Nelsonia. | CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 395 
N. villosa, senegalensis & Smithii, Oersted in Vidensk Meddel. Kjobenh. 
(1854) iv. 117, 118, t. 4, fig. 3-18. Justicia canescens & brunelloides, 
Lamk. Ill. i. 40, 41. J. hirsuta, Vahl Enum. i. 122. J. lamifolia, Koen. ; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 134. J. tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 2370. (Other American, 
African and Australian synonyms omitted.) 
Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-4000 ft., from the Himalaya to Ceylon and Malacca, 
common: not in western desert India.—DisTrip. S.E. Asia, Australia, Africa, 
America. 
Stems mostly short, with petioled leaves often 4-8 in. long ; flowering stems trailing, 
1-3 ft., with subsessile leaves 3-2 in. Spikes }-2 in., mostly sessile, terminal on 
lateral branches ; bracts $-} in. obtuse, berbaceous. Calyx à in., green, striate, 
hairy or subscarious. Corolla & in. Ovary and style glabrous. Capsule 3-4 in., 
8-12-seeded. Seeds yellowish with brown granulations. —The picture of the seed by 
Kippist in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. t. 6, fig. 11, showing the surface with hammer- 
headed spines, is erroneous. . 
Van. vestita; suberect, hairy, leaves very large, corolla-lobes acute. N. vestita, 
Roem. & Sch. Syst. i. Mant. 145. Justicia tomentosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 4, and Fl. 
Ind. i. 131. J. bengalensis, Spreng. Syst. i. 82. Dianthera tomentosa, Roxb. Ic. 
Ined. in Herb. Kew.— Pegu ; M‘Lelland, Brandis, &c.—Cauline leaves attaining 
10 in., uppermost 3-5 in. ; petiole 2in. Bracts elliptic, acute.— Dr. King says that 
it is very easy to distinguish this from every form of N. campestris, but that he can 
give no good character for it, and that it had better be regarded as an extreme form 
of that plant. Roxburgh says the capsule is 4- or 8-seeded ; it is really as that of N. 
campestris type. 
IV. EBERMAIERA, Nees. 
Herbs or small undershrubs. Leaves opposite (in E. glauca alternate), 
entire or nearly so. Spikes or racemes terminal or quasi-axillary, simple or 
compound, dense or lax; bract at the base of the pedicel leaf-lke or over- 
topping the flower or small inconspicuous ; bracteoles 2 near the base of the 
calyx, smaller than the bract. Sepals 5, oblong or linear, subequal or one 
larger. Corolla-tube elongate, cylindric (in Æ. coriacea & parviflora A pu 
funnel-shaped) ; lobes 5, short, patent. Stamens 4, didynamous, inclu in à; 
the corolla-tube (in E. coriacea & parviflora shortly exsert); filaments 
patently hairy (in Æ. parviflora glabrous) ; anther-cells 2, ovoid, separate, 
muticous. Disc inconspicuous. Ovary glabrous or nearly so; s yle near 
glabrous; lobes 2, oblong, the lower frequently again 2-lobed; ovules very 
many. Capsule small, oblong, bearing seeds from the base to near t e pex. 
Seeds 15-30 in each cell, small, globose or cuboid; hilum a minute hollow ; 
retinacula 0; unripe glandular, ultimately nearly smooth or with obscure 
shallow pits; albumen thin, cartilaginous (Benth.).— Species 40, in S.E. 
Asia, Malaya, Australia, and Brazil. 
* Flowers sessile or subsessile, spikes elongate or capitate rarely divided, 
Sepals 1 in. or more one often distinctly larger than the others. 
l. E. gl Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 73; stem patently viscous- 
pubescent Upwards leaves petioled spathulate-oblong upper alternate, spikes 
elongate lax interrupted below, lower bracts petioled linear-spathulate mn 
exceeding the flowers, corolla 4-3 in. Wall. Cat. 9083; Wight ILI , 
fig. 2, and Ic. t. 1488; Dalz. 4 Gibs. Bomb. FI. 184; T. Angare. DE 
inn. Soc. ix. 450, in some part and excl. syn. E. ligulata, Bedd. £c. £t. 
Ind, Or. t. 245. 
W. Deccan PxNINSULA and S. Mapras, frequent; Wight, &c. BENGAL; 
Darjeeling Terai, Clarke. TENASSERIM ; Beddome. 
Stems 12-15 in. ; lower leaves and branches opposite or leaves nearly all alternate. 
