ACANTHACE^. 315 



terminal panicles. Capsule narrow-oblong, twice as 

 broad as thick, the septum across the narrower diameter. 



Species i8 — 20 confined to tropical Asia, and mostly to 

 India. 



Stems erect, panicles dense A. lineata. 



Stems procumbent, leaves roundish .... A. lobelioides. 



Andrographis lineata Nees ; Wall. Cat. 2486 ! {Herb. 

 Wight) ; includirig A. viscosula Nees and A. neesiana 

 Wight ; F.B.L iv 504, XXVIII 13. Stem and branches up 

 to 2 feet, stiff, prominently four-angled ; youngest parts 

 covered with glandular hairs. Leaves spreading down- 

 wards, elliptic or ovate-oblong, glabrous, but when dry 

 roughened by raphides below the surface. Flowers 

 in one-sided racemes in the axils of the upper and 

 smaller bract-like leaves, all green parts very glandular, 

 forming dense terminal panicles. Pedicels 1/16 inch. 

 Calyx-teeth longer than the tube. Upper and lower 

 lips of the corolla widely separated, and pointing in 

 almost diametrically opposite directions. Stamens and 

 style pointing stiffly outwards, and bisecting the angle 

 between the lips ; filaments white, thick, ciliate with 

 deflexed hairs ; anthers jet black, glabrous except for 

 a tuft of white hairs at the base. Capsule glandular, 

 oblong, pointed at each end. 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund on Dodabetta. Pulneys : on 

 the downs. Fyson 359, 11 27, 1211, 2273. Bourne 119, 499, 

 1280.-^ 



A. viscosula iV^^J ; Wall. Cat. 2406 (ex. Herb. Heyne) has slightly smaller 

 leaves : a difference merely of growth. 



* var neesiana Wight : leaves larger, 3 to 4 by i^ to 



lYz inches, ovate-acute, with jointed hairs on the upper 



side, but few or no raphides. Wight Tc. t. 1561. 



Nilgiris : near Lovedale. Pulneys : common from 5,500 feet 

 upwards. Fyson 1127, 1211, 1530. Bourne 515, 1682, 2102, 

 2484. 



A. affinis Nees ; Wall. Cat. 2486 a ex parie^ is a small plant of this. 



