Dicliptera.] ACANTHACE A. 821 
nnate in a small, deeply 5-lobed calyx ; segments linear-lanceo- 
im it 5, connate in a small white or blueish 2-lipped 
corolla; upper lip emarginate, lower longer, 3-lobed. Stamens 2; 
anthers 2. alee ; cells parallel, subequal, or oftener somewhat 
superposed, the lower cell muticous or with a white, basal appen- 
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minutely 2-fid. Fruit an ovoid or pbicaai sisetig ‘etipitate 
capsule; placentas with retinacula elastically separating from 
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> accom orbicular, glabrous, minutely or strongly concentri- 
cally verrucose, 
at all subsessile, scabrid, puberulous; bracts round, apiculate, 
mj; bracteoles linear-lanceolate ; spikes only imperfectly 1-sided ; 
se white, with rose or purple spots repens 
Leaves near base petioled, all nearly glabrous; bracts dimorphic, fertile 
ones obovate, ciliate ; —— ieee =e acute ; spikes marked] 
l-sided ; corolla blueis r white, without spots :— 
Barun — masons often cuspidate, fertile ones — smaller 
than the o paviflora var. pectinata. 
Barren vita ins acute, fertile ones nearly as large as the others ; 
spikes very den: parviflora var. muralis, 
1573. Runeia REPENS Nees; F. B. I. iv. 549; E. D. BR. 660. 
Justicia repens F, I. i. 132. 
Behar; W. Bengal. 
A bese diffuse, oe weed. 
1574. Runera parvirtora Nee - PECTINATA ; F. B. I. iv. 550; 
E. D. R. 656. Justicia pacers F, 133. 
In all Bie provine 
A diffuse, snug branching weed. Santal. Bir 
opong arak’. 
1574/2. Var. murauis; F. B. I. iv. 550. 
Chittagong. 
A small, branching weed. 
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718. Dicliptera Juss. 
Diffuse herbs; leaves ovate, acute, entire or obscurely undulate. 
Flowers sessile, opposite, one of each pair usually reduced to a 
_ Tudimentary calyx and bracteoles, in clustered or paniculate 
