Rungia.] CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 547 
petioled ovate or broad-lanceolate, spikes ovoid or oblong dense often 
clustered, bracts roundly obovate margined hairy, bracteoles obovate 
margined, corolla 4 in. Wight Ic. t. 1548; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Ix. 518 (except the Ceylon plant). R. longifolia, T. Anders. in Thwaites 
Enum, 235, partim. 
Mrs. of S. Deccan PENINSULA; Wight, Gardner, &c. 
Stems herbaceous, hairy. Leaves 2? by 14 in., cuneate at both ends ; petiole } in. 
Spikes 1 by 4 in.; bracts obscurely 4-seriate (many barren more: or less unlike the 
fertile), 4 by 4 in, obtuse rarely apiculate; bracteoles similar to- the bracts, but 
smaller. Calyx $ in.; segments linear-lanceolate, softly hairy. Anther-cells super- 
posed, lower white-tailed. Capsule & in. nearly glabrous. Seeds small, minutely 
glandular-verrucose, ultimately glabrous.—This is not allied to R. repens as Nees 
supposed, but may be a var. of R. longifolia, as T. Anderson first supposed. 
5. R. longifolia, Nees & Arn. in DC. Prodr. xi. 471, excl. Philippine 
erample, not of Beddome ; nearly glabrous, leaves linear-lanceolate, spikes 
shortly oblong often clustered, bracts biform. fertile roundly obovate 
marginate minutely pubescent, corolla j in. Z Anders. im Journ. Linn. 
Boc. ix. 517, chiefly. 
CEYLON; Walker, &c. 
Leaves 4 by 4 in. Flowerless bracts in 2 ranks on: one side of the spike, ovate- 
anceolate, obscurely margined. Otherwise as R. /atior, from which this typical form 
of R. longifoliu is easily separable: not so the 
Var. latifolia, Wight ms.; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, barren bracts 
few less distinctly 2-ranked less unlike the fertile. R. latior, Nees & T. Anders. in 
herb. partim.—Ceylon, numerous examples. S. Travancore; Beddome,—I follow 
Wight (in preference to Nees and T. Anderson) in regarding all the Ceylon forms as 
one species, of which the S. Indian is am allied species, or a variety. T. Anderson 
divided Thwaites n. 89 between R. latior and R. longifolia, depending upon the 
breadth of the leaves alone. 
6. R. crenata, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 618; leaves petioled 
ovate-lanceolate sparsely hairy, spikes short dense 1-sided, bracts markedly 
iform barren oblong acute mucronate fertile orbicular marginate, corolla 
bin. Rungia sp. n. 9, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
W. DECCAN PENINSULA; Canara, Law ; Concan, Stocks; Belgaum, Ritchie. 
Stem herbaceous, ramous, nearly glabrous. Leaves 2j by 1 in., base shortly 
acuminate, sparsely laxly hairy on both surfaces, finally scabrid lineolate glubrate 
petiole 1 in, Spikes 1 by 3 in., terminal, or sessile quasi-axillary clustered ; flowerless 
bracts in 2 regular series on one side the spike, $ by 45 in., green, striate, not or very 
narrowly margined ; flowering bracts } in. diam., somewhat hairy ; bracteoles $ in., 
obovate, scarious-margined. Calyx } in.; segments linear-lanceolate, pubescent. 
apsule scarcely | in., pubescent.—Allied to R. parviflora, Nees, but with much longer 
Owerless bracts. 
7. R. stolonifera, Clarke; leaves petioled ovate minutely scabrid- 
Pubescent, bracts ovate minutely hairy, calyx glabrous, corolla too 
-3 iw, anther-cells white-tailed. Dicliptera sp. n. 14, Herb. zt . Or. 
‘SI-§ T. Justicia sp. (Sect. Rostellularia), Benth, ms. in Herb. Kew. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt, 2-5000 ft.; H. f. & T, &c. 
Stems 18 in., roce rooting, branched ; many small-leaved poils i branches 
70M the lower nodes. Leaves 1-3 by §-14 in., cuneate at both ends, undula e ike 
mes sinuate, with few minute scattered hairs on both surfaces; petiole $ m. su pul 
bette terminal and quasi-axillary, imperfectly 2-4-farious; bracts j by 3 Calyx 
obtuse, scarious-margined ; bracteoles oblong, nearly as long as the bracts. al 
i - lb 
‘+, deeply 5-purtite ; segments narrowly lanceolate, scarious. Corolle tube 4 by 
