Andrographis.] ^ crx. AcaNTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 505 
Prodr. xi. 516; leaves subsessile ovate or broadly oblong shortly acute 
glabrous, panicles very compound viscidly grey- or dusky-pubescent, corolla 
gin. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 502.—Andrographis sp. n. 14, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. Justicia lineata, Wall. Cat. 2486, letter a. 
S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Mysore and adjacent parts of the Nilghiri and Kurg 
Mts., Wight, G. Thomson, Lobb; Anamallays, Beddome. 
Branches elongate, quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves 13 by 1 in., suddenly acute, 
base rounded ; raphides above embedded, obscure; nerves beneath usually strongly 
elevated ; petiole O-4 in. Panicle 2-10 in.; pedicels O or very short. Sepals 4-2 in., 
linear-lanceolate acute, glandular-hairy. Corolla hairy. Anthers bearded at the 
base. Capsule i by -è in, thinly hairy.—Hardly separable from A. viscosula 
var. explicata by the less acuminate leaves with more strongly-marked nerves and 
the more densely bearded anthers. 
Var. Lawii 3 stem closely pubescent, leaves 3 in. sparsely pilose above pubescent 
beneath, panicle large open.—Bababoodun Hills; Law. Nundidroog, Beddome.— 
Referred to A. affinis in Herb. Hooker : the large strongly lineate leaves, large panicle 
and densely barbate anthers bring it nearer to A. lineata type. 
14. A. lobelioides, Wight Ill. t. 164 b, fig. 11, and Ic. t. 1557; leaves 
small sessile ovate pubescent or glabrous, racemes in a subterminal panicle, 
corolla 4 in. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 503. Justicia lobelioides, 
Wall. Cat, 2484. Erianthera lobelioides, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 115, 
and in DC. Prodr. xi. 514. 
NILGHIRI Mrs., alt. 6-8000 ft., common in the open grass, Wight, &c. . 
Very rusty pubescent or nearly glabrous. Rootstock woody ; stems 2-8 in., very 
numerous, procumbent. Leaves i-$ in. diam.  Panicles 1—4 in.; lower pedicels 
41n. BSepals lin. Anthers much exserted, conspicuously white-barbate. Capsule 
$ by 4 in.—Very variable in indumentum. Easily distinguished (without the fruit) 
from 4, serpyllifolia by the absence of flowers in the lower axiis. . . 
AR. composita ; racemes elongate compound forming a terminal quasi-panicle 12 
by 8 in.—Courtallum Hills and Tinnevelly ; Beddome. 
** Capsule elliptic, 2-3 times as long as broad. 
15. A. echioides, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 117, and in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 518; erect, hairy, leaves sessile oblong or subelliptic obtuse, 
racemes numerous axillary, corolla 4—4 in. Wight lc. t. 467; Dalz. ¥ 
Gibs, Bomb. Fl. 198; T. “Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 503. Justicia 
echioides, Linn. ; Burm. Fl. Ind.9; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 118; Wall. Cat. 2439. 
—Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 46. 
TROPICAL INDIA, in the drier districts from the Punjab and Chota Nagpore 
Ceylon, common (absent in Bengal proper and humid Malabaria). b 
, Annual, 8-24 in., closely pubescent and with patent white hairs. Leaves 2} by 
in., base cuneate. Racemes about as long as the leaves, divaricate or recurved, 
often one from each axil about the middle of the stem; pedicels very short. 
Sepals 4-1 in, linear; in fruit elongated, sometimes j in. Corolla pubescent, 
pink or white, lower lip dark-purple. Anthers much exserted, white-barbate. 
Capsule 1 by 4 in., acute at both ends, hairy. Seeds twice as long as broad, 
us, rugose, glabrous, not compressed. 
16. A. glandulosa, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 115, and in DC. 
Prodr, xi. 218; hairy, leaves petioled oblong or subelliptic obtuse, racemes 
numerous axillary, lower pedicels nearly as long as the calyx. Justicia 
glandulosa, Wall. Cat. 2485. 
Mysore ; Heyne (fide Nees), Wight (Herb. Prop. n. 2026). 
Leaves 1 by 4 in., both in Wight’s and Wallich’s examples, on which Nees 
