414 XCVI. ACAKTHACE.!. 



2-lipped ; tube short ; upper lip galeate, subentire ; lower lip spreading, 

 3-lobed. Stamens 2, inserted near the top of the corolla-tube; anthers 

 2-celled, the cells acute, uiiuutely apiculate but not tailed at the base. 

 Disk cupular. Ovary 2-celled, usually tomentose ; ovules 2 in each cell ; 

 style filiforra, subclavate above; stigma entire. Capsule oblong, clavate, 

 contracted below into a long solid stalk. 8eeds usually 1 or 2, sub- 

 orbicalar, compressed, rugose. — Disteib. Tropical Asia, Africa and 

 America ; species 8. 



]. Adhatoda Vasica, Nees, in Wall PI. As. Bar. v. 3 (1832) 

 p. 103. A dense shrub 4-8 ft. high with many long opposite ascending 

 branches ; stem with yellowish bark, terete, glabrous. Leaves 5-8 by 

 ] |-2| in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, minutely puberulous when 

 young, glabrous when mature, entii'e, dark-green above, paler beneath, 

 base tapering ; main nerves 10-12 pairs with reticulate venation between ; 

 petioles g-l in. long. Flowers in short dense axillary pedunculate spikes 

 1-3 in. long, tov^ards the ends of the branches; peduncles l§-4 in., 

 stout, shorter than the leaves ; bracts reaching g by | in., elliptic, sub- 

 acute, glabrous or nearly so, 5-7-nerved, closely reticulately veined ; 

 bracteoles | by ^ in., oblong-laiiceolate, acute, with ciliolate margins, 1- 

 nerved, reticulately veined. Calvx rather less than ^ in. long, glabrous 

 or slightly pubescent, divided to within yV iii- of the base ; segments 

 iuibricate, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, reticulately veined. Corolla 

 white, with a few irregular rose-colored bars in the throat, Ij in. long, 

 pubescent outside; tube | in. long, the lower half cylindric, -^ in. in 

 diam., the upper half much laterally inflated ; upper lip | by | in. long, 

 ovate-oblong, curved, obtuse, notched ; lower lij) as long as the upper, 

 the lobes 4 in. deep, oblong, rounded, the middle lobe the broadest. 

 Filamenls hairy at the very base, long, stout, curved ; lower anther-cells 

 minutely apiculate (not white-spurred) at the base. Ovary pubescent; 

 loMer part of style pubescent. Capsules |-g by g in., clavate, subacute, 

 shortly and bluntly pointed, pubescent; solid stalk flattened, | in. long. 

 Seeds 4 by -i- in,, orbicular-oblong, tubercular- verrucose, glabrous. 

 Y\. B. T. V. 4, 'p. 540 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 104 ; Trim. El. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 338 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 265 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (IbDO) p. 358 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. l,p. 109. Jnsticia Adhatoda, 

 Linn. !Sp. PI. (1753) p. 15; Grab. Cat, p. 1G4.— Elowers : Aug.-Nov. 

 VjiUN. Adtdsa. 



Coiniijoii as a hedge-plant about villages throughout the Presidenoj from Gujarat 

 to N. Ivanara. — Di«tiub. Throughout India, ofteu cultivated; Ceylon; Singapore, 

 Mulaya. 



A yellow dye is obtained from the leaves. The leaves and the root are considered 

 an cflicacious remedy in all sorts of coughs and colds. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



35. RHINACANTHUS, Nees. 



Shrubs laxly branched, sometimes subscandent. Leaves entire. 

 Elowers solitary or in small cymes, sessile or nearly so, in dense or 

 divaricate ijanielea ; bracts and bracteoles small, shorter than the calyx. 

 Calyx deeply 5-fid or 5-j)a)tite; segments narrow. Corolla 2-lipped ; 

 tube long, narrow, cylindric, scarcely enlarged above; upper lip linear- 

 oblong, entire or shortly 2-lobed, twisted or recurved ; lower lip broad, 

 3-lobed. Stamens 2, inserted on the tliroat of tlie corolla; anthers 2- 

 celled, the cells superposed, muticous. Disk cupular. Ovary 2-celled ; 



