330 Acanthacea;. [Gyinnostachyum. 



outside, tube narrow, cylindrical, curved, lobes acute; capsule 

 % in., slightly pubescent ; seeds 4-6 in each cell. 



Moist low country below 2000 ft.; raiher rare. Hiniduma Kande; 

 Cialle Dist. ; Rakwane. Fl. May and Sept.-Dec; deep purple outside, 

 the limb greenish-yellow within. 



Endemic. 



Dries black. 



4. G-. sang-uinolentum, And. in Thw. Enum. 232 (i860). 

 Jtisticia sai!i;i(i/!o/c/i/a, Wihl, Symb. Bot. ii. 10. Cryptophragviium 

 sanguinotenimii, and C. axilla?-^^ Nees, 1. c. 97. Thw. Enum. 232. 

 C. P. 186. 



Fi. B. Ind. iv. 510. Wight, Ic. t. 1496 {Ctypt. axillare). 



Stem 2-3 ft., erect, stout, bluntly quadrangular, glabrous; 

 1. 3-6 in , ovate-oval, tapering at base, acuminate, acute, entire 

 or obscurely crcnate, glabrous; fl. on glabrous pcd., in small 

 dichotomous divaricate, axillary cymes much shorter than 1., 

 bracts small, linear; sep. linear, acuminate, glabrous; cor. 

 over \ in., slightly glandular-pubescent outside, tube slightly 

 curved, lobes subacute; capsule \ in., glabrous; seeds 6-8 in 

 each cell. 



Shady places in moist region up to 4000 ft.; rather common. 

 Ramboda (Wight); Panwila; Hewaheta ; Balangoda. Fl. April and 

 October; purple, with the lower lip paler. 



Endemic. 



The whole plant except the leaves has a reddish-purple tinge. Dries 

 blackish. The leaves are sometimes linear. First collected by Koenig. 



5. G. hirsutum, And. in Thw. Enum. 233 (iJ 



C. P. 2473. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 510. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 249 (not good). 



Stems 2-3 ft., erect, branched, bluntly quadrangular, 

 glabrous; 1. 3-6 in., ovate-lanceolate, suddenly acute at base, 

 shortly acuminate, acute, entire, slightly hairy above, much 

 more so beneath, petiole \-\\ in.; fl. numerous, sessile in 

 dense axillary and terminal cylindrical spicate cymes, bract- 

 lets % in., filiform-setaceous, ciliate with very long hair; sep. 

 slightly connate below, as long as bractlets and quite like 

 them; cor.-tube scarcely exceeding sep., lobes acute ; capsule 

 ^ in., glabrous; seeds 4-6 in each cell. 



Forests in lower montane zone; rare. Maturata; Uda-Pussellawe. 

 Fl. April-July ; greenish-yellow, the calyx and bracts reddish-purple. 



Endemic. 



The whole plant is tinged with purple. The long ciliate bractlets and 

 sep., and the crowded dense inflorescence give this a very different 

 appearance from the other species. 



