Runt/ia.] cix. ACAXTHACE^J. (C. B. Clarke.) 547 



petioled ovate or broad-lanceolate, spikes ovoid or oblong dense often 

 clustered, bracts roundly obovate margined hairy, bracteoles obovate 

 margined, corolla ^ in. Wight Ic, t. 1548; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Sac. 

 ix. 518 (except the Ceylon plant). R. longifolia, T. Anders, in Thwaites 

 JSnum. 235, partim. 



MTS. of S. DECCA.N PENINSULA ; Wight, Gardner, &c. 



Stems herbaceous, hairy. Leaves 2| by 1^- in., cuneate at both ends ; petiole in. 

 Spikes 1 by in. ; bracts obscurely 4-seriate (many barren more or less unlike the 

 fertile), i by in. r obtuse rarely apiculate ; bracteoles similar to the bracts, but 

 smaller. Calyx ^5n.; segments linear- lanceolate, softly hairy. Anther-cells super- 

 posed, lower white-tailed. Capsule in., nearly glabrous,. Seeds small,. minutely 

 glandular-verrucose, ultimately glabrous. This is not allied to R. repens as Nees 

 supposed, but may be a var. of R. longifolia, as T. Anderson first supposed. 



5. R. longifolia, Nees <$f Am. in DC. Prodr. XL. 471, excl. .Philippine 

 example, not of Beddome \ nearly glabrous, leaves linear-lanceolate, spikes 

 shortly oblong often clustered, bracts biform fertile roundly obovate 

 marginate minutely pubescent, corolla in. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 

 Sue. ix. 517, chiefly. 



CEYLON ; Walker, &c. 



Leaves 4 by ^ in. Flowerless bracts in 2 ranks on one side of the spike, ovate- 

 lanceolate, obscurely margined. Otherwise as R. latior, from which this typical form 

 of R. longifolia is easily separable : not so the 



VAK. latifolict) Wight ms. ; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, barren bracts 

 few less distinctly 2-ranked less unlike the fertile. R. latior, Nees Sf T. Anders, in 

 herb, partim. Ceylon, numerous examples. S. Travancore; Beddome. I follow 

 Wight (in preference to Nees and T. Anderson) in regarding all the Ceylon forms as 

 one species, of which the S. Indian is an allied species, or a variety. T. Anderson 

 divided Thwaites n. 89 between R. latior and R: longifolia, depending upon the 

 breadth of the leaves alone. 



6. XL. crenata, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 518 ; leaves petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate sparsely hairy, spikes short dense 1 -sided, bracts markedly 

 biform barren oblong acute mucronate fertile orbicular marginate,. corolla 

 I in. Rungia sp. n. 9, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Canara, Law Concan, Stocks ; Belgaum, Ritchie. 



Stem herbaceous, ramous, nearly glabrous. Leaves 2J by 1 in., base shortly 

 acuminate, sparsely laxly hairy on both surfaces, finally scabrid lineolate glabrate ; 

 petiole J in. Spikes 1 by in., terminal, or sessile quasi-axillary clustered ;. flowerless 

 bracts in 2 regular series on one side the spike, 3 by -^ in., green, striate, not or very 

 narrowly margined; flowering bracts \ in. diam., somewhat hairy ; bracteoles in., 

 obovate, scarious-rnargined. Calyx ^ in. ; segments linear-lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Capsule scarcely in., pubescent. Allied to R. parviflora, Nees, but with much longer 

 flowerless bracts. 



7. R. stolonifera, Clarice-, leaves petioled ovate minutely scabrid- 

 pubescent, bracts ovate minutely hairy, calyx glabrous, corolla tubular 

 - in., anther-cells white-tailed. Dicliptera sp. n. 14, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 JZ.f. 4* T. Justicia sp. (Sect. Rostellularia), Benth. ms. in Herb. Xew. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-5000 ft. ; H.f. fy T., &c. 



Stems 18 in., procumbent, rooting, branched ; many small-leaved barren branches 

 from the lower nodes. Leaves 1-3 by |-1| in., cuueate at both ends, undulate some- 

 times sinuate, with few minute scattered hairs on both surfaces; petiole \ in. Spikes 

 |-li in., terminal and quasi-axillary, imperfectly 2-4-farious ; bracts by f in., sub- 

 obtuse, scarious-margined ; bracteoles oblong, nearly as long as the bracts. Calyx 

 in., deeply 5-partite; segments narrowly lanceolate, scarious. Corolla-tube ^ by 



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