118 DR. T. ANDERSON ON THE ACANTHACES. 
21. J. NASUTA, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1753, p. 16. Rhinacanthus communis, 
N.ab E. l. c. p. 442, et T. Anders. in Thw. En. Pl. Zeyl. R. Rottle- 
rianus, N. ab E. l. c. p. 443. 
22. J. Bivauvis, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1762, p. 23. Dicliptera bivalvis, 
(Juss.) N. ab E. l.c. p. 475, et T. Anders. in Thw. En. Pl. Zeyl. p. 235. 
23. J. PURPUREA, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1753, p. 16. Hypoestes purpurea, 
(R. Br.) N. ab E.l. c. p. 509, et mihi.— This species has not been 
found in India. Griffith's specimen in the Hookerian Herbarium, 
quoted by Nees von Esenbeck in the * Prodromus" as from Assam, is 
a cultivated specimen from the Calcutta Botanic Garden, into which 
the plant was introduced from China by Mr. Reeves in 1820. The 
specimen in the Linnean Herbarium is also from China. 
24. J. Gancerica, Linn. Ameen. Acad. iv. p. 299. Asystasia Gangetica, 
T. Anders. in Thw. En. Pl. Zeyl. p. 235. A. Coromandeliana, N. ab E. 
lc. p. 165. A. plumbaginea, N. ab E. l.c. p. 164. A. quaterna, 
N. ab E. 1l. e. p. 166. A. intrusa, N. ab E.1. e. A. Bojeriana, N. ab E. 
l.c. A. Comorensis, (Bojer) N. ab E. l.c. A. calycina, Benth. 
Fl. Nig. p. 478, non N. ab E.—I appended the following note to this 
species in Thwaites’s Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniz, p. 236:— 
“The extensive distribution of this species over tropical Asia and 
Africa renders the specific name adopted by Nees von Esenbeck quite 
inappropriate, and the same objection may be made to the original 
one given by Linnzeus, and which, as being the oldest, I have revived. 
For so cosmopolitan a plant the specific term communis or vulgaris 
, would perhaps be more suitable.” 
25. J. BICALYCULATA, Vahl. This specimen has not a Linnean specific 
name attached. In the Supplement, p. 85, it is described under the 
name Dianthera Malabarica. 
26. A specimen named J. hyssopifolia, and on another portion of the 
sheet having J. antidota, written by Sir J. Smith, is J. Betonica var. 
Neilgherriensis, mihi; Adhatoda Nilgherrica, N. ab E. l.c. p. 386. 
The J. hyssopifolia of the Ist edition of the ‘Species Plantarum’ is 
a native of the Canary Islands. 
DiantTHERA, Linn. 
1, D. Amerrcana, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1753, p. 27, is a species of Rhytti- 
glossa, probably the R. pedunculosa, N. ab E. l.c. p. 339. 
2. D. comata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1762, p. 24.  Leptostachya comata, 
N. ab E. l. c. p. 381. 
The specimen marked Eranthemum hyssopifolium docs not be- 
long to the order Acanthacez. 
