492 CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke) ^ [Newracanthus. 
ovate or broadly elliptic base cuneate. Lepidagathis Neesianus, Wight; 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 499. 
MADRAS; Paloor (in Arcot) on black cotton-soil, Wight. 
Stems 12-18 in., procumbent, terete, softly hairy. Leaves 2 by 1 in., obtuse, 
entire, silky on both surfaces, young white-tomentose beneath. Spikes 2 by 4 in., 
dense; bracts } in., ovate, acute, obscurely 4-ranked; bracteoles small, subulate. 
Calyx 2-partite ; one segment 3-lobed less than half-way down, lobes lanceolate acute ; 
the other 2-lobed nearly to the base. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip ovate minutely 
bifid, lower 3-partite, lobes ovate mucronate. Stamens 4, included ; the upper 
anthers 2 with 2 divaricate cells, lower l-celled; connective hairy. Capsule 3 in., 
oblong, 4-seeded. Seeds compressed, hairy.—Flowers or stamens described by T. 
Anderson, whose account of the stamens requires the species to be transferred from 
Lepidagathis to Neuracanthus, as does also the structure of the calyx, which is 
erroneously given by T. Anderson. Wight has written on his original ticket “ Paloor, 
in black cotton soil,” which T. Anderson has taken to be Palamcottah (near Tinne- 
velly), where it is believed there is no black cotton-soil. 
XXIV. CROSSANDRA, Salisb. 
Undershrubs. Leaves entire or uńdulate, subdentate. Spikes linear- 
oblong; bracts imbricate; bracteoles linear ; flowers sessile, yellow. Sepals 
5, ovate, acute, 2 inner much smaller. Corolla-tube linear, incurved ; limb 
on one side of 5 subequal, elliptic lobes, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, 
didynamous; anthers l-celled, muticous; connective mucronate. Style 
minutely 2-lobed at the tip; ovary 4-ovulate. Capsule oblong, acute, 4- 
seeded. Seeds compressed, orbicular, adpressedly scaly ; scales of numerous 
hairs coalescing nearly to their tips, which are seen imperfectly free 
when moistened.— Spesies 5; 1 in India, 4 in Tropical Africa or Mada- 
gascar. 
C. undulefolia, Salish. Par. Lond. t. 12; leaves ovate or lanceo 
late narrowed at both ends, spikes sessile or peduncled pubescent. Bot. 
Reg. t. 69; Bot. Mag. t. 2186. C. axillaris, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. n 
98, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 981; Wight Ill. t. 164 b, fig. 7, and Jc. t. 460; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 193. C. infundibuliformis, Nees in Wall. PI. As. 
Rar. iii. 98, and in DC. l. c. 280; Wight Ic. t. 461; T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 494, C. oppositifolia, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ui. 98, an! 
in DC. l. c. 981. C. coccinea, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 71. Justicia 
infundibuliformis, Linn.; Burm. Fl. Ind. 7. Harrachia speciosa, Jacq. Eol: 
33, t. 2l; Blume Bijd. 793. Ruellia infundibuliformis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. m- 
41; Wall. Cat. 2364.— Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 62. 
Deccan PENINSULA and CrvLow.—DisTRiB. Cult. in N. India, the Malay 
Peninsula and Islands. 
Stems 1-3 ft., pubescent upwards. Leaves 4 by 1} in. (often much smalle r), 
glabrous or pubescent beneath; petiole }—-1 in. Peduncles 0-5 in.; spikes 1-4 
bracts 4 by 1 in., elliptic, acute; bracteoles j in. Sepals much imbricated, outer im 
rigid, subscarious. Corolla glabrous; tube 3 by j,in.; lobes 4 by ł in, Caps 
4 in., glabrous.—Wallich's and Griffith's Nepal and Sikkim specimens, treated as 
wild by Nees and T. Anderson, are no doubt cultivated ones. 
XXV. ASYS'TASIA, Blume. 
. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves entire. Spikes or racemes lax or dense, 
simple or compound, l.sided or suberect; bracts and bracteoles linear 
shorter than the calyx (except in A. Lawiana); flowers opposite or alter- 
