Dcedalacanthus.] cix. ACANTHAOEiE. (C.B.Clarke) 421 



nervosum, Dah. Sc Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 195, not of others. — Eranthemum sp. 

 n. 12, Serb. Ind. Or. K.f.8(T. 



Centbal India, alt. 1-4000 ft., common ; from the Bombay Ghats, Jaoquemont, 

 and Belgaum, JJJiofo'e, to Parasnath and South Behar, J. D. £■. UPPBB AaaAM; 

 Dibroo-mook, Griffith. 



Stems 2-4 ft. , leafy. Leaves attaining 9 by 4 in., base decurrent, uppermost 

 much smaller, subsessile, often cordate, subentire, sometimes glabrate, densely 

 lineolate, sometimes pubescent on the nerves on both surfaces (the rapbides in 

 fiueh case obscure); nerves 7-9 pair. Spikes 1-2 J in., usually appearing long- 

 peduncled, the uppermost leaves being much reduced ; bracts 1 in., base rounded, 

 rigid, green not whitened but with much elevated nerves, apex divaricate, margins 

 not incurved ; bracteoles \ in., linear-lanceolate. Calyx J in., lobed half-way down ; 

 segments lanceolate, whitened, minutely pubescent. Corolla IJ in., blueish, 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous. Anthers included. Capsule J-| in., lower solid 

 cylindric portion short. — The bracts in Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 177 are characteristically 

 those of D. purpurascens, and in the description he says bracts ciliate. Moreover 

 Eoxburgh got his 2!!. pulohellum from " the drier parts of India." 



12. D. montanus, T. Anders, in Thwaites Unum. 229, and in Journ. 

 JLinn. Soc. ix. 489 ; leaves elliptic attenuate at both ends subglabrous 

 lineolate, spikes linear or capitate visoidly bairy, bracts lanceolate linear- 

 acuminate gi-een, calyx deeply divided segments linear green glandular hairy, 

 corolla If in. blue. Erantbemum oapense, Linn. Amcen. Acad. i. 885. B. 

 montanum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 110; Wall. Cat. 2492; Nees in Wall. PL 

 As. Sar. iii. 107, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 448 (excl. syn. Bot. Mag. t. 4031) ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 466; Dalz. S[ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 195. E. fastigiatum, Spreng. 

 Syst. i. 89. Justicia fastigiata, Lamh. III. i. 41-. J. montana, Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. ii. 41, t. 176. 



W. and S. Decoan and Cetlon, alt. 1-6000 ft., frequent j Wallich, Wight, &c. 



Herb 2-3 ft., leafy ; upper branches or peduncles quadrangular, usually white-hairy 

 or glandular. Leaves 4J by Ij in., all (except the floral) gradually attenuate at the 

 base ; nerves 6-7 pair ; petiole J-IJ in. Inflorescence extremely variable ; from 

 linear elongate spikes in compound corymbs or panicles with distant flowers to distant 

 short-oblong very dense heads, always more or less glandular-hairy; bracts from 

 elliptic with linear tips to linear-lanceolate, apex subobtuse, viscid-pubescent not 

 whitened, lowest often 2-fld., bracts usually narrower in the elongate spikes broader in 

 the shortened ; bracteoles J in. Calyx J in. Corolla 1\ in., pale blue. Anthers 

 subexserted from the corolla- tube. Capsule |-1 in. Seeds ^^ in. diam. — A variable 

 bpecies best distinguished by the long linear green viscidly hairy calyx-teeth. The 

 high-level form with shortened spikes hardly differs from L. purpurascens by any 

 other character than this. The Javan D. salaccensis does not much differ but by 

 the bracts being obscurely linear-spathulate upwards. 



Vab. Wightiana; leaves large ovate, corymb very compound with linear branches, 

 bracts linear, calyx and capsule small. Eranthemum Wightianum, Wall. Cat. 2495, 

 letter A only ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Sar. iii. 107, and in DC. Frodr. xi. 449. — 

 Deecan Peninsula ?, Russell. — This is a remarkable specimen, estimated a species by 

 Nees ; it seems that T. Anderson never saw it ; the remainder of Wall. Cat. 2495 

 with distant capitate heads being that which T. Anders, reduced to a Var. of D. 

 montana. In Russell's plant the leaves are 7 by 3J in., shortly suddenly attenuate at 

 the base, the uppermost subeordate ; the bracts are exactly linear, parallel-sided (in 

 2). montanus they are always dihated downwards) ; the corolla is not fully expanded, 

 but seems smaller than in D. montanus. 



Vab. concanensis, T. Anders, ras.; panicle compound, spikes linear interrupted, 

 bracts ovate abbreviated, not rarely 2-fld. — Conoan ; Law. 



13. D. Parishii, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 489 ; leaves ovate 

 or elliptic acuminate at both, ends undulate-crenate glabrous, spikes sub- 



