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688 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Penang : Curtis. Pahang : Bidley 2183. Singapore : Ridley 

 3165. — DiSTRiB. Eastern India, plentiful, from Assam to Tenasserim ; 

 Sumatra. 



16. JusTiciA UBER, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Stem 3 to 4 ft. high. 

 Leaves opposite, subequal ; blade up to 10 by 3 to 4 in., elliptic or sub- 

 ovate, lanceolate acuminate at tip, cuneate at base ; margin undulate ; 

 upper surface glabrate, lower paler, obscurely pubescent ; rhaphides 

 none or obscure ; nerves 8 pairs, oblique ; upper petioles -5 in. long. 

 Spikes terminal and on axillary peduncles, sometimes panicled, dense, 

 nearly always 1-sided, 1 to 3 by -5 in. ; bract and prophylla -175 in. 

 long, narrow-lanceolate, nearly glabrate. Sepals -175 in. long, narrow- 

 lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Corolla greenish-yellow, '6 in. long, some- 

 what hairy without. Stamens 2 ; one anther-cell much below the other, 

 with a white tail. Capsule -6 in. long, stalked, 4-seeded, glabrate. 

 Seeds flattened, verrucose, tubercled. 



Perak : Scortechmi 96, 319 ; alt. 400 to 700 ft., Wray 386 ; King's 

 Collector 10M6 ; Bidley 9773. Selangor: Bidley 8216. 



This jplant flowers and fruits freely ; and there is more of it in the collections than 

 of any other Acanth of the Malay Peninsula. 



17. JusTiciA suMATRANA, 0. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous ; the 

 inflorescence minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite, subequal ; blade 

 6 by 3 in., broadly elliptic, entire; tip very shortly acuminate; base 

 cuneate ; nerves 7 to 8 pairs ; petiole -35 in. long. Peduncles near the 

 ends of the branches, 4 to 6 in. long, each carrying a very lax panicle of 

 thin linear spikes 2 to 4 in. long ; floral leaves ; flowers solitary, 

 minutely pedicelled, opposite ; bract and prophylla minute. Sepals 

 •175 in. long, lanceolate linear, viscous-scabrous. Corolla greenish- 

 white with purple spots, -4 in. long, minutely pubescent without. 

 Stamens 2 ; filaments glabrous ; anther-cells ellipsoid, one below the 

 other, with a short conic white tail ; pollen 25 by 15 jjl, with longi- 

 tudinal series of spots. Pistil glabrate, except the base of the style. 

 Capsule -6 in. long, nearly glabrous, 4-seeded in the upper part ; seeds 

 cerebrose-tubercular. Gendarussa ? sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 832. 



Perak: Scortechini 34:0 ; Wray 1596. — Distrib. Sum&tv& (Teijsmann). 



This species is allied to J. fiaccida, Kurz, but the petioles are not eared at base ; 

 the flowers are much smaller. 



18. JusTiciA PROCUMBENs, Linn. Sp. PI. 15 (1753). Annual, much 

 branched, decumbent or procumbent. Branches slender, quadrangular. 

 Leaves elliptic or oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, glabrous or hairy, short- 



