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GEimS XXIX. LEPTACANTHUS. 



Didynaniia Angiospermia. Seas' : Spst .■' 



Deriv. From Leptos, slender ; in allusion to the appearance 

 of the plants. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx deeply 5-parted, segments narrow, upper 

 one often longer, middle ones shorter, others equal : corolla fun- 

 nel-shaped, limb 5-lobed, unequal, two upper segments larger, 

 ascending : stamens four, didynamous, not exserted . anthers at 

 , first cordate, afterwards half-oval, cells antrorsely parallel, con- 

 tignous : stigma subulate, retrorsely hooked at the upper bp.ae : 

 ovary 4-ovuled from the base to the middle : ovules orbiculate, 

 subtended with thick retinacula : capsule oblong, a little depress- 

 ed on the back, 2-oelled from the base, 4-seeded in the middle, 

 seeds furnished with retinacula. — ^Herbs : flowers arranged in a 

 t-erminal panicle, trichotomous and interwoven with small leaves, 

 secund, a small branchlet being opposite to the panicle : pedicels 

 slender from the axils of the floral leaflets : bracteoles when thQ 

 calyx is very unequal none, when equal two, narrow, adnate to 

 the base of the calyx : corolla showy, blue : fruit pendulous. 



(1) L. Walkeri. {Kees,) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XI. p. 170. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1.507. 



Spec. Char. Panicle densely glanduloso-villous : lobes of the 

 perianth linear-filiform, the upper one a little longer : cauline leaves 

 oval-oblong, pubescent beneath : floral ones, at least the primaries, 

 Ovate, acuminate, small ; upper branches hairy, leaves acuminate or 

 eaudato-cuspidate ; segments of the calyx narrow, very villous, the 

 lipper one longer, straight : corolla cylindrical, ventricose, lobes of 

 the limb sub-repand, dark pink, or purplish-coloured. 



Neilgherries, flowering in February and March. 

 (2) L. ALATUS. {R. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t. 1527. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby ; panicles racemose, numerous on the 

 naked branches, or in single axillary racemes on the leafy branchlets : 

 leaves oval-oblong, acuminate, entire, decurrent on the petiole, am- 

 plexicaul, glabrous : peduncles, bracts and calyx thickly beset with 

 long bristly hairs : lobes of the calyx linear obtuse, much longer 

 than the bracteoles : longer filaments hairy. 



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