193 



24. CROSSANDRA, Salisb. 



1. AXILLARIS, N. ab E. in DC. Prod. 11, p 281. Shrubby, 

 erect; leaves in fours, oblong, glabrous, rather smooth; spikes 

 axillary, alternate, shorter than the leaf; bracts pubescent, scabrous, 

 naked on the margins ; spike tetragonal; flowers orange-coloured. 

 About Dharwar, Wight Ic. t. 460. 



25. ROSTELLULARIA, Reichen. 



1. R PEPLOTDES, N. ab E. in Wall. PL As. rar. iii, p 101. 

 Branches diffuse, spreading ; leaves ovate-obtuse, glabrous ; spikes 

 dense at the apex, interrupted and leafy at the base ; bracts, 

 bracteoles, and calyx-segments oblong- spathulate, with white 

 margins ; whole plant smooth and glaucous. About watercourses 

 in the Deccan. 



2. DIFFUSA, N. ab E. DC. Prod. 11, 371. Stem procumbent, 

 diffuse; leaves lanceolate-elliptic or rounded, glabrous or sparingly 

 hairy ; spikes compressed, slender ; calycine-segments lanceolate, 

 membranous on the margin, minutely ciliated ; bracts of the same 

 shape, and shorter than the calyx ; flowers small, pale-purple. In 

 pastures, common. Syn. Justicia diffusa, Wild. sp. PI i, p 87 ; 

 J procumbens, Vahl. Enum. i, p 140. 



3. PROCUMBENS, N. ab E. loc. cit. Stem procumbent or 

 ascending ; leaves from ovate to lanceolate, ciliated, hairy ; spikes 

 subtetragonal ; calyx-segments and bracts lanceolate, linear, equal, 

 hairy ciliated. Very like the last, of which it is probably merely 

 a variety. 



4. CUINITA, N. ab E. DC. Prod. 11, p .373. Stern pro- 

 cumbent, ascending, trichotomous, pubescent; leaves elliptic or 

 ovate, hairy; spikes terminal, sessile, short ; apices of the calyx- 

 segments and the setaceous equal ; bracts very rough, with spreading 

 hairs; flowers pale-purple, very small; capsule oval, glabrous, 

 white. Vingorla ; flowers in August. Dr. Thomas Anderson, 

 who has paid considerable attention to this genus in Ceylon, 

 considers Rotundifolia, Procumbens, Crinita, and Royeniana, as 

 varieties of one species. 



26. ADIIATODA, N. ab~E. 



1 . RAMOSISSIMA, N. ab E. in DC. Prod. 1 1, p 385. Shrubby, 

 creeping ; leaves broadly ovate, obtusely acuminated, glabrous ; 

 spikes axillary and terminal, secund, rather lax ; bracts and 

 bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, white, reticulated 

 with green veins ; flowers of a dull-white colour. Common on the 

 higher Ghauts. Syn. Justicia ramosissima, Roxb. Fl Ind. i,p 130. 

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