Dicliptera ACANTHACEAE-PLANTAGINACEAE Phrymd 



1. Dicliptera japonica (Thunb.) Mak. (D. crinita (Thunb.) Nees) AMM^M (Chiu 

 T'ou Shih Tzu Ts'ao; Nine-headed-lion Herb) (Mak. F.124:F.H.E. 2:248). Erect or 

 spreading herb, to 5 dm.; fls. in unequal pairs, pink, VII. Japan, China; locally 

 in An., Che., Hun., Hup., Ki., Ku. Woodland shade. 



There is considerable confusion as to the relationship of Dicliptera japonica (Thunb.) Mak. 

 (D. crinita (Thunb.) Nees) and Chinese material identified in recent years as representing 

 Peristrophe bivalvis (L.) Merr. (P. tinctoria Nees). It is suspected that eventually the material 

 from both Japan and China may be found to belong in Peristrophe. 



2. Justicia Linn. ff-JftK (Chio Ch'uang Shu) 

 Herbs or shrubs with entire lvs. and sessile fls. often in spikes or panicles, some- 

 times in scattered clusters; corolla 2-lipped, not long-exserted ; stamens 2; anther 

 cells spurred at the base; filaments hairy near the base; capsule 4-seeded; seeds 

 tubercular, scaly or hairy. 250 species, tropical; 10 in China. (Named after James 

 Justice, Scotch gardner, author of "British Gardner's Director", 1754.) 



Key to the Species 



Fls. in dense terminal or axillary spikes; bracts and calyx segments 



awl-shaped 1 • J- procumbens 



Fls. in loose terminal or axillary fascicles; bracts ovate to orbicular .. 2. J. championi 



1. Justicia procumbens Linn, g-jft (Chio Ch'uang; Wine-cup Saucer) (Mak. F. 124), 

 Decumbent annual; fls. bluish, purplish, VII-X. Eastern Asia; locally in An.. 

 Che., Hun., Hup., Ki., Ku. Roadsides, waste places. Fig. 342. 



2. Justicia championi T. Anders, ex Benth. (Adhatoda chinensis Benth.) (Be. F. 264). 

 Weak herb, to lm.; fls. white, VIII. Southeastern Asia; locally in Hun., Hup., 

 Ki. Damp shade. 



160. PHRYMACEAE Lopseed Family M^W-Q (Ying Tu Ts'ao K'o) 



A perennial herb with opposite simple coarsely-toothed lvs. and small purplish or 

 rose -colored fls. in slender terminal spikes; calyx and corolla 2-lipped; stamens in- 

 cluded; fls. strongly reflexed in fr.: fr. dry, one-celled and one-seeded. Only the 

 following genus. (Derivation of the name unknown.) 



1. Phryma Linn. Lopseed JHH^M (Ying Tu Ts'ao Shu) 

 Characters of the family. One species, in eastern Asia and eastern North 

 America. 



1. Phryma leptostachya Linn. ffi^tv (Ying Tu Ts'ao; Poisonous-fly-plant) (G.M. 1313). 

 Erect herb, to lm.; fls. purplish, VII-VIII. Eastern Asia, eastern North America; 

 locally in An., Ku. Woodland. Fig. 343. 



161. PLANTAGINACEAE Plantain Family JpLfij.fif (Ch'e Ch'ien K'o) 



Mostly stemless herbs with basal lvs. and small greenish often dimorphous fls. in 

 dense terminal scapose spikes; fls. 4-merous; corolla membranous, veinless, gamopetalous; 

 stamens on the corolla tube; ovary superior, 2-4-celled: fr. a circumscissile capsule 

 (ours) or indehiscent. 3 genera with 200 species, in all parts of the world; one genus 

 and 4 species in China. 



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