416 XCVI. ACANTHACE/E. 



6-angled, more or less hair}^, usually rough on the angles. Leaves 2-3 

 by 1-1 2 in., ovate, acuminate, densely lineolate, more or less hairy above, 

 somewhat densely so on the nerves and veins beneath, base usually 

 rounded ; main nerves 4-6 pairs ; petioles |-f in. long. Flowers in 

 trichotomous cymes in large lax divaricate pubescent panicles ; bracts 

 beneath the calyx 2, opposite, often very unequal, the longer of the 

 pair sometimes § in., the shorter | in. long, linear, acute, mucronate, 

 with white membranous margins ; bracteoles 4, similar to the bracts but 

 shorter, subequal or sometimes unequal. Calyx i-i in. long, divided 

 to _ within about -^ in. of the base; segments lanceolate-subulate with 

 ciliolate margins. Corolla rosy, nearly i in. long, pubescent outside ; 

 upper lip I by -i in., elliptic-oblong, obtuse, entire ; lower lip slightly 

 longer, oblong, with 3 acute lobes about Jg in. deep. Filaments hairy; 

 anther-cells one almost entirely above the other, muticous. Ovary 

 pubescent at the tip ; style nearly glabrous. Capsules ^ by J-^ in., 

 narrowed into a cylindric stalk jL in. long, pointed, pubescent. Seeds 

 ^jig— 1- in. in diam., orbicular, papillose and slightly rugose. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 554 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 197 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 358; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 114; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod, 

 v. 6, part 1, p. 141. Justicia hicalyculata, Yahl, Symb. v. 2, p. 13; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 164. — Flowers: Oct.-Nov. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! Deccan : Poona, Coolce !, Woodrow ! Gujarat: Surat, Kanitlcar \ 

 Kanaka: Yelliir, Bifchie, ]204l Sind: Bhola Puran\; Jemadar ka Landa, uear 

 KaracLi, 6Yuc/.,s!— Di.-trib. Throughout India; Tropical Africa. 



The foUoM'ing not beloiiging to any of the foregoing genera are grown 

 as ornamental plants in gardens: — 



Graplophyllum hortense, Nees, in Wall. PI. As. Ear. v. 3 (1832) 

 p. 102. A glabrous shrub largely cultivated throughout the tropics ; 

 native country uncertain. It has green leaves mottled with creamy 

 V bite patches and crimson flowers in axillary and terminal racemes. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 545; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 358 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 415. Justicia picta, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 

 p. 21 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 71 ; Grab. Cat. p. 163. 



Sanchezia nobilis, Hook, f . Bot. Mag. t. 5594. A native of Ecuador. 

 Leaves 3-9 in. long, oblong-obovatc with bright yellow veins. Corolla 

 yellow, 2 in. long ; bracts bright red. Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, 

 p. 415. 



Aphelamh-a a-istata, R. Br. Pi'odr. (1810) p. 475 in Obs. A native 

 ef the W. Indies. A shrub about 3 It. high with lanceolate leaves 7-8 

 in. long and numerous large orange-scarlet flowers in terminal branching 

 spikes. Dalz. & (jribs. fciuppl. p. 71 ; Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, 

 p. 415. 



Fittonia arrjyroneura, E. Coem. in Fl. des JSerres, v. 16 (1865) p. 103. 

 A creeping undershrub, a native of Peru, with broad flat elliptic vivid- 

 green leaves 4 by 3 in., traversed by a network of pure white veins. 

 Woodr. Gard. in Ind. cd. 5, p. 415. 



