820 BENGAL PLANTS. [Peristrophe. 
716. Peristrophe Nees. 
Erect, spreading herbs; leaves entire. Flowers in axillary or 
terminal clusters, often panicled from reduction of floral leaves; 
racts 1-4 together, linear or ovate, usually longer than calyx; 
bracteoles linear-lanceolate, shorter than bracts. Sepals 5, con- 
nate below in a deeply lobed calyx; lobes equal, linear-lanceolate. - 
Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped corolla; tube slender; upper lip 
subentire, lower shortly 8-lobed. Stamens 2; filaments pubescent 
below; anthers 2-celled, linear or rarely avila : one muticous 
higher than the other or distant. Disk cup-like. Carpels connate 
in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules 2 in each cell; i filiform ; stigma 
minutely 2-fid. Frwit an ellipsoid, stipitate capsule, usually 
4-seeded, more or less pubescent. Seeds ovoid, sii banka, glabrous, 
minutely glandular-papillose. 
— —_ *5 in. long; bracts linear or linear-spathulate, acute, 
ona bicalyculata. 
Corelle over 1 in, long; bracts elliptic :— 
Bracts dusky- aingtalone: not ciliate tinctoria. 
Bracts hairy, ciliate fera var. intermedia. 
1570. PERISTROPHE BICALYCULATA Nees; F. ‘ af iv. 554; E. D. 
P. 425. Justicia bicalyculata F. I. i 
Se: agpur ; Behar ; W. Bevienl® 7 ee Mymen- 
ngh. 
Or 
A spreading herb. Hind. Atrilal; Beng. Nasa bhaga ; 
Santal. Bange khode baha. 
1571. "alanine TINCTORIA Nees; F. B. I. iv. 556; E. D. 
P. 427. Justicia tinctorra F. I. i. 128. 
Cultivated. 
An erect herb. Beng. Bet-rang, bhatia-rang. 
1572. gia rera C, B. Clarke var. InreRMEDIA; I’. B. L. 
557. 
Ohba: 
An erect herb. 
7i7. Rungia Nees. 
Erect or diffuse herbs or shrubs; leaves entire. Flowers in 
dense terminal or axillary, 1-sided spikes; bracts 2-rowed or 
4-rowed, with 2 of ‘the rows often flowerless, flowering bracts often 
with scarious margins ; bracteoles like bracts or narrower. Sepa 
