550 CIX. ACANTHACEH. (C. D. Clarke.) [Run gia. 
Calyx | in.; segments linear-lanceolate, pubescent. 4ntAer-cells superposed, lower 
white-tailed. Capsule 1in,, puberulous. Seeds small, minutely verrucose. 
16. R. parviflora, Nees i» Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 110, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 469, excl. syn.; leaves small ovate or lanceolate nearly glabrous, 
bracts dimorphic barren-elliptic or oblong subobtuse striate hardly margined, 
fertile obovate glabrous scarious-margined ciliate, bracteoles elliptic scarcely 
acute, corolla i in. R. repens, T. Anders. in Journ. Linu. Soc. ix. 518 
partly, not of Nees. R. longifolia, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 266, not of Nees. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA; Wight (2011, 2285 Herb. Propr.). CEYLON; Thwaites 
(C. P., nn. 257, 3354). 
A small, ramous weed. Lower leaves 1 by 4—4 in., petioled, ovate, upper narrow 
sometimes linear. Spikes 3 by 1 in., nearly all terminal, markedly 1-sided ; barren 
bracts not cuspidate. Capsule 4 in. ; seeds small, minutely verrucose.— This, the 
typical R. parviflora, Nees, appears a very rare plant ; Nees, however, referred 
numerous specimens with the fertile bracts hairy all over to R. parvifiora, but 
which are R. pectinata, Nees, as far as the description goes. . 
Var, pectinata; flowerless bracts mucronate often cuspidate flowering hairy. R. 
pectinata, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 470; Wight Ic. t. 1547; T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn, Soe. ix. 517. R. parviflora, Nees l. e. partly; Griff. Notul. iv. 144; Dalz. 
& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 195. R. polygonoides, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 110, and 
Cat.7181, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 471 ; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 196. Justicia pectinata, 
Linn. Amen, Acad. iv. 299; Lamk. Til. i. t. 12, fig. 8; Roxb. Corom. Pl. ii. 29, 
t. 153, and Fl. Ind. i. 183; Wall. Cat. 2458. J. parviflora, Retz Obs. v. 9. J. 
infracta, Vahl Enum. i. 155.—Throughout India, from the Himalaya to Ceylon and 
Pegu, a universal weed.— Usually ramous. Leaves 3 by 4 in. ; petiole j in. Spikes 
1 by } in, terminal and axillary, clustered, subsessile, distinct)y 1-sided ; barren 
bracts % by 44 in., scarcely margined ; fertile y; in. diam., orbicular, apiculate, scarious- 
marginate, hairy on back as well as on margins; bracteoles 4, in., elliptic, subacute. 
Calyx js in.; segments linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla blue or whiteish, upper 
lip short. Anther-cells superposed, lower white-tailed.—The area of this abardant 
plant should perhaps be extended to Java, &c., but the examples thence (Dicliptera 
cerulea, Blume Bijd. 791) differ considerably from all the Indian material, which is 
very uniform in character, the size of the heads and bracts varying a little. 
Van. muralis; spikes very dense, barren bracts ovate acute hardly longer than 
the fertile. KR. muralis, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 470.—S. Deccan Peninsula; 
Hohenacker, n. 18, &c. Chittagong; J. D. H., &e. Distrib. Ava.—Spikes some- 
times 13 by 2 in., densely strobiliform. 
VAR. origanoides ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, spikes dense narrow, barren bracts 
orbicular scarious-margined very hairy on the back nearly as the fertile. R. ori- 
ganoides, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 110, and Caf. 7182, and in DC. Prodr. 
xi. 471.—Pegu; Wallich. 
SPECIES NOT SEEN. 
R. MASTERSI, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 519; glabrons, leaves long- 
petioled ovate, spikes terminal ternate or panicled lax, bracts remote alternate spathu- 
late-linear obtuse, corolla small. 
A88AM ; banks of R. Soonder, Masters. . 
Herbaceous, larger than the other species of the genus. Leaves (including petiole) 
5-8 by 12-2 in., minutely lineolate, pale beneath. Spikes 3-6 in., more or less 
secund, glabrous or pubescent ; bracts $ by 4 in., mostly linear, obtuse, glabrous ; 
bracteoles as the bracts or ovate acute glumaceous, Corolla } in., glabrous. Cap- 
sule 4 in., sparsely puberulous or pubescent (T. Anderson). ` 
XLVIL DI CLIPTERA, Juss. 
Diffuse herbs. Leaves ovate, acute, entire or obscurely undulate. 
Inflorescence cy mose, clustered or panicled ; proper bracts opposite, unequal, 
