Andrographis.] cix. ACANTHACE^I. (C. B. Clarke.) 505 



Prodr. xi. 516 ; leaves subsessile ovate or broadly oblong shortly acute 

 glabrous, panicles very compound viscidly grey- or dusky-pubescent, corolla 

 in. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 502. Andrographis sp. n. 14, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. JS.f. # T. Justicia lineata, Wall. Cat. 2486, letter a. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Mysore and adjacent parts of the Nilghiri and Kurg 

 Mts., Wight, G. Thomson, Lobb ; Anamallays, Beddome. 



Branches elongate, quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves If by 1 in., suddenly acute, 

 base rounded ; raphides above embedded, obscure ; nerves beneath usually strongly 

 elevated ; petiole 0- T ' 5 in. Panicle 2-10 in. ; pedicels or very short. Sepals ^- in., 

 linear-lanceolate ncute, glandular-bairy. Corolla hairy. Anthers bearded at the 

 base. Capsule & by |- in., thinly hairy. Hardly separable from A. viscosula 

 var. explicata by the less acuminate leaves with more strongly-marked nerves and 

 the more densely bearded anthers. 



VAR. Lawn ; stern closely pubescent, leaves 3 in. sparsely pilose above pubescent 

 beneath, panicle large open. Bababoodun Hills; Law. Nundidroog, Beddome. 

 Referred to A. affinis in Herb. Hooker : the large strongly lineate leaves, large panicle 

 and densely barbate anthers bring it nearer to A. lineata type. 



14. A. lobelioides, Wight III. t. 164 b, fig. 11, and Ic. t. 1557 ; leaves 

 small sessile ovate pubescent or glabrous, racemes in a subterminal panicle, 

 corolla ^ in. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 503. Justicia lobelioides, 

 Wall. Cat. 2484. Erianthera lobelioides, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 115, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xi. 514. 



NILGHIRI MTS., alt. 6-8000 ft., common in the open grass, Wight, &c. 



Very rusty pubescent or nearly glabrous. Rootstock woody ; stems 28 in., very 

 numerous, procumbent. Leaves |-| in. diam. Panicles 1-4 in.; lower pedicels 

 f'gj in. Sepals in. Anthers much exserted, conspicuously white-barbate. Capsule 

 by ^ in. Very variable in indumentum. Easily distinguished (without the fruit) 

 from A. serpyllifolia by the absence of flowers in the lower axils. 



VAR. composita ; racemes elongate compound forming a terminal quasi-panicle 12 

 by 8 in. Courtallurn Hills and Tinnevelly ; Beddome. 



** Capsule elliptic, 2-3 times as long as broad. 



15. A. echioides, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 117, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 518 ; erect, hairy, leaves sessile oblong or subelliptic obtuse, 

 racemes numerous axillary, corolla ^- in. Wight Ic. t. 467; Dalz. # 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 198; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 503. Justicia 

 echioides, Linn. ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 9 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 118 ; Wall. Cat. 2439. 

 Eheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 46. 



TROPICAL INDIA, in the drier districts from the Punjab and Chota Nagpore 

 to Ceylon, common (absent in Bengal proper and humid Malabaria). 



Annual, 8-24 in., closely pubescent and with patent white hairs. Leaves 2% by 

 1 in., base cuneate. Racemes about as long as the leaves, divaricate or recurved, 

 often one from each axil about the middle of the stem ; pedicels very short. 

 Sepals ^-\ in., linear ; in fruit elongated, sometimes ^ in. Corolla pubescent, 

 pink or white, lower lip dark-purple. Anthers much exserted, white-barbate. 

 Capsule ^ by ^ in., acute at both ends, hairy. Seeds twice as long as broad, 

 osseous, rugose, glabrous, not compressed. 



16. A. grlandulosa, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 115, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 518 ; hairy, leaves petioled oblong or subelliptic obtuse, racemes 

 numerous axillary, lower pedicels nearly as long as the calyx. Justicia 

 glandulosa, Wall. Cat. 2485. 



MYSORE ; Heyne (fide Nees), Wight (Herb. Prop. n. 3026). 



Leaves 1 by in., both in Wight's and Wallich's examples, on which Nees 



