRATUS. {Nees.} 



Ident. Dec. prod. XI. p. 124. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, prostrate, covered with whitish 

 pubescence : leaves ovate, obtuse, almost quite entire, very small; 

 pubescently hairy,^ canescent : flowersi axillary, solitary, short,-pe- 

 duncled : bracteoles oval, petioled, longer than the calyx : capsule 

 pwhescent, many-seeded. 



In pastures and, hedges. at Negapataqn. f oqt of the Neilgherries.. 

 Ti^anquebai;, 



(4) D. 5EjECT,us. {^ee.s.\ 



Tdent. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. 82.— Dec. prod. 

 XI. p. 125. 



Syn. Ruellia repens, Blume. — R. ringens, Roxb. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, suffrutescent at the base, creetp- 

 ing, procumbent or ascending : leaves long-petioled, ovate-elliptic, 

 acute at both ends, entire, strigose or rough on the veins : capsule 

 half an inch long, oblong, narrow at the base, 12-16-seeded : flow- 

 ers axillary, sessile, solitary, pale blue, expanding in the evenipg 

 and drooping the next morning. 



Common all over India, flowering nearly all the yeaj, 



GENUS XXIV. HEMIGRAPHIS. 



Diilynamia Angiosperniia. Sex.- Sysl i 



Gen. Char. Calyx S-parted, segments: nearly equal, upper one; 

 lafgec and broader^, usually deeply joined together at the base in 

 pairs, namely, two lower ones and two upper ones, (one of these 

 bping smailler), the fifth free : corolla funnel-shaped, resupinate, 

 limb. 5-lobed, lob^8 obliquely sub-retuse, two upper ones a little- 

 smaller : stamens didynamous, inserted at the apex of the tube^ 

 cpnfljient at the base : anthers 1 -celled, celj adnate t.o a narrow 

 ]?eeled connectivum, one cell of the upper stamens changed into 

 a fringe of hairs placed below the cell, one cell of the lower sta- 

 mens altogether wanting, the perfect cell boat-shaped at the 

 base, mucronate : stigma fiirnished w;ith a blunt tooti at the 

 dorsal base, pubescent, sira,ple : capsule 6-«8-seeded below the 

 middle, without cells at the base : seeds furnished with retina-, 

 cula, echinhate. — Perenpi3,ls branched, flexuose,. softly villous, 

 viscid herbs : leaves oblong, atj;enuated at both,, ends, serrated, 

 floj-al ones (bracts) quite entire : flowers axillary, either solitary, 

 subsessile, bibracteolate,, or glomerate, terminal, capitate, brae., 

 teate. 



