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Gymnostachyum.} ACANTHACEE. 809 
703. Andrographis Wall. 
ual, erect, or procumbent herbs or small shrubs; leave 
entire. Flowers in lax, often panicled, or dense and basi? 
axillary and terminal racemes, sometimes reduced and 1-flowered, 
often unilateral; bracts small ; arte minute or obsolete. 
lower lip, pubescent. Stamens 2; filaments ciliate or setulose; 
anthers 2-celled, exserted; cells pnlenss Spee ubequal, muti- 
cous, bearded at base. Ca arpels connate in a 2-celled, sparingly 
hairy ovary; ovules 3-6 in each aa style es stigma shortly 
2-lobed. Fruit an oblong-linear or elliptic capsule, compressed at 
right angles to septum. Seeds 6-12, hard, subquadrate or oblong, 
rugosely pitted, glabrous ; iiniaadin lanceolate. 
Capsule nearly glabrous, linear ; ; leaves lanceolate, CPL racem 
laxly panicled ; pedicels distinct irae 
Capsule hairy, elliptic ; bien oblong or subelliptic, airs racemes 
axillary ; } pedicels very short echioides 
1539. eeeenr ore PANICULATA Nees; F. B. I. iv. 501; E. D. 
Justicia paniculata F, I. i. 117. 
oe all the provinces. 
em erect annual. Hind. Kiryat, charayetah, mahatita ; 
eng. Mahatita, kalmegh 
1540, Shee ECHIOIDES Keaw: F. B. I. iv. 505. Justicia 
echioides F. I. i. 118. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; W. Bengal. 
An annual herb. 
704, Gymnostachyum Nees. 
Herbs or undershrubs ; ; leaves cauline or eee entire, 
Sinuate, crenulate or toothed. Flowers in axillary cymes or in a 
terminal panicle, often spicate or racemose, eididitors small, 
axillary, subsessile or shortly pedicelled; bracts and bracteoles 
usually very small. Sepals 5, connate in a small, deeply mateo 
calyx; lobes equal, linear-lanceolate. Petals 5, connate in 
slender, 2-lipped corolla; tube narrow, cylindric ; lobes ebeital; 
aed imbricate. Stamens 2, nearly as long as corolla; 
nts usually hairy, at least near base; anther-cells 2, sub- 
