378 XCVI. AfANTlIACE.T. 



T^hicb Intler clistrict is outside the limits of the Bombaj Pro.sideiicj'. Mr. C. B. Clnike 

 (Hook. f. n. B. I. V. 4, p. 509) makes this a variety of G. canescem-, T. Anders. 

 There are no flowers on the specimens, but the leaves, which are 6-9 by 1-2 in., 

 lar.ceolate-oblong, acute, glabrous, toothed, and decurrent almost to the base of the 

 petiole, are very different from those of G. canesccns, while the capsules, which reach 

 1 in. long are larger than in that plant and are glabrous, those of G. ccnicscens being 

 glandular-hairy. From tlie fragments on the sheet tlie plant seems to be sufliciently 

 distinct from G.caneycois to warrant its maintenance iis a separate species, but further 

 specimens veith flowers are needed and the habitat of the plant has to be determined. 



22. CROSSANDRA, Salisb. 



Under shrubs. Leaves opposite or whorled, entire or undulate, some- 

 times slightly toothed. Flowers sessile, in strobilate spikes ; bracts 

 imbricate ; bracteoles linear or lanceolate, as long as the calyx. Calyx 

 5-partite to the base ; the 2 lower sepals oblong, acute, 1-nerved, the 

 upper sepal broader, 2-nerved, often 2-toothed, tlie 2 innermost sepals 

 lanceolate, smaller than the outer. Corolla orange-yellow or red ; 

 tube long, linear, much longer than the limb ; limb split down the back 

 and forming a single flattened obtusely 5-loIted lip ; lobes subequal, 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included in the corolla-tul)e ; 

 anthers small, 1-celltnl, Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; stigma 

 2-fid. Capsule oblong, subacute, usually 4-i^eeded. Seeds ellipsoid or 

 suborbicular, compressed, clothed \\i\]\ appressed fringed scales formed 

 of many connate hairs. — Distbib. India, Africa, Mascareue Islands ; 

 species 14. 



1. Crossandra -undulsefolia, Salish. Parad. Lond. (1805) t. 12. 

 An undershrub 2-3 ft. high (in cultivation often higher) ; branches 

 terete, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 4 in a whorl (decussate pairs 

 inserted close to one another), 4-6 by l|-2 in., rather thick, lanceolate, 

 acute, glabrous, shining, base much attenuated into the petiole; main 

 nerves about 8 pairs, slender ; petioles |-1 in. long, often obscure 

 owing to decurrent leaf-blade. Flowers numerous, in axillary often 

 long-pedunculate quadrangular narrow spikes 3-6 in. long ; bracts 

 much imbricate, f by | in., elliptic-lanceolate, mucronate, glandular- 

 pubescent, nerved, ciliate ; bracteoles g by -g^j- in., narrowly linear with 

 subulate points, glandular-pubescent. Calyx 5-partite to the base; 

 upper sepal g by § in., 2-nerved, 2-toothed; 2 lower sepals | by ^ in., 

 1-nerved, all three lanceolate, very acute, penicillate at the apex and 

 ciliate with long white jointed fine hairs ; inner sepals | by -^q in., 

 lanceolate-subulate, ciliate towards the tip with fine jointed hairs. 

 Corolla orange-yellow, pubescent outside ; tube | in. long, slender ; 

 limb Ig in. across. Capsules -f in. long, oblong, subacute, glabrous. 

 S^^eds J^— 1 in. in diara., compressed, densely clothed with fringed scales. 

 Fl. B. I."v. 4, p. 492 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 3, p. 332; Tall). Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 266 ; Wocdr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 357. 

 Crossandra axillaris, Nees, in Wall. Pi. As. Ear. v. 3 (1832) p. 98 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 193 ; Wight, Icon. t. 460. C. coccinea, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Suppl. p. 71. Ruellia ivfundihidiformis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3, p. 41 ; 

 Grail. Cat. p. 161, — Flowers: June-Jan. Vern. Aboli. 



Very common in gardens and planted about temples, rarely found wild. Konkan : 

 Lov>\ S. M. Coc.NTHY : about Dlinrwar, J)akf//, ^- Gibson. Kanaka: Talbot; 

 Kumpta, Woodrow; Supa on the Kala naddi, Eifchie, 1950 !— DisiniB. India (W. 

 Peninsula); Ceylon; cultivated in N. India, Bengal, and Malaya. 



