504 CIX. ACANTHACEE, (C. B. Clarke) — [Amdrographis. 
tt Racemes dense, forming a viscous brown-hairy head or panicle. 
10. A. viscosula, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 116, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 517; leaves lanceolate glabrous densely lineolate above, corolla 
Zin. hairy. Wight Ie. t. 1559; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 502. 
Justicia lineata, Wall. Cat. 2486, letter b. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA; Courtallum, Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 677) ; Pulney Hills, 
Beddome. 
An undershrub, scarcely 1 foot ; branches numerous, glabrous, 4-lineolate. Leaves 
1j by 4 in., narrowed at both ends; petiole O-} in. Panicles 1-2} ìn., terminal, 
many-fd., viscidly brown-hairy; pedicels O-,4 in.; bracts jj in., linear. Sepals 
3-4 in., linear-lanceolate. Corolla conspicuously 2-lipped ; lips 3-4 in. Anthers 
exserted, bases thinly bearded, filaments thinly bristly. Capsule 4-2 by j in., pubes- 
cent. Seeds osseous, rugose, glabrous, not compressed. 
VaR. explicata ; leaves 3 by 2-1 in., panicle elongate 6-8 in. less dense, cap- 
sules rather larger. A. ceylanica, Wight Ic. t. 1560, not of Nees.—Courtallum ; 
Wight (Herb. Propr. nn. 676, 2242). Concan; Stocks. Anamailays and Nil- 
gherries, Beddome.— Wight himself, after figuring his A. ceylanica from n. 676, has 
altered the name of a portion of his n. 676 to A. viscosula. 
ll. A. Neesiana, Wight Ic. t. 1561; leaves elliptic acute at both 
ends sparsely minutely hairy above glabrate beneath, racemes terminal 
subcapitate, sepals à in., corolla $ in. hairy. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. ix. 502, excl. syn. 
PuULNEY Mrs.; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 2705). WYNAAD; Beddome. 
Branches elongate, undivided, glabrate, obscurely quadrangular. Leaves 21 by 
lj in.; hairs remote many-cellular, raphides 0; petiole 0— in. Racemes forming a 
dense panicle 2-5 in. diam.. viscidly brown-hairy. Capsule attaining 1 by $ in., com- 
pressed, minutely hairy.—Differs from A. viscosuda in the absence of raphides from the 
leaves above. . 
VAR. producta ; leaves elongate, heads produced into oblong sub-lax panicles. A. 
ceylanica, Wight in Herb. | Andrographis sp. n. 13, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. d T.— 
Shevagberry Hills; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 2702). "linnevelly; Beddome. Mala- 
bar; Gibson (in Herb. Dalzell), &c.—Leaves 4j by } in., subsessile. Panicles 5 in., 
pyramidal, Texture, indumentum, &c., of the leaves exactly as in 4. Neessana 
type. 
Van. offinis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 116, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 517 (sp-); 
leaves small elliptic or oblong pubescent, panicles pyramidal or oblong viscidly brown- 
pubescent, corolla à in. T. Anders. in DC. Prodr. ix. 502.— Nilgherry and Kurg 
Mts., frequent ; Wight, &c.—Leaves 1 by $ in. or smaller; minutely bristly above 
with no raphides, pubescent beneath ; nerves less impressed on the upper surface, 
usually fulvous-pubescent. Capsule very hairy. 
12. A. stellulata, Clarke ; hairy, leaves short-petioled elliptic nar- 
rowed at both ends, heads terminal dense, sepals exceeding 4 in. hnear- 
setaceous, corolla $ in. A. Neesiana, Benth. in Pl. Hohenack. n. 1439, not 
of Wight. 
NILGHERRY Mrs., alt. 6000 ft., Hohenacker, &c. : 
Branches elongate, obscurely quadrangular, closely villous. Leaves 2j by lin» 
copiously sprinkled with fulvous multicellular hairs above, closely villous beneath ; 
petiole 0-3 in. Heads 1-2 in. diam., viscidly brown-bairy. Corolla pale pink with 
purple spots on the lower lip. Filaments somewhat flattened, hairy upwards. Cap- 
sule 3 by 2 in. (and upwards), hairy, compressed. Seeds osseous, rugose, glabrous, not 
compressed.— Much resembling 4. Neesiana and others of this subsection, but dis- 
tinguished by the long substellate sepals. 
13. A. lineata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 116, and in DC. 
