492 cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Neuracanthus. 



ovate or broadly elliptic base cuneate. Lepidagathis Keesianus, Wight', 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 499. 



MADBAS ; Paloor (in Arcot) on black cotton -soil, Wight. 



Stems 12-18 in., procumbent, terete, softly hairy. Leaves 2 by 1 in., obtuse, 

 entire, silky on both surfaces, young white-tornentose beneath. Spikes 2 by r; in., 

 dense; bracts | in., ovate, acute, obscurely 4-ranked; bracteoles small, subulate. 

 Calyx 2-partite ; one segment 3-lobed less than half-way down, lobes lanceolate acute ; 

 the other 2-lobed nearly to the base. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip ovate minutely 

 bifid, lower 3-partite, lobes ovate mucronate. Stamens 4, included ; the upper 

 anthers 2 with 2 divaricate cells, lower 1-celled; connective hairy. Capsule ^ in., 

 oblong, 4-seeded.x Seeds compressed, hairy. Flowers or stamens described by T. 

 Anderson, whose account of the stamens requires the species to be transferred from 

 Lepidagathis to Neuracanthus, as does also the structure of the calyx, which is 

 erroneously given by T. Anderson. Wight has written on his original ticket " Paloor, 

 in black cotton soil," which T. Anderson has taken to be Palamcottah (near Tinne- 

 velly), where it is believed there is no black cotton-soil. 



XXTY. CROSSANDRA, Salisb. 



Undershrubs. Leaves entire or undulate, subdentate. SpiTces linear- 

 oblong ; bracts imbricate ; bracteoles linear ; flowers sessile, yellow. Sepals 

 5, ovate, acute, 2 inner much smaller. Corolla-tube linear, incurved ; limb 

 on one side of 5 subequal, elliptic lobes, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous ; anthers 1-celled, muticous ; connective mucronate. Style 

 minntely 2-lobed at the tip; ovary 4-ovulate. Capsule oblong, acute, 4- 

 seeded. Seeds compressed, orbicular, adpressedly scaly ; scales of numerous 

 hairs coalescing nearly to their tips, which are seen imperfectly free 

 when moistened. Species 5 ; 1 in India, 4 in Tropical Africa or Mada- 

 gascar. 



C. undulaefolia, Saliab. Par. Lond. t. 12 ; leaves ovate or lanceo- 

 late narrowed at both ends, spikes sessile or peduncled pubescent. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 69 ; Sot. Mag. t. 2186. 0. axillaris, Nets in Wall. PI. As. Ear", iii. 

 98, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 281 ; Wight lit. t. 164 b, fig. 7, and Ic. t. 460; 

 Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 193. C. inftindibuliformis, Nees in Wall. PI. A. 

 Bar. iii. 98, and in DC. I. c. 280; Wight Jc. t. 461; T. Anders, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 494. C. oppositifolia, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 98, and 

 in DC. 7. c. 281. C. coccinea, Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. FL Suppl. 71. Justicia 

 infundibuliformis, Lin.\ Burm. Fl.Itid. 7. Harrachia speciosa, Jacq. E<-L 

 33, t. 21 ; Blame B>jd. 793. Euellia infundibuliformis, Roxb. FL 2nd. iii. 

 41 ; Wall. Cat. 2361.Bkeede Hort. Hal. ix. t. 62. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTBIB. Cult, in N. India, the Malay 

 Peninsula and Islands. 



Stems 1-3 ft., pubescent upwards. Leaves 4 by 1^ in. (often much smaller), r 

 glabrous or pubescent beneath ; petiole -1 in. Peduncles 0-5 in. ; spikes 1-4 in. ; 

 bracts i by in., elliptic, acute ; bracteoles in. Sepals much imbricated, outer ^ in., 

 rigid, subscarious. Corolla glabrous ; tube | by T ' 5 in. ; lobes | by \ in. Capsule 

 in., glabrous. Wallich's and Griffith's Nepal and Sikkim specimens, treated as 

 wild by Nees and T. Anderson, are no doubb cultivated ones. 



XXV. ASYSTASIA, Blume. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves entire. Spikes or racemes lax or dense, 

 simple or compound, 1-sided or suberect; bracts and bracteoles linear, 

 shorter than the calyx (except in A. Laiviana] ; flowers opposite or alter- 



