Ebermaiera.} ACANTHACE. 797 
1503. Netsonza campestris R. Br.: ; F. B. I. iv. 894. Justicia 
lamifolia F. T. i. 184. 
- all the eh 
diffuse 
1503/2. Var VESTITA OF. B. I. iv. 895. Justicia tomentosa F. I. 
1. 131. 
thssxe Nagpur; Chittagong. 
A suberect herb. 
690. Ebermaiera Nees. 
Herbs or dwarf ST ; leaves opposite, rarely alternate, 
entire or subentire. Flow in terminal or pseudo-axillary, 
simple or compound, lax or ine racemes or spikes ; bracts leafy 
or small; bracteoles under calyx 2, shorter than bracts. Sepals 5, 
oblong or linear, slightly connate below, subequal or one larger 
than the others. Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped or slightly oblique 
corolla; tube long or short, cylindric; lobes short, spreading. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, included or rarely shortly exserted ; 
filaments usually hirsute; anthers with 2 ovoid, discrete, muticous 
cells. Disk small. Carpels connate in a plalarcndty 9-celled ovary; 
ovules numerous ; style rie glabrous ; stigma once or frequently 
twice Q-lobed. Fruit small, oblong capsule, seed-be 
throughout. Seeds 15-80 in each cell, small, globose or cuboid ; 
hilum hollowed; retinacula 0. 
Bracts obtuse or subobtuse ; flowers blue or purple, with linear mark- 
ings :— 
Stems erect, pubescent upwards, with leaves and branches opposite the 
base ; corolla -3 in. long or less, purplish with paler (rose or yellow) 
stripes :— 
Stems viscid, with glandular, spreading hairs; leaves of upper por- 
tion of stem al flowers in lax spikes, interrupted below, the 
glauca var, spathulata. 
Stems pubescent, with adpressed, grey hairs ; leaves of upper portion 
of stem opposite ; flowers in dense, uninterrupted, suet ya 
& botrya. 
Stems ora Beapsecns, pubescent throughout; leaves a ioe : 
eorolla °5 i - lo , blue, with darker (purple) stripes; cre a 
