Justicia.] CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 539 
49. J. simplex, Don Prodr.118 (not Rostellularia simplex, Wight) ; 
leaves petioled ovate hairy or oblong, spikes cylindric dense hairy, bracts 
elliptic shortly acute scarious-marginate, sepals lanceolate acute hairy nearly 
to their base. J. orbiculata, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 512; partly. 
J. mollissima, Wall. Cat. 2445. J. procumbens, Wall. Cat. 2441, partly; 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 40, not of Linn. Rostellularia rotundi- 
folia & mollissima, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 100, 101, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 370, 373, partly. | R. abyssinica, Brongn., and glandulosa, Nees in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 372, 373. 
Westrrn INDIA, alt. 2-5000 ft., in the hills, common ; from Kashmir, Scinde 
Hills (Stocks), Nepal (Wallich), to the Nilgherries. Abundant in CENTRAL INDIA 
and Cora NAGPORE.—DISTRIB. Abyssinia, Maylaya to the Loochoo Isles. 
Herbaceous, hairy, branched; branches sometimes long as in Wallich’s Nepal 
examples, whence D. Don took his unfortunate name. Spikes much broader and 
more hairy than in any var. of J. diffusa. Bracts usually as long as the calyx, green- 
keeled, very hairy with glistening many-jointed tawny or whiteish hairs.—Near J. 
procumbens, differing in its bracts; it is very uniform to its character, but the 
synonymy is uncertain, as the abundant examples are marked “crinita, peploides,” &c., 
and the Abyssinian examples have several names. . 
VAR. serpyllifolia, Benth. ms. in Hohenack. n. 571; very small, leaves spikes 
bracts and flowers smaller.—Throughout the Deccan from Chota Nagpore to 8. 
Madras, frequent.— Leaves 4 in. diam., elliptic or round, obtuse or subacute. Spikes 
1 by b in. ; bracts y$- in., elliptic or broadly lanceolate, fulvous-hirsute.—Regarded 
by Bentham as a var. of J. procumbens, Linn. 
50. J. procumbens, Linn. FI. Zeyl. 19; leaves petioled elliptic or 
lanceolate hairy or glabrate, spikes cylindric dense hirsute, bracts linear- 
lanceolate acute, sepals sublinear acute hirsute nearly their whole length. 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 132, partly; Wall. Cat. 2441, partly ; T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 511, partly; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 949, with Australian syn. 
J. micrantha, Wall. Cat. 2449, chiefly. J. hirtella, Wall. Cat. 2448. Ros- 
tellularia, procumbens, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 101, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 371, partly (excl. all Himalayan examples); Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
FI. 193. R. adenostachya, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 101, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 373. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA with CEYLON, frequent; extending north to the S. Concan. 
—Distris. Malaya, Australia.—Separated from J. simplex by the narrower bracts ; 
p Character which at all events suits the geography better than the distinctions put 
orward by Nees, and accepted by T. Anderson. 
Var. latispica, Clarke: stouer, spikes larger, bracts and corolla longer. Rostel- 
lularia procumbens, Wight Ie. t. 1539. R. mollissima, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 373, 
partly —Mts. of S. India and Ceylon, common, Khasia Mts. and adjacent parts 
of Assam, frequent. Pegu and Tenasserim.—Bracts 3-3 by d; in., hispid-ciliate. 
Corolla j-iin. Capsule 3-1 in.—The type of this var. is Wight Ic. t. 1539 (excel- 
lent), which shows the narrow bracts very correctly, and represents the common 
: lgherry form: from this the Khasian and Malayan forms cannot be distinguished. 
In Ceylon a larger, more woody form is frequent ; this is marked by Nees R. procum- 
ens § grandiflora. The objection to calling this plant mollissima is that t e type 
° A mollissima (and J. orbiculata) was the round-leaved hairy Var. vestita o 
: (fusa, 
SPECIES NOT SEEN. 
J. BIFLORA, Vahl Symb. ii. 9 ; leaves ovate, peduncles axillary 2.fld. as long as 
leaves, bracts subulate, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 428. 
NDIA; Schumacher. . 
branched undershrub. Leaves 1 in., but little attenua 
gla rous; petiole lax, lower as long as the leaves. Peduncles 
the 
te, base acute, very 
filiform ; 2 petioled 
