666 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves 2-5 by -o to '75 in., lanceolate, glabrous, paler beneath ; petioles 

 •25 in. long. Panicle copious, of lax divaricate racemes ; lower flowers 

 in each raceme pedicelled, solitary. Capsule -lo by '125 in., nearly 

 glabrous when matm'e. Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 515 ; Wight Ic. t. 518 ; 

 Miq. n. Ind. Bat. II. 855 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. 

 IV. 501; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3b, 323; Prain 

 Beng. Plants 809. Justicia paniculata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 9 ; Blume 

 Bijdr. 788. 



Penang : Curtis 1877. — Disteib. Throughout India. 



2. Andeogbaphis tenuifloea, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 

 502 (1867). Leaves : blade ovate, shortly acuminate, 2*5 by 1-5 in., ob- 

 scurely puberulous; base shortly spathulate. i?acewz.es (of ten nearly spikes) 

 very slender, straggHng. Corolla -4 in. long. Otherwise as A. panicu- 

 lata, Nees. Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b, 323 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 502. Haplanthus tener, Nees 

 in Wall. PI. As. Ear. III. 115, and in DC. Prodx. XI. 512. 



Kedah : Biclley 8331 ; Curtis 2136, 2578. — Disteib. Eastern India, 

 Malaya. 



18. Gystacanthus, T. x^nders. 



Shrubs or erect herbs. Leaves opposite, equal, entire. Liflorescence 

 terminal (or . axillarj' in some non-Malay species) ; panicles narrow ; 

 bracts small ; prophylla 0. Calyx deeply 5-fid ; segments narrow. 

 Corolla rather large, tubular, curved and inflated, somewhat 2-lipped ; 

 segments ovate or oblong, one completely outside in the bud. Stamens 

 2 ; rarely 2 rudiments added ; anthers of 2 oblong, parallel, muticous 

 cells ; connective often hispid on the back ; pollen subglobose, with few 

 longitudinal bands. Ovary with 4 or more ovules in each cell. Cap- 

 sule linear, with parallel sides, many-seeded nearly from the base. — 

 Disteib. Species 5, in India ; 1 extending to Cochin-China. 



1. Cystacanthus tuegida, Nicholson Diet. Gard. I. 428 (1884). A 

 glabrous shrub, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves : blade 4 to 7 in. long, oblong 

 or narrow-elliptic, narrowed at either end; petioles '5 to 1 in. long. 

 Liflorescence terminal ; panicles 1 to 5 in. long, dense ; flowers clustered 

 on branches hardly -17 in. long ; bracts inconspicuous, '15 to '2 in. long. 

 Calyx-segments "125 to -2 in. long, linear. Corolla 1 in. long, white, 

 pink-spotted ; tube strongly bent close above the calyx and greatly 

 inflated. Capsule 1 by -125 in., many-seeded, dorsally compressed. 

 Seeds ovoid, flattened, densely haiiy. Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflan- 

 zenfam. IV. 3 b, 325. Cystacanthus sp., Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PL II. 1098. Meninia turgida, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 6043. 



Penang : Deschamps. — Disteib. Burma, Cochin-China. 



