406 cix. AOANTHACEiai. (C. B. Clarke.) [Oardantherd. 



Annnal, 6-12 in., erect, branched, viscid. Leaves l-lj in., obtuse, base mnch 

 attenuate or petioled. Flowers very numerous ; cymes dichasial, going off into sym- 

 podes ; upper branches of the cyme in appearance scorpioid with distant flowers, i. e. 

 at each bifurcation one branch with one flower is suppressed ; bracts g to ^ in., ovate 

 or elliptic; bracteoles small or 0. Sepals \ in., linear, unequal. Corolla J in., 

 puberulous ; lobes twisted to the left ; palate not transversely plicate. Anthers sub- 

 quadrate; posterior stamens reduced to fllaments. Ovary glabrous, tip glandular- 

 hairy ; style sparsely hairy. Capsule i in., bearing seeds from the base. Seeds 40-60, 

 ovoid, slightly compressed, the white fine hairs starting out on all sides when 

 moisteqed j retinacula conical, slightly curved, scarcely hardened. — Possibly a distinct 

 genus, resembling Brillantaisia except that it is the posterior stamens that are imper- 

 fect in this. 



Yn, KVaROFHZIiA, Br. 



Herbs, (in H. spinosd) spinescent. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or obovate, 

 entire. Flowers sessile, in terminal beads or in asdllary whorls ; bracts 

 elliptic or lanceolate ; bracteoles oblong or lanceolate, shorter than the 

 calyx. Calyx tubular, 5-fid (or in S. spinosa 4-partite) ; teeth lanceolate or 

 linear. Corolla blueish-purple, nearly glabrous ; tube ventricose at the apex ; 

 limb deeply 2-lipped, oblong, straight. Stamens didynamous, posterior 

 similar to the anterior, or smaller, or rudimentary, filaments glabrous ; 

 anthers oblong, cells equa,!, diyaricate or connate at the base. Ovary oblong, 

 tip hairy ; style long hairy, stigma simple linear. Capsule linear or 

 narrowly oblong, bearing seeds from the base, 40-100-seeded, or in S. spi- 

 nosa 2-8-seeded. Seeds ovoid, compressed, elastioally vfhite-haiiy when 

 wetted ; retinacula hardened, curyed and acute. — Species 18, tropical and 

 subtropical. 



Subgenus. Euhygrpphila.. TTnarmed. Calyx 5-toothed. Capsule 

 with 8-100 minute seeds. 



* Spikes terminal. 



1, K. polysperma, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi 456 ; small, 

 procumbent, leaves oblong or ovate nearly entire glabrous or puberulous, 

 spikes terminal dense oblong or hnear, fertile stamens 2. Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 519. Justicia polysperma, Boxh. Sort. Beng. 3, and Fl. Ind. i. 119; 

 Wall. Cat. 2483. RueUia uliginosa. Wall. Cat. 1%!%, partly . Hemiadel- 

 phis polysperma, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 80, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 

 80 (excl. syn. Both) ; Wight Lll. t. 164 b, fig. 3, and Lc. t. 1492 ; Qriff. 

 Notul. iv. 135. 



Thronghont India in wet places, alt. 0-5000 ft., from the Punjab and Bhotan to 

 the S. Deccan and Malacca. — Oistbib. Cabul, 



Annual, 6-18 in., branching and rooting. Leaves J-IJ in., from narrowly oblong 

 to ovate, base spathulate or j)etioled, Spikes 1-5 in., somewhat pubescent ; bracts 

 i-J in., broadly elliptic, imbricate ; bracteoles J in., lanceolate. Sepals A in., linear, 

 hairy. Corolla J in., slender, pubescent, pale blue or white. Anthers oblong, cells 

 slightly divaricate at the b»8ei; posterior stamens reduced to teeth. Ovary hairy at 

 the apex. Capsule i-| in. ; seeds 20-32. — The examples from Tenasserim and 

 ^Malacca are larger and more glabrous ; the capsules } in. 



2. K. Serpyllu^l, T. A.nders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 456 ; procum- 

 benti leaves small short-petioled ovate or oblong hairy, spikes ovate or 

 shortly oblong, anthers of the posterior stamens half as long as of the 

 anterior. RueUia polysperma. Both Nov. Sp. 305. Adenosma polysperma, 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 829. Physiohilus. Serpyllnm, Nees in Hook. Comp. Bot. 



