472 



Spec. Char. Fruticose : leaves oral-oblong : panicle termmal, 

 trichatomous : calyx jjlaudulosely pubescent : segments lanceoliiie* 

 acute : corolla pubescent : upper lip linear-attenuate, incurved, 

 very narrowly 2-cleft at the apex : brjcts subulate from a tiiangU' 

 lar base, spreading : flowers wbite with a tinge of sulphur. 



Khasia hills, flowering in March. 



GENUS HI. eranthemjim:. 



mdynaiula Ansioaperiitla. Sex: Syit: 



Deriv. From Ear, spring, and Anthos, a flower ; applied by 

 the ancients to their Awthemis. 



Gex. Char. Calyx 5-clefb, equal : corolla hypocrateriform or 

 Iong-&.iui,el-Bhaped, tube long, slender, limb nearly equal : sta> 

 mens two, fertile, adnate around the mouth of the tube, long de- 

 current, two sterile ones very short, filaments of the longer 

 ones connected at the base : anthers exserted, 2-celled, muticp^s, 

 cells parallel contiguous, of a thicker texture : capswe depressed 

 ' below, valvelets contiguous, seedless, upper one 2-celled, 4-8eed- 

 ed i dissepiment adnata : seeds discoid, furnished with retinacula. 

 — Shpabs or undershrubs, usually inhabitants of mountainous 

 districts, flowers showy, blue, rose:-coloured, or variegated white : 

 leaves entire or serrated : flowers, spiked : common bracts largetc 

 or smaller, all the bractjeoles small opposite. 



(1) E. NERVOSUM. (R. BrJ) 



Ident. R. Br. prod. p. 333. — Dec. prod. XL p. 445. — Dalfc. 

 Boiiab. flor. p. 195. 



Syti. E. pulchellum, lioxb. Justicia neroosa, Fahl, i 



Engrav. Bot. Mag. t. 13j8 — Roxb. Cor. t. 177. 



SfeC. Char. Stem quadranfjular : leaves ovate or ellipti*', .ncii- 

 minated at both end^, subcrenate or entire, glabrnus : s|>tkfs axilla* 

 ry, opposiite, imbricated : bracts elliptic, lonit and acutely cuspidate, 

 reticulated with veins : diameter of the limb of the corolla as long as 

 the tube : flowers blue. 



Assam. Concans. Hurdwar. Silhet. Flowering in February. 



(2) E. MONTANUM. (Roxb.) 



Jdent. Roxb. flor. Ind. I. p 110. — Dec prod. XI. p. 448. 

 Syn. E. capense, Linii. Jl. Zeyl. — E. fastigiatum, Spreug. — Jus*^ 

 ticia fastigiata, Lam. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 466. — Bot. Mag. t. 4031. 



