698 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1 anther-cell below the other usually appendaged ; pollen ellipsoid, 

 longitudinally banded. Ovary ^-ovulate ; style at tip emarginate. 

 Capsule small, with 4 or 2 seeds ; placentae rising elastically with the 

 seeds, from the base of the capsule ; seeds glabrous, minutely tubercu- 

 late. — DiSTBiB. Species 35, mainly in India, extending to China, 

 Australia, and Africa. 



This genus can be separated from the small species of Justicia by the fruit. 



1. EuNGiA LAxiFLOEA, C. B. Clarke. Suberect, 3 ft. high, nearly 

 glabrous. Leaves : lamina 3-5 by 1"25 in., elliptic, narrowed at either 

 end ; petioles "25 to 1 in. long. Spikes 2 to 4 in. long, linear, flexuose, 

 very lax; the outer bracts often scarcely imbricated. Bract (floral 

 leaf) 9 mm. long, narrow-lanceolate, with scarious margins; the two 

 prophylla lanceolate with scarious margins, the lower -3 in. long, 

 the upper sterile, smaller. Sepals -275 in. long, linear, glabrous. 

 Corolla -6 in. long, "pale yellow, striped with light grey" (Collector's 

 note). Stamens 2 ; lower anther-cell smaller than the upper, with a 

 white spin'; pollen 50 /a long, with 3 stopples. Style glabrous, minutely 

 hairy near the base. Capsule -35 in. long ; minutely hairy ; placentae 

 rising elastically ; seeds minutely tubercled. ? Justicia laxiflora, 

 Blume Bijdr. 789. 



Peeak: Scortechini ; Lariit, alt. 3000 ft., King's Collector 3676; 

 alt. 100 ft., King's Collector 1815. — Disteib. Java (?). 



Justicia laxiflora, Blume, has the filament "antice barbata," and could hardly 

 be this. It was Zollinger, n. 1539 fide Moritzi Verz. ZoU. Pfl. 47, which I have not 

 got. But I believe I got the name Rungia laxiflora from a Java plant marked Justicia 

 laxiflora, which passed through my hands. 



2. KuNGiA MiNUTiFLOEA, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. Suberect, a branched 

 herb, 9 in. high. Leaves : blade 2 by -75 in., ovate-lanceolate ; tip 

 obtuse, nearly glabrous, attenuated at base ; petiole up to "5 in. long. 

 Spikes linear, 1 to 1*25 in. long, very lax, interrupted at base ; flower- 

 bract -125 in. long, elliptic-obtuse, green, microscopically brown-hairy. 

 Corolla -2 in. long. Stamens 2 ; one anther-cell a little below the other 

 distinctly tailed. Capsicle "15 to "175 in. long ; placentae rising elastically 

 from the valves ; seeds brown, minutely tuberculated. 



Kedah : Lankawi Island, Curtis 3689. 



