498 cix. ACANTHACBau (C. B. Clarke.) [Eranthemum. 



glabroDB or pnbemlons. CoroUa-tube linear, only slightly widened close to the apex ; 

 limb 1-lJ in. diam., obscnrely.2-lipped. Capsule | in., cylindric base | in. Seeds 

 J in., mgose, subtubercled glabrons. — Vahl's description agrees pretty well with this 

 Malabar species, and he received his examples from Koenig ; but his reference to 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 44 (which has extremely different flowers) throws a doubt on 

 the identification. Nees says his IE. cremdatum was founded entirely on material 

 from Silhet to Malacca, and therefore it should not belong to E. maMarioum, even 

 in part ; but in fact a good deal of Nees' material came from Malabar. 



4. E. palatiferum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii 108, and in DC. 

 Prodr. sd. 457 ; leaves elliptic acnininate at both ends ptibescent on the 

 midrib beneath or ultimately glabrate, racemes pubescent flowers often 

 fascicled, corolla pale-purple tube Ij-li in. linear, ovary pubescent. 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 524. Justicia palatifera, Wall. PI. As. 

 Mar. i. 80, t. 92. J. rubieunda, Sam. in Wall. Cat. 2480. 



StTBTEOPiCAL SiKKlM and BsoTAiT, alt. 0-3000 ft., frequent; Treufler, Gamble, 

 &c. Assam and Khasia Mrs., alt. 0-3000 ft., common ; Wallieh, Griffith, &e. 



Perennial, 3 ft. ; stems pubescent upwards. Leaves 7 by 2-3 in., very obscurely 

 (or not) lineolate ; nerves 8-10 pair ; petiole ^ in. Racemes often one foot long, pubes- 

 cent; bracts \-^ in., snblinear; lower pedicels rarely attaining §^ in. Sepals \ia.., 

 linear, pubescent. Corolla-tube linear almost to its apex; limb Ij in. diam., obscurely 

 2-lipped ; purple often with a yellowish spot on the middle lobe of the lower lip. 

 Capsule nearly 1 in., pubescent. Seeds J in. diam., reticulate-rugose, glabrous. 



Vab. levicapsa ; leaves more conspicuously lineolate on the upper surface, spikes 

 long slender iu more or less componnd panicles, flowers often slenderer, capsule less 

 pubescent usually soon glabrate. E. crenulatum. Wall. Cat. 2491, letter P. — 

 Chittagong, alt. 0-2000 ft., frequent ; K. f. S( T., &c. Pegu, M'LeUand. Meigui, 

 Griffith. Attran, Wallieh. 



Vab. elata; leaves | large uppermost petioled elongate-cnneate at the base. 

 E. elatum, Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1872, 46, and 1873, 47. E. latifolium, Kwz in Flora 

 1870, 363 excl. syn. ? — Pegu, Tomah, Kurz. Rangoon, M'LeUand. — Kurz notes that 

 this species produces on the same plant dimorphous flowers ; one kind as of H. palati- 

 ferum type, the other (usually the upper ones in the spike) about ^ in. long, which chiefly 

 produce fruit. Similar dimorphic flowers occur in typical Khasian JE. palatiferum. 



5. E. album, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 455 ; leaves elliptic acuminate 

 pubemlous on the midrib beneath or glabrate, spikes panicled minutely 

 pubescent, corolla white tube Ij in. linear. T. Anders, in J<ywm. lAnn. Soc. 

 ix. 523. B. crenulatum, TFaM. Ca^. 2491, Ze«er« D, E. Justicia alba, .Boa^S. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 116, and Ic. Ined. in Merh. Kew. 



AiTDAMAKS; Roxburgh, Kurz. PEaiT; Srandis. Chittagoitg- ; J. D. S. 

 PenanS; Wallieh. Nicobabs; Kurz. 



Stem woody upwards, bark whiteish. Uppermost leaves very shortly petioled, 

 base usually rounded, but in Roxburgh's picture (and in the Chittagong example) 

 cuneate. — This, when dry, seems very difficult to separate from IE. palat^erum, Nees, 

 Var. levicapsa, except by the woodiness of the stems, almost to the panicle as shown in 

 Roxburgh's picture and in Kurz's and Hooker's examples ; the stems in E. palatiferum 

 being distinctly herbaceons unless very near the base. 



6. E. malaccense, Clarice ; leaves broad-lanceolate minutely pilose 

 on the niidrib beneath, spikes 1-3 subterminal puberulous or pubescent, 

 corolla pale-purple tube 1-1 1- in. linear, ovary nearly glabrous. E. crenu- 

 latum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Sar. iii. 107, and in I)C. Prodr. xi. 453, 

 chiefl,'^ ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 523, partly (not of Lindl.). B. 

 palatiferum, Bot. Mag. t. 5957, left-hand Jig. only. Justicia orbiculata, 

 Wall. Cat. 2489, letter h. 



Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6175), Cuming, nn. 2357, 2389, &c. 



