Dianthera.] CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. D. Clarke.) 543 
: minute subulate glabrous. Justicia Griffithii, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ix. 516. 
MisHMEE Hrrprs; Griffith (fide T. Anderson). 
A glabrous herb; stem terete, base woody, upwards herbaceous tetragonous. 
leaves 4-10 by 2-4 in.; base decurrent. ^ Panicles with elongate, ascending 
branches; flowers remote, opposite, solitary, sessile. Sepals 5,linear. Corolla lin. 
tube ventricose; limb 5-partite, green, lower lip spotted red. Ovary 4-ovulate. 
papule a little longer than the corolla, subclavate at the tip, acute (T. Anderson).— 
ot seen. 
** Flowers 4 in. or more, many distinctly pedicelled. 
5. D. collina, Clarke; leaves ovate nearly glabrous, panicles terminal 
and axillary, anther-cells muticous distant superposed. Justicia collina, 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 515. 
SikKIM and Buoray, alt. 5-7000 ft.; Griffith, H. f. 4 T, &. Kuasta MTS., 
alt. 4000 ft. ; Griffith. 
A diffuse herb, 1-2 ft., branches puberulous. Leaves 3 by 13 in. acute, base 
cuneate or of the upper leaves almost rounded; petiole 1 in., or of the upper leaves 
Sometimes 0, Cymes few-fid., running into an elongate terminal panicle by the 
gradual reduction of the leaves into bracts ; proper bract hardly 4, in., linear ; pedicels 
0-4 in. ; bracteoles minute or 0. Sepals } in., linear, green, glabrous. Corolla 3 in., 
white, nearly glabrous; tube elongate cylindric. Capsule 3 in., clavate, glabrous, 
4-seeded. Seeds verrucose-scaly, obscurely hispidulous. 
6. D. dichotoma, Clarke; leaves ovate acute nearly glabrous, 
panicles terminal minutely pubescent, anther-cells maticous one superposed 
or half its length. Justicia dichotoma, Blume Bijd. 783; T. Anders. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 516. Rhaphidospora dichotoma, Nees in DC. Prodr. 
x. 500. Leptostachya dichotoma, Wees l. c. 379. Peristrophe dichotoma, 
Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 152. 
CEYLON (fide T. Anderson).—DrsrRrB. Java, Philippines. | 
uch resembling D. collina, the corolla rather more ventricose and rose-purple.— 
ere is no Ceylon example of this at Kew. We may suppose that T. Anderson had 
seen such at Calcutta; C. P. 2718, which he quotes, is certainly not this plant. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
, D.? INDICA ; leaves scarcely 1 in. rhomboid-ovate acute hairy, flowers congested 
into axillary and terminal decompound globose or oblong spikes, spikelets by suppres- 
‘on mostly 1-fld. supported by a lanceolate often empty bract. Rhytiglossa ? indica, 
awra in Oestr. Bot. Zeit. 1881, 281, and Bot. Reis. Pr. S. Cob. 82, t. 9, fig. A. 
ARWHAL; at Mussoorie, alt. 4000 ft., Wawra. . 
An undershrub ; branches prostrate, variously twisted and incurved. Uppermost 
bract sterile, with the fertile valvately enclosing the single flower of the spikelet ; 
racteoles linear-setaceous, similar to the calyx-segments. Corolla ringent, rose, 
hairy; tube as long as the calyx ; lips as long as the tube, upper ovate, emarginate ; 
lower longer, cuneately 3-lobed. Filaments flattened ; anther-cells superposed, ov ates 
wuticous. Style capillary, elongate after flowering, bifid. Ovary 4-ovulate.—Not 
Seen. I know of no woody prostrate Acanthaceous plant at Mussoorie, and do no 
Understand the bracts as described. 
XLII. PTYSSIGLOT'TIS, T. Anders. 
Spikes peduncled, 
A small, procumbent herb. Leaves ovate, entire. segments 
few-fd, ; bracts and bracteoles linear. Calyx sub-5-partite; 
