Oalophanes.'] en. acanthace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 411 



** Ch/mes small, flowers pedicelled. 



3. C. va,ea,nBf Wiffkt Ic. 1. 1526; leaves ovate or oblong more or less 

 pubescent, calyx-teetb long-linear hairy, filaments Hairy, anther-cells with 

 prominent white divaricate spurs at the base. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ix. 459, excl. syn. EueUia racemosa, Heyne in Herb. Mottler, not of 

 Boxh. 



Deccak PeninsuiA, UoUler; Knrg, Wight; CoTican, Stocks ; Belganm, Sjfciie. 



Stems 1-2 ft., erect or diffuse, branched ; innovations softly pubescent, not lineo- 

 late. Leaves IJ-ZJ in., usually narrowed at both ends, mature pubescent on both 

 surfaces or glabrate except a few hairs on the nerves or margin ; petiole | in. Cymes 

 IJ in., or some short .S-fld., softly hairy ; bracts \ in., oblong ; bracteoles J in., linear. 

 Calyx-tube J in., teeth J-J in. Corolla | in., pubescent, blueish, palate transversely 

 plicate. Spurs of the anther-cells much larger than in the preceding species. Cap- 

 sule \ in. 



4. C. Dalzellil, T. Anders. ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 248 ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong pubescent or nearly glabrate, calyx-teeth linear hairy, 

 filaments glabrous or minutely hairy, anther-cells minutely mucronate at 

 base or muticous. C. rigidus, Dalz^ ms. — Dipteraoanthus sp. u. 11, Serb. 

 Ind. Or.H.f.Sf T. 



CoNCAW, Dalzell, StocTcs ; Poona, Dalzell, Seddome. 



Closely resembling C. vagans, but cymes denser, pedicels rarely exceeding ^ in., 

 calyx-teeth broader, sometimes lii^earTlanceolate, flowers rather larger, sometimes 

 exceeding 1 in., and capsule ^— J in., 4rseeded (entirely of Calophanes). — The larger 

 flowers and the stamens are quite as of Muellia ; the mucro of the anther-cells is 

 either absolutely wanting or so minute that it requires a microscope to find it. 

 Hence theplant was marked aDiptet'acanthus by Bentham (not Dipteracamthus vagans, 

 as T. Anders, states, which was T. Anderson's own mistake, not Bentham's) ; but as 

 the ovules appear never more than 4, it mnst remain in Calophanes. It invalidates 

 the genus Calophanes as distingi)ished from Muellia, 



X. RUEZiZiZA, Zinn. 



Herbs or undershmbs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers sessile or 

 subsessile, soUtary or clustered ; bract ; bracteoles large, exceeding the 

 calyx except in B. dliata. Calyx 5-partite or 5-fid; teeth subequal, 

 narrow, acnte. Corolla tubular- ventricose ; limb more or less oblique ; 

 lobes subequal, rounded, twisted to the left in bnd, patent in flower. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, filaments glabrous, unless near the base ; anthers 

 subequal, 2-celled ; cells oblong, muticous, glabrous. Ovary glabrous ; 

 ovules in each cell S-10; style long-linear, hairy, stigma simple linear 

 (except in B. macrosiphon). Capsule clavate, base solid, cylindric, ellipsoid, 

 seed-bearing upwards. Seeds large, thinly discoid, marginate, much 

 imbricated, densely elasticaUy hairy when wetted ; retinacula large, hooked, 

 strong. — Species 150, in all warm regions. 



The generic character here given is narrowed to the section Dipteraoanthus 

 (Genus, Nees), to which seotion all the Indian species strictly belong. In other 

 sections (Genera of Nees), reunited now with Euelli^ in the Gen. PL, the bracts, 

 capsules and seeds recede materially from the characters of Dipteraoanthus. 



IRuelliaJlagelliformis, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 47, came from the Moluccas. 



1. R. prostrata, LamJc. Encycl. vi. 349 ; prostrate pubescent upwards, 

 leaves small ovate sparsely hairy or nearly glabrous, bracteoles spathnlate- 

 elUptic or petioled ovate foUaceous, corolla 1 in. pale purple caducous.' 



