322 AcantJiacece. [Crossandra, 



fl. small, sessile, numerous, in close terminal and axillary- 

 spikes, bracts and bractlets equal and similar, linear, 

 glandular-pubescent ; sep. about h in., much longer than 

 bracts, outer pair oblong, parallel-veined, glandular-pubescent, 

 one rather longer and acuminate, the other deeply bifid, inner 

 ones linear ; cor.-tube i-f in., funnel-shaped, limb i-f in. 

 diam., lobes rounded ; anth. purple; capsule f in., compressed, 

 pointed, slightly pubescent ; seeds 4, circular, very flat. 



Moist region, 2000-3000 ft. ; rare? Alagala; Hantane. Fl. Jan.; pale 

 violet with white tube. 

 Endemic. 



8. B. nitida, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. qi (1832). 

 Thw. Enum. 443. Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 66. C. P. 3849. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 490 (not given for Ceylon). Wight, Ic. t. 454. 



Shrubby, twigs coarsely adpressed-hairy ; 1. small, i\-2k 

 in., oval, acute at both ends, nearly glabrous above, coarsely 

 hairy on veins beneath, conspicuously lineolate, petiole \ in.; 

 fl. rather small, sessile, in short dense terminal capitulate 

 spikes, bractlets nearly i in., oval, acute, pectinate-ciliate, 

 membranous, veined, with coarse strigose hair on the veins 

 outside, glabrous within ; outer pair of sep. quite similar to 

 the bractlets, inner ones | in., oblong-linear, obtuse, hairy ; 

 cor.-tube f in., slender, limb about i in. diam., lobes rounded ; 

 capsule not seen. 



Dry country ; very rare. Trincomalie (Glenie). 



Also in S. India. 



The specimens are very poor, and scarcely sufficient for description. 



15. CROSSANDRA, 5.;/. 



Undershrub, 1. opp. or in whorls of 4, fl. moderate-sized, 

 sessile in dense stalked axillary spikes, bracts lanceolate, 

 much imbricate, bractlets linear ; sep. 5, linear or lanceolate, 

 very thin, 2 inner smaller ; cor.-tube long, slender, limb split 

 down back and forming a single flattened lip, obtusely 

 5-lobed ; stam. 4, included in cor.-tube, anth. small, i -celled ; 

 stigma slightly 2-lipped ; capsule oblong-ovoid, acute ; seeds 

 4, orbicular, compressed, densely covered with large scarious 

 scales, retinacula much curved. — Sp. 5 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



C. undulaefolia, Salisb. Parad. Land. t. 12 (1806). 

 C. infundibuliformis., Nees, 1. c. 280. Thw. Enum. 231. C. P. 255, 

 2016. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 492. Wight, I c. t. 461. Bot. Mag. t. 2186. 



A small undershrub, branches ascending, cylindrical, 



