496 cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Asy*f(t.xfa. 



1 in., with the seeds nearly as of A. macrocarpa. The name is very misleading ; 

 the corolla is always a fine rose. In one example the raceme is developed into a lux 

 very compound panicle, and the plant is noted as 6 ft. high. 



10. A. Neesiana, Nees in Wall PL As. Ear. iii. 89, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 164; leaves large broadly elliptic acute sparingly pubescent, 

 racemes elongate very lax pubescent, corolla 2 in. pink tube very long linear. 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 526. Euellia ISTeesiana, Wall. PL As. 

 Ear. i. 73, t. 83, and Cat. 2342. Asystasia sp. n. 14, Herb. Ind. Or. H. /. 

 &[T. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-3000 ft., frequent; Wallich, &c. CACHAR; Keenan. 

 MOULMEIN; Parish. 



Leaves 8 by 3 in., lower long-petioled, uppermost pair usually (not always) sessile. 

 Raceme often nearly a foot long, very pubescent. Corolla, capsule and seeds nearly 

 as of A. atroviridis. Anther-cells minutely mucronate at the base. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



11. A. ? KUNTHIANA, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 89, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 

 163 ; leaves oblong or elliptic acuminate at both ends pubescent beneath, spikes dense 

 few-fld. on very short axillary peduncles. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 525. 

 Ruellia Kunthiana, Wall. Cat. 2419. 



PENAN G ; Wallich. 



Stems creeping, rooting; branches 1 foot, erect, subterete, glabrous. Leaves 3| 

 by 1^ in., lineolate above ; petiole scarcely | in. Peduncles 0-^- in. ; spikes ^-J in., 

 glabrous, lineolate ; bracts T ' B in. Sepals | in., linear. Capsule in., constricted for 

 a short space at the base, 4-seeded, glabrous. Flowers not seen. T. Anderson does 

 not doubt this being an Asystasia, but it might quite as well be a Justicia. 



12. A. ? Eranthemum montanum, Sot. Mag. t. 4031, not of Eoxb.; leaves elliptic 

 acuminate at both ends glabrate, racemes lax compound puberulous, sepals linear- 

 subulate ciliate, corolla 2| in. purple tube very long linear. 



" INDIA ;" cultivated formerly at Kew. Upper leaves 4^ by 1^ in. ; nerves 7 pair ; 

 petiole in. Peduncle 3 in., grey puberulous; panicle lax; bracts |- in., linear- 

 lanceolate, much shorter than the calyx ; lower pedicels 0- in. Sepals % in. Corolla 

 glabrous. Stamens 4 perfect, subsimilar, glabrous; anther-cells 2, bases acute. 

 Stigma minutely equally bifid. A plant of which nothing is known, but the excellent 

 figure cited, and the specimen from which it was taken. The description is incorrect 

 as to the 2 stamens, of which there are 4, hardly at all didynamous. The minute bracts 

 are as in Asystasia, and will not do for Doedalacanthus. Its true place is, in the 

 absence of fruit, uncertain. 



13. A. LAWIANA, Dalz. in 'Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 344 ; leaves elliptic acute at 

 both ends very sparsely hairy, spikes short-oblong dense softly-hairy, bracts large 

 imbricated, corolla -f in. white. Dalz. JSf Gibs. Bomb. FL 186. A. mysurensis, 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 524. Euellia mysurensis, Roth Nov. Sp. 303; 

 Wall. Cat. 2402. Strobilanthes mysurensis, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 86, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xi. 192. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Saugur to Kurg, frequent ; Rottler, &c. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, thinly hairy. Leaves 4 by 1| in., with few distant multi- 

 cellular hairs above, minutely lineolate, puberulous beneath ; petiole 1 in. Flower- 

 heads lj by | in., substrobiliform ; bracts | 1 by | in., broadly lanceolate, softly 

 hirsute; bracteoles in., lanceolate membranous. Sepals \ in., linear hairy. 

 Stamens slightly didynamous, nearly glabrous ; anthers 2-celled ; cells ovate or sub- 

 ellipsoid, muticous, one slightly above the other. Style glabrous ; stigma very 

 minutely bifid; ovary pubescent. Capsule f in., 4-seeded; solid cylindric base \ in. 

 Seeds compressed, angular ; testa minutely laxly hexagonal, glabrous. Very unlike 

 the genus in the bracts, corolla, anthers, and habit, in which it more resembles 

 Strobilanthes micranthus. 



