504 cix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Andrographi*. 



ft Racemes dense, forming a viscous broivn-hairy head or panicle. 



10. A. viscosula, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 116, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 517 ; leaves lanceolate glabrous densely lineolate above, corolla 

 in. hairy. Wight Ic. t. 1559 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 502. 

 Justicia lineata, Wall. Cat. 2486, letter b. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Courtallum, Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 677) ; Pulney Hills, 

 Beddome. 



An undershrub, scarcely 1 foot ; branches numerous, glabrous, 4-lineolate. Leaves 

 1| by \ in., narrowed at both ends ; petiole O-^ in. Panicles 1-2^ in., terminal, 

 many -fid., viscidly brown-hairy ; pedicels Q- T ' in. ; bracts 2 ' g in., linear. Sepals 

 - in., linear-lanceolate. Corolla conspicuously 2-lipped; lips ?-| in. Anthers 

 exserted, bases thinly bearded, filaments thinly bristly. Capsule |- by in., pubes- 

 cent. Seeds osseous, rugose, glabrous, not compressed. 



VAE. explicata ; leaves 3 by f-1 in., panicle elongate 6-8 in.' less dense, cap- 

 sules rather larger. A. ceylanica, Wight Ic. t. 1560, not of Nees. Courtallum ; 

 Wight (Herb. Propr. nn. 676, 2242). Concan ; Stocks. Anamailays and Nil- 

 gherries, Beddome. Wight himself, after figuring his A. ceylanica from n. 676, has 

 altered the name of a portion of his n. 676 to A. viscosula. 



11. A. Neesiana, Wight Ic. t. 1561 ; leaves elliptic acute at both, 

 ends sparsely minutely hairy above glabrate beneath, racemes terminal 

 subcapitate, sepals in., corolla f in. hairy. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ix. 502, excl. syn. 



PTJLNEY MTS. ; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 2705). WYNAAD ; Beddome. 



Branches elongate, undivided, glabrate, obscurely quadrangular. Leaves 2| by 

 14 in. ; hairs remote many-cellular, raphides ; petiole ^ in. Racemes forming a 

 dense panicle 2-5 in. diam.. viscidly brown-hairy. Capsule attaining 1 by 3 in., com- 

 prtssed, minutely hairy. Differs from A. viscosula in the absence of raphides from the 

 leaves above. 



VAE. producta ; leaves elongate, heads produced into oblong sub-lax panicles. A. 

 ceylanica, Wight in Herb. Andrographis sp. n. 13, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. fy T. 

 Shevagberry Hills ; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 2702). Tinnevelly; Beddome. Mala- 

 bar; Gibson (in Herb. Dalzell), &c. Leaves 4 by \ in., subsessile. Panicles 5 in., 

 pyramidal. Texture, indumentum, &c., of the leaves exactly as in A. Neesiana 

 type. 



VAE. affinis, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 116, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 517 (sp.) ; 

 leaves small elliptic or oblong pubescent, panicles pyramidal or oblong viscidly brown- 

 pubescent, corolla \ in. T. Anders, in DC. Prodr. ix. 502. Nilgherry and Kurg 

 Mis., frequent ; Wight, &c. Leaves 1 by ^ in., or smaller; minutely bristly above 

 with no raphides, pubescent beneath ; nerves less impressed on the upper surface, 

 usually fulvous-pubescent. Capsule very hairy. 



12. . A. stellulata, Clarke ; hairy, leaves short-petioled elliptic nar- 

 rowed at both ends, heads terminal dense, sepals exceeding in. linear- 

 setaceous, corolla in. A. Neesiana, Benth. in PI. Hohenack, n. 1435, not 

 of Wight. 



NILGHEEEY MTS., alt. 6000 ft., HohenacJcer, &c. 



Branches elongate, obscurely quadrangular, closely villous. Leaves 2J by 1 in., 

 copiously sprinkled with fulvous multicellular hairs above, closely villous beneath ; 

 petiole 0- in. Heads 1-2 in. diam., viscidly brown- hairy. Corolla pale pink with 

 purple spots on the lower lip. Filaments somewhat flattened, hairy upwards. Cap- 

 sule | by ^ in. (and upwards), hairy, compressed. Seeds osseous, rugose, glabrous, not 

 compressed. Much resembling A. Neesiana and others of this subsection, but dis- 

 tinguished by the long substellate sepals. 



13. A. lineata, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 116, and in DC. 



