Hygrophila.} clx. aoanthace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 409 



hispid, H. longifolia, Kurz in Journ. As. Sob. 1870, ii. 78. Barleria longi- 

 folia, Lmn. Ameen. Acad. iv. 320 ; Wall. Cat. 2505. B. hexacantha, Moris 

 in Mem. Acad. Torin. xxxvi. 200, t. 7. Buellia longifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 50. Asteraoantha longifolia, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 90, and in 

 DO. Prodr. xi. 247 ; Balz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 189 ; Wight Ic. t. 449. 

 A. aurioulata, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 248, with syn. — Bheede Sort. Mai. 

 ii. t. 45 ; Jones in As. Besearch. iv. 291. 



Throughout Ikdia in ditches, abundant; from the Himalaya to Cbxlon (not 

 seen from Malay Peninsula). 



Stems 2-5 ft., usually fascicled and undivided. Leaves 3-7 in., subsessile, acute at 

 both ends, sparsely hispid with long white hairs. Whorls large, dense, with (nor- 

 mally 6) straight stout spines J-1 J in. ; bracts J-1 in., . lanceolate ; bracteoles J-J in., 

 naiTow. iSepais J-J in., lanceolate; upper rather the largest, lower obtuse emargi- 

 nate or shortly bifid. Corolla 1 in., nearly glabrous, pale blue-purple. Anthers 

 oblong, subequal. Capsule \ in., shorter than the sepals, linear-oblong, 4-8-seeded 

 from the base. 



Yin. NOnXAPKIIiA, Blume. 



Erect herbs. Leaves petioled, entire. Cymes axillary, subsessile; 

 branches unilateral, sympodal upwards ; flcwers pedioelled ; bracts linear, 

 minute; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, linear, one somewhat larger. Corolla 

 tubulax, ventricose upwards; limb deeply 2-lipped; lobes 5, twisted to the 

 left, edges narrowly overlapping in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, glabrous ; 

 anthers 2-celled, lower somewhat smaller; cells oblong, parallel, muticous. 

 Ovary oblong ; style linear, stigma simple linear. Capsule linear, seed- 

 bearing from the base, 8-32-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, reticulate, elastically 

 white-hairy when wetted ; retinacula hardened, hooked, but slender. — Species 

 7, in S.E. Asia, Madagascar, and Trop. Africa. 



1. N. ParisMi, T. Anders, in Jburn. Linn. Soe. ix. 455; leaves lan- 

 ceolate pubescent or mature nearly glabrous, cymes and calyx glandular- 

 pubescent, sepals subulate. N. pubescens, Zurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, 

 pt. ii. 74, excl. all syn. 



MouLMEiN ; Falconer, Parish. PEaiT; Karz, Brandts. TenassbbijI; Bed- 

 dome. — DiSTEiB. Java. 



Stem 1-2 ft., pubescent upwards. Leaves 3 by J-f in., acute at both ends (larger 

 ovate fide T. Anders.), young minutely softly pubescent, mature glabrate lineolate 

 above, sparsely pubescent or glabrate beneath ; petiole i-\\ in. Cymes IJ in. diam. ; 

 bracts ^-^ in , opposite; pedicel in one axil |-J in., in the other suppressed. Sepals 

 j in., one slightly longer than the others, acute. Corolla §-1 in., nearly glabrous. 

 Ovary glandular ; style patently hairy. Capsule ^ in., 32-seeded, pubescent from the 

 base. — Very near to, and doubtfully distinct from the Javan N. oorymbosa (Blume 

 Bijd. 804 ; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 84). Col. Beddome has collected in Tenasserim 

 two forms, one with the calyx and corolla half as large again as in the other ; bat no 

 other difference can be found. 



2. N. Striata, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 84, excl. syn. ; leaves broadly 

 lanceolate mature glabrate, cymes nearly glabrous, sepals linear subobtuse 

 glabrate or minutely puberulous, ovary nearly glabrous except at the tip. 

 Kuellia paniculata ? Heyne in Herb. Bottler. 



Becoan PaNiNStriA ? ; Bottler. — Distbib. Malaya to the Philippines. 



This plant is in Bottler's Madras collection at Kew, but it may be doabted (see 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soe. ix. 456) whether it was collected wild in India. It 

 closely resembles JT. corymhosa, Bl., except in the points specified. Nees' synonymy is all 

 wrong : Justicla stricta, Vahl Symb. ii. 6, has calyx shorter than the bracts ; J. 

 pubescens, Lamk. HI. i. 40, has ovate bracts, and is from Guinea ; while J. canescens. 



