496 cix. ACANTHACB*. (C. B. Clarke.) [Asystccsia. 



1 J in., with the seeds nearly as of A. macroearpa. — The name is very misleading ; 

 the corolla is always a £lne rose. In one example the raceme is developed into a lax 

 very compound panicle, and the plant is noted as 6 ft. high. 



10. A. ITeesiana, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 89, and in DC. 

 Prod/r. xi. 164; leaves large broadly elliptic acute sparingly pubescent, 

 racemes elongate very lax pubescent, corolla 2 in. pink tube very long linear. 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 526. Ruellia Neesiana, Wall. PI. As. 

 Bar. i. 73, t. 83, and Cat. 2342.— Asystasia sp. n. 14, Herb. Ind. Or. S. f. 

 S(T. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 0-3000 ft., frequent; Wallieh, &c. Cachabj Keenan. 

 MouiMEnf ; Parish. 



Leaves 8 by 3 in., lower long-petioled, uppermost pair usually (not always) sessile. 

 Saceme often nearly a foot long, very pubescent. Corolla, capsule and seeds nearly 

 as of A. atroviridis. Anther-cells minutely mucronate at the base. 



DOUBTFUI. SPEOIBS. 



11. A. ? KtTNTHlANA, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Mar. iii. 89, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 

 163 ; leaves oblong or elliptic acuminate at both ends pubescent beneath, spikes dense 

 few-fld. on very short axillary peduncles. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn, Soc. ix. 525. 

 Kuellia Kunthiana, Wall. Cat. 2419. 



Penanoj Wallieh. 



Stems creeping, rooting; branches 1 foot, erect, subterete, glabrous. Leaves SJ 

 by 1\ in., lineolate above ; petiole scarcely \ in. Peduncles 0-^ in. ; spikes i-J in., 

 glabrous, lineolate ; bracts -^ in. Sepals | in., linear. Capsule \ in., constricted for 

 a short space at the base, 4-seeded, glabrous. Flowers not seen. — T- Anderson does 

 not doubt this being an Asystasia, but it might quite as well be a Justicia. 



12. A. ? Eranthemum montannm. Sot. Mag. t. 4031, not of Roxh.; \ea.ves elliptic 

 acuminate at both ends glabrate, racemes lax compound puberulous, sepals linear- 

 subulate ciliate, corolla 2J in. purple tube very long linear. 



" India ;" cultivated formerly at Kew. — Upper leaves 4| by IJ in. ; nerves 7 pair ; 

 petiole ^ in. Peduncle 3 in., grey puberulous; panicle lax; bracts |-^ in., linear- 

 lanceolate, much shorter than the calyx ; lower pedicels 0-J in. Sepals 4 in. Corolla 

 glabrous. Stamens 4 perfect, sobsimilar, glabrous; anther-cells 2, bases acute. 

 Stigma minutely equally bifid. — A plant of which nothing is known, but the excellent 

 figure cited, and the specimen from which it was taken. The description is incorrect 

 as to the 2 stamens, of which there are 4, hardly at all didy namous. The minute bracts 

 are as in Asystasia, and will not do for Dcedalacanthus. Its true place is, in the 

 absence of fruit, uncertain. 



13. A. Lawiana, Dalz. in 'Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 344 ; leaves elliptic acute at 

 both ends very sparsely hairy, spikes short-oblong dense softly-hairy, bracts large 

 imbricated, corolla J-f in. white. Dalz. (Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 186. A. mysurensis, 

 T. Anders, in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. ix. 524. Kuellia mysurensis, Moth Wov. Sp. 303 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 2402. Strobilauthes mysurensis, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 86, and 

 iaDC. Prodr. xi. 192. 



W. Decoan Peninsula ; from Saugur to Kurg, frequent ; Sottler, &c. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, thinly hairy. Leaves 4 by 1 j in., with few distant multi- 

 cellular hairs above, minutely lineolate, puberulous beneath ; petiole IJ in. Flower- 

 heads IJ by I in., substrobiliform ; bracts |-1 by J in., broadly lanceolate, softly 

 hirsute; bracteoles J in., lanceolate membranous. Sepals J in., linear hairy. 

 Stamens slightly didynamous, nearly glabrous ; anthers 2-celled j cells ovate or sub- 

 ellipsoid, muticous, one slightly above the other. Style glabrous ; stigma very 

 minutely bifid ; ovary pubescent. Capsule | in., 4-8eeded ; solid cylindric base ^ in. 

 Seeds compressed, angular ; testa minutely laxly hexagonal, glabrous.— Very unlike 

 the genus in the bracts, corolla, anthers, and habit, in which it more resembles 

 Strobilanthes micranthus. 



