Deedalacanthus.| crx. AcaNTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke ) 421 
nervosum, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL. 195, not of others.—Eranthemum sp. 
n. 12, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
CENTRAL INDIA, alt. 1-4000 ft., common; from the Bombay Ghats, Jacquemont, 
and Belgaum, Ritchie, to Parasnath and South Behar, J. D. H. UPPER Assam ; 
Dibroo-mook, Griffith. 
Stems 2-4 ft., leafy. Leaves attaining 9 by 4 in., base decurrent, uppermost 
much smaller, subsessile, often cordate, subentire, sometimes glabrate, densely 
lineolate, sometimes pubescent on the nerves on both surfaces (the raphides in 
such case obscure); nerves 7-9 pair. Spikes 1-2} in., usually appearing long- 
peduncled, the uppermost leaves being much reduced; bracts 1 in., base rounded, 
rigid, green not whitened but with much elevated nerves, apex divaricate, margins 
not incurved ; bracteoles l in., linear-lanceolate. Calyx } in., lobed half-way down; 
segments lanceolate, whitened, minutely pubescent. Corolla 1} in., blueish, 
pubescent or nearly glabrous. Anthers included. Capsule 4-$ in. lower solid 
cylindric portion short.—The bracts in Roxb. Cor. Pl. t. 177 are characteristically 
those of D. purpurascens, and in the description he says bracts ciliate. Moreover 
Roxburgh got his E. pulchellum from “ the drier parts of India.” 
12. D. montanus, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 229, and in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 489; leaves eliptie attenuate at both ends subglabrous 
lineolate, spikes linear or capitate viscidly hairy, bracts lanceolate linear- 
acuminate green, calyx deeply divided segments linear green glandular hairy, 
corolla 1j in. blue. Eranthemum capense, Linn. Amen. Acad. i. 385. E. 
montanum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 110; Wall. Cat. 2492; Nees in Wall. Pl. 
As. Rar. iii. 107, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 448 (excl. syn. Bot. Mag. t. 4031); 
Wight Te. t. 466; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 195. E. fastigiatum, Spreng. 
Syst. i. 89. Justicia fastigiata, Lamk. Ill. i. 4l. J. montana, Roxb. Cor. 
Pl. ii. 41, t. 176. 
W. and S. DECCAN and CEYLON, alt. 1-6000 ft., frequent ; Wallich, WigM, &e. 
Herb 2-3 ft., leafy ; upper branches or peduncles quadrangular, usually white-hairy 
or glandular, Leaves 43 by 13 in., all (except the floral) gradually attenuate at the 
ase; nerves 6-7 pair; petiole 3-14 in. Inflorescence extremely variable ; from 
linear elongate spikes in compound corymbs or panicles with distant flowers to distant 
short-oblong very dense heads, always more or less glandular-hairy; bracts from 
elliptic with linear tips to linear-lanceolate, apex subobtuse, viscid-pubescent not 
whitened, lowest often 2-fld., bracts usually narrower in the elongate spikes broader in 
the shortened; bracteoles tin. Calyx iin. Corolla 1j in., pale blue. Anthers 
Subexserted from the corolla-tube. Capsule 4-1 in. Seeds |; in. diam.—A variable 
species best distinguished by the long linear green viscidly hairy calyx-teeth. The 
high-level form with shortened spikes hardly differs from D. purpurascens by any 
other character than this. The Javan D. salaccensis does not much differ but by 
the bracts being obscurely linear-spathulate upwards. 2n 
Var, Wightiana; leaves large ovate, corymb very compound with linear branches, 
bracts linear, calyx and capsule small. Eranthemum Wightianum, Wall. Cat. 2495, 
letter A only; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 107, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 449.— 
Deccan Peninsula ?, Russell. —This is a remarkable specimen, estimated a species by 
Nees ; it seems that T. Anderson never saw it; the remainder of Wall. Cat. 2495 
With distant capitate heads being that which T. Anders. reduced to a Var. of D. 
montana, In Russell's plant the leaves are 7 by 3} in., shortly suddenly attenuate at 
the base, the uppermost subcordate; the bracts are exactly linear, parallel-sided (in 
-montanus they are always dilated downwards); the corolla is not fully expanded, 
ut seems smaller than in D. montanus. . . 
AR. concanensis, T. Anders. ms.; panicle compound, spikes linear interrupted, 
bracts ovate abbreviated, not rarely 2-fld.—Concan ; Law. 
9; leaves ovate 
13. D. Parishii, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 48 spikes sub- 
or elliptic acuminate at both ends undulate-crenate glabrous, 
