Nelsonia.] cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 395 



N. villosa, senegalensis & Smithii, Oersted in Videnslc Meddel. Kjobenh. 

 (1854) -iv. 117, 118, t. 4, fig. 3-18. Justicia canescens & brunelloides, 

 LamTc. III. i. 40, 41. J. hirsuta, Vald Enum. i. 122. J. lamifolia, Koen. ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 134. J. tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 2370. (Other American, 

 African and Australian synonyms omitted.) 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-4000 ft., from the Himalaya to Ceylon and Malacca, 

 common : not in western desert India. DISTEIB. S.E. Asia, Australia, Africa, 

 America. 



Stems mostly short, with petioled leaves often 4-8 in. long ; flowering stems trailing, 

 1-3 ft., with subsessile leaves -2 in. Spikes -2 in., mostly sessile, terminal on 

 lateral branches ; bracts <t \ in., obtuse, herbaceous. Calyx ^ in., green, striate, 

 hairy or subscarious. Corolla in. Ovary and style glabrous. Capsule - in., 

 8-12-seeded. Seeds yellowish with brown granulations. The picture of the seed by 

 Kippist in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. t. 6, fig. 11, showing the surface with hammer- 

 headed spines, is erroneous. 



VAK. vestita ; suberect, hairy, leaves very large, corolla-lobes acute. N. vestita, 

 Moem. cf- Sch. Syst. i. Mant. 145. Justicia tomeutosa, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 4, and Fl. 

 Ind. i. 131. J. bengalensis, Spreng. Syst. i. 82. Dianthera tomentosa, Roxb. Ic. 

 Ined. in Herb. Kew. Pegu; M'Lelland, Brandis, &c. Cauline leaves attaining 

 10 in., uppermost 3-5 in. ; petiole 2 in. Bracts elliptic, acute, Dr. King says that 

 it is very easy to distinguish this from every form of N. campestris, but that he can 

 give no good character for it, and that it had better be regarded as an extreme form 

 of that plant. Roxburgh says the capsule is 4- or.8-seeded j it is really as that of N. 

 campestris type. 



IV. EBERMAIERA, Nee*. 



Herbs or small undershrubs. Leaves opposite (in E. glauca alternate), 

 entire or nearly so. Spikes or racemes terminal or quasi-axillary, simple or 

 compound, dense or lax ; bract at the base -of the pedicel leaf-like or over- 

 topping the flower or small inconspicuous ; bracteoles 2 near the base of the 

 calyx, smaller than the bract. Sepals 5, oblong or linear, subequal or one 

 larger. Corolla-tube elongate, cylindric (in E. coriacea & parviflora short- 

 funnel-shaped) ; lobes 5, short, patent. Stamens 4/didynamous, included in 

 the corolla-tube (in E. coriacea & parviflora shortly exsert) ; filaments 

 patently hairy (in E. parviflora glabrous) ; anther-cells 2, ovoid, separate, 

 muticous. Disc inconspicuous . Ovary glabrous or nearly so; style linear 

 glabrous; lobes 2, oblong, the lower frequently again 2-lobed; ovules very 

 many. Capsule small, oblong, bearing seeds from the base to near the apex. 

 Seeds 15-30 in each cell, small, globose or cuboid; hilum a minute hollow; 

 retinacula ; unripe glandular, ultimately nearly smooth or with obscure 

 shallow pits ; albumen thin, cartilaginous (Benth.). Species 40, in fe... 

 Asia, Malaya, Australia, and Brazil. 



* Flowers sessile or subsessile, spikes elongate or capitate rarely divided, 

 sepals | in. or more one often distinctly larger than the others. 



1 E. glauca, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 73; stem patently viscous- 

 pubescent upwards, leaves petioled spathulate-oblong upper alternate, spifc 

 elongate lax interrupted below, lower bracts petioled Imear-spathulate much 

 exceeding the flowers, corolla -* in. Wall. Cat. 9083 ; > Wight Ill.t. 1< 

 fig. 2, and Ic. t. 1488; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 184; T. ***** 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 450, in some part and excl. *yn- K l^ 1 ^' Bedd ' 

 Ind. Or. t. 245. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA and S. MADRAS, frequent; Wight, &c. BENGAL; 

 Darieeling Terai, Clarke. TENASSEEIM ; Beddome 



Stems ^2-15 in. ; lower leaves and branches opposite or leaves nearly all alternate. 



