Peristrophe.] ACANTEACE2E. 211 



v<ina beneath, base rounded, main latoral norvos 4-G pairs, petioles J-J 

 in. long. Floncrs in S-chotomous cymes forming largo lux divaricate 

 hairy panicles ; bracts 2, unequal, opposite, i~i in long, linear, acute, 

 mucronato ; margins membranous, white ; bracteoles -i. smaller. 

 Calyx l-\ in long, segments with ciliate margins. Corolla pink, J-| i n « 

 long, hairy outside ; upper lip entire, obtuse ; lower rather longer, 

 with 3 acnto lobes. Filament t hairy. Capsule $ in. long, pointed, 

 ] narrowed below into a stalk. Seeds papillose, slightly rugose. 



A very common plant within the area. Distrib. Throughout the warmer 

 p;irts of India, but not in Ceylon ; uuter Himalayan ranges up to 

 6,000 ft. in Kumaon ; also in Afghanistan and Trop. Africa. The plant 

 is regarded by natives as a remedy for suako-bites. 



24. RUNGIA. Neea ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 545. 



Erect or diffuse herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire. Flotoers in dense 

 terminal or miliary 1-sided spikes ; bracts in 2 or 4 rows, two of the 

 rows often llowerless, the flowering bracts often with scarious margins, 

 bracteolcs narrower than the bracts. Calyx small, 6-partite, segments 

 linear-lanceolate. Corolla small, 2-lipped ; upper lip acute or 

 emarginate ; lower longer, 3-lobed. Stamens 2 ; anthers 2-celled, 

 parallel or often superposed ; lower cell, muticous or with a white basal 

 appendage. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell, style filiform, stigma 

 bifid. Fruit an ovoid or oblong shortly stalked capsule, placentas and 

 retinacnla elastically separating from the base of the capsule after 

 dehiscence. Seeds normally 4, compressed, orbicular, glabrous, 

 minutely tuberculate, often concentrically rugose — Species about 30, 

 in the warmer parts of the Old World. 



Bracts uniform ; oorolla white or violet with purple 



spots, upper lip emarginate . . . . . 1. B. re pens* 



Bracts dimorphic ; corolla white with blue lines, not 



spotted, upper lip entire . . . . . . 2.B. parviflora 



var. pectinata. 



1. R. re pens, yees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. Hi, 110 ; F. B. I. ir, 549 ; 



Watt h. U. ; Prain Beng. PI. 621 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 401. Justicia 



repens, Kftf*. Fl. Ind, i, 132 



Btems decumbent and rooting near the base, tdemler and erect above, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaves nearly sessile, 1-2 in. long, oblong, 

 lanceolate, acute, lineolate on both surfaces, sparsely hairy ; base 

 tapering, or sometimes rounded and unequal-sided, Flowers in erect 

 terminal pubes ent spikes l-2£ in. long ; bracts $ in. long, broadly 

 elliptic, cuspidate ; margins scarious, ciliate ; bracteoles smaller, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, puberulous. margins scarious. Calyx £ in. long 

 deeply divided ; segments lanceolate-subulate, pubescent. Corolla \-% in. 

 long, white or violet with purple spots in the throat, hairy outside, upper 



