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sliew the same peculiarity of some being spiny, while others are 

 quite unarmed. 



112. Eungia linifolia Nees t)^ Wall., PI. As. Rar., iii., 110; 

 Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 548. 



Kadaraum ; very common, Fleming! Akati ; common, Fleming ! 

 A weed of dry places confined to Western India. 

 11-3. Eungia parviflora Nees : 0. B. Clarke in Hook, f., Flor. 

 Brit. Ind., iv., 550. 



VAE. pectinata Clarke: Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind,, iv., 550, 

 B. pectinata Nees in DC, Prodr., si., 470. Justicia 

 pectinata Linn., Amoen. Acad., iv., 299 ; Roxb., Flor. 

 Ind., i., 33. 

 Ameni ; Hume! Kadamum ; 5"«we/ Akati; Fleming! 

 A universal weed throughout India, Indo-China and Ceylon. 



114. Peristrophe bicalyculata Nees m Wall., PI. As. Ear., 

 iii., 113; Hook, f., Flor. Bi'it. Ind., iv., 554. Justicia hlcalycidata 

 Vahl, Symb., ii., lo ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 126. 



Ameni : Hume ! Kadamum ; Fleming ! Kiltan ; Fleming ! 

 Tropical Africa, India and Indo-China ; not from Malaya or 

 Ceylon. A common weed in South India, less common elsewhere. 



Ybrbenace^. 



115. Lippia nodiHora Rich, w Mich x, Flor. Bor. Amer., ii., 

 15; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 563. Verbena nodijiora Linn., 

 Sp. PI. 20 ; Roxb., Hort. Beng. 4. 



Akati; Fleming! Minikoi ; Fleminig ! 



A weed of wet places in all tropical and sub-tropical regions, also 

 often met with near tropical sea-shores ; not impossibly a bird- 

 introduced species. Though enumerated in Roxburgh's Horius 

 Bengalensis, this species is not described by him in the Flora Indica. 



116. Stacliytarpheta indica Vahl, Enum., i., 206; Hook, f., 

 Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 564. Verbena indica Linn., Syst. Yp;r. 

 (ed. X.), ii., 851 ; Roxb., Hort. Beng. 4. 



Anderut ; Alcock ! 



A common garden-plant, readily escaping and becoming wild, 

 throughout tropical America where it is indigenous, and tropical 

 Asia where it is probably "naturalized" only. Here it is quite 

 "wild ; it may have come as a weed, but more probably has been 



