534 cix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Jusiicia. 



darussa vasculosa, Nees in Wall. 'PL As. Ear. iii. 104. Adhatoda vasculosa, 

 Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 407. 



E. HIMALAYA and KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-5000 ft., common ; Wallich, H.f. % T. t 

 &c. 



Rootstock perennial ; branches 8-20 in., glabrous except at the tip. Leaves 5 by 

 2 in., puncticulate above; petiole f in. Spikes 1-4 in., axillary and terminal, simple 

 or paniculate, pubescent ; bracts oblong or linear, mostly shorter than the calyx, 

 pubescent ; bracteoles similar to the bracts, but smaller. Calyx sub-5-partite ; seg- 

 ments | in., lanceolate. Corolla pubescent, yellowish slightly pink-spotted ; tube 

 cylindric ; upper lip hardly broader than one of the three lobes of the lower. Anther- 

 cells divaricate, lower with a minute white appendage at the base. Ovary glabrous ; 

 style pubescent in the lower part. Capsule not seen, the abundant specimens all 

 being in flower. T. Anderson places this in Raphidospora, and in the absence of the 

 seed it is impossible to prove he is wrong; but in the Sect. Raphidospora, the flowers 

 are " laxly panicled," as T. Anderson says. 



VAE. ? Parishii ; leaves glabrous, upper lip of corolla ovate ^ in. broad lower 

 erect-patent. Moulmein ; Parish, n. 417. Tenasserim, Mooleyit ; Beddome, n. 86. 

 This may be specifically distinct. 



VAE. Brandish ; bracts (even in the upper part of the spikes) exceeding $ in. 

 elliptic-acuminate. Pegu; Sitang, Brandts. Capsule \ in., narrowly cylindric, 

 clavate, very hairy. Seeds roughly verrucose, glabrous. 



34. J. androg raphioides, Clarke; leaves ovate acuminate glabrous 

 base rhomboid or rounded, flowers solitary opposite, corolla in. both lips 

 erect-patent. 



TENASSERIM ; Moojeyit, Beddome. 



Closely resembling d^vasculosa, both in leaves and inflorescence, but the corolla 

 as of Andrographis. Leaves 3 by 1 in. SpiJces (all seen) solitary, terminal, simple, 

 pubescent ; bracts small linear, or the lower in., linear-spathulate. Lower anther- 

 cell with a microscopically small white spur. 



35. J. ptychostoma, Wall. Cat. 2478 ; leaves ovate acuminate at 

 both ends minutely pubescent on the nerves beneath, spikes axillary linear 

 dense nearly glabrous, bracts minute, corolla in. T. Anders, in Jburn. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 517 ? Gendarussa ? sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 832, 



PENANQJ WMich. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Wallich's imperfect example is perhaps the same as J. vasculosa var. Parishii 

 above. Branches slender, with long internodes, glabrous. Leaves 6 by 2J in., nearly 

 glabrous, closely lineolate above ; petiole 1| in. SpiJces 3^ by in., those seen all 

 axillary, but there may have been also terminal spikes; bracts ^j in., ovate or lanceo- 

 late ; bracteoles ^ in., linear-lanceolate. Sepals | in. J. ptychostoma, Nees in WalL 

 PI. As. Rar. iii. 108 (Rhytiglossa? ptychostoma, Nees in *DC. Prodr. xi. 337), is 

 founded on this Wallichian number, but the description of the bracts is so different 

 from the example that there must have been some confusion. 



36. J. IVIaingayi, Clarice; leaves ovate-lanceolate or narrowly lanceo- 

 late minutely pubescent on both surfaces, flowers solitary mostly alternate, 

 corolla ^ in. 



PENANG; Maingay (Kew Distrib. n. 1181). 



A small shrub (Maingay); branches elongate, slender, glabrous except at the tips. 

 Leaves 4 by \-\ in., very variable in breadth on the same branch, base cuneate ; 

 petiole | in. Spikes axillary and terminal, simple or divided, 2-3 in., slender, lax, 

 pubescent; lower flowers distant, mostly alternate; bracts in., linear- lanceolate, 

 pubescent. Calyx and corolla nearly as of J. vasculosa, but upper corolla-lip ovate, 

 broader. Capsule ^ in., stalk solidified. The line between the small Justicias of this 

 section and Dianthera is artificial, and the present species has quite the habit of 

 orjiers which have been removed by Bentham (in Herb. Kew) to Dianthera. It is 



