Peristrophe.) CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 557 
Leaves 44 by 13 in.; raphides obscure or 0; petiole (of the middle cauline leaves) 
often exceeding 1 in. Bracts $ by 3 in., often obtusely acuminate. Corolla much 
broader than in 2. tinctoria.—Possibly the wild form of P. tinctoria. Nees, after 
diagnosing his P. montana as having non-ciliate bracts, has thus named examples of 
P. fera with intensely ciliate bracts. 
VaR. intermedia ; bracts more hairy, flowers smaller.—Chittagong, alt. 1000 ft. ; 
H.f.4 T. Pegu; Kurz. Tenasserim; Beddome.— This has been named P. jalap- 
pe@folia, Nees, but the corolla is much smaller than in the Malay examples of that 
species. It is suspiciously intermediate between the P. acuminata var. fragilis and 
P.fera; and both plants were collected by Beddome on the slopes of Mooleyit in 
Tenasserim ; the corolla is the same size in both, and the only difference between 
them is that in Var. intermedia the bracts are 1 in. broad and hairy, but in P. acumi- 
nata var. fragilis 4 in. broad and glabrous. 
XLIX. HYPOESTES, Z. Br. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Flower-clusters spiked, 
capitellate or rarely solitary; bracts 2-4 together, free or united at base, 
enclosing 1-4 flowers, of which all but lare usually reduced or obsolete ; 
bracteoles shorter than the bracts, narrow. Calyx very small (or in H. 
lanata nearly equalling the bracteoles), deeply 5-lobed, scarious or mem- 
branous; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla pink purple or white (in the 
Indian species); tube slender, limb 2-partite; upper lip subentire, lower 
very shortly 3-lobed. Stamens 2; anthers l-celled, muticous. Ovary 
4-celled ? ; style filiform, scarcely bifid at the tip. Capsule ellipsoid, 
stalked, usually 4-seeded. Seeds ovoid, compressed, glabrous, in the Indian 
species verrucose.—Species 70, from Tropical and S. Africa, the Himalaya, 
China and Australia. 
Hypoestes purpurea, R. Br., Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 114 (Justieia pur- 
Bena Wall. Cat. 2473), is a Malay Archipelago plant, cultivated from long ago in 
nga . 
l. H. lanata, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 343; leaves elliptic 
acuminate entire nearly glabrous, spikes elongate interrupted softly hairy 
axillary and running into large terminal panicles, bracts distinct linear, 
corolla lin. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 197; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ix, 522, 
Concan Guauts; Law, Dalzell. . 
. An undershrub. Leaves 5 by 12 in., minutely lineolate on both surfaces ; „petiole 
ł in., sometimes winged. Spikes 6 in. and upwards; flowers mostly in opposite dis- 
tant clusters, each cluster consisting of 1-3 bracts and 1 (with 1 or 2 reduced) flower : 
bracts 2-4 in., very hairy. Calyx Vin. hairy. Capsule nearly 3 in., stalked, pubes- 
cent. Seeds verrucose.—Habit very remote from Hypoestes, superficially resembling 
Strobilanthes perfoliatus, but the corolla and stamens are typical Hypoestes. 
2. H. triflora, Roem. & Sch. Syst. i. 88; leaves ovate somewhat hairy 
on both surfaces, flower-clusters capitellate axillary and terminal, bracts 
narrowly obovate subobtuse, corolla scarcely 3 in. Nees in DO. Prodr. Xl. 
906; T Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 522. H. Wallichii, Nees in Wall. 
Pl. As. Rar. iii. 114. Justicia chinensis, Wall. Cat. 2466, letter E. 
" NEPAL; Wallich; Tambur River, alt. 1-3000 ft., J. D. H. SIKKIM and BHOTAN, 
ait. 4-7000 ft., Clarke, Grifith.—DIsTRIB. Abyssinia. 
Herbaceous, ramous. ten attaining 34 by 2 in., mostly much smaller, PA 
or denticulate, sparsely hairy above, pubescent beneath ; petiole li im. per, 
Clusters 1-5 (often 3) together, subsessile; bracts opposite, paired, flower lar cols te 
each pair nearly always 0 or much reduced; bracteoles }-} in., linear-lanceolate, 
