xcvi. jVcantiiace.t:. 405 



31. ECBOLIUM, Kurz. 



Glabrous or hairy shrubs. Leaves entire, rather thick. I'lowers 

 numerous, in terminal spikes ; bracts large, imbricate; bracteoles small, 

 linear or lanceolate. Calyx 5-partite ; segments linear. Corolla-tube 

 very long and narrowly linear (in the Indian species) ; upper hp entire 

 or2-fid; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 2, without rudiments of others; 

 anther-cells 2, linear, not spurred nor append. iged at the base, ot: nearly 

 equal height. Ovary glabrous or hairy, 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; 

 style filiform ; stigma very shortly equally 2-lid. Capsule much 

 flattened, on a solid stalk, 2-seeded ; placentas not rising elasticallj 

 from the base of the valves. Seeds (in the Indian species) large, much 

 flattened, tubercular and scabrous, v^ithout hairs. — Distrib. Africa, 

 Madagascar, Arabia, India ; species 12. 



1, Ecbolium Linneanum, Kurz^ in Joum. As. Soc. v. 40 (1871) 

 part 2, p. 75, yar. Isetevirens, 0. B. Clarice, in Hooh. f. PI. B. I. v. 4 

 (1885) p. 545. A low shrub; branches erect, terete, thickened above 

 the nodes, glabrous. Leaves 3|-7 by 1|-2| in., lanceolate or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, shining and dark green above, paler 

 beneath, base acute ; main nerves about 6 pairs, slender, prominent 

 beneath ; petioles \-^ in. long. Flowers in terminal dense or lax nearlv 

 sessile spikes 2-8 in. long ; bracts foliaceous, reaching | by | in., 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute, sometimes aristate, entire, tapering towards the 

 base, pubescent and ciliate, reticulately veined ; bracteoles ^ in. long, 

 lanceolate, acute, hairy. Calyx \ in. long, hairy, divided to within 

 jV in. of the base; segments linear-lanceolate, very acute. Corolla 

 bluish-green, hairy outside (very densely so in bud), reaching 1|- in. 

 long ; upper lip rather more than | in. long, narrowly linear from a 

 triangular base, notched at the apex ; lower lip | in. long, divided 

 almost to the base into 3 lobes, the lateral lobes oblong, subacute, the 

 midLlle lobe broader, oblong, obtuse. Filaments of the stamens hairy 

 at the base ; anthers -^ in. long. Ovary pubescent at the very tip ; 

 style filiform, glabrous in the uppei-, pubescent in the lower part; stigma 

 of 2 short divaricate lobes. Capsules nearly 1 in. long by | in. wide 

 above the seeds, battledore-shaped, acutely pointed, pubescent all over ; 

 stalk about | in. long. Seeds i in. in diam., broadly ovoid, much 

 compressed, white, covered with small acute tubercles, the basal notth 

 very deep. Echolium Linneanum, Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 341 ; Talb. 

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

 p. 358. Jnsticia Echolium., Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 15 in ^9(73'i! ; Wight 

 Icon. t. 463 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 194. Justicia Icetevireus, Vahl, Enum. 

 v. 1, p. 118. — Flowers: Oct.-Jan. Vern. Odu-jdti; BdnaboU; Dhdkta- 

 adulsa. 



KoNKAN : 'M.-AiherA\-\, CooJcel, H. M. Blrdwood; Ka,r'yAt,Bhiva\ Decca.v : Tvbandala, 

 Graham; east of Pluinda Ghat, Bitchir, 1197! S. M. Countky : Castlerock, 

 Kanitkarl — 'DiSTRni. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



Var. dentata, C. B. Clarke {I. c). Bracts acuminate with irregularly 

 dentate margins ; spikes dense. Justicia dentata, Klein, ex Link, Jahrb 

 V. 1, Heft 3, p. 43. 



KoNKAN : L'lw 1 ; island of Karanja in Bombay narbonr, J^'oixlnnr ! 



