Justicia.] cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 539 



49. J, simplex, Don Prodr. 118 (not Eostellularia simplex, Wight) ; 

 leaves petioled ovate hairy or oblong, spikes cylindric dense hairy, bracts 

 elliptic shortly acute scarious-marginate, sepals lanceolate acute hairy nearly 

 to their base. J. orbiculata, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 512, partly. 

 J. mollissima, Wall. Cat. 2445. J. procumbens, Wall. Cat. 2441, partly; 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 40, not of Linn. Eostellularia rotundi- 

 folia & mollissima, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 100, 101, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 370, 373, partly. E. abyssinica, Brongn., and glandulosa, Nees in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 372, 373. 



WEST FEN INDIA, alt. 2-5000" ft., in the hills, common ; from Kashmir, Scinde 

 Hills (Stocks), Nepal (Wallich), to the Nilgherries. Abundant in CENTRAL INDIA 

 and CHOTA NAGPOEE. DISTEIB. Abyssinia, Maflaya to the Loochoo Isles. 



Herbaceous, hairy, branched ; branches sometimes long as in Wallich's Nepal 

 examples, whence D. Don took his unfortunate name. Spikes much broader and 

 more hairy than in any var. of J. diffusa. Bracts usually as long as the calyx, green- 

 keeled, very hairy with glistening many-jointed tawny or whiteish hairs. Near J. 

 procumbens, differing in its bracts ; it is very uniform to its character, but the 

 synonymy is uncertain, as the abundant examples are marked "crinita, peploides," &c., 

 and the Abyssinian examples have several names. 



VAE. serpyllifolia, Benth. ms. in Hohenack. n. 571 ; very small, leaves spikes 

 bracts and flowers smaller. Throughout the Deccan from Chota Nagpore to S. 

 Madras, frequent. Leaves in. diam., elliptic or round, obtuse or subacute. Spikes 

 1 by in. ; bracts T 'g- T 3 in., elliptic or broadly lanceolate, fulvous-hirsute. Regarded 

 by Bentham as a var. of J. procumbens, Linn. 



50. J. procumbens, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 19 ; leaves petioled elliptic or 

 lanceolate hairy or glabrate, spikes cylindric dense hirsute, bracts linear- 

 lanceolate acute, sepals sublinear acute hirsute nearly their whole length. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 132, partly ; Wall. Cat. 2441, partly ; T. Anders, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 511, partly; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 549, with Australian syn. 

 J. micrantha, Wall. Cat. 2449, chiefly. J. hirtella, Wall. Cat. 2448. Eos- 

 tellularia procumbens, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 101, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 371, partly (excl. all Himalayan examples) ; Dalz. &[ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 193. E. adenost'achya, Nees in Wall. PL As. Bar. iii. 101, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 373. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA with CEYLON, frequent ; extending north to the S. Concan. 

 DISTEIB. Malaya, Australia. Separated from J, simplex by the narrower bracts ; 

 a character which at all events suits the geography better than the distinctions put 

 forward by Nees, and accepted by T. Anderson. 



VAE. latispica, Clarke; stouter, spikes larger, bracts and corolla longer. Rostel- 

 lularia procumbens, Wight Ic. t. 1539. R. mollissima, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 373, 

 partly. Mts. of S. India and Ceylon, common. Khasia Mts. and adjacent parts 

 of Assam, frequent. Pegu and Tenasserim. Bracts 3 J by 5 'g in., hispid-ciliate. 

 Corolla -^ in. Capsule - in. The type of this var. is Wight Ic. t. 1539 (excel- 

 lent), which shows the narrow bracts very correctly, and represents the common 

 Nilgherry form : from this the Khasian and Malayan forms cannot be distinguished. 

 In Ceylon a larger, more woody form is frequent; this is marked by Nees R. procum- 

 bens Sf grandiflora. The objection to calling this plant mollissima is that the type 

 of J. mollissima (and J. orbiculata) was the round-leaved hairy Var. vestita of 

 J. dijfusa. 



SPECIES NOT SEEN. 



J. BIFLOEA, VaM Symb. ii. 9 ; leaves ovate, peduncles axillary 2-fld. as long as 

 the leaves, bracts subulate. Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 428. 



INDIA ; Schumacher. 



A branched undershrub. Leaves 1 in., but little attenuate, base acute, very 

 glabrous ; petiole lax, lower as long as the leaves. Peduncles filitonn ; 2 petioled 



