Gymnostachyum.] cix. AcANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 509 
or elliptic acute at both ends pubescent at least on the nerves beneath, 
panicle subterminal pubescent branches cymose, corolla 3 in. Bedd. Ic. Pl. 
Ind. Or. t. 252. 
CEYLON, alt. 1-2000 ft. ; Walker, Thwaites. 
Erect, 2-3 ft., hairy, leafy to the panicle. Leaves 5 by 2 in., undulate, lineolate, 
glabrate or hairy above; petiole } in. Panicles 7 by 3 in., sometimes somewhat leafy 
at the base ; lateral branches repeatedly closely 2-3-chotomous; bracts 4-4 in., linear; 
pedicels 0-2 in., often distinct. Sepals à in., linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla 
pubescent. Anthers ovate, glabrous. Capsule $ in. 
7. G. glabrum, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 506; leaves ovate 
or elliptic acuminate at both ends undulate-crenate pubescent on the nerves 
neath, panicle terminal villous, flowers fascicled on the spikes, corolla 3 in. 
Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 951.  Cryptophragmium glabrum, Dalz. in 
Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 338; Dalz. & Gib. Bomb. FI. 185. 
CoxcaN; Law, Dalzell. . 
An undershrub (Beddome) ; stems nearly glabrous. Leaves 7 by 23 in., puberu- 
lous on both surfaces or glabrate; petiole ł in. Flowers sessile, clustered ; bracts 
i in., linear-lanceolate. Sepals 4 in., sublinear, villous, often viscid glandular. 
Corolla minutely pubescent, white purple-spotted in the throat. Anthers ovate, 
glabrous. Capsule 3 in. 
Var. denticulata ; leaves distinctly toothed glabrous even when young.—Concan 
Ghauts; Dalzell, Ritchie. 
8. G. leptostachyum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 106, and Cat. 
7178, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 93; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends 
slightly pubescent, panicle reduced to 1 or 2 long-linear spikes hairy, 
Corolla 3 in. 
Tavov; Wallich. 
Stems creeping, rooting ; annual flowering branches 3-5 in., erect, simple, villous. 
Leaves 44 by 1} in., subentire, upper surface with distant multicellular lax hairs, 
ower pubescent on the nerves; petiole 3 in. Spikes 1 or 2 terminal, 3-10 in. ; 
flowers solitary, distant; bracts 4 in., linear-lanceolate. Sepals } in., linear-lanceo- 
late, pubescent. Corolla narrow, straight. Capsule à in., very slender, 20-seeded.— 
erlooked by T. Anderson. 
** Inflorescence axillary, a terminal panicle sometimes added. 
9. G. canescens, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 505; leaves 
Vate acuminate at both ends pubescent on both surfaces, panicles axillary 
ànd terminal pubescent or villous, corolla $ in. G. serrulatum, T. Anders. 
Le; Bedd. Ie. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 254. Cryptophragmium canescens, Nees in 
Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 100, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 95; Wight Ic. t. 1495. 
- serrulatum, Nees ll. e. Justicia serrulata, Wall. Cat. 2452. 
R W. Deccan PENINSULA, from Bombay to Courtallum, Wight; Tinnevelly, 
eddome. . 
A y es pubescent or villous. Leaves 8 by 3% in., 
un alate or wipmtely toothad, vetiolc 14 in. Panicles trichotomous ; bracts 1 in., 
lanceolate ; pedicels hardly any. Sépals 4-4 in., linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent. 
Corolla pubescent. Anthers ovate, puberulous. Capsule j in.--Nees made 2 species 
out of Wallich’s 4 branches; and it is not clear why T E vat kept them up, unless 
* mean d rulatum to the following var. — 
Van. long ole Mares by I] in. elongate lanceolate distinetly toothed. G. 
longifolia, T. Anders. ms.—Canara Ghauts; Law. 
10. G. latifolium, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 505; glabrous, 
