Nblsosia.J ACANTHACEM 181 



none. Calu.v -mail, 4> partite; segments unequal, lanceolate, the 

 Urge? often bifid. Corolla veiy mull, purplish-rose or wliite, tube 

 •lender, limb 2-lipped; lobes 5, obtus**, spreading. Stamen* 2, 

 attached above tin 1 middle of the corolla-tube; anthers 2-celled, 

 subineluded ; cells elliptic, distinct, more or less divergent, <;labrourt 

 or ciliate, muti«ous or minutely rourred. Ovary with 8-10 ovules 

 in each cell, stigma shoitly 2-lobed. Fruit an ovoid pointed capsnle, 

 bearing the seeds below the middle. Seeds small, ellipsoid or sub- 

 globose, smooth, not .supported <*n retinacula. — A single species, 

 occurring in S. E. Asia, Africa, and Australia; also in America 

 where it has probably been introduced. 



N. campestris, P. Br. Prod. 4S1 ; F. B. I. i>. 394 ; Pra in Beng. Pi. 

 79~ ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 345. Justicia lamifolia, Koen.; Roxb. Fl. huh i, 

 134. 



Stem? short. I ranches trailing. Young parts more or less densely clothed 

 with wlute hairs. Leave* elliptic-oblong, entire, the lower 4-8 in. 

 long and with long petioles; upper subses.-i -2 in, clothed with 

 gr. lly pubescence. Flowering qnfces k-'l in. long, ovate or cylin- 



.hic : bracts herbaceous, ,!,4 in. long, ovate, subobtuse, softly pu- 

 bescent, bracteoles represented by 2 opposite tufts of hairs situated below 

 the calyx. Calyx } in. long, strongly nerved. Com Ila 5 in. long, pur- 

 plish. Capsule ovoid-conic. 8-12— oc U • 1. glabrous. Seeds broadly ellip- 

 soid, yellowish with brown granulations. 



Dehra Dun and in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand, N. Oudh and 

 Gorakhpur : also in Bundelkhanu. Distrib. Throughout India, except 

 in the desert tracts, up to 4 000 ft. on the Himalaya and iu Ceylon ; 

 extending to S. E. Asia, Australia, Africa and America. 



4. STAUROGYNE, Wall. 



Under Ebermaieba in Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 395. 



Herbs or small undershrubs. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate 

 Flowers in terminal or pseudo-axillary simple or compound dense 

 or lax racemes or spikes, bracts usually leaf-like ; bracteoles 2, near 

 the base of the calys, smaller than the* bracts. Calgc, deeply 5- 

 partite ; segments oblong or linear, subequal or one larger than the 

 others. Corolla 2-lipped, tube long or short, cylindric or somewhat 

 funnel-shaped ; lob-^9 5, short, spreading. Stamens didynamous, 

 usually included, filaments usually hairy; anthers with 2 ovoid 

 rauticous distant cells. Disk inconspicuous. Style linear, glabrous, 

 with 2 lobes, the lower one ofteu again 2-lobed ; ovules numerous. 



