Peristrophe."] cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 557 



Leaves 4i by If in. ; raphides obscure or 0; petiole (of tbe middle canline leaves) 

 often exceeding 1 in. Bracts f by \ in., often obtusely acuminate. Corolla much 

 broader than in P. tinctoria. Possibly the wild form of P. tinctoria. Nees, after 

 diagnosing his P. montana as having non-ciliate bracts, has thus named examples of 

 P.fera with intensely ciliate bracts. 



VAB,. intermedia ; bracts more hairy, flowers smaller. Chittagong, alt. 1000 ft. ; 

 H.f. Sf T. Pegu ; Kurz. Tenasserim ; Beddome. This has been named P. jalap- 

 pcefolia,~Nees, but the corolla is much smaller than in the Malay examples of that 

 species. It is suspiciously intermediate between the P. acuminata var. fragilis and 

 P.fera; and both plants were collected by Beddome on the slopes of Mooleyit in 

 Tenasserim ; the corolla is the same size in both, and the only difference between 

 them is that in Var. intermedia the bracts are 5- in. broad and hairy, but in P. acumi- 

 nata var. fragilis | in. broad and glabrous. 



XLIX. HYPOESTES, E. Sr. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Flower-clusters spiked, 

 capitellate or rarely solitary ; bracts 2-4 together, free or united at base, 

 enclosing 1-4 flowers, of which all but 1 are usually reduced or obsolete ; 

 bracteoles shorter than the bracts, narrow. Calyx very small (or in H. 

 lanata nearly equalling the bracteoles), deeply 5-lobed, scarious or mem- 

 branous ; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla pink purple or white (in the 

 Indian species) ; tube slender, limb 2-partite ; upper lip subentire, lower 

 very shortly 3-lobed. Stamens 2 ; anthers 1-celled, mutinous. Ovary 

 4-celled ? ; style filiform, scarcely bifid at the tip. Capsule ellipsoid, 

 stalked, usually 4-seeded. Seeds ovoid, compressed, glabrous, in the Indian 

 species verrucose. Species 70, from Tropical and S. Africa, the Himalaya, 

 China and Australia. 



Hypoestes purpnrea, B. P>r., Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 114 (Justicia pur- 

 purea, Wall. Cat. 2473), is a Malay Archiprlago plant, cultivated from long ago in 

 Bengal. 



1. H. lanata, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 343; leaves elliptic 

 acuminate entire nearly glabrous, spikes elongate interrupted softly hairy 

 axillary and running into large terminal panicles, bracts distinct linear, 

 corolla 1 in. Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 197 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ix. 522. 



CONCAN GHAUTS ; Law, Dalzell. 



An undershrub. Leaves 5 by 1^ in., minutely lineolate on both surfaces ; petiole 

 | in., sometimes winged. Spikes 6 in. and upwards; flowers mostly in opposite dis- 

 tant clusters, each cluster consisting of 1-3 bracts and 1 (with 1 or 2 reduced) flower : 

 bracts ^~f in., very hairy. Calyx ^ in., hairy. Capsule nearly | in., stalked, pubes- 

 cent. Seeds verrucose. Habit very remote from Hypoestes, superficially resembling 

 Strobilanthes perfoliatus, but the corolla and stamens are typical Hypoestes. 



2. H. triflora, Roem. <Sf Sch. Syxt. i. 88 ; leaves ovate somewhat hairy 

 on both surfaces, nower-clusters capitellate axillary and terminal, bracts 

 narrowly obovate subobtuse, corolla scarcely in. Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 

 606 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 522. .H. Wallichii, Nees in Wall. 

 PL As. Bar. iii. 114. Justicia chinensis, Wall. Cat. 2466, letter E. 



NEPAL ; Wallich ; Tambur River, alt. 1-3000 ft., J. D. H. SIKKIM and BHOTAJT, 

 alt. 4-7000 ft., Clarke, Griffith. DISTELB. Abyssinia. 



Herbaceous, ramous. Leaves attaining 3 by 2 in., mostly much smaller, crenate 

 or denticulate, sparsely hairy above, pubescent beneath ; petiole 1| in. Flower- 

 clusters 1-5 (often 3) together, subsessile ; bracts opposite, paired, flower in one of 

 each pair nearly always or much reduced ; bracteoles |- in., linear-lanceolate, 



