694 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



distant but nearly parallel, one (for one-third its length) below the 

 other. Pistil glabrous. 

 Peeak : Scortech.ini 224. 



31. EcBOLiuM, Kurz. 



Spikes strobilate ; bracts imbricate, enclosing the calyx. Corolla- 

 tube linear. Stamens 2, without rudiments ; anther-cells 2, narrowly 

 oblong, at equal height, muticous ; pollen globose, with meridional 

 bands. Capsule stalked, with 4 large flat seeds in the round head. 

 Otherwise as Justicia. — Distbib. Species 12 in the warm parts of 

 Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, and India. 



This genus resembles the section Bracteatce oi Justicia, which has similar strobilate 

 spikes ; it differs in having the anther-cells at equal height and without tails. It is 

 difficult to say by what character it differs from some of the American species of 

 Dianthera ; but the Malay Diantherce (Leda) have all very small bracts. 



1. EcBOLiuM LiNNEANUM, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XL. ii. 75 

 (1871). A small shrub, glabrate; the inflorescence somewhat pubescent. 

 Leaves opposite, equal, elliptic or obovate, acute, 3 to 6 in. long ; base 

 cuneate ; petiole "5 to 1*5 in. Spikes strobilate, 2 to 6 in. long, 

 terminal and on axillary peduncles ; bracts ovate, "5 in. long, green, 

 varying in their margin, which is sometimes serrate, sometimes quite 

 entire, rounded at the tip ; prophylla 2, minute. Sepals -2 in. long, 

 narrow. Corolla green-blue ; tube -75 to 1 in. long, linear to the top ; 

 lips "35 to -5 in. long. Capsule -75 in. long ; stalk narrowly cylindric ; 

 head round, flat, -3 in. in diam., containing 2 large, round, thin, rough 

 seeds. Boiss. Fl. Orient. IV. 526 ; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzen- 

 fam. IV. 3 b, 338 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 544, and 

 in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. V. 236 {loith syn.) ; Prain Beng. Plants 816. 



Penang : King's Collector 1671. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1172. 

 SiNGAPOEE : Deschavips. — Disteib. Common in warm Africa and 

 India ; not yet known from the Malay Archipelago. 



Recognized by its green-blue corolla, or by the broad head to the capsule. 



32. Geaptophyllum, Nees. 

 Glabrous shrubs. Leaves equal, opposite, entire. Panicles ter- 

 minal, dense, oblong ; bracts and prophylla very small. Corolla large, 

 red ; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, curved ; otherwise nearly as 

 Echolium. — Distbib. Species 3, whereof 1 is widely spread in the 

 warm regions of tlie Old World, and 2 in Australia. 



The red corolla has a much broader tube than that of Ecboliuvi. The much- 

 cultivated species here described is not confounded with Echolium, but is marked 



