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36. ANDROGRAPHIS. 



1. PANICUL.VTA, N. ab E. loc. cit. p 515. Stem erect, 4-sided, 

 smooth; leaves lanceolate, attenuated into the petiole, entire, 

 smooth, 2 to 3 inches long ; racemes terminal, horizontal, long, 

 secund; flowers remote, rose-coloured, long-pedicelled ; capsules 

 subcylindric, many-seeded. Syn. Justicia paniculata, Burm. Fl 

 Ind. p 9; Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 119; Cara caniram, Rheed. Mai. iv, 

 p 109, t. 56. This is the Kreat of the Indian bazars, so famous 

 as a substitute for Gentian. Kreat or Chiryata, however, is the 

 original name of some species of Ophelia which grow on the 

 Himalayas, and which are used in the same manner as bitter 

 tonics. The virtues are extracted by cold water. 



2. A ECHIOIDES, N. ab E. in Wall. PL As. rar. iii, p 117. 

 Herbaceous, hirsute ; leaves oblong-subsessile, entire or slightly 

 crenate ; racemes, or rather spikes, axillary, rigid-spreading ; 

 flowers whitish, with dark-purple spots, secund ; capsules 4-seeded. 

 In the sides of ravines in the Deccan, not very common ; flowers 

 in August and September. Syn. Justicia echioides, Linn. Fl Zeyl. p 

 21. This appears to be much commoner in other parts of India. 



CIV. VERBENACEJE. 



1. PRIVA, Adans. 



1. LEPTOSTACHYA, Juss. Ann. Mus. vii, p 70. Perennial; stem 

 and branches puberulous ; leaves subcordate, ovate-acuminate, 

 coarsely crenate-serrate, hispid on both sides, pale beneath ; fruit 

 bearing calyx subglobose, hoary, with hooked pubescence ; capsules 

 obcordate ; flowers small, white, in terminal racemes. On old walls 

 at Dapoorie, Lush. Syn. Tortula aspera, Roxb. in Willd. sp. PI 

 iii, p 359 ; Streptium asperum, Roxb. Cor. ii, p 25, t. 146. 



2. LIPPIA, Linn. 



1. NODIFLORA, Rich, in Michx. Fl Eor. Am. ii, p 25. Creep- 

 ing, all strigose, with adpressed hairs ; stems filiform ; leaves 

 cuneate-spathulate, sharply serrated in the upper half; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary; heads of flowers ovoid, and afterwards cylindric. 

 Common in grassy and sandy places. Syn. Verbena nodiflora, 

 Linn. sp. PI p 28 ; V capitata, Forsk. Descr. p 10 ; Blairia nodiflora, 

 Gaert. Fr. t. 56; Zapania nodiflora, Lam. Illust. t. 17, /. 3. 



3. LANTANA, Linn. 



1. ALBA, Mill. Ex. Link. Enum. PI Hort. Berol. ii, p 126. 

 Shrubby, erect, straight ; branches twiggy, 4-sided, strigose and 



