326 Acailthacece. lAndrographis. 



Low country to 3000 ft.; rather common. Fl. Feb. -June; white, cal. 

 and ped. deep purple. 

 Also in S India. 



iS. ANDROGXIAFKZS, Wall. 



Annual herbs, 1. opp., entire, fl. rather small, in usually 



lax axillary racemes or panicles, bracts and bractlets very 



small; sep. 5, very narrow; cor. more or less conspicuously 



2-lipped, pubescent outside, lobes imbricate; stam. 2, exserted, 



anth. 2-celled, bearded at base; capsule narrow, compressed; 



seeds 8-16, not compressed, glabrous, rugose. — Sp. 19; all in 



Fl. B. Ind. 



L. acute, glabrous. 



All 1. lanceolate ; angles of stem acute. 



Cor. under I in i. A. PANICULATA. 



Cor. f in. ." 2. A. macrobotrys. 



Upper 1. linear; angles of stem winged 3. A. alata. 



L. very obtuse, hairy . . . . 4. A. echioides. 



I. A. paniculata, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 116 (1832). 

 Kin-bin-kohomba, .S. Mila-vempu, T. 



Justicia paniculata, Burm. f. Fl. Ind. 9. Moon Cat. 3. Thw. Enum. 

 232. C. P. 3664. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 501. Wight, Ic. t. 518. Bentl. & Trim. Med. PL t. 197. 



Stem 1-2 ft., erect, sharply quadrangular, glabrous; 1. 

 2-3I in., lanceolate, tapering to both ends, entire, slightly 

 undulate, glabrous, paler beneath, petiole obscure; fl. small, on 

 slender divaricate pubescent ped., solitary, distant, in very 

 lax, spreading, axillary and terminal racemes or panicles, the 

 whole forming a large pyramidal paniculate infl., bracts and 

 bractlets equal, very small, subulate; sep. linear, acute, 

 pubescent, often slightly glandular; cor. under \ in., glan- 

 dular-pubescent outside, lips spreading, as long as tube, upper 

 one 2-, lower one 3-toothed; fil. flat, coherent at apex, with a 

 tuft of deflexed hair beneath anth. ; capsule \ in., linear, 

 compressed, acute at both ends, glabrous, yellowish; seeds 

 usually 6 in each cell, ovoid, truncate at ends, 



Var. /?, g'landulosa, Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 165. 



Stem and 1. densely glandular-pubescent; 1. smaller, upper 

 surface finely hispid ; fl. rather larger, capsule glandular- 

 pubescent. 



Low country; rare. Negombo (Moon); Reigam Koralc (Thwaites). 

 Var. /3, Maturata at 5000 ft. Fl. March and Sept.; pink. 



Throughout i'eninsular India. 



A valuable and much-used bitter tonic and febrifuge. It is an official 

 drug in the Indian Phannacopffcia. 



