556 CIX. ACANTHACEE, (C. B. Clarke.) [ Peristrophe 
Capsule  in., viscous-pubescent.—A strongly marked species; the Moulmein plant 
(P. grandiflora, Parish ms.) has the flowers hardly larger than in some examples 
trom Silhet. 
5. P. speciosa, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 113, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 495; leaves ovate-lanceolate or elliptic acute nearly glabrous, 
floral leaves mostly large, bracts linear-oblong not acute nearly glabrous 
many widened upwards, corolla 13 in. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Sor 
ix. 521. Justicia speciosa, orb. FL. Ind. i. 122; Bot. Mag. t. 2722; Wall. 
Cat. 2464; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1915. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan, frequent; 
Wallich, &c. SiLHET STATION; Clarke. 
Leaves 5 by 2 in., base rhomboid or acute; petiole 1 in, Floral leaves often 
1-2 in., so that the flower-clusters often appear terminal or axillary subeapitate rather 
than panicled; bracts 2$ by }—} in., subobtuse, sometimes spathulate, tips oiten 
recurved. Anther-cells linear-oblong, one superposed half its length. 
6. P. montana, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 113, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 493, partly ; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends subglabrous, 
bracts large elliptic glabrous nervose, corolla 24 in. Wight Ic. t. 1553; A 
Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 591. Justicia sylvestris, Wall. Cat. 
2468. 
W. Deccan PENINSULA from the Concan southward, and CEYLON, frequent; 
Wight, &c. . n 
Leaves 9j by 1$ in. raphides very slender on both surfaces; petiole Hu ae 
Bracts 3 by 3-4 in., obtuse or minutely apiculate, not acuminate. Filaments Ji i 
cent ; anther-cells linear, one half its length below the other.— Described from E ; 
Herb. Propr. n. 2017, its type (named in Nees’ hand) ; and includes all the S. India 
examples of Nees and T. Anderson, not their Khasi material. 
7. P. tinctoria, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 113, and in DC. Prodr. 
xi. 493? ; dusky-puberulous, leaves short-petioled ovate subacute not largo, 
bracts elliptic subacute nervose not ciliate, corolla 14in. slender. T. An a 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 521, partly. Justicia tinctoria, Roxb. FL. Ind. 1. 
12; Wall. Cat. 2465. J. Roxburghiana, Roem. & Sch. Syst. Mant. 1. 
Inia; cultivated frequently from Assam to CeyLton.—D1stTRIB. Malaya, S.E. 
Asia ; where wild not known. lous 
Leaves 2-3 by 1-1} in.; lower petioles rarely exceeding } in., dusky-puberu ne 
Bracts 3 by 4 in., somewhat nervose, dusky-puberulous. Anther-cells linear, i d 
superposed for half its length. Capsule hardly 4 in., shortly stalked.—A well-mar e : 
cultivated form, described from Roxburgh’s and Wallich's specimens. Nees T 
diagnosed his P. tinctoria so as expressly to exclude (by the ciliate bracts, &c.) for 
the examples; so that the name P. tinctoria, Nees, can only be understood to rete 
to some of Nees’ synonyms. The figure of Dianthera japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 
21,t. 4, cited by Nees for this species, is a Dicliptera, and with it much of Nees 
synonymy falls to the ground, 
8. P. fera, Clarke; leaves long-petioled ovate-lanceolate acuminate 
more or less pubescent, bracts elliptic often elongate nervose ciliate often 
hairy, corolla lj in. P. montana, Var. B sylvestris, Nees in DC. Prodr. 
xi. 493 (as to the N. Indian examples) P. tinctoria, Nees L. c. as to descr. 
only; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 521, chiefly. Justicia acuminata, 
Wall. Cat. 2425, left example on type sheet.—Peristrophe sp., Grif. Itin. 
Notes, 36, n. 596. 
EASTERN FRONTIER Bhotan, Griffith. Assam and KHASIA Mrs., alt. 1-4000 ft., 
common, H. f. & T., &c. 
