402 xcvi. acam'iiace.t;. 



elliptic-lauceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, base 

 usually rounded ; main nerves about 8 pairs, prominent beneath ; 

 petioles 0-g in. long. Flowers in sessile terminal imperfectly 1-sided 

 spikes 1-2 in. long; bracts § by | in., hairy ou both sides aud with 

 scarious margins, broadly elliptic, rounded at the apex, cuspidate, the 

 central herbaceous portion of the bract lanceolete, the scarious margin 

 Yjj in. broad, ciliate, sometimes tinged with pink ; bracteoles i by -^rr in,, 

 linear-lanceolate with scarious margins. Calyx i in. long, divided to 

 within t/q- in. of the base, pubescent ; segments linear-subulate. Corolla 

 of a tine blue, exceeding g in. long, pubescent outside ; upper lip i in. 

 long, oblong, notched; lower lip exceeding 5 in. long, divided 5-way 

 down into 3 obtuse lobes. Filaments glabrous ; lower cells of the 

 anthers with white appendages. Ovary pubescent. Capsules •^— I- by 

 YQ-g ^^-i obovoid-oblong, truncate, shortly mucronate, shortly narrowed 

 at the base, pubescent on the sides and on the scarious faces. Seeds 

 y^^ in. long, broadly oblong and rounded at the apex, or suborbicular, 

 rugose with concentric furrows, yellow or brown. Fl. B. 1. v. 4, p. 549 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 358. Justicia rcfiens 

 var. villosa, Nees, in DC. Prodr. v. 11, p. 472. — Flowers: Sept. -Jan. 



Koxkan: StocJcs\; Salsette, Kairne. Deccan: Poona, Cooke I, Wondrowl; bills 

 4 miles W. of Poona. Krishna ! ; high hills round Jiinnar, Balzcll <f- Gibson; Panch- 

 g.ini Ghat, CuoJce\ Kanaka: iatt'!— Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



30. DICLIPTERA, Juss. 



Diffuse or suberect herbs. Leaves ovate or elliptic, acute, entire or 

 obscurely undulate. Flowers in axillary aud terminal clusters or 

 paniculate often urabel-like cymes, 1 or more enclosed within a pair of 

 opposite involuci-al bracts, the flowers sessile within the bracts, one or 

 more often reduced to a calyx and bracteoles ; bracts exceeding the 

 calyx, opposite, unequal, often connate at the base; bracteoles linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, about equalling the calyx. Calyx deeply 5-partite ; 

 segments equal, linear-lanceolate, more or less pubescent. Corolla 

 usually red, often spotted with purple ; tube slender, slightly or not 

 enlarged above; limb deeply 2-Iipped, the upper hp entire or emar- 

 ginate, the lower lip very shortly 3-lobed. Stamens 2 ; anthers 

 2-celled, usually superposed, rarely with basal appendages. Disk 

 cupular. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style fHiform ; stigma 

 shortly 2-fid. Capsules ellipsoid, ovoid or obovoid, subsessile or with a 

 short solid stalk ; placentas separating elastically from the base of the 

 capsule after dehiscence, to scatter the seeds. Seeds ovoid or sub- 

 orbicular, verrucose, echinulate, tuberculate, or papillose. — Disxrib. 

 Tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres ; species GO. 



Tubercles on tho seeds glochidiatc. 



Corolla 5 in. long; capsules pubescent at the apex; bracts 



tV in- broad 1. D. micranthes. 



Corolla -J in. long ; capsules pubesi-ent all over ; bracts nearly 



h in. broad 2. D. ceylanica. 



Tubercles on tlic seeds not glochidiate. 



Flowers in cluslers ; bracts lanceolate 3. D. Lcofiofis. 



Flowers in terminal la.\ panicles ; bracts obovate, cunoate ... 4. I), cuneata. 



1. Dicliptera micranthes, Nees, in Wall 77. ,1^. Ear. v. 3 (1832) 

 ]>. 112. A more or less branched erect herb G-18in. iiigh ; branches 



