214 ACANTBACHAE. [ Diclipteba. 



Himalayan tracts of Kohilkhand and N. Oudh. Distrib. Himalaya 

 from Kashmir to N. Assam and Chittagong, up to 7,000 ft. ; also on the 

 hills of Kajputana and C. India, extending to Afghanistan. 



Khinacanthus communis, Nees ; Royle III. 298 ; F. B. I. iv. 541 ; Watt 

 E. D. ; Prain Beng. PI. 819 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 415. Ju«tieia nasuta, 

 Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 120.— Vern. Jux-pana. — An undershrub with 

 oblong or ovate leaves and white flowers arranged in large panicles. 

 — Cultivated within the area of this flora and throughout India. It 

 appears to be wild in the Deccan and also in Ceylon where, according 

 to Trimen, it is not cultivated. It occurs also in Java and in Trop. 

 Africa as an introduced plant. The fresh root and leaves are used by 

 natives as a remedy for certain skin-diseases, and more particularly for 

 what is commonly known as Dhobi's itch. 



Graptophyllum eortense, Nees; F. B. I. iv, 545 ; Coohe Fl. Bomb. 

 ii,416. Justicia picta. Linn.; Roxb. Fl- Ind. i, 117. A glabrous shrub 

 with lanceolate leaves which are often blotched with white, and the 

 flowers are large and crimson. — Cultivated in gardens throughout 

 the hotter parts of India and in most tropical countries. Probably 

 wild in the Malay Archipelago. 



LXXXVI.-VERBENACE.flE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or whorled, simple 

 or digitate, very rarely pinnate ; stipules none. Inflorescence 

 cymose racemose or spicate ; cymes often compound or paniculate, 

 bracts usually small ; flowers often showy, 2-sexual or polygamous, 

 usually irregular. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, persistent, 5-4 

 (rarely 6-8)-toothed. Corolla-tube cylindric or dilated upwards ; 

 limb 2-lipped or subequal, 5-4 (rarely many)-lobed. Stamens 

 didynamous (rarely 2 or very rarely 5 or 6), inserted on corolla-tube. 

 Disk usually inconspicuous. Ovary superior, 2-4-celled, very rarely 

 8-celled or almost 1-celled, entire or 4-lobed, style terminal, stigma 

 usually entire ; ovules variously attached, 2 or solitary in each cell. 

 Fruit 2l drupe, rarely capsular, 2-4-or 1-celled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds 

 erect or pendulous, albumen (in the Indian genera) none. — Species 

 about 700, chiefly in the tropical regions of both hemispheres. 



Flowers in dense spikes, opening centripe- 

 tally :— 



Fruit with two 1-seeded pyrenes, calyx 

 small : — 



Fruit indehiscent, succulent. Usually 

 scabrous climbing shrubs . . . 1. Lantana 



