498 cix. ACANTHACE^J. (C. B. Clarke!.) [Eranthemum. 



glabrous or pubemlous. Corolla-tube linear, only slightly widened close to the apex ; 

 limb 1-1? in. diam., obscurely 2-lipped. Capsule f in., eylindric base ^ in. Seeds 

 % in., rugose, subtubercled glabrous. Vahl's description agrees pretty well with this 

 Malabar species, and he received his examples from Koenig ; but his reference to 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 44 (which has extremely different flowers) throws a doubt on 

 the identification. Nees says his IE. crenulatum was founded entirely on material 

 from Silhet to Malacca, and therefore it should not belong to IE. malabaricum, even 

 in part ; but in fact a good deal of Nees' material came from Malabar. 



4. E. palatiferum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 108, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 457 ; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends pubescent on the 

 midrib beneath or ultimately glabrate, racemes pubescent flowers often 

 fascicled, corolla pale-purple tube l-li in. linear, ovary pubescent. 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Son. ix. 524. Justicia palatifera, Wall. PI. As. 

 Bar. i. 80, t. 92. J. rubicunda, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2480. 



SUBTROPICAL SIKKIM and JBHOTAN, alt. 0-3000 ft., frequent; Treutler, Gamble, 

 &c. ASSAM and KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-3000 ft., common ; Wallich, Griffith, &c. 



Perennial, 3 ft. ; stems pubescent upwards. Leaves ^ by 2-3 in., very obscurely 

 (or not) lineolate ; nerves 8-10 pair ; petiole ^ in. Racemes often one foot long, pubes- 

 cent; bracts |- in., sublinear; lower pedicels rarely attaining in. Sepals in., 

 linear, pubescent. Corolla-tube linear almost to its apex ; limb l in. diam., obscurely 

 2-lipped ; purple often with a yellowish spot on the middle lobe of the lowdr lip. 

 Capsule nearly 1 in., pubescent. Seeds ^ in. diam., reticulate- rugose, glabrous.^ 



VAR. levicapsa ; leaves more conspicuously lineolate on the upper surface, spikes 

 long slender in more or less compound panicles, flowers often slenderer, capsule less 

 pubescent usually soon glabrate. E. crenulatum, Wall. Cat. 2491, letter F. 

 Chittagong, alt. 6-2000-ft., frequent ; H. f. $ T., &c. Pegu, M'Lelland. Mergui, 

 Griffith. Attran, Wallich. 



VAR. elata ; leaves | large uppermost petioled elongate-cuneate at the base. 

 E. elatum, Kurz in Journ. Sot. 1872, 46, and 1873, 47. E. latifolium, Kurz in Flora 

 1870, 363 excl. syn. ? Pegu, Yomah, Kurz. Rangoon, M'Lelland. Kurz notes that 

 this species produces on the same plant dimorphous flowers ; one kind as of E. palati- 

 ferum type, the other (usually the upper ones in the spike) about ^ in. long, which chiefly 

 produce fruit. Similar dimorphic flowers occur in typical Khasian IE. palatiferum. 



5. E. album, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 455 ; leaves elliptic acuminate 

 puberulous on the midrib beneath or glabrate, spikes panicled minutely 

 pubescent, corolla white tube 1 in. linear. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 ix. 523. E. crenulatum, Wall. Cat. 2491, letters D, E. Justicia alba, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 116, and Ic. Ined. in Serb. Kew. 



ANDAMANS ; Roxburgh, Kurz. PEGU ; Urandis. CHITTAGONG- ; J. ID. H. 

 PENANG; Wallich. NICOBARS; Kurz. 



Stem woody upwards, bark whiteish. Uppermost leaves very shortly petioled, 

 base usually rounded, but in Roxburgh's picture (and in the Chittagong example) 

 cuneate. This when dry, seems very difficult to separate from IE. palatiferum, Nees, 

 Var. levicapsa, except by the woodiness of the stems, almost to the panicle as shown in 

 Roxburgh's picture and in Kurz's and Hooker's examples ; the stems in E. palatiferum 

 being distinctly herbaceous unless very near the base. 



6. E. malaccense, Clarke ; leaves broad-lanceolate minutely pilose 

 on the midrib beneath, spikes 1-3 subterminal puberulous or pubescent, 

 corolla pale-purple tube 1-1 in. linear, ovary nearly glabrous. E. crenu- 

 latum, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 107, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 453, 

 chiefly ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 523, partly (not of Lindl.}. E. 

 palatiferum, Sot. Mag. t. 5957, left-hand fig. only. Justicia orbiculata, 

 Wall. Cat. 2489, letter b. 



MALACCA; Griffith (Kew l)istrib. n. 6175), Cuming, nn. 2357, 2389, &c. 



