420 cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Dcedalacanthus. 



VAE. Neesii ; leaves ovate acuminate not lineolate, nerves much raised beneath 

 scabrous, spikes short dense, bracts ciliate. ASSAM ? 



8. D. tetrag-onus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 488 ; leaves 

 lanceolate acuminate at both ends glabrous densely lineolate, spikes solitary 

 short-peduncled oblong very dense, bracts elliptic green long-ciliate, corolla 

 1^ in. pale blue. Eranthemnm tetragonum, Wall. Cat. 7180; Nees in 

 Wall. PL As. Bar. iii. 106, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 447. 



BRITISH BTJEMA, Wallich ; Moulmein, Parish ; Thoungyen Hills, Beddome ; 

 Beeliug Forest, Brandts. 



Branches upwards slender, quadrangular, nearly glabrous. Leaves 1\ by 1^- in., 

 much attenuate, subentire ; nerves 7-8 pair ; petiole 1 in. Splices 2 in., hairy ; 

 bracts | by ^ in., subobtuse. Calyx and bracteoles as of D. nervosus. Corolla-tube 

 glabrous; rnouth |-1 in. Anthers not exserted. Capsule ^in. ; solid narrowed base 

 scarcely \ in. Not nearly allied to Eranthemum salaccense (Blunie Bijd. 792), as 

 T. Anderson supposed ; Kurz erroneously reduced it thereto in Journ. As. Soc. 1870, 

 pt. ii. p. 78. 



9. D. suffruticosus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 488 ; leaves 

 elliptic narrowed at both ends glabrate not lineolate, spikes short dense 

 nearly glabrous, bracts obovate nervose not whitened, corolla 1 in. pale 

 bine. E ran the mum suffruticosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. Ill ; Nees in Wall. 

 PL As. Ear. iii. 107, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 448. E, barlerioides, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 113. E. amoenum, Ham. ms. 



ANDAMANS ; Serb. Hamilton, Kurz. 



Nearly glabrous ; branches leafy, obscurely tetragonous. Leaves 6 by 2^ in., 

 undulate; nerves 6 pair; petiole f in. Spikes 1-1J in., terminal, solitary, dense 

 with (in Roxburgh's drawing) sometimes a few straggling flowers at the base ; bracts 

 I in., obtuse with a short mucro, glabrous; nerves prominent beneath ; bracteoles \ in., 

 linear-lanceolate. Calyx \ in., divided half-way down ; lobes linear-lanceolate. 

 Corolla-tube glabrous ; mouth f in. diam. Anthers included. E. barlericides, some- 

 what doubtfully referred here by T. Anderson, is merely one of the cases where 

 Roxburgh changed the name of a species, and his editors Wallich and Carey printed 

 the description twice over. 



10. D. microstachyus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 488; 

 leaves elliptic narrowed at both ends glabrate, flowers remote sessile panicled, 

 bracts small none imbricate, corolla 1| in. purple. 



MOULMEIN ; Lobb. 



A herb, 2-3 ft., with large basal leaves, sparingly leafy upwards, habit of D. 

 strictus. Leaves 8 by 3 in., base attenuate or rounded, subentire, obscurely or not 

 lineolate; nerves 10 pair; petiole 0-1 in. Panicle large, compound, trichotomous, 



flandular-pubescent, branches quadrangular; bracts in., ovate or elliptic; bracteoles 

 in., oblong. Calyx in., deeply divided, green ; lobes linear, viscid-pubescent. 

 Corolla-mouth 1 in. diam. Anthers included. Ovary and style somewhat glandular- 

 pubescent. Capsule | in., acute; solid cylindric base longer than the-seed-bearing 

 part. Though the shortened bracts give this so different an aspect, the species appears 

 very closely allied to D. strictus. 



11. D. purpurascens, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 488 ; leaves 

 ovate acuminate upper often rounded at the base, spikes solitary oblong 

 very dense, bracts ovate much acuminate nervose ciliate. Justicia pulchella, 

 Eoxl. Cor. PI. ii. 41, t. 177. Eranthemtim pulchellum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 



11, not of And r. E. purpurascens, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 106, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xi. 447. E. montanum, Wall. Cat. 2492, partly. E. 



