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smaller, broadly elliptic or suborbicular, |-| in. in diam. Spikes 

 shorter and more dense ; bracteoles and sepals broader. Capsules 

 smaller, hairy. Trim, Fi. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 33S. 

 Dalzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! 



Vab. 2. VaJilii, C. B. Clarke, I. c. Leaves narrowly lanceolate or 

 linear; bracts lanceolate. Rostellaria Vahlii, Nees, in Wall. PI. As. 

 Ear. V. 3 (1832) p. 102. 



Sfocks without locality in Herb. Kew. ! 



9. Justicia quinqaeangularis, Kosn. ex Roxh. HoH. Beng. (1314) 

 p. 80. A slender herb reaching 20 in. high ; stems 4-5-angLdar witli 

 distant internodes, geniculate, glabrous. Leaves 1-3 by g-| in., linear- 

 oblong or linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, slightly lin jolate, glabrous ; 

 petioles 0—1- in. long. Flowers in slender elongate glabrous terminal 

 spikes 1-5 in. long ; bracts 1 by -^-fj in., linear, obtuse, glabrous, and, as 

 well as the bracteoles and calyx, with scarious margins ; bracteoles as 

 long as and similar to the bracts but narrower. Calyx glabrous, \ in. 

 long (as long as the bracts and bracteoles), 4-partite nearly to the base 

 (no 5th segment present rudimentary or otherwise) ; segments slightly 

 broader than the bracteoles, linear, obtuse. Corolla nearly | in. long, 

 glabrous or nearly so outside, rose-colored ; upper lip ^ in. long, ovate, 

 obtuse, 2-fid ; lower lip i in. long and as broad as long, suborbicular, 

 very shortly 3-lobed, the lobes scarcely -^^ in. deep, rounded, over- 

 lapping. Filaments glabrous. Ovary glabrous. Capsules 5 by j-g- in., 

 oblong, acutely pointed, slightly narrowed into a stalk ^ in. long, 

 glabrous, 4-seeded. Seeds J^ in. in diam., reticulately rugose. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 4, p. 536 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 353.— 

 Flowers : Sept.-Oct. 



S. M. Country: Belgaum, Ritchie, 1L50 ! ; Badami, Woodrow. — Distuib. India 

 (Bengal, Central India, W. Peninsula). 



N A^. peploides, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1885) p. 537. 

 Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, reaching 1 in. broad ; petioles 

 reaching | in. long ; spikes shorter and broader. Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 358. Eostellaria peploides, Nees, in Wall. 

 PI. As. Kar. v. 3 (1832) p. 101 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 193 (by error Eostd- 

 lularia). — Flowers : Oct. -Apr. 



KoNKAN : Siocksl Deccan : about watercourses, Dalzell ^- Gibson; Poona, Wood- 

 row !, Kanitkar ! — Distrib. India (Panjdb, Bengal, Central India, W. Peninsula). 



10. Justicia simplex, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. (1825) p. 118, A 

 slender branched herb 6-20 in. high, variable under differing conditions 

 of soil and climate ; branches quadrangular, grooved, more or less hairy. 

 Leaves 1-2 by ^-1 in., ovate or elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, strongl}'- 

 lineolate, glabrous or hairy, base usually acute ; petioles ^-\ in. long. 

 Flowers in dense terminal and axillary spikes 1-4 in. long ; bracts -i— ^ 

 by yV^t^ ^'^■' sUipcic, subicute, hairy, the margins scarious and ciiiate 

 with many-jointed hairs ; bracteoles as long as the bracts but narrower 

 (about -^ in. broad), lanceolate or somewhat obovate, hairy and with 

 scarious and ciiiate margins. Calyx ^-\ in. long, hairy, divided almost 

 to the base; segments subeqiial, or 1 sometimes a little longer than the 



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