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Spec. Char, Herbaceous : leaves oval, acuminated at both ends, 

 quite entire, below together with the branches pubescently scabrous : 

 thryses axillary and with a terminal one, spioiform, narrow r floral 

 leaves ovate, and with the segments of the tubular involucre mucro- 

 jiate : flowers purple. 



Assam. 



GENUS LVIII. HAPLANTHUS. 

 Dlandrla JIIonog:ynla. Sem: Systi 



Deriv. Prom Haplos, single, and dntkos, a flower ; some of 

 the species are l-flowered. 



Gbn. Char. Calyx equal, 5-parted : corolla somewhat funnel- 

 shaped, tube incurved, limb 5-cleft, somewhat 2-lipped : stamens 

 included : anthers 1-celled, oonneotivum and abortive cell tomen- 

 tose or villous : filaments dilated at the base inwardly : capsule 

 linear, depressed, 8-16 seeded from the base: seeds small, angled. 

 — Erect branched herbs : flowering branches often dissimilar, 

 spioiform, few-flowered, either a somewhat spiked terminal 

 branchlet with small subulate bracts, or flowers solitary at tha 

 base of the fascicled somewhat verticillate branchlets. 



(1) H. VERTICILLARIS. (NceS.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XI. p. 513. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 197. 



Syn. Justicia verticillata, Roxh. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, simple, erect, naked and smooth 

 at the base : leaves ovate-oblong, attenuated at both ends : branches 

 assuming the form of short, rigid spines, which are bifid at the apex : 

 flowers of a pale-Ulac half an inch long. 



Hills in the Deccan. Neilgherries, Assam. Flowering from 

 September till December. 



(2) H. TENTACULATUS, (^Nees.) 



Ident. Dec, prod. XI. p. 513. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 197. 

 Syn. Ruellia tentaculata, Linn. — R. aciculata, Roth. 

 Engrav. Burm. flor. Ind. t. 40. fig. 1. 



Spec. Char. Leaves oval-obtuse, smaller than in the precede 

 ing: axillary branches verticelled, bifid, longer than the leaves. 

 Jungles in the Concan. Central India. Flowering in January. 



