934 OIX. acaNTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Justicia. 
darussa vasculosa, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii.104. Adhatoda vasculosa, 
Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 407. 
E. HIMALAYA and KuaslA Mrs., alt. 2-5000 ft., common ; Wallich, H. f. § T., 
&c. 
Rootstock perennial; branches 8-20 in., glabrous except at the tip. Leaves 5 by 
2 in., puncticulate above; petiole $ in. Spikes 1-4 in., axillary and terminal, simple 
or paniculate, pubescent; bracts oblong or linear, mostly shorter than the calyx, 
pubescent ; bracteoles similar to the bracts, but smaller. Calyx sub-5-partite ; seg 
ments è in., lanceolate. Corolla pubescent, yellowish slightly pink-spotted; tube 
cylindric ; upper lip hardly broader than one of the three lobes of the lower. Anther- 
cells divaricate, lower with a minute white appendage at the base. Ovary glabrous; 
style pubescent in the lower part. Capsule not seen, the abundant specimens a 
being in flower.—T. Anderson places this in Raphidospora, and in the absence of the 
seed it is impossible to prove he is wrong; but in the Sect. Raphidospora, the flowers 
are **laxly panicled,” as T. Anderson says. . 
Van.? Parishii; lenves glabrous, upper lip of corolla ovate j in. broad lower 
erect-patent.— Moulmein; Parish, n. 417. Tenasserim, Mooleyit; Beddome, n. 86. 
—This may be specifically distinct. eli 
Var. Brandisii; bracts (even in the upper part of the spikes) exceeding i. 
elliptic-acuminate.—Pegu ; Sitang, Zrandis.— Capsule à in., narrowly cylindric, 
clavate, very hairy. Seeds roughly verrucose, glabrous. 
34. J. andrographioides, Clarke; leaves ovate acuminate glabrous 
base rhomboid or rounded, flowers solitary opposite, corolla 4 in. both lips 
erect-patent. 
TENASSERIM ; Mooleyit, Beddome. T 
Closely resembling J. vasculosa, both in leaves and inflorescence, but the core a 
as of Andrographis. Leaves 3 by 1 in. Spikes (all seen) solitary, terminal, simple, 
pubescent ; bracts small linear, or the lower } in., linear-spathulate. Lower anther- 
cell with a microscopically small white spur. 
39. J. ptychostoma, Wall. Cat. 2478; leaves ovate acuminate at 
both ends minutely pubescent on the nerves beneath, spikes axillary hnear 
dense nearly glabrous, bracts minute, corolla 4-4 in. T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 517? Gendarussa? sumatrana, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. u. 832, 
PENANG; JWallich.—DrisTRIB. Sumatra. * shit 
Wallich’s imperfect example is perhaps the same as J. vasculosa var. Paris A 
above. Branches slender, with long internodes, glabrous. Leaves 6 by 25 in. near i 
glabrous, closely lineolate above; petiole lj in. Spikes 34 by i in., those seen à 
axillary, but there may have been also terminal spikes; bracts J; in., ovate or lancer” 
late; bracteoles j; in., linear-lanceolate. Sepals à in.—J. ptychostoma, Nees in Wall. 
Pl, As. Rar, iii. 108 (Rhytiglossa ? ptychostoma, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 337), 13 
founded on this Wallichian number, but the description of the bracts is so different 
from the example that there must have been some confusion. 
36. J. Maingayi, Clarke; leaves ovate-lanceolate or narrowly lanceo- 
late minutely pubescent on both surfaces, flowers solitary mostly alternate, 
corolla 4 in. 
PENANG; Maingay (Kew Distrib. n. 1181). . 
A small shrub (Maingay); branches elongate, slender, glabrous except at the tips. 
Leaves 4 by 3-1 in., very variable in breadth on the same branch, base cuneate ; 
petiole j in. Spikes axillary and terminal, simple or divided, 2-3 in., slender, lax, 
pubescent; lower flowers distant, mostly alternate; bracts à in., linear- lanceolate, 
pubescent. Calyx and corolla nearly as of J. vasculosa, but upper corolla-lip ovate, 
broader. Capsule 4 in., stalk soliditied.—The line between the small Justicias of or 
section and Dianthera is artificial, and the present species bas quite the habit 0 
others which have been removed by Bentham (in Herb. Kew) to Dianthera. It 18 
