496 CIX. ACANTHACES. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Asystasia. 
14 in., with the seeds nearly as of 44. macrocarpa.—The name is very misleading 
the corolla is always a fine rose. In one example the raceme is developed into a lax 
very compound panicle, and the plant is noted as 6 ft. high. 
10. A. Neesiana, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 89, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 164; leaves large broadly elliptic acute sparingly pubescent, 
racemes elongate very lax pubescent, corolla 2 in. pink tube very long wn 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 526. Ruellia Neesiana, Wall. PL. 8. 
Rar. i. 73, t. 83, and Cat. 2342,—Asystasia sp. n. 14, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 
& T. 
KHasIA Mrs. alt. 0-3000 ft., frequent; Wallich, &c. CACHAR; Keenan 
OULMEIN ; Parish. ile 
Leaves 8 by 3 in., lower long-petioled, uppermost pair usually (not always) re 
Raceme often nearly a foot long, very pubescent. Corolla, capsule and seeds nearly 
as of 4. atroviridis. Anther-cells minutely mucronate at the base. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
11. A. ? KUNTHIANA, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 89, and in DC. Prodr, se 
163; leaves oblong or elliptic acuminate at both ends pubescent beneath, spikes 595. 
few-fld. on very short axillary peduncles. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn, Soc. ix. 
Ruellia Kunthiana, Wall. Cat. 2419. 
PENANG; Wallich. Leaves 3} 
Stems creeping, rooting; branches 1 foot, erect, subterete, glabrous. Leare in. 
by 1i in., lineolate above ; petiole scarcely 1 in.  Peduncles 0-3 in.; spikes $ ed for 
glabrous, lineolate ; bracts J5 in. Sepals } in. linear. Capsule 4 in., consue does 
a short space at the base, 4-seeded, glabrous. Flowers not seen.—T. Anderso 
not doubt this being an Asystasia, but it might quite as well be a Justicia. 
12. A.? Eranthemum montanum, Bot. Mag. t. 4031, not of Roxb.; leaves elipt 
acuminate at both ends glabrate, racemes lax compound puberulous, sepais 
subulate ciliate, corolla.2} in. purple tube very long linear. . 7 pair; 
“ INDIA ;" cultivated formerly at Kew.— Upper leaves 44 by 1jin.; nerves fn r 
petiole j in. Peduncle 3 in., grey puberulous; panicle lax; bracts i3 I roll 
lanceolate, much shorter than the calyx; lower pedicels O-1in. Sepals iin. acute. 
glabrous. Stamens 4 perfect, subsimilar, glabrous; anther-cells 2, bases ellent 
Stigma minutely equally bifid.—A plant of which nothing is known, but the erect 
figure cited, and the specimen from which it was taken. The description 38 "te bracts 
as to the 2stamens, of which there are 4, hardly at all didynamous. The minute 
e is, in the 
are as in Asystasia, and will not do for Dedalacanthus. Its true place 18, 1n 
absence of fruit, uncertain. 
13. A. L&wi1aNA, Dalz. in' Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 844 ; leaves elliptic M 
both ends very sparsely hairy, spikes short-oblong dense softly-hairy, brac oe 
imbricated, corolla 3-3 in. white. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 186. A. my etn. 303; 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 524. Ruellia mysurensis, Hoth Now. 36 and 
Wall. Cat. 2402. Strobilanthes mysurensis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. isi. 5% 
in DC. prodr. xi. 192. Rottler, &c 
- DECCAN PENINSULA; from Saugur to Kurg, frequent ; Rottler, &c. i- 
Stem herbaceous, erect, thinly hairy. Leaves H by t in., with few distant mo 
cellular bairs above, minutely lineolate, puberulous beneath ; petiole 1} in. ° ftly 
heads lj by $ iu. substrobiliform; bracts 2-1 by 4 in., broadly lanceolate, hairy. 
hirsute; bracteoles $ in., lanceolate membranous. Sepals } iv., linear . sub- 
Stamens slightly didynamons, nearly glabrous ; anthers 2-celled ; cells ovate OF very 
ellipsoid, muticous, one slightly above the other. Style glabrous; stigma jin. 
minutely bifid; ovary pubescent. Capsule $ in., 4-seeded ; solid cylindric base ike 
Seeds compressed, angular ; testa minutely laxly hexagonal, glabro us — Very n bies 
the genus in the bracts, corolla, anthers, and habit, in which it more resem 
Strobilanthes micranthus. 
