506 cix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Andrographis. 



founds his species ; which both hardly differ from A. echioides but by their 

 short-petioled (not sessile) leaves and rather shorter (^ in.) sepals. This is cer- 

 tainly A. glandulosa, Xees, for he has written his name on Wight's n. 2026, 

 though this appears to be an erect annual. 



17. A. Rothii, Clarke ; shrubby, hairy, leaves small shortly petioled 

 ovate or orbicular, racemes axillary lax few-fld., lower pedicels nearly as 

 long as the calyx. Justicia glandulosa, Roth Nov, Sp. 13? ; not of Wall. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 675). 



EootstocJc woody ; branches 8-12 in., wavy, closely pubescent, and with white 

 patent hairs, some glandular. Leaves 3 f in., base rounded or in a few of the lower 

 very shortly attenuated ; petiole \ in. Racemes 24 in., patent or recurved, 

 wavy, sometimes bifid, upper subpanicled ; bracts \ in., ovate. Sepals - in. Cap- 

 sule ^ by | in., subobtuse. Found loose in Wight's Herbarium, marked simply 

 Erianthera : it appears to fit very closely Roth's description of his Justicia 

 glandulosa. 



18. A. serpyllifolia, Wight Ic. t. 517; stems procumbent villous, 

 leaves small sessile orbicular, racemes many 1- or few-fld. in the lower axils. 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 503. Justicia serpyllifolia, Vahl Enum. 

 i. 169. J. nummularifolia, Wall. Cat. 2461. Erianthera serpyllifolia, Nees 

 in Wall. PL As. Bar. iii. 115, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 514. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Mysore, Palamcotta, &c., Shuter, Wight, &c. 



Eootstock woody ; annual stems 2-12 in., closely procumbent, curved, densely 

 leafy. Leaves \ in. diam., obtuse, more or less hairy. Racemes sometimes forming 

 a small terminal quasi-panicle, but always with many 1-2-fld. in the lower axils ; 

 bracts ^-^ in , orbicular, being gradually reduced leaves. Sepals - in., linear ; 

 in fruit often in. Corolla ^-J in. Capsule ^-\ by |- in. 



19. A. Beddomei, Clarice ; leaves short-petioled elliptic and obovate 

 glabrous, racemes solitary axillary small few-fld., lower pedicels viscous- 

 pubescent, corolla ^-f in. conspicuously 2-lipped, anthers exserted bases 

 densely white-bearded. 



MADEAS ; Kurnool, Nallaymallays, alt. 2000 ft., Seddome. 



Stems 4-6 in., subsimple, quadrangular. Leaves 3| by l|-2 in., subobtuse, some- 

 what coriaceous, base cuneate, raphides or obscure ; petiole 0^- in. Racemes f in., 

 3-5-fld., viscous-pubescent; bracts in., oblong, subobtuse. Calyx $ in. Corolla 

 and stamens nearly as of A. echioides. Capsule not seen. 



XXIX. HAPX.ANTHUS, Nees. 



Erect herbs. Leaves petioled, ovate, entire. Flowers axillary, appearing 

 whorled, whorls sometimes approximated into terminal spikes, surrounded 

 by numerous barren branchlets, reduced to acicular cladodes terminated 

 by 2-3 minute spines ; proper bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx small; 

 sepals sublinear. Corolla smallish, tubular ; limb 2-lipped ; lobes imbri- 

 cated. Stamens 2 ; anthers 2-celled ; cells ovate, equal or one sometimes 

 much smaller, muticous ; connective very hairy behind. Ovary 6-16-ovu- 

 late ; style shortly bifid at the tip. Capsule narrowly oblong acute, 6-16- 

 seeded from the base. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, densely 

 shortly hairy when moistened. Species 3, endemic in India. 



1. XX. verticillaris, Nees in DC. Prodr. ix. 513 ; cladodes in fruit 

 stout rigid pubescent scarcely ciliate towards the tips, calyx minutely 

 pubescent or glabrate. Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 197 ; T. Anders, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 504. Justicia verticillata, Eoxb. FL Ind. i. 135. 



