532 oix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Justicia. 



Normal capsule ^- in., ellipsoid, acute at each end, hardly stalked, pubescent, 

 4-seeded. Seeds papillose, subhispid ; abnormal 1-celled, 1-seeded capsules occur 

 I in., ellipsoid with 3-6 vertical crested wings, with seed ovoid, larger than in the 

 normal, nearly smooth, on a nearly basal retinaculuni. The examples collected far 

 apart show the heterocarpous capsules to be characteristic, not monstrous. The 

 species is not nearly allied to any other; but as the inflorescence is axillary and the 

 calyx 5-merous, it has been moved here so as to fortify the characters of the 

 Section Rostellaria. 



Sect. 4. Gendarussa. Spikes terminal and on short lateral branches 

 (in J. HooJceriana axillary), interrupted ; terminal often large, paniculate ; 

 bracts mostly narrow, lower rarely imbricate. Calyx sub-5-partite. Flowers 

 small or middle-sized. Seeds (where .known) verrucose or tubercular, 

 glabrous, not glochidiate nor hispid. 



27. J. G-endarussa, Linn. f. Suppl. 85 ; leaves short-petioled lanceo- 

 late glabrous, spikes pubemlous or glabrous, bracts linear shorter than the 

 calyx, corolla in. Jacq. Eel. t. 11 ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 10; Roxb. FL Ind i. 

 128 ; Blume Bijd. 785 ; Wall. Cat. 2442 ; Sot. Reg. t. 635 ; Blanco Fl. Fil. 

 14 ; Dalz. 8[ Cribs. Bomb. FL Suppl. 71 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 513 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 247. Gendarussa vulgaris, Nees in Wall. PL As. 

 Rar. iii. 104, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 410; Wight Ic. t. 468 ; Decne. in Nouv. 

 Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. iii. 382. Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. t. 28. Rheede 

 Sort. Mai. ix. t. 42. 



Throughout INDIA, from Bengal to Ceylon and Malacca, often an escape from 

 cultivation. DISTEIB. Malaya and China to the Philippines (? wild). 



Stems 2-4 ft., erect. Leaves 4 by in. ; petiole in. Spikes 2-5 by f in., ter- 

 minal often forming a panicle ; flowers clustered, lower clusters usually distant ; 

 bracts | in. Sepals in. Corolla nearly glabrous, white or rose with purple spot?. 

 Lower anther-cell distinctly tailed. Capsule \ in., clavate, glabrous, 4-seeded. No 

 capsule has been seen except on an example of Wight's ; and that does not suffice for 

 a description of the seed. This commonly cultivated plant is considered by Nees and 

 T. Anderson wild in various parts' of India, but the rarity of the seeds renders this 

 doubtful. Col. Beddome says " wild on Mooleyit in Tenasserim." 



28. J. Hookeriana, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 233, and in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 513 ; leaves short petioled lanceolate glabrous, spikes simple 

 or compound all axillary lax nearly glabrous, bracts linear or linear-spathu- 

 late mostly shorter than the calyx, corolla - in. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 

 t. 268. Adhatoda Hookeriana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 403. Leptostachya 

 zeylanica, Nees I. c. 379. 



CEYLON ; Macrae, Walker, &c. 



An undershrub, less erect, more branched than J. Gendarussa. Leaves as of J. 

 Gendarussa. Spikes 2-7 in., simple or paniculate ; flowers distant, solitary or oppo- 

 site ; bracts J, in., linear, rarely spathulate ; bracteoles | in., linear, or 0. Flowers 

 nearly as of J. Gendarussa. Capsule % in., clavate, 4-seeded, Seeds verrucose, 

 glabrous. Beddome figures the inflorescence terminal, but in the examples the upper- 

 most axils are sterile, many lower axils with spikes. 



29. J. decussata, Roxb. Sort. Sena. 4, and FL Ind. ed. Carey # 

 Wall. i. 128 ; leaves ovate or obovate pubescent or glabrate, panicle ter- 

 minal large divaricate pubescent, flowers in distant clusters, corolla ^-^ in. 

 pubescent. Wall. Cat. 2476; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 515. 

 Gendarussa decussata, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 104. Adhatoda 

 decussata, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 408. 



PEGU and TENASSEEIM, frequent; Wallich, Griffith, &c. 



