Andrographis.] ^ cix. AcANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 503 
linear-oblong glabrous, panicle large lax branches 4-winged, sepals pubes- 
cent or subhirsute, capsule hairy. T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 232, and 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 502. Justicia alata, Vahl Enum. i. 139. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA, alt. 1-3000 ft.; Coimbatore, Wight, &c.; Nilgherries, 
Gardner, CEYLON; Thwaites. 
Stems 2-4 ft., annual, erect, glabrous, 4-angular. Leaves 3} by 1} in., somewhat 
suddenly attenuate into the petiole, conspicuously lineolate above; upper leaves few, 
distant, narrow. Panicle often 15 in. diam. ; branches glabrous; pedicels 0-4 in., 
pubescent. Sepals 3 in. bristle-pointed, pubescent or very hairy. Corolla 3-3 in., 
hairy, white with pink spots; tube curved, limb obscurely 2-lipped. Anthers 
exserted ; filaments subglabrous. Capsule 1 by } in., compressed. Seeds osseous, 
glabrous, not compressed.— Perhaps only a variety of A. elongata. The panicle being 
large, the examples of the old collectors show only the panicle with the reduced 
narrow leaves belonging thereto; and the descriptions of Vahl, Nees and T. Ander- 
son do not describe the proper cauline leaves. 
7. A. stenophylla, Clarke; glabrous, cauline leaves linear, racemes 
lax, flowers nearly all pedicelled, capsule glabrous. 
COIMBATORE; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 2245). . 
Rootstock woody; annual stems from its crown numerous, erect and diffuse, 
quadrangular. Leaves 1-1} by 4-4 in. ; raphides O or obscure. Racemes 2-5 in., 
axillary and terminal, not distinctly panicled, the upper leaves being nearly similar 
to the cauline; pedicels mostly nearly as long as the calyx. Sepals & in., linear- 
lanceolate, glabrous or very nearly so. Corolla nearly as of A. paniculata. Capsule 
$ by ġ in., compressed, 
8. A. Wightiana, Arn. ex Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 517 ; nearly glabrous, 
leaves subsessile lanceolate, racemes lax few-fld., pedicels sometimes as long 
as the calyx, corolla 4 in. conspicuously 2-lipped, capsule glabrous. Wight 
lc. t. 1558. A. gracilis, Mees l. c. 516; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
1x. 503.— Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 44. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA; Courtallum and Anamallay Forests, Wight; Mysore, G. 
Thomson ; Mangalore, Hohenacker ; Travancore and Tinnevelly Ghauts, Beddome. 
. Stems elongate, diffuse, lax, quadrangular, glabrous, or thinly obscurely glandular- 
hairy. Leaves attaining 3 by lin., subovate, base obtuse rarely cordate, glabrous 
minutely lineolate above rarely obscurely scabrid puberulous ; petiole O-y, in. 
acemes 2-4 in., weak, glabrous or rarely minutely glandular-hairy ; lower pedicels 
Sometimes 1 in. Sepals } in., sublinear, lineolate, glabrous. Corolla purplish, spotte 
on the lower lip; lips}in. -Anthers exserted, slightly bearded at the base ; filaments 
Setulose. Capsule 3-1 by i4 in.—Authentic examples only differ from A. gracilis 
In the few thin glandular hairs scattered on the upper part of the stem and panicle. 
That Nees understood the same plant as Arnott and Wight is clear from his saying 
that in his 4. Wightiana the calyx was glabrous. 
9. A. macrobotrys, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 516; sparingly pubes 
cent, leaves very short-petioled oblong-lanceolate, racemes elongate, sepa? 
glandular-hairy, corolla 3 in. conspicuously 2-lipped, capsule glabrous. Soc. 
Wightiana, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 232, and in Journ, Linn. Soc. 
Xx. 502, not of Nees. 
P Mrs. of S, Deccan PENINSULA; Mangalore, Hohenacker; Anamallays and 
ulneys, Beddome. CEYLON ; Macrae, &c. 
Leaves 3 by 3 in. ine cuneate or rhomboid, not rounded; nerves gp n often 
puberulous ; petiole 0-4 in. Racemes 6-8 in. or more, glandular-hairy, onen 1- 4 
branched, Corolla and capsule exactly as of A. Wightiana.—Very near A. 
Wightiana ; but dries blacker, and has the leaves not widest at the base, Anders. in 
AR. parvifolia ; leaves 1-13 in. A. ceylanica, Nees l c. 518; T. . 
Journ. Linn, Soo. ix. 502, not of Wight.—Ceylou ; Walker. 
