524 CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Monothecium. 
bracts and bracteoles linear or setaceous. Sepals 5, equal, linear-setaceous. 
Corolla small, tubular, limb deeply 2-lipped. Stamens 2; anthers narrowly 
oblong, 1-celled, muticous, attached by the middle of the back. Style 
minutely bifid. Capsule oblong, on a short solid stalk, 4-seeded. Seeds 
compressed, orbicular, rugose subtubercled; retinacula stout.— Species 2, 
Indian and Tropical African. 
M. aristatum, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 234; leaves ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate pubescent on the nerves beneath, bracts 4-3 in. linear 
setaceous lineolate. Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 269. Justicia aristata, Wall. 
Cat. 2481; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 115. Anthocometes aristatus, 
Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 312. 
- CEYLON; Walker, Wight, &. NinenkRRY Mrs. ; G. Thomson. . 
Stems 1 foot, procumbent, much branched, often rooting. Leaves lj by $ m, 
cuneate at both ends; petiole } in. Spikes 4-1} in., peduncled or sessile, pubescent 
or nearly glabrous; bracteoles O (barren bracts frequent). Sepals } in. - Corolla } in., 
white, lower lip brown-spotted. Capsule + in.—This is so like Justicia procumbens 
that an example of it in Herb. Kew is marked ** Rostellularia procumbens, Var. a or 
B," by Nees' haud. 
XXXVII. CLINACANTHUS, Necs. 
A tall herb, minutely pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire Or 
toothed. Flowers conspicuous, dull red, in small drooping cymes at the 
tips of the branches; bracts and bracteoles small, linear. Sepals 5, equal, 
linear-subulate. — Corolla-tvbe elongate, curved at the base, widened 
upwards; limb 2-lipped. Stamens 2; anthers scarcely exserted, 1-celled, 
narrowly oblong, muticous, attached by the middle of the back. Style 
minutely bifid. Capsule oblong, on a short solid stalk, 4-seeded. Seeds 
muricate (Nees). 
Only differs from Hypoestes by the small bracts. 
C. Burmanni, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 511. ` Justicia nutans, Burm. 
Fl. Ind. 10, t. 5, ig. 1. J. fulgida, Blume Bijd. 784. Beleropone? fulgida, 
Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 151. 
Maracca; Maingay.—DisTRIB. Java, Borneo, Hainan. 
Leaves 2} by 1 in., acuminate, base cuneate or rounded ; petiole 4 in., puberulous. 
Cymes about 5-fld. ; bracts 2 in., linear; pedicels 7, in. Sepals 4 iu., rusty pubescent. 
Corolla 1j in., lobed 4-} in. Stamens aud pistil glabrous. 
XXXVIII. JUSTICIA, Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers sessile or nearly so, spiked or 
panicled (rarely solitary), small or middle-sized; bracts large or small; 
bracteoles narrow or 0. | Calyx 5- or 4-partite ; segments narrow. Corolla- 
tube shorter, or scarcely longer, than the 2-lipped limb; upper lip 2-lobed or 
subentire, lower 3-lobed, lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, filaments often 
dilated, hairy near the base; anthers 2-celled; cells oblong or round, 
usually more or less separate, lower always with a white basal appendage. 
Ovary 4-ovulate ; style filiform, shortly bifid. Capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, 
4-seeded from the base, or with a long solid cylindric stalk 4-seeded at 
the apex. Seeds ovoid, more or less compressed, tubercular, scaly or 
glochidiate- subspinescent (appearing hispid), never with fine elastic hairs 
springing out when wetted.—Species 100, in the warm regions of both 
hemispheres. 
