494 CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Asystasia. 
glabrate, racemes compound many.-fld., lower pedicels longer than the 
ubescent calyx, corolla 3-1 in. purple. T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 
36. 
CEYLON; Walker, Thwaites, &c. TRAVANCORE and TINNEVELLY HILLS; 
Beddome (wild).— DrisTRIB. Cultivated in S, India and Malabar. 
Leaves 5} by 14 in., lower all cuneate or acuminate at the base, punctate or 
puberulous or with scattered hairs (without the dull grey pubescence of A. coro- 
mandeliana) ; nerves 6-8 pair. Racemes usually panicled, often peduncled, some- 
times 50-60-fld.; lower pedicels 4—4 in. Capsule nearly of A. coromandeliana.— 
Described from Nees’ type specimen marked A. chelonoides, Var. a, in Nees’ hand. 
It is the species with numerous small purple flowers much cultivated in S. India; 
and Col. Beddome believes it to be wild in S, Malabar, but there are no specimens 
except from Ceylon. 
VAR. amena ; more hairy, leaves hairy on both surfaces, sepals subhirsute, corolla 
as of 4, chelonoides, type.—Arracan ; forests near Akyab, Kurz. 
VAR. quadrangularis ; stem acutely quadrangular, leaves ovate or narrowly lan- 
ceolate glabrate, corolla small as of 4. chelonoides, type. A. coromandeliana, Var. 
variabilis, Nees in DC Prodr. xi. 165. A. nemorum, Var. 8, T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 525. Ruellia quadrangularis, Meyne in Herb. Rottler.—Wynaad ; 
Rottler. Anamallays; Bedd. Ceylon; Macrae, Thwaites. — Leaves very variable; 
in Macrae’s example 1 by § in., in Beddome's 7 by 1 in., in Thwaites’ 2} by j m. 
4. A. violacea, Dalz. ms., not in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 189; leaves 
large subovate lower narrowed at base, lower pedicels shorter than the hairy 
calyx, corolla 13-14 in. fine blue. A. chelonoides, Nees i» DC. Prodr. xi. 
164, Var. 8 only; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 525, chiefly. A. nemo 
rum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 90, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 167 (except 
the Nilgiri material) A. coromandeliana, Bot. Mag. t. 4948. Ruellia 
filiformis, Heyne in Herb. Rottler. R. coromandeliana, Wall. Cat. 2399, 
type sheet partly. 
W. DECCAN PENINSULA, alt, 2-6000 ft., frequent ; Rottler, &c. 
Leaves often 64 by 23 in., membranous, green, sparsely pubescent or glabrate. 
Calyz-segments nearly $ in., narrowly oblong, acute. Capsule 1-l& in.— Deser! 
from specimens named by himself, which are identical with Wight’s Herb. Props 
n. 1952. In his original description Dalzell says the flowers of A. violacea are abou 
half as large as those of 4. coromandeliana, and the description appears to belotg 
altogether to 4. chelonoides, Nees’ type; but in Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fi. 186 the 
character of A. violacea is at once shortened and widened. 
5. A. crispata, Benth. in Linnea 1851, 647; leaves elliptic or oblong 
acuminate lower narrowed into the petiole repand crispately crenulat 
glabrate, lower pedicels shorter than the pubescent calyx, corolla 1 in. vine. 
with rose or dark purple dots in the palate. 7! Anders. in Journ. Law 
Soe. ix. 526. A. nemorum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 90, and 1n Do 
Prodr. xi. 167, as to the Nilgiri material ; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. RA 
ix. 924. A. coromandeliana, Wight Ic. t. 1506, not of Nees. Ruellia 
chelonoides, Wall. Cat. 2335 chiefly, not Asystasia chelonoides, Nees. 
" Mrs. of S. DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 4-8000 ft.; Rottler, Wight, &c., common 
about Ooty. 
Leaves very variable in width, nearly always crisped subcrenulate ; upper often 
sessile, with base rounded. Flowers very constant in colour. Capsule as 0. 
coromandeliana.—This species (as also A. chelonoides) is so closely allied to the 
coromandeliana that Col. Beddome says he can hardly distinguish them but by à 
colour of the flower. They sort out pretty well in the Herbarinm, and among t 
large non-Indian material there is nothing like 4. chelonoides or crispata. 
6. A. travancorica, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 178; leaves elongate" 
