186 



14. RUELLIA, Linn. 



1. Dura, N. ab E., DC. Prod. ] 1, p 146. — Stem quadrangular, 

 procumbent, hispid and bristly ; leaves oblong-obtuse, subcrenate, 

 attenuated into the petiole, hispid ; spikes axillary subsessile and 

 terminal, somewhat capitate, subtended by subovate hirsute bracts ; 

 flowers middle-sized, blue ; capsule 8-seeded, shorter than the 

 calyx. About Surat, common. 



2. Elegans, Bot. Mag. t. 3389. — Herbaceous, erect, pubescent; 

 stem with opposite branches ; leaves ovate-acuminate, coarsely 

 serrated ; flowers of a bright blue, axillary, short-peduucled, sub- 

 rapitate or terminal subsolitary ; capsule as long as the calyx, 

 6 to 8-seeded. In the Concans, common. Syn. Hemigraphis 

 elegans, N. ab E. The anthers are not unilocular, as stated by 

 N.ab. E. DC. Prod II, p 722. 



3. Latebrosa, Roxb. Fllnd. iii, p46. — Creeping; leaves oppo- 

 site, short-petioled, broad-oval, coarsely toothed, hairy, about an 

 inch long, and nearly as broad ; flowers axillary, solitary sessile, 

 litiht-blue, collected also in small terminal bracted heads; bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, as long as the calyx. Below trees on the Island of 

 Caranjah ; the Deccan. Syn. Hemigraphis latebrosa, N. ab E. in 

 DC. Prod. 11, p723; Ruellia ebracteata, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. 

 Bot. ii, 342. 



15. ASYSTASIA, Blum. 



1.. CoBOMANDELiANA, N. ab E., DC. Pvod. 11, p 165. — Stem 

 erect ; branches numeious, almost smooth ; leaves cordate-ovate or 

 suborbiculate-cuspidate, glabrous ; racemes axillary, elongated, 

 secund, straight ; flowers large, pale-blue ; ca|)sule an inch long. 

 V(M-y common, often cultivated in gardens, where ther^ are white- 

 flowered varieties. Syn. Justicia gangetica, Lirin. Amcen. iv, p 

 290; Ruellia secunda, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 42; Vahl. Symb. 

 iii, p 84. 



2. VioLACEA, Dalz. in Hook. — Stem ascending, jointed, smooth, 

 striated, obtusely quadrangular ; leaves ovate or oblong-acute, 

 entire, lower ones attenuated into the petiole, upper rounded at 

 the base, short-petioled or subsessile ; racemes terminal, secund, 

 solitary or twin ; flowers an inch long, of a deep-blue, somewhat 

 2-lipped, the lower lip of a dark violet ; the throat spotted with 

 purple. The Concans. A very handsome species. 



3. Lawiana, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, 344. — Stem herba- 

 ceous, erect, quadrangular, knotted, trichotomous ; leaves elliptic- 

 oblong acute, suddenly narrowing into a petiole of 1 inch, roughish 

 above, hispid on the nerves beneath ; spikes terminal, sohtary, short; 

 flowers approximated, sessile, opposite, decussate ; bracts and 



