justiiia ] AcanthacecT. 



O J. 



pubescent on veins or all over beneath ; spikes short, nearly 

 capitulate, globose, dense, bracts and bractlets larger, much 

 imbricated, obovate, cuneate at base, densely glandular- 

 pubescent. 



Moist low country ; rare. Near Ratnapura ; Reigam Korale ; Moro- 

 wak Korale. Var. /3, Singhe Raja Forest ; Morowak Korale. Fl. Feb.- 

 March, and Sept.-Oct.; white or pale pink. 



Endemic. 



Does not dry black as stated in Fl. B. Ind. A puzzling plant. The 

 only form of the type I have seen would fall rather under the var. 

 viridescens of the Fl. B. Ind. Var. ft is probably a distinct species. 



A plant from Corbet's Gap, Rangala, has been referred to this by 

 Dr. Stapf, of Kew, but differs in having much smaller deciduous oblong- 

 oval bracts and larger lanceolate sep. It is distinctly shrubby and dries 

 black. 



J. Moretiana, Vahl, is based on a plant collected by Hartog in Ceylon, 

 and described and figured in Burm. Thes. 7, t. 3, f i. Burmann's figure 

 is very good, and is clearly a /usticza, but it does not agree with any 

 known Ceylon species (see Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 428, and Fl. B. Ind. iv. 

 540). The name Moretiana was first given in Burm. Fl. Ind. 10 from a 

 false identification with the plant so called by Rumph. in Herb. Amboin. 

 vi. 53, t. 23, f I. 



3. J. tranquebarensis, L.f. Suppl. PL 85 (1781). 



Thw. Enum. 233. C. P. 1993. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 530. Wight, Ic. t. 462. 



A low undershrub, branches numerous, divaricate, pubes- 

 cent; 1. 1-2 in., oval or subrotundate, subacute at base and 

 apex, entire or very faintly crenate, much lineolate, finely 

 pubescent beneath; fl. nearly sessile, solitary in opp. axils, 

 bracts leaflike, broadly spathulate or orbicular on slender 

 petiole, bractlets small, lanceolate, or o; sep. linear-setaceous, 

 very acute, hairy; capsule about \ in., with a s'hort solid base, 

 ovoid, glabrous; seeds densely set with ovoid sharply pointed 

 papillfe. 



Dry region ; rather rare. Trincomalie ; Jaffna ; Dambulla. Fl. 

 March ; pale reddish-purple. 

 Also in S. India. 



J. G-endarussa,''^ Bm-ni.f. FL Ind. 10 (1768). Kalu-waraniya, 

 S. Karunochchi, T. 



J. Gajtdariissa^ L. f. Suppl. PL 85. Moon Cat. 3. Thw. Enum. 233. 

 C. P. 3662. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 532. Wight, Ic. t. 468 {Ge7niarussa vulgaris). Bot. 

 Reg. t. 635. 



A much - branched undershrub, stems quadrangular, 

 thickened above nodes, glabrous, purple; 1. 3-5 in., linear- 

 lanceolate, acute at base, tapering to obtuse apex, entire or 



* The Malayan name as given by Rumph. 



