522 CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Lepidagathis. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 496 ; leaves subsessile linear acute at both ends scabrous pale 
beneath, spikes terminal or axillary tetragonal subsecund dense woolly, 
bracts herbaceous obliquely lanceolate mucronate ciliate l-nerved, calyx 
5-partite membranous ciliate upper segment lanceolate rounded at the tip 
9-nerved. 
Burma; R. Scott. . 
Perennial; stems several, 2-3 ft., tetragonous, winged, glabrous. Leaves 3-6 in., 
scabrous. Spikes 1-2 in., hoary woolly.  Terminai spikes 2-3 together, axillary 
solitary opposite; bracteoles membranous, concave, obovate, obtuse at both ends, 
ciliate. Corolla and capsule appear (ex descr.) same as of L. hyalina (T. Ander son). 
—Not seen. 
** Leaves crenate or crenate-serrate. (Anther-cells more separated and 
more divergent at the base than in the rest of the genus.) 
22. L. ceylanica, Nees Monogr. Lepidag. 35, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 
259; leaves petioled ovate-lanceolate nearly glabrous, bracts as long as the 
calyx elliptic or obovate scarious 3-nerved glabrous ciliate. T. Anders. m 
Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 498. L. nervosa, Wight Ic. t. 1620. 
CEYLON ; Walker, Thwaites. . . 
Stems 2-3 ft., herbaceous, diffuse, 4-angular, glabrous. Leaves 3 by 4 in., acumi 
nate at both ends, crenate-serrate, obscurely puberulous ; petiole 4 in. Spikes $n. 
ovoid or obovoid, in dense panicles or clusters; bracts j by ł in., mucronate ; brac 
teoles 4 by 4 in., subfaleate, scarious, 3-nerved, ciliate. Calyx 1-3 in., deeply 5-fid, 
scarious, glabrous, ciliate; outer segment oblong or elliptic, other 4 narrow. 
Corolla Vin. Capsule X in., 4-seeded. 
23. L. Walkeriana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 260; leaves petioled 
ovate-lanceolate nearly glabrous, bracts half as long as the calyx elliptic. 
Wight Ic. t. 1530; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 499. L. ceylanica, 
Var. 8, Nees Monogr. Lepidag. 35. 
CEYLON ; Walker, Macrae, &c. lar- 
Bracts d in., 3-nerved, subscarious. Calyx 4 in., densely minutely glandular: 
hairy or glabrate ciliate. Otherwise as L. ceylanica, which it so greatly resemble 
that Wight has noted on the specimen he has figured a doubt whether it was the 
“true Waikeriana," which it certainly is. 
24. L. fasciculata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 95, and Monogr. 
Lepidag. 10, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 260; leaves petioled ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate pubescent, bracts herbaceous as long as the calyx ovate or ellipus 
3-nerved hairy. Z. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 498 ; Bedd. Te. Pl. Ind. 
Or. t. 228; Wawra Bot. It. Pr. S. Cob. i. 88, t. 13. L. hirta, Nees Monogr. 
Lepidag. 37. L, goensis, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 340; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 191. Ruellia fasciculata, Retz. Obs. iv. 28 ; Roxb. Fi. Ind, imn. 
45; Wall. Cat. 2406, and 2394 partly. 
Throughout TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAU INDIA, from the base of the N.W. 
HIMALAYA and BENGAL to CEYLON and TENassEWIM ; mostly rare, plentiful in 
alubDarla, 
Stems 1 foot, herbaceous, diffuse, hairy. Leaves 2 by 1 in., crenate-serrate, 
pubescent at least on the nerves beneath; petiole } in. Spikes | in. diam., OT 
often elongate, interrupted below with the lower flowers in opposite pairs ; bracts 
j-i in. in fruit somewhat enlarged; bracteoles rather shorter than the bracts, 
talcate-oblong. Corolla and capsule nearly as of L. hyalina.—This plaut always 
occurs mixed with Hemigraphis latebrosa, Nees; without counting the ovules or 
seeds it may be distinguished therefrom by the presence of bracteoles, the capt 
