Lepidagathis.] ^ cix. ACANTHACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 521 
20. L. hyalina, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 95, and Monogr. 
Lepidag. 16, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 252; leaves petioled ovate or oblong 
minutely viscid-pubescent, spikes oblong very dense axillary and terminal 
often clustered ciliate often softly hairy, bracts lanceolate acuminate 
mucronate, calyx sub-5-partite, segments linear-lanceolate mucronate 
outer larger, corolla in. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 498. L. 
incurva, Don Prodr. 119. Ruellia dependens, Rowb. Fl. Ind. iii. 49; 
Wall. Cat. 2365. 
Throughout N. IxDrA, alt. 0-4000 ft., very common; from Jamu to Upper Assam 
and Chittagong. BEHAR and CHOTA NaGPoRE, frequent. PkGU and TENASsSERIM, 
common.—DrsTRIB. Burma, S. China. 
A perennial herb, 1-2 ft. Leaves 3 by 1} in., uppermost often narrower, pendent, 
undulate ; petiole 4 in. Spikes 4-14 in., erect, l-sided ; bracts nearly } in. ; brac- 
teoles 3 in., linear-lanceolate, mucronate. Sepals } in., ciliate, sometimes softly hairy. 
Corolla white with brown spots in the palate. Capsule } in., 4-seeded.—Of this plant 
so universal in N. India there is no plate extant; nor is there any example of the 
typical form at Kew collected in the Deccan. Roxburgh says his Ruellia dependens 
is native in Mysore; but the examples in his collections under that name are all the 
common Bengal form. . 
. VaR. mollis ; leaves all ovate hairy on both surfaces, heads very softly hairy.— 
Himalaya Terai, frequent. . 
Var. ustulata; plant 1-5 in. leaves 1 in. spikes 3-1 in. ovoid, bracts rather 
larger than in Z. hyalina type. L. ustulata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 95, and 
Monogr. Lepidag. 18, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 253. Ruellia mucronata, Wall. Cat. 
2366, letters y, e,.—Kashmir and N.W. Himalaya, alt. 2-4000 ft., Thomson, 
Strachey d Winterbottom, &c. A very local and easily separable form. 
VAR. mucronata; leaves ovate pubescent beneath, spikes and heads small or large, 
bracts Lin. L. mucronata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 95, and Monogr. Lepidag. 
ll, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 250. L. neurophylla, 7". Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
497. Ruellia mucronata, Wall. Cat. 2366, type sheet.— Concan, Canara, Nilgherries, 
&e., Stocks, Wight, Dalzell, &c.—Nees founded this species on Wight’s plant ( Herb. 
ropr. n. 1968), which has small leaves ; subsequently he (in DC. Prodr.) added such 
Specimens from Mergui as had small leaves: these, however, having bracts 3-J in. are 
nearer L, purpuricaulis, though their stems are not very purple. T. Anderson's 
: neurophylla has full-sized leaves; the bracts are nearly the same as in Var. 
mucronata. . i T 
VAR, lophostachyoides, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 252 ; leaves large, spikes 23 by j in. 
l-sided, bracts as in Z., hyalina type.—Ceylon ; Gardner, Walker, &c. Bababoodun 
ills ; Cleghorn.—'his variety in habit and in details runs very near L. chloro- 
stachya, but has the spikes rather slenderer, the bracts rather smaller. . 
> TAR, semiherbacea; leaves linear-lanceolate often shining. L. semiherbacea, 
Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 96, and Cat. 7164, and Monogr. Lepidag. 20, and in 
DC. Prodr, xi. 253; Wall. Cat. 7164. L. iridescens, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ix. 496, Lepidagathis sp., Griff. Notul. iv. 137.— From Sikkim and Assam to 
urma, very common in the Terai and adjacent Tropical Valleys.—Stems often elon- 
gate, diffuse, with long nodes; the lower stem leaves (in the extreme form of tl e 
variety) 7 by iin. But intermediate forms are more common, having the lower 
eaves ovate, the upper or uppermost oblong or linear, large or small. Some of the 
examples only differ from Z. simplex, T. Anders., in having numerous heads. . 
. VAR. riparia; leaves large ovate, heads large softly ciliate, bracts 4 in. (or eg 
times longer) acuminate long aristate. L. riparia, Nees in DC. Prodr, Xy Cat. 
+ aristata, Nees in Wall, Pl. As. Rar. iii. 95, and Monogr. Lepidag. 19; a x. at. 
1163 (not Ruellia aristata, Vahl)—Rangoon; AM:Lelland. — Pegu Yomah ; : re. 
*nasserim ; Beddome. Siamese Hills; Parish.—Kurz and Beddome have noted on 
"IT specimens that this is probably a distinct species; and it seems more ite a 
bed - hyalina, to which T. Anderson reduced it, tban some usually acmitte 
cies. 
?l. L. linearis, T. Anders. in Cat. Hort. Cale. 43, and in Journ. 
