498 CIX. ACANTHAOEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Eranthemum. 
glabrous or puberulous. Corolla-tube linear, only slightly widened close to the apex; 
limb 1-1} in. diam., obscurely 2-lipped. Capsule 3 in., cylindric base jin. Seeds 
ia rugose, subtubercled glabrous. —Vahl’s description agrees pretty well with this 
Malabar species, and he received his examples from Koenig; but his reference to 
Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 44 (which has extremely different flowers) throws a doubt on 
the identification. Nees says his E. crenulatum was founded entirely on material 
from Silhet to Malacca, and therefore it should not belong to .E. malabaricum, even 
in part ; but in fact a good deal of Nees’ material came from Malabar. 
4. E. palatiferum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 108, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 457; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends pubescent on the 
midrib beneath or ultimately glabrate, racemes pubescent flowers often 
fascicled, corolla pale-purple tube 14-14 in. linear, ovary pubescent. 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 524. Justicia palatifera, Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar. i. 80, t. 92. J. rubicunda, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2480. 
SUBTROPICAL SIKKIM and BRoTAN, alt. 0-3000 ft., frequent; Zreutler, Gamble, 
&c. Assam and Kuasta Mrs., alt. 0-3000 ft., common ; Wallich, Griffith, &c. 
Perennial, 3 ft. ; stems pubescent upwards. Leaves 7 by 2-3 in., very obscurely 
(or not)lineolate; nerves 8-10 pair; petiole} in. Racemes often one foot long, pubes- 
cent; bracts 3-3 in., sublinear; lower pedicels rarely attaining à in. Sepals jn» 
linear, pubescent. Corolla-tube linear almost to its apex; limb 1} in. diam., obscurely 
2-lipped; purple often with a yellowish spot on the middle lobe of the lower lip. 
Capsule nearly 1 in., pubescent. Seeds 2 in. diam., reticulate-rugose, glabrous. , 
Var. levicapsa ; leaves more conspicuously lineolate on the upper surface, spikes 
long slender in more or less compound panicles, flowers often slenderer, capsule less 
pubescent usually soon glabrate. E. crenulatum, Wall. Cat. 2491, letter F.— 
Chittagong, alt. 0-2000 ft., frequent ; H. f. & T., &c. Pegu, M*Lelland. Mergui, 
Griffith. Attran, Wallich. 
VAR. elata; leaves |large uppermost petioled elongate-cuneate at the base. 
E. elatum, Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1872, 46, and 1873, 47. E. latifolium, Kurz in Flora 
1870, 363 excl. syn. ?—Pegu, Yomah, Kurz. Rangoon, M‘Lelland.—Kurz notes that 
this species produces on the same plant dimorphous flowers; one kind as of Æ. pala 
ferum type, the other (usually the upper ones in the spike) about 4 in. long, which chiefiy 
produce fruit. Similar dimorphic flowers occur in typical Khasian E. palatiferum. 
5. E. album, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 455 ; leaves elliptic acuminate 
puberulous on the midrib beneath or glabrate, spikes panicled minutely 
pubescent, corolla white tube 14 in. linear. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. a 
ix. 593. E. crenulatum, Wall. Cat. 2491, letters D, E. Justicia alba, Roxo. 
Fl. Ind. i. 116, and Ic. Ined. in Herb. Kew. 
ANDAMANS; Roxburgh, Kurz. PrGU; Brandis. CHITTAGONG; J. D. H. 
PENANG; Wallich. NICOBARS; Kurz. :oled 
Stem woody upwards, bark whiteish. Uppermost leaves very shortly petioled, 
base usually rounded, but in Roxburgh's picture (and in the Chittagong examp’? 
cuneate.—This, when dry, seems very difficult to separate from E. palatiferum, Nees, 
Var. levicapsa, except by the woodiness of the stems, almost to the panicle as shown M 
Roxburgh's picture and in Kurz's and Hooker's examples; the stems in E. palatiferum 
being distinetly herbaceous unless very near the base. 
6. E. malaccense, Clarke; leaves broad-lanceolate minutely pilo% 
on the midrib beneath, spikes 1-3 subterminal puberulous or pubescens 
corolla pale-purple tube 1-1} in. linear, ovary nearly glabrous. E. Crea. 
latum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 107, and. in DC. Prodr. xi. 495» 
chiefiy; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 523, partly (not of Lindh) ia 
palatiferum, Bot. Mag. t. 5957, left-hand fig. only. Justicia orbic , 
Wall. Cat. 2489, letter b. fe hand fig, only 
MaLacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6175), Cuming, nn. 2357, 2389, &c. 
