491 



^idynamous : anthers 2-celled, opening longitudinally : ovary 2- 

 celled, cells with a single erect ovule : style terminal, short: 

 stigma lin^ear or obliquely capitate : drupe fleshy or succulent 

 with .2-nuts, shell hard, rough, and tuberculate, or rarely smooth ; 

 cotyledons thick radicle inferior, short. — Shrubs or under shrnbs, 

 stems 4-sided : leaves opposite or verticelled, simple or feather- 

 jierved, rugous : peduncles axillary usually single : capitula qom- 

 pact, usually elongating during flowering : calyx pubescent : 

 corolla variausly colo,ured, white, grange, red, purple and often 

 phangeable. 



(1) L. AtBA. {Miller,) 



Ident, Miller e% Link enum. PI. Hort. Berol, H. p. 126.— 

 Dec. prod. XL p. 606. 



Syn. L. Indica, Roxb. — L. dijbia, Royle. 



Engrav. Royle Himal. Bot. t. 73. fig. 3.— Wight's Icon. t. 

 1464. 



Spec Char. Shrubby, erect, straight : branches twiggy, 4- 

 sided, strigose and hairy : leaves opposite, short petioled, elliptic or 

 rounded-jovate or suboordate, acuminate at the ends, coarsely serrate-i 

 crenate, much wrinkled, scabrous above, hoary and villous beneath ; 

 peduncles axillary, spreading, thickened upwards : heads of flowers 

 bemispheriical, light-purp]le : tliroat yellow, scentless : fruit dark- 

 violet, of the size of a p?a. 



About Phaiiwar, and othpr parts of D.eccan. Mysore and. most 

 pa,rts of the country. Flowering all the year. There are several, 

 varieties with white, orange,, and pal^ violet flowers. 



GENUS Y. STMPHOREMA. 

 Oetandria mionQsynia. Sex,: S^st: 



De.riv. IVom iSym^Aoreo, to accumulate ; in reference to the 

 involucre. 



Gbh. OftAR. Involucre 6-8-leaved, spreading, subtending a 

 ContraiCte,d cyme : calyx cup-shaped-oampanulate, 6-8-tooth. 

 ed, persistent : corolla tubular, limb 6-18-cleft, segments linear 

 reflexed : stamens the number of the lobfis of the corolla, inserted 

 at the snmmit of the tube, ^qual, long exserted : filaments capil- 

 lary : anthers inserted by the back, ^.-celled, cells dehiscing 

 by a gaping cleft : ova,ry 2-Qelled, cells binovuled, ovules collate- 

 ral : style filiform, exserted beyond the stamens : stigma 2-cleft : 

 capsule coriaceous, indehiscent, enclosed by the calyx, 1-seeded, 

 by abortion : seed erect.— Climbing shrubs. 



