‘Wise (except the colour of corolla) as D. nervosus. 
Dedalacanthus.] crx. AcANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 419 
long-acuminate, lineolate, puberulous; bracteoles ! in., narrowly lanceolate. Calyx 
4 in., lobed half-way down, whiteish, minutely but densely pubescent ; lobes lanceolate. 
Corolla-lobes 3-4 in., broadly elliptic. Stamens glabrous ; anthers exserted, narrowly 
oblong. Ovary glabrous; style nearly glabrous, Capsule } in.; solid cylindric 
base short. Seeds in. diam.—The Soonderbund plant has the calyx-lobes unusually 
short. The Var. scabra of Nees is merely a specimen in young flower, and therefore 
slightly seabrid-puberulous (it is not Anderson's scabra). 
5. D. macrophyllus, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 487 ; stem 
pubescent upwards, leaves elliptic-lanceolate ovate acuminate attenuate at 
the base often obscurely scabrid-puberulous, spikes linear subinterrupted, 
bracts elliptic subobtuse nervose margins entire obscurely pubescent not 
ciliate, corolla 14 in. Bot. Mag. t. 6686. Eranthemum macrophyllum, 
Wall. Cat. 7179; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 106, and in DC. Prodr. 
xi. 446. 
Prev, Burma and TreNassERIM ; Wallich, &c. (Kew Distrib. n. 6128). 
Closely allied to D. nervosus, but the inflorescence more lax. Leaves similar to 
(not larger than) those of D. nervosus, but (even when mature) often with scattered 
minute hairs on the upper surface, and a scabrid pubescence on the nerves beneath ; 
raphides fewer and less prominent. Peduncles 2-5 in., pubescent ; spikes 2-5 in. ; 
bracts as of D. nervosus, the lower often scarcely overlapping.—A single specimen of 
this from Hort. Kew put into the Herbarium in 1869 is marked D. scaber by T. 
Anderson, but is not the plant so called of his monograph in Journ. Linn. Soc., which 
isa D. nervosus. 
6. D. strictus, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 487; leaves ovate 
or elliptie narrowed at both ends glabrous or nearly so, spikes linear inter- 
tupted forming a large terminal panicle, bracts narrowly elliptic obtuse 
herbaceous not whitened, corolla 14-2 in. blue.  Eranthemum strictum, 
Colebr.; Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. Carey, and Wall. i. 114; Wall. Cat. 2494; Bot. 
Reg. t. 867; Bot. Mag. t. 3068; Nees in Wail. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 106, and in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 448 (excl. syn. Wall. Cat. 2492 a.). 
EASTERN FRONTIER, in the lower hills, alt. 0-3000 ft., from Knasra Mrs. to 
CHITTAGONG, Wallich, H. f. & T., &c., frequent. . 
A herb, 1-3 ft., with large basal leaves, pubescent, sparingly leafy upwards. Basal 
leaves 6-12 in, narrowed at the base, short-petioled, subentire, raphides obscure ; 
Upper often 1-2 in. only, base sometimes rounded. Spikes 3-8 in., hairy in the 
Chittagong plants, nearly glabrous in some of the Khasian ; bracts 3-1 in., much 
exceeding the calyx, green, 1-fid.; bracteoles 1 in., linear-lanceolate. Calyx H in., 
divided half-way down; lobes lanceolate. Corolla often pubescent. Stamens 
glabrous; anthers included. Style hairy in the Chittagong specimens, very slightly 
80 in the Khasian. Capsule 4-5 in., glandular-pubescent, or in the Khasian examples 
nearly glabrous. 
7. D. roseus, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 487 ; leaves elliptic 
acuminate at both ends glabrous lineolate, spikes linear subinterrupted, 
bracts obovate with a short recurved mucro glandular-pubescent strongly 
nerved, corolla 1-1} in. rose subglabrous. Justicia rosea, Vahl Enum. 1. 
165. Eranthemum roseum, Br. Prodr. 447 ; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 447; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 195. 
W. and S. Deccan PENINSULA, from the Bombay Ghats to Mangalore, frequent ; 
ight, Hohenacker, &c. ifferent 
Resembling D. nervosus, but inflorescence more lax and bracts di eren . 
Peduncles 0-2 in., axillary and terminal; spikes often 6 in. Bracts (all but the 
lowest) imbricated, 3-3 in., strongly rugose by raised inarching green nerves ; margins 
entire, glabrous, ciliate or very hairy. Seeds } in. diam., much compressed. Other- 
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