484 



(3) H. Neiigherrensis. (R. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t. 1556. 



Sp^ic. Char. Herbaceous, ramous, declining : branches qxiUary, 

 opposite, shorter than the leaves : flowers racemose on -the ends of 

 the branches and stem : leaves hispid, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 long petioled : petioles winged : flowers opposite from the axil of a, 

 minute leaf : calyx 5-parted, small, and li^e the numerous bracts, 

 setaceo-hispid : bracts linear, 2-3-toothed at the apex : anthers 

 two-pelled, both poileniferous with a dense tuft of woolly pubes- 

 cence on the back. 



Neilgherries and Koorg jungles. 



GENUS WX. ANDIiOGEAPHIS. 

 piandrin KEqnosynla. Sex.- Si/si: 



Gin. Chae. Calyx deeply 5-parted, eqUE|,i, lobes narrow : covdi-. 

 la 2-lipped, tapper lip entire or bifid, inferior trifid, unless wheii 

 resnpinate, when the contrary is the case : stamens two, anthers 

 <iwo.celled, cells parallel, bearded at the base : capsule ovate, or 

 fenceolate, depressed, 2-pelled to the bf^se, 4 or manj-seeded ; par- 

 tition attached to the valves : seeds oval, obtuse, roundish, bbli- 

 qnely truncated at the hase, pitted thiirtble-like, with a deephflum. 

 — Herbaceous annuals or under-shrubs, decumbent or erect : stem 

 and branches acutely 4-angled ; racemes axillary or terminal, 

 simple or forked : flowers opposite or all turned to one side ; bracts 

 opposite, shorter thsm the cailyx, bracteqles wanting, or two, mi- 

 nute at the base of the pedicel : flowers more or less rough or 

 glandular, wHte or variously purple : lobes of the calyx linear or 

 filiform ; capsule linear, oblong, flattened. 



(1) A. PANicutATA. (_Nees.) 



Ident. N. ab. E. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. 116.— Dec.i)rod. 

 XI. p. 515. 



Syn. Justicia paniculata, fiurm. Roxb.Jloir. Ind. I. p. 117. 



Engrav. Rheede Mai. IX. t. 56. — Wight's Icon, t, 518. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, glabrous: stem 4-sided: leaves 

 lanceolate, attenuated into the petiole entire : racemes axillary, 

 horizotital, long, secund, bifid, or dichotomous : capsule many-, 

 seeded: flowers remote, white, purple-dotted, Apjig-pedicelled. 



Peninsula. Most parts of India, flowering nearly all the year. 



(?.) A. Wightiana. (^Arn.) 

 Ident. Dec, prod. XI, p. 517. 

 Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1558.^Kheede Mai. IX t, 44. 



