510 cix. ACANTHACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Gymnostachyum. 



leaves large long-petioled ovate, panicles mostly lateral many-fld., corolla 

 1 in. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 253. Cryptophragmium latifolium, Dalz. 

 in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 137 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 185. Phlogacanthus 

 latifolius, Wight Ic. t. 1537 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 508. 



CONCAN, CANARA, and MALABAR, Dalzell, Wight, &c. ; Bababoodun Hills, 

 Wight. 



An undershrub, 3 ft. (Dalzell). Leaves attaining 9 by 5f in., acute, very shortly 

 acuminate into the petiole, subentire ; petiole often 6 in. Panicles chiefly from the 

 axils of fallen leaves, 3-5 in. ; branches subspicate ; flowers solitary or clustered ; 

 bracts small, linear. Sepals | in., linear. Corolla puberulous ; limb greenish-yellow. 

 Anthers ovate, minutely hairy. Capsule f in., very narrow, glabrate, 24-seeded. 

 Seeds ovoid, compressed, hairy. 



11. Cr. sangruinolentum, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 232, and in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 506 ; leaves elliptic narrowed at both ends nearly 

 glabrous, cymes small axillary short-pediincled few-fld. subglobose some- 

 what pnbescent, corolla f in. Justicia sanguinolenta, Vahl Symb. ii. 10. 

 Cryptophragmium sanguinolentum, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 96. C. axillare, 

 Nees I.e.-, Wight Ic. i. 1496. 



CEYLON ; Champion, Walker, &c. 



Diffuse ; branches nearly glabrous. Leaves 4 by 1 in., entire undulate or irregu- 

 larly subdentate, punctate or minutely lineolate above sometimes obscurely scaberulous ; 

 petiole ^ | in. Peduncles ^ in., nearly glabrous ; cymes ^ 1 in. diam. ; bracts 

 fin., linear; pedicels 0-| in. Sepals g in., linear, puberulous. Corona pubescent. 

 Capsule | in. 



12. Cr. tomentosum, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 505 ; glan- 

 dular-tomentose, leaves ovate hirsute on both surfaces, spikes axillary and 

 terminal trichotomous, corolla | in. subcylindric pubescent. 



CENTRAL INDIA ; Seddome (fide T. Anderson). 



A perennial, erect herb, 1-2 ft. Upper leaves 1 by f in., sessile, base attenuated, 

 undulate, whitened beneath. Spikes dense ; flowers pedicelled ; bracts in., linear, 

 glandular ciliate. Sepals % in., aristate ciliate. Stamens included ; anther-cells 

 equal. Capsule 1 in., linear, many-seeded; retinacula erect, acute (T. Anderson). 

 Not seen, genus very doubtful. 



13. Cr. hirsutum, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 233, and in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 505 ; leaves broadly elliptic acute or ovate acute at 

 both ends hairy on both surfaces, spikes axillary and terminal dense 

 cylindric hirsute, bracteoles in. linear, corolla % in. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. 

 Or. t. 249. 



CEYLON ; Thwaites. 



Erect, 2-3 ft., glabrous except at the tip. Leaves 8 by 3 in., entire or undulate; 

 petiole 2 in. Spikes 1-4 by 1 in., quasi-peduncled, sometimes panicled, resembling 

 those of the dense-fld. species of Ebermaiera. Sepals in., linear, hirsute. Corolla, 

 stamens and pistil as of Qymnostachyum (fide Beddome). Capsule | in., many- 

 seeded. 



XXXI. PHXiOGACANTHUS, Nees. 



Shrubs or tall herbs. Leaves entire, or obscurely crenate. Flowers 

 orange red or pink ; thyrses or narrow panicles terminal, rarely racemes or 

 cymes axillary ; bracts small, bracteoles 0. Calyx deeply 5-fid ; segments 

 very narrow. Corolla tubular, curved upwards ; limb on one side or (not 

 very deeply) 2-lipped; segments ovate or oblong, connivent patent or 

 recurved, imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, sometimes 2 small rudiments added; 



