Justicia.] CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. P. Clarke.) 527 
A shrub, habit of J. ventricosa; innovations densely silky strigose. Leaves 8} 
by 3} in., above minutely thinly hairy, nerves reticulate impressed, beneath pubescent 
especially on the nerves; petiole Zin. Peduncles 1-3 in., axillary ; spikes 4 by 1 in., 
rachis softly hairy; bracts sub-4-ranked, à by 4 in., green, puberulous, 5-nerved ; 
bracteoles à by i in., green. Calyx in., pubescent; segments linear-lanceolate.— 
Differs from J. ventricosa in the indumentum and bracteoles. 
7. J. punduana, Wall. Cat. 2453; leaves broadly elliptic acute at 
both ends minutely lineolate nerves beneath villous, bracts ovate scarious- 
margined 1-fld., bracteoles oblong acute scarious longer than the calyx, 
corolla $ in. Rungia punduana, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 110, and 
in DC. Prodr. xi. 473; T. Anders. in Journ. Tinn. Soc. ix. 518. 
E. BENGAL; Jaintea Mts., Gomez; Cachar, Keenan. 
A shrub; stem rooting; annual branches 1 foot, villous-pubescent. Leaves 6 by 
2-23 in.; petiole 1 in. Spikes axillary and terminal, lj by } in., dense; peduncles 
+in.; bracts closely imbricate, imperfectly 4-ranked, 3 by 4 in., obtuse or subacute ; 
bracteoles 1 in., minutely hairy. Sepals } in., equal, linear-lanceolate, minutely hairy. 
Anther-cells minutely hairy, lower distinctly white-tailed. Capsule scarcely 4 in., 
pubescent, clavate, 4-seeded ; pedicel solid, placente not rising elastically from the 
capsule-base. Seeds glabrous, rugose, subtubercular.— Very few of the plants marked 
Pundua by Wallich were collected at or near Pundua; the present species was col- 
lected by Gomez (Wallich’s trained Eurasian collector), and delivered to Wallich in 
his boat at Pundua. It is strange that Nees and T. Anderson should have removed 
this species to Rungia; for it is a shrub resembling J. Atkinsoni, &c. 
8. J. burmanica, Clarke; leaves long-petioled broadly elliptic 
acute at both ends villous on the nerves beneath, bracts obovate or 
orbicular nearly glabrous 1-fld., bracteoles broadly lanceolate longer than 
e calyx. 
Burma; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6184). 
Resembling very much J. Keenani, but the leaves are long-petioled, the bracts 
herbaceous, uniformly intensely green (even when dried) without a scarious margin. 
Spikes 2-5 in., continuous but lax; bracts sometimes scarcely imbricate, subpatent. 
Corolla not seen. Capsule } in., 4-seeded, glabrous or puberulous. 
9. J. argyrostachya, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 510; leaves 
large ovate minutely pubescent, bracts ovate patently softly long-hairy 
1-fld., bracteoles falcate-oblong longer than the calyx, corolla 4 in. Adha- 
toda argyrostachya, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 1027, and Cat. 7172, 
and in DC. Prodr. xi. 385. 
Burma; Prome Hills, Wallich. . . . Lean 
Àn undershrub (or large herb) with the habit of the preceding species. eaves 
ll by 5 in., shortly attenuate at both ends ; petiole 1} in. Spikes axillary, solitary 
and terminal, 2-5 by lin., continuous ; peduncles short; bracts 3-8 by $ in, imbri- 
Cate, green purple-margined ; bracteoles 4-3 in. Sepals 5, D in., iinear lanceolate 
Corolla (fide Nees) yellowish-white purple-marked. Capsule 3 in., clavate, 4-seedec . 
" This differs from the allied species (except J. Kurzii) by the long soft hairs on the 
Tacts, 
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10. J. Kurzii, Clarke; leaves large ovate minutely pubescent, brac 
large elliptic acute ‘softly long-hairy i-fld., bracteoles sublinear longer than 
e calyx, corolla nearly 1 in. 
Prev; Kurz. 
A large herb, closely resembling J. argyrostachya except as to the corolla, ere 
by 43 in., acute, base suddenly attenuate ; petiole 24 in. Spikes, Pi a ; linear. 
by ¢ in., sub-4-ranked ; bracteoles 4-} in., hairy. Calya-segments 2 
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