Rhinacanthus.] ACANTHACE#. 819 
ar top of corolla-tube ; anthers 2-celled; cells acute, minutely 
short, 2-celled ovary, usually tomentose; ovules 2 in each cell; 
style filiform, subclavate above; stigma entire. Frwit an oblong, 
clavate ei contracted below in a vig oe solid stipe. Seeds 
_ usually 1 or 2, suborbicular, ee py 
1567. feet Vasica Nees; F. B. v. 540; ii. D. A. 484. 
Justicia Adhatoda F. I. i. 126. 
the provinces 
A dense shrub, 4-8 feet high, frequent in village shrub- 
beries. Hind. Arusha, adhasa; Beng. Bakas, vasaka. 
715. Rhinacanthus Nees. 
Shrubs, sometimes subscandent; leaves entire. Flowers soli- 
tary or in small cymes, sessile, in dense or divaricate panicles; 
bracts and bracteoles ety similar sa tdeuae Sepals 5, 
connate below in a small calyx ; Sehiee linear-lanceolate. Petals 5, 
connate in a 2-lipped corolla; tube long, narrow, cylindric, hardly 
widened above ; upper lip lanceolate, acuminate, entire or shortly 
2-lobed, twisted or recurved ; lower lip wide, 3-lobed. Stamens 2, 
adnate near top of corolla-tube ; anthers 2-celled ; cells superposed, 
muticous, Disk cup-like. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; 
ovules 2 in each cell ; style filiform ; stigma minutely 2-fid. Fruit 
a clavate capsule, contracted in a long, solid, cylindric stipe. Seeds 
4, ovoid, somewhat compressed, glabrous, obscurely rugose or 
tuberculate. 
Corolla-tube not exceeding an inch; panicle large, lax; calyx densely 
pubescent communis, 
ae sa exceeding ‘an inch; panicle rather dense; calyx nearly 
glabro calcaratus 
1568. Speraecengn communis Nees; F. B. I. iv. 541; E. D. 
R. 231. Justicia nasuta F. I. i. 120 
Cultivated in Orissa; Chota Nagout- W. Bengal ; 
Ben E. Bengal. 
small b. Vernac. Palak-jui, jai-pana. 
1569, soheanervm caLtcarAtus Nees; F. B. I. iv. 541. 
Chittag 
A shrub. 
