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above, limb spreading* ; lobes 5, flat, subequal, rounded, the two posticous 
lobes outside. Stamens 2, anticous ; filaments filiform; anthers sub- 
transverse, glabrous or sparingly pilose, 1 -celled by confluence, horse- 
shoe or half-moon-shaped before dehiscence, at length flattened out ; 
staminodes 0. Style filiform, subclavate at the apex ; stigma obtuse, 
entire or emarginate. 
Capsule ovate or oblong, subacuminate, 2-furrowed, loculicidal and 
septicidal ; valves bent inwards at the margins exposing the placenti- 
ferous column. Seeds numerous, small, oblong or obovoid, str*ate ; 
embryo straight; cotyledons ovate. 
Species 9. 
Distribution : — 8 in Tropical Africa, 2 of which extend to Arabia 
and Western India and 1 in S. Africa. 
Leaves ovate oblong, subobtuse, densely glandular-hairy . . 1. A. glandulosa. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-linear ; corolla rose- 
coloured . . . . • . . . .2. A. arabica. 
Leaves linear, acute. Corolla pale-purple . . . . 3. A. linear 
or : 
Bracts inserted at or below the middle of the peduncle ; 
basal lobes of the anthers obtuse ; leaves linear-lanceolate 
to oblong or elliptic 
(a) Leaves often broad, rather obtuse ; capsule 1| 
times as long as the calyx . . . . . 1. A. glandulosa. 
(b) Leaves often narrow, rather acute ; capsule twice as 
long as the calyx . . . . . . 2. A. arabica. 
Bracts inserted above the middle of peduncle; basal lobes 
of the anthers ; lacuminate leaves linear, acuminate . . 3. A. linearis, 
I. Anticharis glandulosa (Ehrbg. et Hempr.) Aschers. in Monatsber. 
Kon. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin (1866) p. 880 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 423 ; 
Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. IV, 249; This.-Dyer FI. fcrop. Afr. IV, 2, p. 277. 
“ Anticharis arabica Endl.” in Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. 
p. 27 (not the true Anticharis arabica Endl. !). 
Distemon glandulosus Ehrbg. et Hempr. ex Aschers. Monatsbtr. 
Kon. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin (1866) p. 881. 
Meisarrhena tomentosa R. Br. in Salt Abyss. App. 63, nomen 
tantum. 
Description : — An erect branched leafy herb, scarcely reaching 1 foot 
high, clothed all over with viscid glandular hairs. Leaves | — f inch long, 
ovate-oblong, subobtuse, densely glandular -hairy, entire, narrowed into a 
short flattened often obscure petiole. 
Pedicels axillary, solitary (very rarely 2 together), J inch long, slender, 
glandular-hairy ; bracts 2 about the middle of the pedicel, reaching J inch 
long, linear-spathulate, glandular, hairy. Calyx J inch long, divided to 
