Ecbolium.] CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 545 
S. DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON. MALACCA; Maingay.—DISTRIB. Arabia, 
Abyssinia, Madagascar. 
Branches pubescent upwards. Leaves 4 by 13 in., cuneate or rhomboid at both 
ends, puberulous or pubescent on the nerves; petiole 4 in. Spikes 2} by 3 in., dense; 
bracts 2 by 3-3 in., sometimes softly hairy; bracteoles scarcely i in., sublinear. 
Calyx i in, pubescent. Corolla pubescent; tube 1-1} by j; in.; lobes } in. 
Stamens glabrous, except the base of the filaments; anther-cells submucronate at the 
base. Ovary hairy at the tip. Capsule-stalk } in., linear-cylindrie, seed-bearing 
part $ in. diam. Seeds 1 in. diam., pale-coloured.— This, the typical form, is stated 
by Wight to be frequent in S. Madras, but there is very little of it in the 
Herbarium. 
VAR. rotundifolia; leaves sessile ovate or roundish, bracts subdentate often with 
à very short acumination. Justicia rotundifolia, Nees ll. c. —Coimbatore; Wight, 
nn. 2008, 2266.—A woody undershrub, with shortened internodes and smaller leaves; 
Wight’s are the only examples at Kew. 
Var. letevirens; glabrescent, leaves larger petioled broadly lanceolate acute at 
both ends, spikes often 6-8 in. more lax, bracts 3 by 3 in. broadly lanceolate entire 
dusky-pubescent. Justicia letevirens, Vahl Enum. i. 118; Nees in DC. Prodr. 
xi, 427.—S. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon.—This appears the common South 
Indian form, and when the bracts become denticulate it passes by degrees into 
e next. 
Var. dentata ; glabrescent, leaves larger petioled ovate or lanceolate acute, spikes 
dense, bracts ł by ł—4 in. ovate acuminate toothed. Justicia dentata, Klein; Nees 
in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 108, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 427. J. livida, Nees in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 427 ; Wight Ic. t. 1546.—Bengal, Assam and Pegu, very common, W. 
Deccan Peninsula, Wight, Ritchie.—The Bengal form has glabrate thin bracts, and 
a lurid or steely green-blue corolla. The Malabar form should perhaps be referred to 
ar. letevirens, 
XLV. GRAPTOPHYLLUM, Nees. 
Glabrous shrubs. Leaves often variegated. Flowers pedicelled, clustered; 
Clusters forming terminal thyrses ; bracts and bracteoles very small, narrow. 
Calyx small, sub-5-partite; segments equal, linear-lanceolate. Corolla-tube 
curved ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip shortly 2-fid, lower 3-lobed. Stamens 2, 
minute staminodes added; anthers oblong, 2-celled ; cells parallel, muti- 
“ous. Ovary 4-ovulate; style filiform, scarcely bifid. — Capsule oblong, hard, 
contracted into a long stalk. Seeds usually 2, orbicular or subquadrate, 
Compressed flat, lacunose-rugose.—Species 4, Australian or Pacific, one long 
time cultivated. 
. G. hortense, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 102, and in DC. Prodr. 
X. 328; leaves petioled broadly elliptic narrowed at both ends entire, 
corolla l-lj in. crimson. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 523. G. 
pictum, Griff Notul. iv. 139. Justicia picta, Linn. ; Rowh. Fl. Ind. i. 117; 
Wall. Cat. 2438; Blume Bijd. 784; Blanco Fl. Filip. 12; Bot. Mag. 
t. 1870; Bot. Reg. t. 1927 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 71.—Rheede 
Hort, Mal. vi. t.60. Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. t. 30. 
Throughou ultivated ; where wild, uncertain. . 
Leaves 4} Wd a petiole d m. Pedicels often 4 in. Calyx } in. The 
*scription of the capsule and seeds is taken from ** Gen. Plant.’ 
XLVI. RUNGIA, Nees. 
Diffuse or erect herbs, or shrubs. Leaves entire. Spikes dense, terminal 
or axillary, l.sided ; bracts 2-ranked, or 4-ranked, with 2 of the € 
Often flowerless ; flowering bracts often scarious-margined; bracteoles 
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