T)K. T. ANDERSON OX IXBIAX ACAXTIlACE.i:, 



43 



i 



Table (continued). 



o 



Asystasia Neesiana 

 Paririliii .. 



C5 







0! 



. .3 



1 fl 



9 



be 



O 



to 



o 



2 









§, 



« 



c3 



O 





03 



s 





3 



atroviridis 

 crispata..,. 



1 



* » • 



I I 



1 



a 





* * * 



• * • 



* • 



1 





Ah 

 g 



Distribution out 

 of India. 



« « * 



1 



t • 





From this table it will be seen that by far the largest number 

 of species are confined to certain regions of India, M'hile those 

 having an extensive geographical range in India occur also in 

 other countries of Asia, and some even extend to Africa and 

 America. 



Pifty-two species found in India liave been discovered beyond 

 the geographical limits of this enumeration. Their distribution 

 i« as fono\va : — 



Species. 



Malayan islands, Philippines, China. 33 



Tropical Australia 4 



Affghanistan, Persia, Arabia 7 



Tropical Africa and Madagascar 21 



Tropical America 



Islands of the Pacific Ocean 



1 



Of these fifty-two species, thirty-eight are found in Central 

 India, the Lower Grangetic plain, and Northern Hindostan, the pro- 

 vinces in Avhich Acanthacese are comparatively rare. The remain- 

 ing fourteen species, none of which occur in these three pro- 

 vinces, with one exception, inhabit, out of India, the 3Ialayau 

 find Philippine islands ; and in India eight of them are confined 

 to Burmah or to the jMalayan peninsula. 



A few species of Acanthaccte extend into Xoiihem Hindostan 

 fi'om the adjoining arid countries to the west of the Indus ; these 

 Jire Barleria acanfJioides, noctijlora and IlocJiste tier i, Lepida^atJiii 

 ^alijcina {Ahy^^Aniau), BlejjJiaris eduVis, Jnsiicia licterocar^a, ^x\i\ 

 I^i-cliptera mierantJies. Two true desert forms, EueUia longifolia 

 and Blepharis Sindica, are confined to Scinde. 



The largest number of species of Acanthacc(D is found in the 



