504 cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [AndrograpMs. 



■ft Racemes dense, forming a mscous hrown-hairy head or panicle. 



10. A,, viscosula, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 116, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 517 ; leaves lanceolate glabrous densely lineolate above, corolla 

 f in. hairy. Wiffht Ic. t. 1659 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 502. 

 Justicia lineata, Wall. Cat. 2486, letter b. 



S. Deooan Pbninsuia; Courtallum, Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 677) ; Pulney Hills, 

 JBeddome. , 



An undershrub, scarcely 1 foot j branches numerous, glabrous, 4-lineolate. Leaves 

 If l>y i in-> narrowed at both ends ; petiole 0-\ in. Panicles l-2i in., terminal, 

 many-fld., viscidly brown-hairy ; pedicels 0-^ in. ; bracts j'o in., linear. Sepals 

 \-^ in., linear-lanceolate. Coroite conspicuously 2-lipped; lips |-J in. Anthers 

 exserted, bases thinly bearded, filaments thinly bristly. Capsule i-§ by ^ in., pubes- 

 cent. Seeds osseous, rugose, glabrous, not compressed. 



Vae. explicata ; leaves 3 by |-1 in., panicle elongate 6-8 in. less dense, cap- 

 sules rather larger. A. cejlanica, Wight Ic. t. 1560, not of Nees. — Courtallum ; 

 Wight (Herb. Propr. nn. 676, 2242). Concan; Stocks. Anamailays and Nil- 

 gherries, Beddome. — Wight himself, after figuring his A. ceglanica from n. 676, has 

 altered the name of a portion of his n. 676 to A. viscosula. 



11. A. Neesiana, Wight Ic. t. 1561 ; leaves elliptic' acute at both 

 ends sparsely minutely hairy above glabrate beneath, racemes terminal 

 Bubcapitate, sepals ^ in., corolla f in. hairy. T. Anders, in Jov/rn. Linn. 

 Soc. ix. 502, excl. syn. 



Pui/NBY Mts. ; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 2705). Wtnaad ; Beddome. 



Branches elongate, undivided, glabrate, obscurely quadrangular. Leaves 2| by 

 li in. ; hairs remote many-cellular, raphides ; petiole 0— i in. Bacemes forming a 

 dense panicle 2-5 in. diam.. viscidly brown-hairy. Capsule attaining 1 by ^ in., coun- 

 prtssed, minutely hairy. — ^Differs from A. viscosula in the absence of raphides from the 

 leaves above. 



Vae. producta ; leaves elongate, heads produced into oblong sub-lax panicles. A. 

 ceylanica, Wight in Serb. Andrographis sp. n. 13, Meri. Ind. Or. M. f. Sf T. — 

 Shevagherry Hills ; Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 2702). Tinnevelly ; Beddome. Mala- 

 bar ; Oibson (in Herb. Dalzell), &c. — Leaves 4^ by i in., subseseile. Panicles 5 in., 

 pyramidal. Texture, indumentum, &c., of the leaves exactly as in A. Neesiana 

 type. 



Vab. affinis, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 116, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 517 (sp.) ; 

 leaves small elliptic or oblong pubescent, panicles pyramidal or oblong viscidly brown- 

 pubescent, corolla \ in. T.Anders, in LC. Prodr. ix. 502.— Nilgherry and Kurg 

 Mts., frequent ; Wight, &,c. — iea»e« 1 by, ^ in., or smaller; minutely bristly above 

 with no raphides, pubescent beneath ; nerves less impressed on the upper surface, 

 usually fulvous-pubescent. Capsule very hairy. 



12. A. stellulata, Clarice ; hairy, leaves short-petioled elliptic nar- 

 rowed at both ends, heads terminal dense, sepals exceeding ^ in. linear- 

 setaceous, corolla f in. A. Neesiana, Benth. in PI. 3ohenack. n. 1435, not 

 of Wight. 



NiLGHBKET Mts., alt. 6000 ft., Mohenacher, &c. 



Branches elongate, obscurely quadrangular, closely villous. Leaves 2^ by 1 in., 

 copiously sprinkled with fulvous multicellular haira above, closely villous beneath ; 

 petiole 0-J' in. Seads\-% in. diam., viscidly brown-hairy. Corolla pale pink with 

 purple spots on the lower lip. Filaments somewhat flattened, hairy upwards. Cap- 

 sule f by ^ in. (and upwards), hairy, compressed. Seeds osseous, rugose, glabrous, not 

 compressed. — Much resembling A. Neesiana and others of this subsection, but dis- 

 tinguished by the long substellate sepals. 



13. A. lineata, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 116, and in DC. 



