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Spec. Char. Stem suffruticose, scabrous ; leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 acuminated at both ends, pubescently scabrous below : spikes on the 

 stem and terminal branches elongated : bracts quadrifarious, spread- 

 ino;, oblong, ciliated : anthers included, violet : tube of the corolla 

 incurvedj pubescent, seg;ments obliquely obovate : flowers blue. 



Khasia hills, flowering from January to March. 



(7) E. WlGHTIANUM. {Wall.) 



Tdent. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. III. p. 107.— Dec. prod. 

 XI. p. 449. 



Spec. Char. Fruticose: stem tetragonal, pubescently tomen- 

 tose : leaves ovate, acute at both ends, glabrous : floral ones subro- 

 tund : spikes terminal; corymbose: bracts Hnear-laiifceolate, acute,, 

 straight, pubescently scabrous ; corolla-tube long, slender, segments 

 roundish. 



Courtallum and Dindigul hills. 



(8) E. PALATIFERUM. {Nees.} 



Ident. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. lOS.^Dec. prod. 

 XL p. 457. 



Syn. Justicia palatifera, Wall. PI. As. Rar. I. p. 80. ^ t. 92. 



Spec. Char. Fruticose, erect : leaves oblong, acuminate, quite 

 entire, short-petioledj glabrous : racemes terminal, somewhat in 

 threes, spiciform, recurved : bracts and btacteoles subulate, short : 

 flowers ereeto-secund, bilabiate. 



Hills near Silhet, flowering in March and April. 



GENtrS Lm. RmTGIA. 



Aiandria nianogynia. Sex -. Syst • 



G-EN. Chae. Calyx 5-parted, regular : corolla 2-lipped, upper 

 lips 2-toothed, lower 3-lobed, palate 2-folded : stamens two : cells 

 of the anthers obliquely placed one above the other, lower one 

 ■with a lamellar orbiculate appendage : capsule 2-valved, 2-celled, 

 4-seeded, seed-bearing from the base ; dissepiment membranace- 

 ous separating together with the lateral partitions of the capsula 

 from the back of the dehiscing valves : seeds ooncerTtrically wrin- 

 kled, compressed, furnished with retinacula, of which the lower 

 one is bent back from the base of the dissepiment. — Herbs, often 

 creeping, remarkable for the white-margined mucronate bracta 

 of the spikes : flowers and capsules small : proper bracts two, 

 opposite, linear, scarcely longer than the calyx : segments of the 

 calyx linear, ciliate, membranaceous. 



