Haplanthus.] CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 507 
W. Deccan PENINSULA, frequent, Roxburgh, &c., extending north to Mt. 
Aboo, Stocks. 
Stems 2-3 ft., pubescent or nearly glabrous. Leaves 3} by 2 in., shortly acumi- 
nate, base suddenly attenuated, pubescent or nearly glabrous; petiole lin. Cladodes 
often 1-14 in. in fruit, pubescent or glabrous, with or without scattered patent 
bristles in their lower half. Calyx 4 in., glabrous or puberulous. Corolla % in., 
pale lilac. Calyx } in. and upwards, glabrous. 
2. H. tentaculatus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 513; cladodes in fruit 
slender curved glabrous or pubescent not ciliate, calyx pubescent scarcely 
ciliate. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 197; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
503. Ruellia tentaculata, Linn. Amen. Acad. iv. 320; Burm. Fl. Ind. 134, 
t. 40, fig. 1l. R. aciculata, Roth Nov. Sp. 301. 
BOMBAY; Dalzell. BELGAUM; Ritchie. MALABAR; Yelwah Hill in Palghaut, 
Beddome. CENTRAL INDIA; Mandoo, Edgeworth. . 
Cladodes in fruit à in. Corolla less than } in., white (Ritchie). Capsule 1-j in., 
glabrous; seeds much smaller than in H. verticillaris.—Very near H. verticillaris. 
Dalzell says 1. c. that H. tentaculatus is a much stouter species than H. verticillaris ; 
but his numerous examples submitted are named by him in accordance with Nees' 
naming. 
Var. nilgherrensis; whorls collected mostly in terminal spikes, cladodes and 
sepals with many patent needle-like white hairs. H. nilgherrensis, Wight Ic. t. 1556. 
—Mts. of Nilghiri and Kurg, frequent ; Wight, Hohenacker, &c. 
. Var. plumosa; calyx densely hispid-hairy subplumose. H. plumosa, T. Anders. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 504. Haplanthus sp. n. 4, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.4 T.— 
Concan ; Stocks. Belgaum; Ritchie. 
9. H.? hygrophiloides, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix, 503; 
leaves petioled ovate acute tomentose on both surfaces, flowers axillary 
aggregated, bracts minute linear. 
Prev; Brandis (fide T. Anderson). . 
, An insignificant weed; stems 4-angular furfuraceous. Leaves 1-1} by à-1lin., 
minutelylineolate, Sepals lin. subulate. Corolla small, pubescent. Stamens 2; 
anthers 2-celled, one cell bearded. Capsule linear, compressed, glandular, many- 
seeded. —N o example seen ; the foregoing copied from T. Anderson. 
XXX. GYMNOSTACHYUM, Nees. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves cauline or subradical, entire, sinuate 
crenulate or toothed. Cymes axillary or in a terminal panicle, often spicate 
or racemose, sometimes small axillary; bracts and bracteoles very small, 
except in G. hirsutum; flowers subsessile or shortly pedicelled. Calyx 
Small (except in G. hirsutum), sub-5-partite; segments equal, linear- 
lanceolate.  Corolla-tube slender, cylindric ; limb small, 2-lipped ; lobes 5, 
subequal, quadrate-elliptic, imbricate. Stamens 2, nearly as long as the 
corolla ; filaments usually hairy at least near the base; anthers 2-celled ; cells 
subequal, oblong or ovate, hairy or glabrous. Ovary pubescent, many- 
ovulate; style subentire at the tip. Capsule linear, pubescent or nearly 
glabrate, 16-24-seeded. Seeds ovoid, compressed, hairy, hairs very shortly 
"preading when moistened.— Species 15, Indian, with a few Malayan. 
* Panicle terminal, leafiess or nearly so. 
t Leaves mostly near the base of the stem. 
l. @. venustum, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 506; leaves large 
