Justicici] xciv. acanthace^. 821 



In fl. and fr. Perhaps a large form of the species, with the underside 

 of the leaves hairy. No. 5093. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish-rosy. On a sandy soil in open forests 

 composed of Parinarl Mohola (Welw. herb. no. 1282) ; only two 

 specimens, fl. April 1860. No. 5058. Annual ; flowers whitish. In 

 rather shady wooded places near Catumba, very sparingly : fl. end of 

 April 1860. No. 5051. 



8. J. brevicaulis S. Moore, ^.c, p. 341 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsflora, 

 p. 393 (1892); C. B. CI., I.e., n. 51. 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herblet ; rhizome thick, woody ; stems nume- 

 rous, erect ; flowers ringent, violet in colour. In hilly rocky places 

 between Mumpulla and Nene, among low herbs, rather rare ; fl. and 

 young fr. towards end of Oct. 1859. No. 5774. 



9. J. extensa T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 44 (1863); 

 S. Moore, I.e., p. 341 ; C. B. CI, Z.c.,in. 64. 



Yar. ? castellana. 



A weak undershrub, slightly puberulous, with the habit nearly 

 of a Brillantaisia, widely subscandent ; stems elongated, numer- 

 ous, flexuous, cylindrical, fleshy-woody, woody in the lower part, 

 grey-green, narrowly furrowed, bright green and smooth on the 

 upper part, conspicuously thickened at the nodes throughout, 7 

 to 10 ft. long; leaves opposite, ovate or elliptical, usually more or 

 less obtusely acuminate at the apex, obtusely narrowed or sub- 

 cordate at the base, somewhat fleshy, not coriaceous, deep green 

 above, rather paler beneath, entire or sub-repand, 4 to 6 in. long 

 by If to 3 inches broad, those next the inflorescence smaller ; 

 petiole limp, J to 2 J in. long, shortly pubervilous; inflorescence 

 terminal and axillary, paniculate, rather lax, many- flowered, 

 somewhat leafy, shortly puberulous, divaricately branched, pyra- 

 midal or corymbose, ; bracteoles subulate ; ultimate pedicels very 

 short or bent at the apex ; calyx green, deeply 5-cleft, i to J in. 

 long, puberulous ; the segments oblong, pointed, ribbed, subequal, 

 the lowest one a little narrower than the rest ; corolla ^ in. long, 

 pale greenish-sulphur in colour, marked inside with purple longi- 

 tudinal lines, inserted outside the disk, tubular, bilabiate ; the 

 the tube plicate-costate ; the upper lip erect, shortly bilobed at 

 the apex ; the lower lip 3-lobed, callous and obliquely plicate at 

 the base of the middle lobe, with the lobes linear and deflected ; 

 stamens 2, fertile, inserted on the lower corolla-lip a little below 

 the base of its lateral lobes, included ; filaments somewhat 

 compressed, hairy, expanded at the apex into the green fleshy 

 unequally didymous connective, J in. long ; anthers 2-celled ; the 

 cells separate, one of them inserted on the connective lower than 

 the other, both subulate-aristate at the base, longitudinally 

 dehiscing ; staminodes ; pollen ellipsoidal, minutely punctate, 

 the tubercles not conspicuous at least near the pores ; disk 

 cupuliform, tolerably high, embracing the base of the ovary ; ovary 

 hairy, 2-celled, ovoid-conical ; cells 2-ovuled ; style filiform, a little 

 curved ; stigma somewhat obtuse, very narrowly or obsoletely 

 bilobed ; immature seeds flattened, broadly membranous-alate. 



