420 cix. ACANTHACBji;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Dcedalacanthug. 



Tab. Neesii ; leaves ovate acuminate not lineolate, nerves much raised beneath 

 scabrous, spikes short dense, bracts ciliate. — Assam ? 



8. D. tetragronus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 488 ; leaves 

 lanceolate acuminate at both, ends glabrous densely lineolate, spikes solitary 

 stort-peduncled oblong very dense, bracts elliptic green long-ciKate, coroUa 

 IJ in. pale blue. Eranthemum tetragonum, Wall. Oat. 7180; Nees in 

 Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 106, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 447. 



Beitish Bttema, Wallich; Moulmein, Fa/rish; Thoungyen Hills, Seddome; 

 Beeling Forest, Brandis. 



Branches upwards slender, quadrangular, nearly glabrous. Leaves 7i by \\ in., 

 much attenuate, subentire; nerves 7-8 pair; petiole 1 in. Spikes 2 in., hairy; 

 bracts | by ^ in., subobtuse. Calyx and bracteoles as of D. nervosus. Corolla-tube 

 glabrous; mouth |-1 in. Anthers not exserted. Capsule Jin. ; solid narrowed base 

 scarcely J in. — Not nearly allied to Eranthemum salaccense (Blume Bijd. 792), as 

 T. Anderson supposed j Kurz erroneously reduced it thereto in Journ. As. Soc. 1870, 

 pt. ii. p. 78. 



9. D. suifruticosuSj T, Anders., in Journ. Linn. Son. ix. 488 ; leaves 

 elliptic narrowed at both ends glabrate not lineolate, spikes short dense 

 nearly glabrous, bracts obovate nervose not whitened, coiroUa li in. pale 

 blue. Eranttiemum suffruticosum, Bovb. Fl. Ind. i. Ill ; Jl^ees in Wall. 

 PI. As. Bar. iii, 107, and in DG: Prodr. xi. 448. E. barlerioides, Boxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 113. . E, amoenum, Mam. ms. 



Andamans ; Merl. Mamilton, Kurz. 



Nearly glabrous ; branches leafy, obscurely tetragonons. Leavei 6 by 2J in., 

 undulate ; nerves 6 pair ; petiole | in. Spikes 1-1 J in. , terminal, solitary, dense 

 with (in Eo^^burgh's drawing) sometimes a few straggling flowers at the base ; bracts 

 I in., obtuse with a short mucro, glabrou s; nerves prominent beneath ; bracteoles | in., 

 linear-lanceolate. Calyqs | in., divided half-way down; lobes linear-lanceolate. 

 Corolla-tube glabrous ; mouth | in. diam. Anthers included. — M. ba/rlericides, some- 

 what doubtfully referred here by T. Anderson, is merely one of the cases where 

 Roxburgh changed the name of a species, and his editors Wallich and Carey printed 

 the description twice over. 



10. D. microstachyus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc, jx. 488; 

 leaves elliptic narrowed at both ends glabrate, flowers gemote sessile panioled, 

 bracts small none imbricate, corolla 1^ in. purple, 



MOUlMEINj Zobb. 



A herb, 2-3 ft., with large basal leaves, sparingly leafy upwards, habit of D. 

 strictus. Leaves 8 by 3 in „ base attenuate or rounded, subentire, obscurely or not 

 lineolate; nerves 10 pair; petiole 0-1 in. Fanicle large, compound, trichotomous, 

 glandular-pubescent, branches quadrangular; bracts | in., ovate or elliptic; bracteoles 

 J in., oblong. Cah/x \ in., deeply divided, green ; lobes linear, viscid-pubescent. 

 Corolla-mouth 1\ in. diam. Anthers included. Ovary and style somewhat glandular- 

 pubescent. CopsM^e J in., acute; solid cylindric base longer than the-seed-bearing 

 part. — Though the shortened bracts give this so different an aspect, the species appears 

 very closely allied to D. strictus. 



11. D. purpurascens, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 488 ; leaves 

 ovate acuminate upper often rounded at the base, spikes solitary oblong 

 very dense, bracts ovate much acuminate nervose oiUate. Justicia pulchella, 

 Boxb. Cor. PI. ii. 41, t. 177. Eranthemum pulchellum, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 HI, not of Andr. E. purpurascens, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 106, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xi. 447. E. montanum. Wall. Cat. 1^2, partly. E. 



