242 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



24. RUNGIA. 



1, It. repens. An extensive much- branched creeping weed, 

 leaves nearly sessile, oblong lanceolate, spikes crowded with 

 almost smooth roundish pointed bracts, broad-margined, corolla 

 white, blue or pink, spotted darker. GMtipitpdpara (see 

 Justicia procumbens). 



Very common almost everywhere. Throughout India, common (.ST.). 



R. elegans, H. considers as possibly a large form of this, but what 

 I had in Salgette (agreeing with D.'s description) was very different, 

 flowers of a beautiful blue, large for the genus, bracts with broad 

 scarious margin, not white ; the whole plant a foot high. Hills 

 round Junar (D.). 



2. E. parviflora. A small straggling plant, leaves oval or 

 oblong, rather blunt, flowers small in small spikes, bright blue, 

 streaked darker, fertile bracts roundish, oval, barren, narrower 

 and less margined. 



Common. Mahableshwar. Dr. Cooke. 



H. includes in this as var. pectinata, D.'s R. polygonoides, and calls 

 it a universal weed throughout India. * R. crenata he makes allied 

 to this, but with much larger flowerless bracts ; they are hairy with 

 narrow margins, oblong acute, those with the flowers roundish. Not 

 in D. Konkan, Canara, and Belgaum (H.). 



There is a considerable general resemblance between the species 

 of this genus and the Eostellularia section of Justicia, and a more 

 special resemblance in the white margins of the bracts. 



25. DlCLIPTERA. 



1. D. zeylanica (D. bivalvis, D.). A tall weak plant, with 

 6-angled stem and branches, leaves ovate, pointed rough, flowers 

 rather small, pink in triad heads, bracts broad ovate, calyx 

 and bracteoles much imbricated. 



Guzerat, Konkan and Ghauts. Inflorescence variable (-H".). ^ 

 calls it " Green-loden." 



2. D. leonotis (D. Burmanni, D.). A low straggling plant, 

 with angular and woolly branches, leaves oval pointed, some- 

 what unequal-sided, almost smooth, flowers pink with white 

 tube and spotted throat ; bracts ovate, bristle pointed. 



S. Konkan. H. is doubtful about the identification of this plant 

 and D.'s : my description above agrees thoroughly with D.'s, who 

 gave no hab. H. has Guzerat and Ajmeer. I noted " both lips of 

 corolla entire or nearly so." 



* D. micrantha, leaves ovate pointed, nearly smooth, flowers in heads 

 of three, umbelled, small and slender, bracts oblong and obovate, 



