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19. ANDROGRAPHIS, Wall. 



Annual erect or procumbent herbs or small shrubs. Leaves entire. 

 Flowers in lax panicles, or dense and subcapitate axillary and terminal 

 racemes often unilateral; bracts small; bracteoles minute or 0. Calyx 

 5-partite ; segments narrow. Corolla small, tubular, 2-]ipped, pubescent. 

 Stamens 2 ; filaments ciliate or setulose ; anthers 2-celled, exserted, the 

 cells oblong, parallel, subequal, muticous, bearded at the base. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules 3-6 in each cell ; style slender ; stigma shortly 2-lobed. 

 Capsule linear-oblong or elliptic, compressed contrary to the septum. 

 Seeds hard, subquadrate or oblong, rugosely pitted, glabrous ; retinacula 

 lanceolate. — Distbib. India, Ceylon ; species 17. 



Leaves acute, glabrous ; racemes laxly panicled ; capsule 



glabrous 1. A. paniculaia. 



Leaves obtuse, hairy ; racemes axillary, not panicled ; capsule 

 hairy 2. A. eckioides. 



1. Andrographis paniculata, Nees, in Wall. PL As. liar. v. 3 

 (1832) p. 116. An erect branched annual 1-3 ft. high ; branches 

 sharply quadrangular, often narrowly winged in the upper part. Leaves 

 2-3 by |-1 in., lanceolate, acute, glabrous, slightly undulate, pale 

 beneath; base tapering; main nerves 4-6 pairs, slender; petioles 

 0-J in. long. Flowers small, solitary, distant, in lax spreading axillary 

 and terminal racemes or panicles, the whole forming a large pyramidal 

 paniculate inflorescence ; bracts -^ in. long, lanceolate ; bracteoles 

 similar or ; pedicels sV^i ^^- lo"R) glandular-pubescent. Calyx ^ in. 

 long ; sepals equal, linear-lanceolate, glandular-pubescent. Corolla rose- 

 colored, I in. long, hairy outside, 2-lipped rather more than |-way 

 down ; tube ^ in. long, slightly enlarged below the limb ; upper lip ^ in. 

 long, oblong, 2-toothed at the apex ; lower lip equal in length, deeply 

 3-lobed, the lobes -^ in. long, linear-oblong, subobtuse. Filaments 

 flattened, hairy in the upper part ; anthers bearded at the base. Ovary 

 glabrous ; style slightly pubescent. Capsules | by | in., linear-oblong, 

 acute at both ends. Seeds numerous, subquadrate, osseous, rugosely 

 pitted, glabrous, yellowish-brown. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 501 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 198 ; Wight, icon. t. 518 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 326 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 357 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, 

 p. 240. Justicia 2^ciniculata, Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 9 ; Grab. Cat. p. 164. — 

 Flowers : Dec. Veen. Kredt ; Kalpa ; Kdla-meti ; Mahdtiti. 



KoNKAN : S{ocks\; Sewri, Wnodrow\; Island of Bombay, Kanitkar\ Kanaka: 

 Honavar, Woodrow. — Distkib. Throughout India, sometimes cultivated ; Ceylon. 



The plant is famous as a bitter tonic and febrifuge and is sold in the Indian 

 markets. The broken stems and leaves are infused in cold water and the bitter 

 infusion taken. See Watt, Diot. V.cnn. Prod. 1. c. 



2. An drogr aphis echioideS) Nees, iti Wall. PL As. Bar. v. 3 

 (1832) p. 117. Herbaceous, erect, 6-18 in. high; stem quadrangular, 

 grooved, with a few spreading brandies from near the base often not 

 branched, clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves l|-3 by |-1 in., 

 sessile, oblong, obtuse, more or less sparsely hairy, ciliate on the inargins, 

 base cuneate ; main nerves 4-6 pairs. P'lowers numerous, placed along 

 the upper side of a slender glandular-hairy rhachis, in axillary racemes 

 shorter than the leaves; bracts jL in. long, lanceolate; bracteoles 

 minute, -^^ in. long, subtilate. Cafvx \-l in. long, glandular-Lairy, 



