Phaylopsis.\ cix. acanthacb^. (C. B. Clarte.) 417 



imbricate, each, usually 3-fld. ; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, one OTate, nervosa, 

 the others linear like bracts. Corolla small ; tube slender, cylindric ; lobes 

 5, slightly unequal, rounded, contorted in the bud, patent in flower. Stamens 

 4, didynamous ; anthers subaimilar, 2-celled ; cells parallel, shortly oblong, 

 base minutely muoronate. Ovary-cells 2-ovuled ; style long-linear, hairy, 

 stigma simple linear. Capsule clavate, compressed parallel to the septum, 

 4-seeded ; placentae dehiscing elastically from the base of the capsule, raising 

 the seeds with them. Seeds compressed, discoid, densely elastically white- 

 hairy when wetted. — Species 10, all Tropical and African, one Indian and 

 one Arabian. 



P. parvifloraj Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 342 ; hairy, leaves opposite unequal 

 ovate, bracts orbicular or reniform membranous becoming in fruit whitened 

 nervose. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 46l. Micranthus oppositifoUus, 

 Wendl. Obs. 89. Euellia imbricata, Vahl Symh^ ii. 73 ; S,oxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 48 ; Wall. Cat. 2353. E. dorsiflora, JRetz. Obs. vi. 31. ^theilema reniforme, 

 Nees in Wall. PI. As. Sar. iii. 94, and in DO. Prodr. xi. 261 ; Wight 

 Ic. 1. 1533 ; Balz. Sf Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 192. M- parviflorum, Spreng. Syst. 

 ii. 826. M. muoronata P, Griff. Notul. iv. 137.— .Jltheilema, Griff. ISotul. 

 iv. 136. 



Throughout India (except the N.W.), alt. 0-3000 ft., from the Himalaya to 

 Cetlon and Tenasserim ; common in Bengal both in the plains and in the lower 

 hills. — DlSTElB. Madagascar, Tropical Africa. 



A prostrate, closely-branched herb ; branches often flagellate, 2-3 ft. Leaves 3J 

 by 1| in., acuminate at both ends, obscurely pubescent, petiole i by IJ in. ; leaves of 

 lateral branches i-1 J in. Spikes J-2 in., densely or thinly hairy; bracts |-i^ in. 

 Calyx J in., hairy. Corolla J in., nearly white. Stamens glabrous. Capsule J in. ; 

 valves with rigid backs and scarious sides. Seeds .^^ in. diatu. 



XIY. DflSBAIiACANTKUS, T. Anders, 



Shrubs or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, petioled, entire or obscurely 

 toothed, lineolate by raphides. Spihes linear with distant fllowers, or dense 

 or capitate ; bracts usually large ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, hardly so 

 long as the calyx. Corolla-tube linear, long, widened only near the top or 

 in a few species from the middle ; lobes obovate, twisted to the left in 

 bud, horizontal in flower, blue, rarely rose, veined. Stamens 2, glabrous ; 

 anthers narrowly oblong, 2-celled, muticous, exserted or subincluded. Ovary 

 glabrous, 4-ovuled; style long, sparingly hairy, stigma simple linear. 

 Capsule clavate, base solid cylindric. jSeetis normally 4, compressed, discoid, 

 densely finely ^elastically hairy when wetted.— Species 17, Indian and 

 Malayan. 



This genuss in the long corolla and 2 stamens with muticous anthers, greatly 

 simulates Eranthemum ; the species are, in general easily distinguished by the bracts 

 much exceeding the calyx j in D. microstachym & concanensis, however, the bracts 

 are small, aud they can only be recognized by their twisted corolla-lobes. 



* Corolla lower half cylindric, upper half ventricose or funnel-shaped. 



1. D. tubiflorus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 485 ; leaves 

 elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrate, spikes axillary simple dense, corolla ' 

 If in. upper half ventricose. 



E. BEuaAL (? Mishmee) ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6122). 



Stem upwards and innovations pubescent. Leaves SJ by 3 in., obscurely crenu- 

 late, lineolate with raphides on both surfaces ; nerves 12 pair ; petiole 1 in. Spikes 

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