22 Stachytarpheta. 



2—5 cM. wide; spikes 15—45 cM. long, bracts very 

 narrow, subulate aristate, striate, margins ciliate; calyx 

 compressed, 4-ribbed, 4-toothed. 0.75 cM.; corolla blue, 

 tube as long as, or shorter than the calyx. 



Distribution: from tropical America imported into Asia 

 (Java). 



4. S. jamaicensis Vahl. Enum. I, 206, (1805); Schauer, 

 DC. Prodr., XI, 564; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. LXXIV, 4, 798; Koocders, Exk. fl. v. Java. Ill, 

 133; Bot. Mag., t. 1860; Kantze, Rev. Gen. PI. I, 509; 

 Merrill. Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. XI, 310; id. ibid. IX, 136; 

 Backer, Ann. Jard. bot. Buitzg., suppl. 3, I, 415, — S. 

 ciliata Kunze, Del. Sem. Hort. Lips. 9 in adnot. — 

 S. indica Vahl, I.e.; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. 

 no. 37, 20; Williams, Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. II, T. V, 

 430; Schauer I.e.; Forbes and Hemsley, Fl. Sin. II, 251; 

 HooA:. f. Fl. Br. Ind., IV, 564; Koorders, Meded. 's Lands 

 PI. tuin no. XIX, 560; Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat., II, 907 and 

 suppl. I, 244 and 570; Backer, I.e.; Hall. {., Med. 's Rijks 

 Herb. Leid. no. 37, 20. — S. marginata Vahl, I.e. 

 207. — S. pilosiuscula H.B. et K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 

 II, 279 (1817) — S. urticifolia Dalz. et Gibs., Bomb. Fl. 

 Suppl. 68, (1861) — S. villosa Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. 

 Mosc. XXXVI, II, 197, (1863). - An annual, erect herb; 

 branches dichotomous, obtusely quadrangular, the spikes 

 and petioles sparsely pubescent; leaves opposite, thinly 

 chartaceous or membranous, ovate or obovate, base 

 decurrent, apex obtuse or subacute, margins coarsely serrate, 

 ciliate, upper side glabrous, beneath with some hairs and 

 scales or glabrate, pairs of nerves 4 — 6, 3 — 10 cM. long, 

 1—5 cM. broad, petioles Vs' — ^Vs cM. long, a narrow 

 hne of hairs between the petioles of each pair of leaves; 

 spikes 10 — 30 cM. long, glabrescent, the flowers sessile 

 in the excavations of the rhachis, bracts subulate or lan- 

 ceolate-acuminate, 0.5 cM.; ca/j/x membranous, transparent. 



