Dicliptera.] CIX. ACANTHACE®. (C. D. Clarke.) 551 
larger than the calyx (except in D. parvibracteata); flowers sessile, oppo- 
site, one of each pair usually reduced to a rudimentary calyx and bracteoles ; 
bracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, as long as the calyx (except in D. 
parvibracteata). Calyx sub-5-partite; segments equal, linear-lanceolate, 
more or less pubescent. Corolla red or rose, purple-spotted, tube slender, 
limb deeply 2-lipped ; upper lip entire or emarginate, lower 3-lobed recurved. 
Stamens 2; anthers 2-celled; cells ovoid, superposed, muticous. Ovary 
4-ovulate ; style filiform, shortly bitid. Capsule clavate, stalk solid; pla- 
centae rising elastically from their base. Seeds ovoid, compressed, glabrous, 
vermcose or glandular subpapillose.—Species 60, tropics of both Hemi- 
spheres. 
Justicia chinensis, Vahl, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 124, Wall. Cat. 2466 (type sheet), 
has been long cultivated at Calcutta, having been introduced from China or Malayz ; 
it looks like an enlarged or garden form of D. Burmanni, noticed below under D. 
Leonotis, Dalz. 
* Inflorescence panicled, i. e. each pair of bracts mostly long-petioled. 
1. D. parvibracteata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 111, and in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 488; leaves ovate acuminate nearly glabrous, bracts j; in. 
linear. Justicia retorta, Vahl Enum. i. 150 ? J. latebrosa, Koen.; Hoxd. 
Fl. Ind. i. 195. 
.Mannas; Circars, Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 51 or 2014); Vizagapatam (Jaipoor 
Hills), Beddome. . 
Stem diffuse, striate, obscurely pubescent upwards. Leaves 5 by 2} in. (or E 
except the lowest small, 1—2 in.), base shortly acuminate ; petiole ] in. , Panicle 6in., 
divaricate, lax, nearly glabrous; floral leaves at the bifurcations 45-i in., linear-lan- 
ceolate; bracteoles 4; in., linear. Calyx yj in., sub-5-partite ; segments linear-lan- 
ceolate, minutely pubescent. Corolla $ in., slender, minutely pubescent. Capsule 
iin, clavate, pubescent ; placentae rising elastically.—Justicia latebrosa, Koen., has 
hever been satisfactorily recovered. The Ic. Ined. of this at Kew is D. parvibracteata ; 
à separate imperfect drawing of a capsule added in the corner perhaps not pertaining. 
But Roxburgh’s description does not suit in several points, of which * Flowers large 
is difficult to get over. A scrap in Wallich’s Herbarium, marked in old handwriting 
" Justicia latebrosa, Roxb.," is Dicliptera cuneata. 
2. D. Beddomei, Clarke; leaves ovate acuminate minutely pubescent, 
bracts 4 in. linear-oblong suddenly mucronate ciliate. 
N. Mapnas; Nallaymallays (in Kurnool), Beddome. . 
Stems diffuse, striate, glabrous except the tips. Leaves 5i by Qt n., pubescen 
neath or nearly glabrous, base acuminate; petiole 2 in. . t anicle 6 in., lax 
branches often patently white-hairy; floral leaves at the bifurcations gradually 
reduced, uppermost linear ; bracteoles 4 in., linear-lanceolate. Corolla į in., minutely 
pubescent, Capsule nearly 4 in., clavate, pubescent ; placentz rising elastically fron 
the base. Seeds verrucose. 
. 9- D. Kurzii, Clarke; patently white-hairy, leaves lanceolate, bracts 
iin. linear-lanceolate hirsute glandular-hairy. D. speciosa, Var. B only, 
Kurz in Journ, As, Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 97. 
Prev ; Kurz, 
Stem stout, striate, patently white-hairy. Leav 
ends, thinly hairy on both surfaces; petiole 4 in. 
patently White-hairy; bracts and bracteoles with glandular hammer- ; i 
"nd also white-hirsute. Corolla 4-3 in., slender, minutely hairy. Caps M A d 
clavate, pubescent, placenta rising elastically. Seeds verrucose.—Placed ou M y 
38a var, of D, speciosa by Kurz; the inflorescence is different, and the corolla is 
considerably smaller, 
es 5 by 1} in., acuminate at both 
Panicle 6-16 in., divaricate, lax, 
headed hairs, 
