Rungia.l Acautliacece. 34 1 



spikes, bracts very large, imbricate, decussate, bractlets minute ; 

 Sep, 5, very small, equal, narrow; cor.-tube very long, filiform, 

 cylindrical, upper lip narrowly linear, bifid, lower lip large, 

 deeply 3-lobed, the middle one the broadest; stam. 2, inserted 

 in cor.-throat, anth. 2-celled, cells parallel, one rather higher 

 than the other, not spurred; style very long and slender, 

 stigma bifid; capsule with a long, solid base, upper portion 

 ovoid, acute, much compressed; seeds 2 (rarely 4?), large, 

 ovate, very flat, scabrous, retinacula very large, curved. — Sp. 

 2 ; I in Fl. B. Ind. 



E. Xiinneanum, Kurz in Jotirn. As. Soc. Beng. xl. pt. 2, 75 (1871). 



Herm. Mus. 2>1- Burm. Thes. 7. Fl. Zeyl. n. 17. Justicia Ecbolium, 

 L. Sp. PI. 15; Moon Cat. 3. Eranthemum Ecbolium^ And. in Thw. 

 Enum. 235. C. P. 1978. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 544. Burm. Thes. t. 4, f. i. Wight, Ic. t. 463. 



A low shrub, branches erect, cylindrical, thickened above 

 the nodes, glabrous ; 1. large, 4^-6 in., oblong-oval or lanceo- 

 late, tapering to base, acuminate, acute, entire or very faintly 

 crenate, glabrous, shining and dark green above, paler and 

 densely finely pubescent beneath, petiole obscure; fl. large, 

 sessile, in opp. pairs, spikes nearly sessile, 2-10 in., 4-sided, 

 bracts f-| in., oblong-oval, aristate, glandular-puberulous, 

 ciliate, semi-membranous, reticulate-veined, bractlets subulate ; 

 sep. linear, acuminate, glandular-pubescent; cor.-tube i| in., 

 slightly dilated and laterally compressed at throat, deflexed- 

 hairy outside, upper lip about \ in., very narrow, strongly 

 reflexed, lower lip about \\ in. diam., lat. lobes oblong, acute, 

 middle one oval, obtuse; capsule pubescent; seeds white. 



Low country, especially in the dry region ; common. Fl. Feb., March, 

 and July, August; pale livid bluish-green. 



Also in India and Burma, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Madagascar. 



Varies in width of leaves and length of spikes ; the Fl. B. Ind. gives a 

 var. IcEtevirens for Ceylon, and this seems to be our commonest form. 



Graptophylltim hortense, Nees {Justicia picta, L.) is very common in 

 gardens, where it goes by the name of ' Caricature plant,' from the fancied 

 profiles in the variegated leaves. It is well figured in Bot. Reg. t. 1227. 



27. RUNGZA, Nees. 



Annual or perennial herbs, 1. opp., entire, fl. small, sessile 

 in terminal or axillary often i -sided spikes, bracts imbricated 

 in 4 ranks (2 ranks empty of fl.) more or less margined with 

 scarious wings or borders, bractlets smaller; sep, 5, very 

 narrow; cor. 2-lipped, upper lip acute or emarginate, lower 



