388 xcvr. aca>'Tijacea\ 



purplisb, broadly elliptic or suborbicular, sbortlj and abruptly acuminate, 

 liairy ou both sides and with ciliate margins, strongly 5-7-nerved 

 from the base, reticulately veinpd. Calsx g in. long, 2-lipped to the 

 base, densely silky-bairy on botb sides ; upper lip 3-l(jbed about 

 ^-way down, the lobes lanceolate, acute, densely ciliate, veined; lower 

 lip divided almost to the base, the segments lanceolate, acute, ciliate. 

 Corolla 1 in. long ^ith wbite tube and blue limb ; tube slender, cylindric, 

 as long as the calyx; limb infundibulit'orm, jjlicate, entire, nearly i in. 

 across when expanded, with 5 hairy 3-nervecl penicillate bands ou the 

 outside, two of which are close together, the others distant from one 

 another. Capsules i by ^ in., ovoid, subacute, shortly attenuated at the 

 base, quite glabrous. Seeds ^ in. in diam., oi'bicular, densely silk v. 

 ri. B. I. V. 4, p. 491 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 190 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 2(36 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 356. Neuracanthvs 

 Lcnvii, Wight, Icon. t. 1531. — Flowers: Sept.-Oct. 



Dalzell {I. c.) has a long uote on the limb of the corolla of this plant. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! ; island of Karanja (Bombay Harbour), Dalzell ^" Gihgon ; Malabar 

 Hill (Bombay), BaheJl Sf Gibnon ; Pen, Woodrow. Deccan : Kbandala, Cooke !, 

 Woodrow ! ; Baliuli near Poona, Bhiva ! ; Karkabi, Kanitkar\ S. M. Country: Pad- 

 8lia])iir jungles, Ritchie, 1190! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



25. ASYSTASIA, Blume. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leases opposite, entire. Flowers in lax or 

 dense usually 1-sided simple or compound spikes or racemes ; bracts 

 and bracteoles luiear, usually shorter than the calyx. Calyx deejjly 

 divided ; segments equal, linear or linear-lanceolate. Corolla-tube 

 inflated above; lobes subeqnal (in A. Lawiana the lower lobe broader 

 than the other 4), imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, all perfect, didynaniou«, 

 subequal ; anthers oblong, the cells parallel, approximate, minutely 

 sparred or submuticous at the base. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell; style linear; stigma minutely 2-tid or subcapitate. Capsule 

 elliptic-chivate with contracted solid base, 4-seeded. Seeds compressed, 

 orbicnlar or irregularly angular, glabrous, rugose or tuberculate. — 

 DiSTEiB. "Warmer parts of the Old World; species 35. 



Bracts shorter than the calyx ; inflorescence secund. 



Bracts ^ in. long ; corolla white or pale blue 1. A. coromandeliana. 



Bracts ^ in. long ; corolla violet wit!) darker lower 



lobe 2. A. violacea. 



Bracts longer than the calyx ; inflorescence not secund ... 3. A. Lawiana. 



1. Asystasia coromandeliana, Nees, in Wall. PI. As. Rar. v. 3 

 (1832) p. 89. Erect or procumbent, sometimes climbing among bushes. 

 Stems 1-3 ft. long, mucli-branched, obtusely quadrangular, glabrous. 

 Leaves 1-2^ by |-lg in., ovate, acute, lineolate, dark green and glabrous 

 above, paler and slightly pubescent on the nerves beneath, base usnally 

 rcmnded or subcordate, rarely acute ; main nerves 5-6 pairs ; petioles 

 |-1 in. long. Flowers secund, in long lax terminal and axillary spike- 

 like racemes ; pedicels of the lower flowers reaching g in. long, those of 

 the upper shorter or almost ; bracts and bracteoles below the pedicels 

 -j-'ij-^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate. Calyx nearly \ in. long, 

 divided to the base or nearly so; sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, jmbes- 

 cent. Corolla 1.^ in. long, pubescent outside, pale-blue with a yellowish 

 tube and usually a piu-ple blotch on the lowest lobe; tube ^ in. long, 



