506 CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) — [Andrographis. 
founds his species; which both hardly differ from A. echioides but by their 
short-petioled (not sessile) leaves and rather shorter (À in.) sepals.— This is cer- 
tainly 4. glandulosa, Nees, for he has written his name on Wight's n. 2026, 
though this appears to be an erect annual. 
17. A. Rothii, Clarke; shrubby, hairy, leaves small shortly petioled 
ovate or orbicular, racemes axillary lax few-fld., lower pedicels nearly as 
long as the calyx. Justicia glandulosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 13? ; not of Wall. 
S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 675). . 
Rootstock woody ; branches 8-12 im., wavy, closely pubescent, and with white 
patent hairs, some glandular. Leaves 4-3 in., base rounded or in a few of the lower 
very shortly attenuated; petiole 0-1 in. Racemes 2-4 in., patent or recurved, 
wavy, sometimes bifid, upper subpanicled; bracts } in., ovate. Sepals à-j in. Cap- 
sule + by à in., subobtuse.—Found loose in Wigbt’s Herbarium, marked simply 
Erianthera: it appears to fit very closely Roth’s description of his Justicia 
glandulosa. 
18. A. serpyllifolia, Wight Ic. t. 517; stems procumbent villous, 
leaves small sessile orbicular, racemes many 1- or few-fld. in the lower axils. 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 508. Justicia serpyllifolia, Vahl Enum. 
i. 169. J.nummularifolia, Wall. Cat. 2461. Erianthera serpyllifolia, Nees 
in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 115, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 514. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA; Mysore, Palamcotta, &c., Shuter, Wight, &c. 
Rootstock woody ; annual stems 2-12 in., closely procumbent, curved, densely 
leafy. Leaves j in. diam., obtuse, more or less hairy. Racemes sometimes forming 
a small terminal quasi-panicle, but always with many 1-2.fld. in the lower axils ; 
bracts 4-3 in, orbicular, being gradually reduced leaves. Sepals $-} iu., linear ; 
in fruit often 3 in. Corolla 4-3 in. Capsule 3-1 by 1-à in. 
19. A. Beddomei, Clarke ; leaves short-petioled elliptic and obovate 
glabrous, racemes solitary axilary small few-fld., lower pedicels viscous- 
pubescent, corolla 4-4 in. conspicuously 2-lipped, anthers exserted bases 
densely white-bearded. 
MADRAS ; Kurnool, Nallaymallays, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. 
Stems 4-6 in., subsimple, quadrangular. Leaves 3} by 13-2 in., subobtuse, some 
what coriaceous, base cuneate, raphides 0 or obscure; petiole 0-4 in. Racemes im, 
3-5-fld., viscous-pubescent; bracts 3 in.. oblong, subobtuse. Calyx ài in. Corolla 
and stamens nearly as of A. echioides. Capsule not seen. 
XXIX. HAPLANTHUS, Nees. 
Erect herbs. Leaves petioled, ovate, entire. Flowers axillary, appearmg 
whorled, whorls sometimes approximated into terminal spikes, surrounde 
by numerous barren branchlets, reduced to acicular cladodes terminated 
by 2-3 minute spines; proper bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx small; 
sepals sublinear. Corolla smallish, tubular; limb 2.lipped; lobes imbri- 
cated. Stamens 2; anthers 2-celled; cells ovate, equal or one sometimes 
much smaller, muticous ; connective very hairy behind. Ovary 6-16-ov" 
late; style shortly bifid at the tip. Capsule narrowly oblong acute, 6-16- 
seeded from the base. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, densely 
shortly hairy when moistened.—Species 3, endemic in India. 
1. H. verticillaris, Nees in DC. Prodr. ix. 513; cladodes in fruit 
stout rigid pubescent scarcely ciliate towards the tips, calyx minutely 
pubescent or glabrate. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 197; 7 Anders. in Journ. 
Linn, Soc. ix. 504. Justicia verticillata, Rorb. Fl. Ind. i. 135. 
