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Andrographis lobelioides Wight, Herb. Prop f ; F.B.L 

 iv 505, XXVIII 14. Remarkable for its short weak stems, 

 small leaves and comparatively large brown flowers. 



Rootstock perennial, woody, J^ inch or so thick, 

 vertical. Stems many, 3 to 12 inches, often forking or 

 trichotomous, spreading outwards on the ground, pubes- 

 cent or tomentose and with longer gland-tipped hairs. 

 Leaves 1/5 to 1/2 inch, ovate-acute, nearly sessile, covered 

 on the upper sides, margins and nerves of the underside 

 with gland-tipped hairs. Racemes or panicles terminal, 

 often one-sided though the bracts are in opposite pairs : 

 pedicels J^ to % inch. Sepals as long. Corolla %. inch ; 

 limb equal to the tube ; upper lip three-fid, pinkish ; lower 

 two-lobed, purplish brown. Anthers well exserted, white 

 with stiff hairs. Fruit 5/8 by 1/12 inch. t. 210. Wight 

 Ic. t. 1557. 



On the open downs. Nilgiris : Ootacamund to Pykara and 

 Coonoor. Flowering early summer. Not recorded elsewhere. 

 Fyson 683. Bourne 4595, 4781. 



JUSTICIA. F.B.I. 109XXXVIIL 



Herbs with opposite entire leaves, and terminal 

 bracteate spikes or panicles of violet, rosy, or white 

 two-lipped flowers. Upper lip of corolla inside, the 

 middle lobe of the lower lip outermost, in bud. Stamens 

 two, one-half anther below the other and with a white 

 tail. Fruit a capsule with four seeds- 

 Species about 100 in the warmer parts of the world. 



Justicia nilgherrcnsis Wall ; F.B.L iv 526, XXXVIII 

 3. Remarkable for the short fat greyish green spikes, 

 and the comparatively large-mouthed flowers, with 

 broadly-spreading three-lobed lower lip. 



Rootstock thick and short with long woody roots. 

 Stems numerous five to ten, procumbent, finely ribbed but 



