196 



acute; flowers of a fine blue. Common. Syn. Justicia parviflora, 

 Retz. Obs. v, p 9; J pectiuata, Roxb. Cor. t. 153; Fl Ind. non 

 Linn. 



2. POLYGONOIDES, N. ab E. loc. cit. p471. Stem creeping 

 at the base; common bracts suborbicular, mucronulate, 3-nerved ; 

 bracteoles boat-shaped, ciliated, and with a broad, membranous 

 margin ; leaves unequal, obtuse, lower oval, upper lanceolate. 

 A plant like Polygonum aurculare ; spikes axillary, clustered; 

 gathered in Bombay by Polydore Uoux. ; spikes subglobose, of the 

 size of a pea. 



3. KEPKNS, N. ab E. loc. cit. p 472. Leaves oblong, lanceolate- 

 acute ; stem creeping ; bracts ovate-cuspidate, without nerves, 

 with a broad, white margin, subciliated ; bracteoles lanceolate ; 

 flowers small, pink. Very common all over the Presidency. Syn. 

 Justicia repens, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. p 20; Roxb. PI. Ind. i, 133; 

 Dicliptera repens, Rcern. and Schult. syst. i, 171 ; D retusa, Juss. 

 Ann. Mus. ix, 269. 



4. R ELKGANS, Dalz. Stem somewhat angular, covered with 

 soft, white hairs ; leaves sessile-ovate or ovate lanceolate-acuminate, 

 puberulous on the upper surface, pale beneath, with prominent 

 nerves ; flowers in a sessile terminal spike, 1 inch long ; bracts all 

 broad, ovate-cuspidate, ciliate, with a broad, white, scarious margin ; 

 flowers large for the genus, of a beautiful blue, half an inch long ; 

 capsule ovoid, glabrous, 4-seeded. High hills around Joonere; 

 flowers in August. 



32. DICLIPTERA, Juss. 



1. BIVALVIS, Juss. in Ann. Mus. ix, p 268. Leaves ovate 

 oblong-acute at the base, hispid and scabrous ; peduncles axillary, 

 longer than the petiole, trifid, heads 2 to 3-flowered ; bracts ovate, 

 somewhat rounded, dilated, bristle-pointed, 5-nerved, hispid, mar- 

 gins naked ; corolla half an inch long, pubescent, pink-coloured ; 

 branches hexangular. Syn. Justicia bivalvis, Linn. sp. PI. i, p 23 ; 

 Vahl. Symb. ii, p 13. 



2. BURMANNI, N. ab E. DC. Prod. 11, p 483. Stem obso- 

 letely quadrangular ; branches pubescent and scabrous ; leaves 

 oval or lanceolate-acute at both ends, mucronate ; umbels axillary, 

 simply or doubly in fours or fives, very shortly-peduncled ; proper 

 involucre 2-leaved; leaflets unequal, spathulate, lanceolate, pointed 

 with a bristle, ciliated ; capsule orbicular. Syn. Justicia chinensis, 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. p 8, t. 4,f. 1 ; Vahl. Symb. i, p 4. 



3. ROXBURGHIANA, N. ab E. DC. Prod. 11, p 483. Leaves 

 ovate, acute at both ends ; umbels axillary, in fours or fives, 3 to 5- 

 divided ; leaflets of proper involucre unequal, obovate mucronulate, 



