Wendlandia,] : BUBIACE^. 417 



lanceolate, acute or acuminate, membranous, sparsely strigose on both 

 surfaces, the margins ciliolate ; stipules bristly. Cymes axillary and 

 terminal, few-flowered, pedicels capillary. Capsules sessile and pedi- 

 celled, broad, didymous, truncate, the crown tumid, often exceeding the 

 minute distant calyx-teeth. 8eed^ many, plano-convex, with a ventral 

 cavity, deeply reticulate. 

 Dehra Dun (King). Flowers during the rainy season. Distrib. Temp., 

 Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan between 3,000 and 7,000 ft., also on 

 Mt. Abu and on Parasnath in Chota Nagpur, 



11. OFHIORRHIZA, Linn. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 77. 



Erect creeping or decumbent herbs, rarely under-shrubs. Leaves 

 usually elliptic-lanceolate ; stipules caducous. Flowers white pink 

 or greenish, secund on the branches of axillary or terminal dicho- 

 tomous cymes. Bracts or bracteoles various or 0. Calyx-Uvhe 

 short ; lobes 5, small, persistent. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped ; 

 lobes 5, short, valvate in bud, often winged on the back, or with a 

 fold in each sinus. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube, anthers linear. 

 Disk very large, 2-lobed. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, stigmas 

 broad or linear ; ovules many, inserted on basal ascending placentas. 

 Capsules coriaceons, compressed, obcordate, girt in the middle by the 

 calyx-tube, the crown dehiscing by 2 broad gaping valves ; placentas 

 divaricating, many-seeded. Seeds minute, angled. — Species about 50, 

 mostly in Trop. Asia, a few Australian and Polynesian. 



O. fasclculata. Bon. Trod. Fl. Nep, 136; F. B. I. iii, 83. 



Stem erect, 6*18 in. high, simple or branched from a woody base, pubescent 

 above. Leaves 1^-5 in. long, elliptic-ovate or lanceolate, pubescent on 

 the nerves beneath, membranous ; petioles slender, pubescent ; stipules 

 lanceolate, acuminate, dilated at the base. Cymes 5-f in. in diam., 

 axillary and terminal, spreading ; bracteoles many, lanceolate, pubescent, 

 persistent. Calyx-tuhe compressed ; teeth very short. Corolla |-| in. 

 long, white, pubescent ; tube slender ; lobes small, oblong. Capsule 

 pubescent. 



Dehra Dun (Duthie). Flowers during the rains. Disteib. Sub-tropical 

 Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. from Garhwal eastwards ; Assam, Manipur 

 and in the Malay Peninsula. 



12. WENDLANDIA, Bartl. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 37. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or ternately whorled ; 

 stipules entire or 2- fid. Flowers small, rosy or white, in terminal 

 dense thyrsoid or panicled cymes, 2-3 bracteolate. Calyx-lobes 4-5, 



