508 cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Gymnostachyum. 



ovate, panicle large pubescent, corolla f-1 in. slender. Justicia vemista, 

 Wall. Cat. 2470, and PI. As. Ear. i. 53, t. 66; Sot. Reg. t. 1380. 

 Cryptophragmium venustum, Nees in Wall. PL As. JRar. iii. 180, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 94; Sot. Mag. t. 3208. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-4000 ft., common on the southern face, Wallich., H.f. Sf T., 

 &c. 



Attaining 1-4 ft. ; stem leafless or with few remote very small leaves. Radical 

 leaves 6 by 3-4 in., or larger, acute, decurrent on the petiole, entire or undulate- 

 crenate, nearly glabrous, or with scattered minute hairs above, nerves beneath pubes- 

 cent ; petiole 0-4 in. Panicle sometimes 8 by 12 in., or reduced to a single spike ; 

 flowers opposite, 1-3 together; bracts small, linear; bracteoles 0. Sepals ^-^ in., 

 linear, hairy. Corolla pubescent ; limb deep purple or blueish. Anthers oblong, 

 glabrous. Capsule f in. 



2. Cr. febrifug'um, Senth. in Flora 1849, 558 ; leaves ovate, panicle 

 puberulous, corolla 1 in. upper half inflated, capsule 1 in. G. alat.um, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1525 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 506. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Mangalore, HohenacJcer (n. 374), Wight. 



Nearly stemless. Leaves 65 by 3 in., decurrent on the petiole, subentire or undu- 

 late- crenulate, above lineolate nearly glabrous or minutely sparsely setulose, beneath 

 paler glabrous or pubescent on the nerves. Panicles 6-12 in., in appearance radical ; 

 flowers opposite, solitary or in very small few-fld. cymes; bracts small, narrow ; 

 bracteoles 0. Sepals |- in., glabrous or puberulous. Corolla glabrous. Anthers 

 ovate, hairy. Hohenacker observes that " a decoction of the root is a febrifuge," 

 and Bentham's n&mefebrifugum has one year's priority over alatum. 



3. G-. ceylanicum, Am. Sf Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 93 ; leaves elliptic 

 glabrate lineolate above, panicles linear pubescent, corolla f in. T. Anders, 

 in Thwaites JSnum. 232, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 506 ; Sedd. Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t. 265. 



CEYLON; Walker, Thwaites, &c. 



Stem 1-3 in., villous. Leaves 3 by 1 in., obtuse, base acuminate, undulate- 

 crenate, pubescent beneath especially on the nerves; petiole 1 in. Peduncles 1-6 in. ; 

 panicles 5-9 by f in. ; cymes small, subfascicled ; bracts ^ in., linear. Sepals ^ in., 

 linear-lanceolate, grey-pubescent. Corolla nearly glabrous; tube narrow purplish ; 

 limb small greenish-yellow. Anthers subquadrate, glabrous. Capsule f in. 



4. G. Thwaitesii, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 232 ; leaves elliptic 

 hairy on both surfaces, panicles oblong pubescent, corolla \ in. Sedd. Ic. 

 PL Ind. Or. t. 255. 



CEYLON ; Ambagamowa District, Thwaites. 



Leaves above with many lax multicellular hairs. Panicle open ; lateral cymes 

 ^-1^ in. Otherwise as G. ceylanicum. 



5. Cr. poly anthum, Wight Ic. t. 1494 ; leaves broadly ovate sub- 

 glabrate base rounded or cordate, panicles linear glabrous or nearly so, 

 corolla in. 



COOEG; Jerdon, in Herb. Wight. 



Stem 1 in., grey-puberulous. Leaves 2% in. diam., shortly acute or subobtuse, 

 nearly entire, punctulate above ; nerves beneath much raised, grey-puberulous ; petiole 

 If in. Panicles 8 by | in.; flowers in subcapitate cymes; bracts minute, linear. 

 Sepals |- in., linear-lanceolate, glabrous or obscurely puberulous. Corolla puberu- 

 lous, pink (in the dried example). Capsule in. Overlooked by T. Anderson. 



ft Stems elongate, leafy upwards. 



6. Cr. paniculatum, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 232 ; leaves ovate 



