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GENUS XXXVI. ^THEILEMA. 



bldynamla Aiigloaperinla. Sex.- Syati 



Deriv. From Aithos, shining', and Eilema, a Wrapper ; allud- 

 ing to the bracts. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx 5-parted, upper segment largest, bract« 

 shaped : corolla 2-lipped, upper lip 2-cleft, lower 3-clefb, or sub* 

 tingent, upper lip entire or minutely 2-toothed : stamens four, 

 didynamous, included, consociated by pairs : anthers 2-celIed, 

 cells parallel, contiguous ; capsule 2-celled, bivalved, 4-8edded at 

 the base: seeds compressed.^ — Spikes axillary or terminal, leafy ; 

 peduncles very short, alternate in the axils of the floral loaves, 

 and on that account secund, 2-6-flowered : common bract broad : 

 proper bracteoles none. 



(1) M, RENIFORMG. {Nees.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar.' III. p. 94.— Dec. prod. 

 XI. p. 261. 



Syn. Ruellia imbricata, Vahl. — Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 48.—" 

 R. dorsiflora, Itetz. — M. parvittorura, ^'^ren^.— Phaylopsis parvi« 

 flora, Willd. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1533. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, and like the ovate, unequal at 

 the base, repand leaves, pubescent ; one of the leaves smaller : bracts 

 reiiiform and with the upper ovate membranaceous lacinia of the 

 Calyx ciliate : flowers small, white. 



Paulghaut in hedge rows. Silhet. Flowering nearly all the 

 year. 



GENUS XXXVn. BLEPHARIS. 



toldynamia Angiospermia. Sex: Syttt 



Deriv, A Greek term, signifying the eyelash ; alluding^ ta 

 the bracts of the calyx. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx 4-parted, unequal, lower and upper seg." 

 ment broader, lower 2-toothed, bracteated at the base : corolla 

 1-lipped, lip 3-oleft, throat cartilaginous, upper margin tridenti. 

 culate : stamens four, sub-didynamous : upper anthers l-celled, 

 cell ciliately bearded on the margin: lower ones obliquely 2. 

 Celled, common division between the lips, while closed, hidden ; 

 anthers of the upper stamens adnate to the filament, of the lower 

 ones lateral ou the obtuse filament, somewhat stalked or sessile ; 



