11. Lepidaoathis.] 19. ACANTHACE2E. [13. Justicia. 



2. L. hyalina, Nees. A branched herb 1-2 ft high with root of fleshy 

 fibres. Stems with short curly pubescence above and 2 green lines 

 decurrent from the j>etioles. 



L. lanceolate, ell. -oblong or ovate entire, decurrent on petiole as in last* 

 attaining 7" by 2£ ' including the petiole, upper narrow-lanceolate sub- 

 sessile, hairy both sides. Fls. \" in 1-sided clustered spikes \-l%' long 

 with lanceolate cr linear finely-aouminate 1-nerved bracts %--^" long; with 

 long white cilia. 



Similar localities. Fls. Nov.-Feby. 



3.Ij. purpuricaulis, Nees. Very olosely allied to last, often with 

 purple stems. Bracts striate lanceolate mucronate. 



4. L. trinervis, Nees., has linear or linear-lanceolate glabrous leaves, 

 ovate or obovate sub-spinescent bracts and flowers sometimes conglo- 

 merated near the rooj^ The sepals are not spinescent. 



5. L. Hamiltoniana, Wall., with linear leaves is a common herb 

 on dry slopes, remarkable from its flowers being always conglomerated in 

 spinescent cushions on the ground. The bracts and sepals in this are 

 both Bpinescent. Fls. Dec.-Feby. 



12. AdlTatoda, Ness. 



1. A. Vaflica, Nees. Vasaka. Beng., is a bushy shrub or undershrub 

 often occurring in compounds and near villages but with no claim to be 

 considered * indigenous in our area. It has large minutely pubescent 

 elliptic leaves with a foetid smell, acute both ends, and with many strong 

 sec. n. The large white lipped flowers areborne in dense terminal spikes. 

 Evergreen. 



An insecticide. 



13. Justicia, L. 



'Shrubs -or undershrubs or usually herbs with small lipped 

 flowers usually sessile in bracteate spikes. Sep. 4 or 5. St. 2, 

 anths. 2-celled, lower cell with a small white appendage. 

 Seeds 4, compressed, not hairy but more or less tubercled or 

 glochidiate. 



1. J. Betonica, L. Had-pat, K. 



Shrubby below with many stems 2-4 ft. high from a 

 perennial rootstock, ovate-lanceolate leaves acnmiBate both 

 ends and small white rose-spotted flowers in mostly terminal 

 l-S^Hate spikes conspicuous from the closely -seriate white 

 green- veined ovate mucronate bracts. 



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