508 cix. ACANTHACEiB. (C. B. Clarke.) [Gymnostachyum. 



ovate, panicle large pubescent, corolla |-1 in. slender. Justicia venusta, 

 Wall. Gat. 2470, and PL As. Bar. i. 53, t. 66; Bot. Beff. t. 1380. 

 Cryptoptragmium venustam, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 180, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 94; Bot. Mag. t. 3208. 



Khasia Mts., alt. O-4O0O ft., common on the southern face, Wallich., S.f. S; T., 

 &c. 



Attaining 1-4 ft. ; stem leafless or with few remote very small leaves. Radical 

 leaves 6 by 3-4 in., or larger, acute, decurrent on the petiole, entire or undulate- 

 crenate, nearly glabrous, or with scattered minute hairs above, nerves beneath pubes- 

 cent ; petiole ; 0-4 in. Faniele sometimes 8 by 12 in., or reduced to a single spike ; 

 flowers opposite, 1-3 together ; bracts small, linear ; bracteoles 0. Sepals J-J in., 

 linear, hairy. Corolla pubescent ; limb deep purple or blueish. Anthers obiong, 

 glabrous. Capsule | in. 



2. Cr. febrifug'um, Benth. in Flora 1849, 558 ; leaves ovate, panicle 

 pubemlous, curolla Ij in. upper half inflated, capsule 1 in. G. alatum, 



Wight le. t. 1525 ; T. Anders, in, Journ. Linn. Sac. ix. 606. 



S. Decoan Peninsula; Mangalore, SohenacJcer (n. 374), Wight. 



Nearly stemless. Leaves 6J by 3 iu., decurrent on the petiole, subentire or undu- 

 late- creuulate, above lineolate nearly glabrous or minutely sparsely setulose, beneath 

 paler glabrous or pubescent on the nerves.' JPanicles 6-12 in., in appearance radical ; 

 flowers opposite, solitary or in very small few-fld. cymes; bracts small, narrow ; 

 bracteoles 0. Sepals \-^ in., glabrous or puberulous. Corolla glabrous. Anthers 

 ovate, hairy. — Hohenacker ^observes that " a decoction of the root is a febrifuge," 

 and Bentham's imme yebrifugwm has one year's priority over alatum. 



3. €r. ceylanicum, Arn. Sf Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 93 ; leaves elliptic 

 glabrate lineolate above, panicles linear pubescent, corolla | in. T. Anders, 

 in Thwaites JBnum. 232, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. vs.. 506 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. 

 Ind. Or. t. 265. 



Ceylon; Walker, Thwaites, &c. 



Stem 1-3 in., villous. Leaves 3 by IJ in., obtuse, base acuminate, undulate- 

 crenate, pubescent beneath especially on the nerves ; petiole X\ in. Feduncles 1-6 in. ; 

 panicles 5-9 by | in. ; cymes small, subfascicled ; bracts J in., linear. Sepals J in., 

 Unear-lanceolate, grey-pubescent. Corolla nearly glabrous ; tube narrow purplish ; 

 limb small greenish-yellow. Anthers subquadrate, glabrous. Capsule | in. 



4. Gr. Thuraitesii, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 232 ; leaves elliptic 

 hairy on both surfaces, panicles oblong pubescent, corolla ^ in. Bedd. Ic, 

 PI. Ind. Or. t. 255. 



Ceylon ; Ambagamowa District, Thwaites. 



Leaves above with many lax multicellular hairs. Faniele open ; lateral cymes 

 \-\\ in. Otherwise as 6. ceglanicum. 



5. G. polyanthum, Wight Ic. t. 1494; leaves broadly ovate sub- 

 glabrate base rounded or cordate, panicles linear glabrous or nearly so, 

 coroUa | in. 



CooEa; Jerdon, in Herb. Wight. 



Stem 1 in., grey-puberulons. Leaves 2^ in. diam., shortly acute or subobtnse, 

 nearly entire, punctulate above ; nerves beneath much raised, grey-puberulous ; petiole 

 1| in. Fanicles 8 by | in. ; flowers in subcapitate cymes ; bracts minute, linear. 

 Sepals 5-^ in., linear-lanceolate, glabrous or obscurely puberulous. Corolla puberu- 

 lous, pink (in the dried example). Capsule J in. — Overlooked by T. Anderson. 



ft Stems elongate, leafy upwards. 



6. G. paniculatum, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 232 ; leaves ovate 



