524 cix. ACANTHACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Monothecium. 



bracts and bracteoles linear or setaceous. Sepals 5, equal, linear-setaceous. 

 Corolla small, tubular, limb deeply 2-lipped. Stamens 2 ; anthers narrowly 

 oblong, 1-celled, muticous, attached by the middle of the back. Style 

 minutely bifid. Capsule oblong, on a short solid stalk, 4-seeded. Seeds 

 compressed, orbicular, rugose subtubercled ; retinacula stout. Species 2, 

 Indian and Tropical African. 



IH. aristatum, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 234; leaves ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate pubescent on the nerves beneath, bracts ?- in. linear 

 setaceous lineolate. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 269. Justicia aristata, Wall. 

 Cat. 2481 ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 115. Anthocometes aristatus, 

 Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 312. 



CEYLON ; Walker, Wight, &c. NILGHERBT MTS. ; G. Thomson. 



Stems 1 foot, procumbent, much branched, often rooting. Leaves 1J by f in., 

 cuneate at both ends; petiole g in. Spikes ^-Ij in., peduncled or sessile, pubescent 

 or nearly glabrous ; bracteoles (barren bracts frequent). Sepals % in. Corolla \ in., 

 white, lower lip brown-spotted. Capsule ^ in. This is so like Justicia procumbens 

 that an example of it in Herb. Kew is marked " Bostellularia procumbens, Var. a or 

 )6," by Nees' hand. 



XXXVII. CXiXNACANTHUS, Nees. 



A tall herb, minutely pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire or 

 toothed. Flowers conspicuous, dull red, in small drooping cymes at the 

 tips of the branches ; bracts and bracteoles small, linear. Sepals 5, equal, 

 linear-subulate. Corolla-tube elongate, curved at the base, widened 

 upwards ; limb 2-lipped. Stamens 2 ; anthers scarcely exserted, 1-celled, 

 narrowly oblong, muticous, attached by the middle of the back. Style 

 minutely bifid. Capsule oblong, on a short solid stalk, 4-seeded. Seeds 

 muricate (Nees). 



Only differs from Hypoestes by the small bracts. 



C. Burmanni, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 511. Justicia nutans, Hurm. 

 Fl. Ind. 10, t. 5, fig. 1. J. fulgida, Blume Bijd. 784. Beleropone ? fulgida, 

 Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 151. 



MALACCA; Maingay. DISTEIB. Java, Borneo, Hainan. 



Leaves 2| by 1 in., acuminate, base cuneate or rounded ; petiole \ in., puherulous. 

 Cymes about 5-fld. ; bracts in., linear ; pedicels^ in. Sepals % in., rusty pubescent. 

 Corolla 1| in., lobed - in. Stamens aud pistil glabrous. 



XXXVIII. JUSTICIA, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers sessile or nearly so, spiked or 

 panicled (rarely solitary), small or middle-sized; bracts large or small; 

 bracteoles narrow or 0. Calyx 5- or 4-partite ; segments narrow. Corolla- 

 tube shorter, or scarcely longer, than the 2-lipped limb ; upper lip 2-lobed or 

 subentire, lower 3-lobed, lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, filaments often 

 dilated, hairy near the base ; anthers 2-celled ; cells oblong or round, 

 usually more or less separate, lower always with a white basal appendage. 

 Ovary 4-ovulate ; style filiform, shortly bifid. Capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, 

 4-seeded from the base, or with a long solid cylindric stalk 4-seeded at 

 the apex. Seeds ovoid, more or less compressed, tubercular, scaly or 

 glochidiate-subspinescent (appearing hispid), never with fine elastic hairs 

 springing out when wetted. Species 100, in the warm regions of both 

 hemispheres. 



