Diantliera.~\ cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 543 



minute subulate glabrous. Justicia Griffith!!, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ix. 516. 



MISHMEE HILLS ; Griffith (fide T. Anderson). 



A glabrous herb ; stem terete, base woody, upwards herbaceous tetragonous. 

 Leaves 4-10 by 2-4 in.; base decurrent. Panicles with elongate, ascending 

 branches; flowers remote, opposite, solitary, sessile. Sepals 5, linear. Corolla ^ in., 

 tube ventricose ; limb 5-partite, green, lower lip spotted red. Ovary 4-ovulate. 

 Capsule a little longer than the corolla, subclavate at the tip, acute (T. Anderson). 

 Not seen. 



** Flowers % in. or more, many distinctly pedicelled. 



5. D. collina, Clarice ; leaves ovate nearly glabrous, panicles terminal 

 and axillary, anther-cells muticous distant superposed. Justicia collina, 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 515. 



SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 5-7000 ft. ; Griffith, H.f. fy T., &c. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 4000 ft. ; Griffith. 



A diffuse herb, 1-2 ft., branches puberulous. Leaves 3 by 1$ in., acute, base 

 cuneate or of the upper leaves almost rounded ; petiole 1 in., or of the upper leaves 

 sometimes 0. Cymes few-fld., running into an elongate terminal panicle by the 

 gradual reduction of the leaves into bracts ; proper bract hardly ^ in., linear ; pedicels 

 0~ in. ; bracteoles minute or 0. Sepals \ in., linear, green, glabrous. Corolla \ in., 

 white, nearly glabrous; tube elongate cylindric. Capsule \ in., clavate, glabrous, 

 4-seeded. Seeds verrucose-scaly, obscurely hispidulous. 



6. D. dichotoma, Clarke; leaves ovate acute nearly glabrous, 

 panicles terminal minutely pubescent, anther-cells muticous one superposed 

 for half its length. Justicia dichotoma, Blume Bijd. 783; T. Anders, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 516. Rhaphidospora dichotoma, Nees in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 500. Leptostachya dichotoma, Nees 1. c. 379. Peristrophe dichotoma, 

 HassJc. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 152. 



CEYLON (fide T. Anderson). DISTEIB. Java, Philippines. 



Much resembling D. collina, the corolla rather more ventricose and rose-purple. 

 There is no Ceylon example of this at Kew. We may suppose that T. Anderson had 

 seen such at Calcutta ; C. P. 2718, which he quotes, is certainly not this plant. 



DOTTBTFUL SPECIES. 



D. ? INDICA ; leaves scarcely 1 in. rhomboid-ovate acute hairy, flowers congested 

 into axillary and terminal decompound globose or oblong spikes, spikelets by suppres- 

 sion mostly 1-fld. supported by a lanceolate often empty bract. Rhytiglossa ? indica, 

 Wawra in Oestr. Sot. Zeit. 1881, 281, and Sot. Eeis. Pr. S. Cob. 82, t. 9, fig. A. 



GARWHAL ; at Mussoorie, alt. 4000 ft., Waivra. 



An undershrub ; branches prostrate, variously twisted and incui'ved. Uppermost 

 bract sterile, with the fertile valvately enclosing the single flower of the spikelet; 

 brncteoles linear-setaceous, similar to the calyx-segments. Corolla ringent, rose, 

 hairy ; tube as long as the calyx ; lips as long as the tube, upper ovate, emarginate ; 

 lower longer, cuneately 3-lobed. Filaments flattened ; anther-cells superposed, ovate, 

 muticous. Style capillary, elongate after flowering, bifid. Ovary 4-ovulate. Not 

 seen. I know of no woody prostrate Acanthaceous plant at Mussoorie, and do not 

 understand the bracts as described. 



XLII. PTVSSXOXiOTTXS, T. Anders. 



A small, procumbent herb. Leaves ovate, entire. Spikes peduncled, 

 few-fld. ; bracts and bracteoles linear. Calyx sub-5-partite ; segments 



