,Ebermaiera.] cix. aoanthace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 403 



petiole 1| in., pubescent ; the uppermost leaf sometimes short-petioled, rounded at the 

 base. Peduncle J in. j raceme 4-5 in. j bract near the base of the pedicel jj, in., linear- 

 lanceolate ; bracteoles -f^ in., linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent. Calyx-segmenta 

 5, unequal, -^1 in., linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 tube very short. Filaments glabrous j anther-celk oroid, irregularly subdivaricate. — 

 Allied to E. coriacea, T, Anders. 



Y. OPKXORRKXZXPHYIiIiON, Kiirz. 



An erect herb. Leaves opposite, petioled, elliptic, entire. Spikes very 

 long, many-fld. ; bracts narrowly oblong, exceeding the ealyx; bracteoles 

 small. Sepals 5, subequal, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla snortiy tubular, 

 curved at tbe mouth ; lobes 5, elliptic, suberect. Stamens 2 ; filaments long, 

 exaert, glabrous ; anther-cells 2, oblong, muticous, separate, approximate, 

 erect. Disc inconspicnous. Ovary glabrous ; style long, glabrous, 

 shortly 2-lobed; ovules very many. Capsule oblong and seeds as of 

 Sbermaiera. 



0. macrobotryum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soo. 1871, pt. ii. 76^ 



Maetaban ; Thoungyen, Brandis. Kabbn Hills ; Kurz. 



Stem 6-10 in., undivided, pubescent upwards. Leaves 6 by 2 J in., cuneate, sub^ 

 acute at each end, glabrous, or pubescent on the nerves beneath ; petiole i— 1^ in. 

 Peduncles 1-3, subterminal, 1-3 in. ; spikes 3-7 in. ; bracts | in., glabrescent ; 

 bracteoles \ in., linear. Sepals J-J in., pubescenti Corolla i in., white or pale rose, 

 minutely pubescent without. Stamens inserted in a ring of hairs, 2 small stamihodes 

 added. Capsule ^ in. 



YI. CARDANTKEBA, Sam> 



Herbs, often viscid, aromatid. Leates opposite. Tipper toothed rarely 

 entire, lower often pinnatifid or in water pectinate. Flowers spiked or 

 whorled, or 1-3 together in opposite axils ; bract or bracteoles often sup- 

 pressed. Sepals narrow, often unequal. Corolla nearly straight, . tube 

 shorter than the calyx ; limb long, 2-lipped, twisted to the left in bud ; 

 palate transversely plicate-rugose, purple-rose and white. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous ; anthers of the posterior often smaller ; anther-cells parallel. 

 Ovary narrow; style sparsely hairy. Capsule sessile, narrow^ 40-100- 

 seeded, bearing seeds from the very base. Seeds smaM, ovoid, somewhat 

 compressed, glandular-puberulous or glabrous ; retinacula minute, conical, 

 soft, not curved, — Species 10, Indian and Tropical African. 



C. Thwaitesii has solitary flowers, a plane palate, 2 stamens, and stronger 

 retinacula. 



Subgenus li Eucardanthera. Stamens A, fertile. Flowers mostly 

 in opposite axils. 



* Spikes terminal, braots ^-rankeA imbricated, infruiti 



1. C. ■al\sixios,a.,Ham.mss.; £enth. in Gem PL u.l074<; stem pubescent 

 upwards, leaves subsessile oblong or subovate entire or orenate, bracts round 

 ovate. Euellia uliginosa, Linn. f. Suppl. 290; Both Nov. Sp. 306, obs. ; 

 Moxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 52; Wall. Cat. 2378, chiefly. Adenosma uligmosa, 

 Nees in Sr. Verm. Schrift. iii. 298, and in Wall. Fl. As. Bar. iii. 79, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 69 (excl. syn. Euellia ringens); T, Anders, in Journ. Linn. 



■Soc. ix. 466. , „ 



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