554 CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. D. Clarke.) [ Dicliptera. 
bupleuroides in the broader, more or less obovate, bracts. Nees founded his species 
on the common Assam and E. Bengal plant, and the original ticket on his type 
specimen is marked Assam. Bentham, however (in Fl. Hongk. 266), says this was an 
error, and that this type specimen came from the Calcutta Botanic Garden; but it is 
not known how Bentham discovered this. Nees, however, is in error in citing Rox- 
burgh’s Justicia chinensis, for Roxburgh’s Ic, Ined. proves this to have been the true 
plant, long cultivated at Calcutta. uU 
Var. bupleuroides, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 111, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 485, 
excl. syn. Roxb. (sp.); leaves ovate or elliptic acute or acuminate glabrous or somewhat 
pubescent, flower-clusters dense axillary and terminal mostly sessile, bracts linear 
or linear-oblong nearly parallel-sided acuminate cuspidate. D. cardiocarpa, Nees ?n 
Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 111, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 480. D. hirtula, Nees in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 485. D. Roxburghii, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 519, chiefly. 
D. Roxburghiana, Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 526, not of Nees. D. rupestris, Nees in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 486. D. crinita, Nees l. c. 485, as to the Indian examples so named by 
Nees. Justicia chinensis, Wall. Cat. 2466, letter B, C partly; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 
125, Obs. only. J. canescens, Wall. Cat. 2423.—Throughout India in the hills, 
alt. 1-6000 ft., abundant in the north, becoming rare in the Malabar Ghauts ; 1D the 
Himalaya from Kashmir to Upper Assam and the Chittagong Hills; Mt. Aboo, Stocks; 
Central India. Distrib. Affghanistan.—A large very uniform series, varying only 
slightly in the pubescence of the bracts. In the extreme forms the bracts are ł by 
y in., glistening ciliate, and in some of Beddome’s Malabar specimens they are almost 
subulate. Though the bracts are often broader than in these, the plant as a whole is 
tolerably well separable from D. Roxburghiana. 
XLVIII. PERISTROPHE, Vees. 
Erect, spreading herbs. Leaves entire. Flower-clusters axillary or ter- 
minal, often panicled by the reduction of the floral leaves; bracts 1-4 
together, linear or ovate, longer (rarely shorter) than the calyx ; bracteoles 
linear-lanceolate, shorter than the bracts. Calyx deeply 5-lobed ; segments 
equal, linear-lanceolate. Corolla rose or purple; tube slender, limb deeply 
2-lipped, upper lip subentire, lower very shortly 3-lobed. Stamens 2; 
filaments pubescent below ; anthers 2-celled, cells linear (or in P. bicalyce- 
lata ovoid), muticous, one higher than the other or distant. Ovary 4- 
ovulate; style filiform, minutely bifid. Capsule ellipsoid, stalked, usually 
4-seeded, more or less dusky pubescent. Seeds ovoid, compressed, glabrous 
minutely glandular-papillose, scarcely verrucose.— Species 15, from Tropica 
and S. Africa to New Caledonia and S. Japan. 
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1. P. bicalyculata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 113, and in DC 
Prodr. xi. 496; thinly patently hairy, leaves ovate acuminate, panicle lax 
divaricate, bracts linear or linear-spathnlate acute mucronate,’corolla jin 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl.197 ; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 521. i 
Kotschyana, Nees l. e, 197. Justicia bicalyculata, Vahl Symb. ii. 13; 
Rowb. Fl. Ind. i. 126; Blume Bijd. 783; Wall. Cat. 2457. J. ligulata, 
Lamk. Til. t. 12, fig. 2; Cav. Ic. t. i. 52, t. 71. Dianthera malabaricâ, 
Linn. f. Suppl. 85. b. bicalyculata, Retz in Act. Holm. 1775, 297, t. 9,an 
Obs. i. 10. Ruellia paniculata, Linn. Herb. 
Troricat and SUBTROPICAL INDIA; from the Punjab and Scinde to Assam 
pegu and Madras, very common; not known from Ceylon.—Drisrmis. Tropica 
rica, 
Leaves 2 by 1 in.; petiole 4 in. Each pair of proper bracts long-petioled ; 
bracts 4 by gg in. unequal. Anther-cells ovoid, remote, resembling those 0 
Dicliptera, not of other Peristrophes. Capsule 4-4 in. Seeds minutely glandular- 
papillose, 
