Dcedalacantlnis.'] cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 419 



long-acuminate, liueolate, puberulous; bracteoles $, in., narrowly lanceolate. Calyx 

 in., lobed half-way down, whiteish, minutely but densely pubescent ; lobes lanceolate. 

 Corolla-lobes |-^ in., broadly elliptic. Stamens glabrous ; anthers exserted, narrowly 

 oblong. Ovary glabrous ; style nearly glabrous. Capsule % in. ; solid cylindric 

 base short. Seeds in. diam. The Soonderbund plant has the calyx-lobes unusually 

 short. The Var. scabra of Nees is merely a specimen in youug flower, and therefore 

 slightly scabrid-puberulous (it is not Anderson's scabra). 



5. D. macrophyllus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 487 ; stem 

 pubescent upwards, leaves elliptic-lanceolate ovate acuminate attenuate at 

 the base often obscurely scabrid-puberulous, spikes linear subinterrupted, 

 bracts elliptic subobtuse nervose margins entire obscurely pubescent not 

 ciliate, corolla 1 in. Bot. Mag. t. 6686. Eranthemum macrophyllum, 

 Watt. Cat. 7179; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 106, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 446. 



PEGU, BURMA and TENASSERIM ; Wallich, &c. (Kew Distrib. n. 6128). 



Closely allied to D. nervosus, but the inflorescence more lax. Leaves similar to 

 (not larger than) those of D. nervosus, but (even when mature) often with scattered 

 minute hairs on the upper surface, and a scabrid pubescence on the nerves beneath ; 

 raphides fewer and less prominent. Peduncles 2-5 in., pubescent ; spikes 2-5 in. ; 

 bracts as of D. nervosus, the lower often scarcely overlapping. A single specimen of 

 this from Hort. Kew put into the Herbarium in 1869 is marked D. scaber by T. 

 Anderson, but is not the plant so called of his monograph in Journ. Linn. Soc., which 

 is a D. nervosus. 



6. D. strictuSj T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 487 ; leaves ovate 

 or elliptic narrowed at both ends glabrous or nearly so, spikes linear inter- 

 rupted forming a large terminal panicle, bracts narrowly elliptic obtuse 

 herbaceous not whitened, corolla 1^-2 in. blue. Eranthemum strictum, 

 Colebr.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, and Wall. i. 114; Wall. Cat. 2494; Bot. 

 Eeg. t. 867 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3068 ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 106, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 448 (excl. syn. Wall-. Cat. 2492 a.). 



EASTERN FRONTIER, in the lower hills, alt. 0-3000 ft., from KHASIA MTS. to 

 CHITTAGONG, Wallich, H. f. $ T., &c., frequent. 



A herb, 1-3 ft., with large basal leaves, pubescent, sparingly leafy upwards. Basal 

 leaves 6-12 in., narrowed at the base, short-petioled, subentire, raphides obscure ; 

 upper often 1-2 in. only, base sometimes rounded. Spikes 3-8 in., hairy in the 

 Chittagong plants, nearly glabrous in some of the Khasian ; bracts -1 in., much 

 exceeding the calyx, green, 1-fld. ; bracteoles in., linear-lanceolate. Calyx in., 

 divided half-way down; lobes lanceolate. Corolla often pubescent. Stamens 

 glabrous ; anthers included. Style hairy in the Chittagong specimens, very slightly 

 so in the Khasian, Capsule $-f in., glandular-pubescent) or in the Khasian examples 

 nearly glabrous. 



7. D. roseus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 487 ; leaves elliptic 

 acuminate at both ends glabrous lineolate, spikes linear subinterrupted, 

 bracts obovate with a short recurved mucro glandular-pubescent strongly 

 nerved, corolla 1-1$ in. rose snbglabrous. Justicia rosea, VahlEnum.\. 

 165. Eranthemum roseum, Br. Prodr. 447 ; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 447; 

 Dalz. $[ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 195. 



W. and S. DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Bombay Ghats to Mangalore, frequent ; 

 Wiqht, HohenacJcer, &c. ,._. 



Resembling D. nervosus, but inflorescence more lax and bracts different. 

 Peduncles 0-2 1 in., axillary and terminal; spikes often 6m. Bracts (all but the 

 lowest) imbricated, J-f in., strongly rugose by raised inarching green nerves; margins 

 entire, glabrous, cffiate or very hairy. Seeds | in. diam., much compressed. Other- 

 wise (except the colour of corolla) as D. nervosus. 



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