340 Acanthacecs. [EcboHum. 



pubescent; cor.-tube | in., cylindrical, pubescent outside, 

 lower lip h in., lobes oblong, obtuse ; capsule over | in., pointed, 

 glabrous. 



Roadsides, edges of jungles, &c., in dry region; very common. Fl. 

 January, July-October ; white. 



Throughout India, Java, Madagascar, &c., cultivated or wild. 



This is never cultivated in Ceylon so far as I know. A decoction of 

 the leaves and root-bark is a general external remedy for various skin 

 diseases. 



\pianthera dichofojna, Clarke {Jiisticia dichotoma, BL). — This is given 

 in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 543, on the faith of Anderson's reference to it (in Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 516) of the C. P. numbers which he had previously (in Thw. 

 Enum.) rightly determined asy. zeylatiica andy. glabra. The plant is a 

 native of Java and the Philippine Is., and has no claim to a place in our 

 flora.] 



25. PTVSSlGliOTTIS, And. 

 Perennial prostrate herb, 1. opp., entire; fl. moderate-sized, 

 few, solitary or 2-4 together, terminal, bracts and bractlets 

 small, several empty; sep. 5, equal, very narrow; cor.-tube 

 short, campanulate, upper lip deeply 2-Iobed, lower broad, 

 3-lobed; stam. 2, anth. 2-celled, cells parallel, not spurred; 

 capsule clavate, with a long, solid base ; seeds 4, much com- 

 pressed, scaly-tubercular, retinacula large. — Monotypic and 

 endemic. 



P. radlcosa, And. hi Thw. Enutn. 235 (i860). 

 Rhytiglossa radicosa, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 344. C. P. 3538. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 544. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 267. 



Stems procumbent, slender, with long roots from the 

 nodes, short, slightly branched, cylindrical, pubescent; 1. f-ii 

 in., on short petioles, oval, acute or rounded at base, obtuse, 

 entire, pubescent, with white adpressed hair above, glabrous 

 beneath; fl. usually solitary, on a short peduncle which often 

 bears several empty bracts and occasionally 1-3 more fl., 

 bracts and bractlets linear, sharply acuminate ; sep. very 

 acute, puberulous; cor. \ in., pubescent outside; seeds oblong- 

 ovoid, yellow. 



Moist low country ; rare. Kolona Korale ; wet places on rocks, 

 Morowak Korale. Fl. Sept. -Feb.; white. 



Endemic. 



First collected by Champion. 



26. ECBOZiIUni,^ Medik. (non Riv.). 

 Shrub, 1, opp., entire or nearly so; fl. large, in terminal 



* A name, alluding to its medicinal qualities, applied by Rivinus 

 (following Hermann) to Adhatoda Vasica (q. v.), but transferred by 

 Linnicus to the present species. 



