Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 687 



Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. III. 104; Wight Ic. t. 468; Moritsi 

 Verz. Zoll. PI. 47 ; Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 151 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 831. 



Penang: King's Collector l^Ql; Deschamps; Curtis 791. Malacca: 

 Griffith. Perak: alt. 500 ft., King's Collector 8682. Bindings : 

 Pangkore, Scortechini 208, 950. — Distrib. South-east Asia ; largely 

 cultivated. 



The Malay Peninsula material may be all from cultivated plants; none shows a 

 capsule. Ridley, I. c, observes that it seems never to fruit, and that he knows it only 

 from [gardens or remains of cultivation. 



14. JusTiciA Maingayi, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 534 

 (1885). A small shrub, with weak branched ste7ns 2 ft. long. Leaves 

 4 by "35 to 1"25 in., nearly glabrous, entire or undulate-crenate ; tip 

 acuminate ; base cuneate ; upper surface with rhaphides ; petiole '2 in. 

 Spikes terminal and axillary, 2 to 3 in. long, linear, peduncled, often 

 2 to 3 panicled on one peduncle ; flowers mostly solitary, distant ; 

 bracts and prophylla minute. Sepals -175 in. long, lanceolate-linear, 

 pubescent. Corolla -5 in. long, pubescent without, nearly as of /. 

 vasculosa. Stamens 2 ; filaments glabrous ; anther-cells 2, ellipsoid, 

 one below the other with a white tail. Pollen oblong-ellipsoid. Cap- 

 side '35 in. long, 4-seeded at the top. 



Penang : Maingay (K.D.) 1181. 



15. Justicia vasculosa. Wall. Cat. 2469 (1826). Branches 8 to 

 20 in. long, dividing, rather weak. Leaves ovate to narrow-elliptic, 

 attenuate at either end, up to 5 by 2 in., nearly glabrous ; petiole "5 in. 

 long. Spikes 2 to 4 in. long, linear or oblong, terminal and axillary, 

 often clustered or subpaniculate ; flowers distant, opposite, sessile, 

 solitary or sometimes clustered ; floral leaves often 0, sometimes several, 

 narrow-lanceolate, '5 in. long, green, scattered about the lower portion 

 of the spike ; bracts and prophylla very small, pubescent. Sepals 

 ■175 in. long, linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla "5 in. long, yellow ; 

 the mouth pink- spotted ; upper lip oblong entire, lower pendent. 

 Stamens 2 ; filaments glabrous ; anther-cells 2, round-ellipsoid, one 

 below the other, with a white knob at the base ; pollen 40 /x long, ellip- 

 soid, with 2 stopples and longitudinal rows of tubercles beside them. 

 Pistil glabrous, except a few hairs near the base of the style. Capsule 

 •6 in. long, with 4 seeds in the upper part, glabrate. T. Anders, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. IX. 515 (1867) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 IV. 533. Buellia rivincEfolia, Wall. Cat. 2413. Genclarussa vasculosa, 

 Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. III. 104. Adhatoda vasculosa, Nees in DC. 

 Prodr, XI, 407, 



