410 -KCXl. ACA>-TITACE,"E. 



beneath with short stout hairs ; main nerves 4-G pairs ; petioles ^-5 in. 

 long. Flowers in terminal and axillary dense spikes 5-II in. long ; 

 bracts ^ by yg- in., linear, blunt, with scarious margins near tlie base, 

 sparsely hispid with white long bi'istly hairs, often tipped with divaricate 

 bristles ; brncteoles similar to the bracts. Calyx i in. long, 4-partite 

 almost to the base; segments -Jj in. broad (twice as broad as the 

 bracteoles), scarious, the midrib green, excurrent into a long blunt 

 arista which is hispid with long white bristly hairs, and often with 

 2 divai'icate bristles at the apex, the rest of the calyx glabrous or nearly 

 so. Corolla | in. long, pnle-purple ; upper lip J- in. long, deltoid-oblong, 

 obtuse, entire ; lower lip i in. long, broadly obovate, with 3 rounded 

 suhequal lobes about ^V in. deep. Filaments glabrous. Ovary pubes- 

 cent at the tip; lower half of style pubescent. Capsules ^ by jV in , 

 tapering into a short stalk about J^ in. long, subohtuse, niucronate, and 

 with a few hairs at the apex, otherwise glabrous or sometimes with a 

 few scattered hairs along the valves, 4-seeded. Seeds ^o ^"- ^" diam., 

 finely rugose (scarcely concentrically so). Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 536 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12(1899) p. 358. BosteUaria crhiita,'Nees, 

 in Wall. PI. As. Ear. v. 3 (1832) p. 101 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 193 (by 

 error ItostellvJaria). — Flowers : Aug.-Oct. 



KoNKAN : Vingorla, Dohell df- Gibson, Woodrow. DEfCAN: Woodrow\; Poona, 

 Cooke \, IVoodroiv '. ; Tanchgaui, li a oji'. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



8. Justicia diffusa, Willd. Sj). PI. v. 1 (1797) p. 87. Stems 

 1-2 ft. high, somewhat woody below, much-branched, subquadrangular. 

 Leaves 1-1 1 by g-| in., ovate-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, more or less lineolate, glabrous, base usually acute; petioles 

 ^-i in. long. Flowers in axillary and terminal narrow spikes 1-6 in. 

 long by i in. or less wide; bracts shorter than the calyx, jL in. lonjr, 

 ovate, acuminate, with scarious margins, minutely scabrous at the ti]), 

 otherwise glabrous ; bracteoles as long as and similar to the bracts but 

 narrower. Calyx g in. long, 4-partite nearly to the base ; segments 

 with scarious mai'gins, lanceolate, acute, unequal, minutely scabrous 

 at the tip. Corolla -g- in. long, pale-piirple, slightly pubescent outside ; 

 upper lip '^\ in. long, the lower portion ovate, the apical part sub- 

 qundrate, sublruncate and slightly notched at the apex; lower lip very 

 slightly longer than the upper, nearly as broad as long, very slightly 

 3-lobed at the rounded apex. Filaments glabrous except at their inser- 

 tion. Ovary glahrous ; lower part of style pubescent. Capsules 

 1-4 in. long, shortly pointed, oblong, grooved on the back, glabrous, 

 tlie solid stalk scarcelv-7^ in. long. Seeds -.-}- in. long, subconcentricallv 

 rugose. Fl. B. 1. v. 4, p. 538 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 338 ; Woodr. iii 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (18n9) p. 358. JioxtelJana cliff t(srt,'^ees, in 

 AVall. PI. As. Ear. v. 3 (1832) p. 100 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 103 (by error 

 Iiostellularia). — Flowers : Oct. -Dec. 



Cnminon in pnfitiires, Dnhell ^- Gihsoi. Deccan: IVoodrotv ] ; Poona, Cookel, 

 Wondrnvl SiNn : CooZ-e ! — Distrib. India (Panjab, W. Peninsula, Rangoon); 

 CVylon, Siam. 



Yat?. 1. prm^trfHa, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1885) 

 p. 53s. Stems prostrate, intricately hrauclu'd. p-itently hnirv. Leaves 



