Phlogacanthus.] ^ crx. AcAwTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 511 
anthers 2-celled, oblong, muticous, glabrous. Ovary usually glabrous, 
10-16-ovulate ; style filiform, subsimple at the tip. Capsule elongate, sub- 
tetragonous, many-seeded from the base. Seeds lenticular, ovate in outline, 
glabrous or densely shortly hairy.—Species 11, endemic in India. 
This genus differs from Gymnostachyum in the broader, curved corolla, the glabrous 
ovary, and the much stouter capsule. The 2 following genera Cystacanthus and 
Diotacanthus are with difficulty discerned by the form of the corolla. 
* Thyrses or dense panicles terminal. 
l. P. curvifiorus, Nees in Wall. Pi. As. Rar. iii. 99, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 320; leaves large elliptic or obovate nearly glabrous, thyrse 
dense closely villous, calyx-teeth 4 in., corolla 13 in. tubular curved scarcely 
widened upwards. Bot. Mag. t. 3783; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
906; Kurz For. Fl ii. 246. Justicia curviflora, Wall. Cat. 2429, and Pl. As. 
Rar, ii. 9, t. 112. 
KnasrA Mrs., alt. 0-4000 ft. ; frequent on the southern face, Wallich, &c. 
Stem 3-6 ft., stout, glabrous, puberulous upwards. Uppermost leaves often 12 by 
4-5 in., acuminate at both ends, subentire, punctulate on both surfaces, nerves beneath 
sometimes puberulous ; petiole 24 in. Thyrse 4-8 in., short-peduncled ; bracts 3 in, 
linear. Calyx-tube 1 in.; teeth sublinear, closely villous. Corolla densely villous, 
brick-red or orange; limb small, lobes hardly patent. Stamens glabrous, 2 small 
rudiments present. Style thinly hairy. Capsule 1} by } in., glabrous, 12-14-seeded. 
Seeds } in. diam., much compressed, glabrous.—Wallich says the flowers are bright 
orange-red ; it is generally a brick-red obscurely orange; it is not known wild of the 
colour depicted by Wallich, or in Bot. Mag. . . 
VaR. brevicalyx; calyx-teeth scarcely jin.—Pegu; Kurz. Moulmein; Parish. 
Tenasserim; Beddome.—A shrub, 15 ft. (Beddome). Thyrse much less densely villous 
than in P. curviflorus type. Sepals without sometimes nearly-glabrous, much shorter 
than in P. curviflorus type. Flowers greenish-yellow (Parish).—T. Anderson is 
mistaken in supposing that this variety is cultivated in Lower Burma, and not wild. 
2. P. Wallichii, C/arke; leaves large elliptic acuminate at both 
ends glabrous, thryse dense closely villous, calyx-teeth à in., corolla im 
tubular curved scarcely widened upwards. P. asperulus, Wall. Cat. 7171 
partly, not of Nees. Loxanthus Gomezii, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7170, and 
in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 99, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 322, partly. 
KnasraA Mts.; Gomez. JAINTEA HILLS; Jarain, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. 
Leaves 101 by 31 in., subentire ; petiole lin. Thyrse 2-4 in., short-peduncled ; 
bracts | in, linear. Calya-tube d, in., teeth linear-lanceolate villous. Corolla 
densely villous, red ; limb small, lobes subequal, scarcely patent. Stamens and style 
glabrous. —Resembling P. curviflorus, but with a smaller thyrse, and very much 
smaller corolia. 
3. P. tubiflorus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 99, and in DC. 
Prodr, xi, 39] ; leaves large elliptic or ovate narrowed at both ends softly 
pubescent beneath, panicles elongate dense somewhat pubescent, calyx-teeth 
in., corolla 3 in. tubular curved scarcely widened upwards. T. Anders. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 506, partly. Justicia tubiflora, Wall. Cat. 2428. 
1 Assam Pains; Hamilton, Jenkins, Masters: and adjacent KHASIA TERAI, 
alt. 2000 ft. ; i, H. f. A 
Leaves atann 10 by d Dl TR. subentire or crenulate, densely punctulate above, 
‘most woolly (but deciduously) pubescent beneath; petiole 1-2 in., renta 
Panicle 2-8 in., densely closely ramous, subthyrsoid ; pedicels often 4 in. ; rae s 
in., linear. Calyx-tube Y. ïn.; teeth linear-lanceolate, pubescent or g prate, 
Corolla nearly as of P. Wallichii, yellow-red (Nees). Capsule 1j by š in., glabrous, 
