464 



(10) R. ADKNOSTACHYA. ( NcCi.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. 1. c. p. 101.— Dec. prod. XL p. 373. 



Spec. Char. Annual: stem piocumbent, diffuse: leaves oh-^ 

 long-lanceolate, lineolate, glabrous : spikes shorter than the pedun- 

 cle : segments of the calyx, braets and linear-obtuse bracteoles 

 hairy : margin narrow, membranaceous : corolla white, lower Kp 

 purple. 



Trayancore. 



(11) R. MoiLissiMA, (Nees.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. c. 1. p. 101.— Dec. prod. XI. p. 373. 



Spec. Char. Stem procumbent, creeping: leaves from ovate to 

 lanceolate, hirsute : spikes tetragonal : calyx and lanceolate bracte- 

 oles and rhombeo-oval bracts equal, membranaceously margined, 

 ciliated, yeitowish. 



Hills at Billicul, Neilgherries. 



(12) R. auiNeuANGDLARis. (Nees.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. 1. c. p. 101.— Dec. prod XI. p. 375. 



Syn. Justicia quinquangularis, Koen. — Roxk. Jl. Ind. 1. p. 134. 



Spec Char. Stem erect or procumbent, scabrous: leave* 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, lineolate, elongated, scabrous : calyx, brac- 

 teoles and bracts membranaceous at the margin, smooth or scabrous 

 at the edge : anthers glabrous : corolla sraatl, glabrous, white, the 

 lower lip rose-coloured. 



Banks of the Ganges at Rajmahal. Sirhet Mbradabad. Rice 

 fields near Samulcottah. Flowering nearly all the year. 



GENUS XLVn. LEPTOSTAGHYA. 

 Diandria Monoii;ynia. Sen Sytt; 



Deriv. Fromi Leptos, slender, and Stachys, a spike of flowers. 



Gen. Chab. Calyx 5-parted, equal, small, fiirnished with small 

 bracts and bracteoles : corolla ringent, tube longish, upper lip 

 straight, bidenticulate, .lower convex, S-cleft, ^qgmenta short : 

 stamens two, inserted on the tube, their base and the tube stn- 

 goselj hairy at the insertion of the stamens : anthers 2-celled, 

 tiells somewhat contiguous, one placed over the other, upper one 

 oblique, lower- spurred, sm'aller : stigma 2-toothed : ca,psule com- 

 pressed at the base, depressed at the top, 4-seeded . mssepimeufe 

 adnate : seeds muricated, ftimished with 2-toothed retinacula. 



