Asystasia. | CIX. ACANTHACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 495 
lanceolate sparingly pubescent, lower pedicels often longer than the calyx, 
corolla 11-13 in. purple-violet (or in cultivation white). 
TRAVANCORE, S. TINNEVELLY and ANAMALLAYS,,alt. 3000 ft. ; Beddome. 
A large shrub, 6-8 ft. high ; branches pubescent upwards. Leaves 4-5 by 3-1} in., 
cuneate or rhomboid ; nerves 7-9 pair, very oblique; petiole 1-3 in. Racemes 
2-8 in., pubescent ; lower pedicels sometimes 3 in. Capsule 1 in., nearly as of A. 
coromandeliana.—Closely allied to A. coromandeliana, though the elongate oblique- 
nerved leaves give it a very different aspect. 
7. A. macrocarpa, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 89, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 163; pubescent, leaves oblong or elliptic narrowed at both ends, 
racemes dense or elongate very pubescent, corolla 14 in. dull pink, cylindric 
base of its tube much shorter than the ventricose part. 7. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 595. Ruellia macrocarpa, Wall. Cat. 2348.— Acanthacea, 
Griff. Itin. Notes, 106, n. 92, and Ic. Pl. As. t. 438. . 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Bhotan; in the Terai, alt. 1000 ft., 
and in the hotter valleys ascending to 4000 ft. . 
A diffuse, rambling undershrub, 1-4 ft. Leaves 44 by 1} in.; nerves 8 pair; 
petiole 4 in. Racemes usually condensed, J.-sided ; sometimes 3-4 in., erect, lax, 
with opposite flowers; lower pedicels 0-4 in.; bracts d in. Sepals j in, linear- 
lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla pubescent. Stamens 4, perfect; anther-cells dis- 
tinctly spurred at the base. Capsule 14 in., pubescent; cylindric base 3 in. Seeds 
iin. diam., much compressed, tubercular, rugose, glabrous. 
8. A. lanceolata, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 524; leaves 
lanceolate acuminate glabrous, bracts lanceolate acute villous as long as the 
calyx, corolla 1 in. funnel.shaped constricted base of the tube short. 
Burma; Baragyn, Brandis (T. Anderson). . 
An erect, glabrous herb; stem terete, sparingly branched, internodeslong. Leaves 
; by l} in., undulate ; petiole short. Spikes terminal, erect ; bracts opposite, 
i m. subherbaceous, lax, decussate, somewhat remote ; flowers sessile, 1 or 2 in the 
axil of each bract. Sepals linear, equal, villous, membranous. Corolla villous with- 
out ; lobes 5, unequal, small, erect. Anther-cells 2, bases mucronate.—Not seen. — 
Var. ? Beddomei ; leaves linear-lanceolate hairy on both surfaces, corolla 13 in. 
and upwards before expansion.—Tenasserim, Mooleyit, Beddome.—Leaves 8 by 
il in., caudate-acuminate, widest close to the rounded or subcordate base ; petiole 
a m. Spikes compound, most of the lower bracts and calyces small without 
flowers ; upper bracts 44 in., lanceolate, glabrate. Corolla broad, nearly straight, 
urn-shaped on a short cylindric base; lobes subequal, 4 in., ovate, obtuse. Stamens 4, 
? conspicuously longer ; anthers 2-celled, cells broadly oblong, parallel, equal, white- 
apiculate at base, Pistil as of Asystasia. Capsule not seen. 
** Corolla linear shortly funnel-shaped upwards about 2 in. long. 
9. A. atroviridis, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 526; leaves 
large elliptic acuminate at both ends nearly glabrous, racemes condensed 
nearly glabrous, corolla 2 in. rose-pink tube very long linear. Ruellia atro 
vindis, Wall. Cat. 2404.— Asystasia sp. n. 15, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. d 4. 
erbenacearum sp., Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 155. 
FWASIA Mrs., alt. 0-3000 ft., frequent; Wallich, Griffith, H. f. & T. ray 1} in 
Stems 1-3 ft., herbaceous. Leaves 8} by 3} in.; nerves 10-14 pair; petiole M" 
ipewes usually panicvlate in a dense terminal subsessile head; bracts jj in; P lla 
ew i in., often pubescent. Sepals i in., sublinear, glabrous or punesceue, mn 4 
E abrous, linear portion of the tube 14 in., limb about 1 in. diam. amen d 
glabrous ; anthers muticous, or very obscurely mucronate at the base. aps 
