108 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
In foliage and in floral characters this and J. neurantha, Coll. 
et Hemsl., are very similar, yet apart from habit and locality 
there are slight differences. J. vagans has broader bracts, less 
deeply divided calyx, broader filaments, &e. 
Adhatoda vasica, Nees; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 540; syn. Justicia 
Adhatoda, Linn.; Forest Fl. Burma, ii. p. 248.—Shan hills at 
3000 feet. 
India, Malaya, and Cochinchina. 
Rungia parviflora, Nees: Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 550.—Shan 
hills at 4000 to 5000 feet. 
North-west India to Ceylon and Pegu. 
Dicliptera magnibracteata, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba ut videtur diffusa, glabrescens, ramulis floriferis crassi- 
usculis subtetragonis. Folia longe petiolata, crassa, subcoriacea, 
ovato-lanceolata, absque petiolo usque ad 44 poll. longa, acumi- 
nata, vix acuta, basi cuneata, parce minuteque setulosa, supra 
rugulosa, grosse reticulata, subtus venis primariis lateralibus 
circiter 6 conspicuis. Flores vix pollicares, in cymas densas 
axillares breviter pedunculatas 1-2 poll. longas et latas dispositi, 
plures intra bracteas geminatas oppositas conniventes (involucra 
formantes) sessiles; bracteæ foliaceæ, sessiles, cordato-ovate vel 
cordato-oblongæ, circiter 9 lineas longs, basi cordatæ vel trun- 
cate, apice obtusissimæ vel rotundatæ, infra parce setulosæ, 
supra glabra, subnitidæ, margine longe ciliate; pseudoinvolucra 
breviter pedunculata; bracteole inter flores minute ; calyx mem- 
branaceus, pubescens, circiter sesquilineam longus, æqualiter 5- 
lobatus, lobis acutis; corolla retrorso-pilosula, subæqualiter 
bilabiata, labia fere integra, tubum fere æquantia; stamina 2, 
breviter exserta; antheræ loculis muticis diseretis unico multo 
altius affixo, filamentis parum dilatatis pilosulis ; ovarium glabrum, 
biloculare, loculis biovulatis; stylus filiformis, glaber, stigmate 
bifido. Capsula ignota. 
Shan hills terai at 3000 feet. 
Near D. riparia, Clarke, and D. zeylanica, Nees, but in the 
former the bracts are attenuated downwards, and in the latter 
they are acuminate and apiculate. 
