Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 689 



petioled. Spikes cylindric, continuous, hirsute ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 ■175 in. long. Sepals 4, linear, -175 in. long, hirsute. Corolla -25 to 

 •35 in. long, white pink-spotted. Stamens 2 ; anthers 2-celled ; one 

 cell below the other, tailed. Capsule '25 in. long, 4-seeded nearly from 

 the base. Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 549 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. IV. 532 ; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b, 349; 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 246 (1890). J. diffusa, Prain 

 Beng. Plants 818. Bostellaria procunibens, Nees in Wall. PI. As. 

 Ear. III. 101. Rostellularia procumbens, Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 371 ; 

 Moritsi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 47 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 826. 



Penang : Curtis S099. — Distrib. South India; Australia. 



The group to which J. procumbens belongs may be esteemed to form but one 

 species ; in which case its area would include all South and East Asia. 



27. Adhatoda, Nees. 



Spikes strobilate ; the large bracts imbricated, green: Stamens 2 ; 

 anther-cells 2, oblong, at nearly equal height, at the base subacute or 

 with a minute knob, not tailed. Otherwise as Justicia. — Disteib. 

 Species, the present common one ; with which 6 or 8 other plants from 

 Tropical Africa have been generically associated. 



This plant resembles altogether the bracteate section of Justicia with strobilate 

 spikes, except that the anther-cells have not at their base the characteristic white 

 anther-tail. 



1. Adhatoda vasica, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. III. 103 (1832). A 

 dense shrub, 3 to 8 ft. high. Leaves 8 by 3 in., elliptic, acute at either 

 end, entire, minutely pubescent ; petioles 1 in. long. Peduncles 1 to 

 6 in. long, from the upper axils of the branches. Spikes strobilate, 2 to 

 6 in. long ; bracts ovate, green, entire, -75 by -25 in. ; prophylla up to -5 by 

 •125 in. Sepals -3 to ^35 in. long, lanceolate. Corolla white, purple- 

 spotted, 1-25 in. in total length ; tube short, widened above the base. 

 Capsule -75 in. long, stout, clavate, pubescent, with 4 rough seeds at the 

 top. C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 540 {loith syn.) ; Prain 

 Beng. Plants 819. Justicia Adhatoda, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 15, ed. ii. 20 ; 

 Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b, 349 ; Hemsl. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XXVI. 244 (1890) ; Eidley in Journ. As. Soc. Straits 

 122 (Singapore 1900). Gendarussa Adhatoda, Hassk. Cat. Hort. 

 Bog. 151. 



Penang : Curtis 1017. Singapore : fide Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 

 540. — Disteib. Throughout India, extending to Malaya ; commonly 

 cultivated. ^ 



