PMogacanthus,'] cix. ACANiHACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 511 



anthers 2-oelled, oblong, muticous, glaibrons. Ovary usually glabrous, 

 10-16-ovulate ; style filiform, subsimple at the tip, , Capsule elongate,, sub- 

 tetragonous, many-seeded from the base. Seeds lenticular, ovate in outline, 

 glabrous or densely shortly hairy. — Species 11, endemic in India. 



This genua differs from Gh/mnostacht/um in the broader, curved corolla, the glabrous 

 ovary, and the much stouter capsule. The 2 following genera Ct/stacanthus and 

 Bptaccmtlms are with difficulty discerned by the form of the corolla. 



* ThyrsBS or dense panicles terminal. 



1. P, curviflorus, iVe££ in Wall. PI. As. Mar. iii. 99, and in iJC. 

 Prodr. xi. 320 ; leaves large elliptic or obovate nearly glabrous, thyrse 

 dense closely villous, calyx-teeth^ in., corolla If in. tubular curved scarcely 

 widened upwards. Sot. Mag. t. 3783 ; T. Anders, in Joum. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 506 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 246. Justicia curviflora. Wall. Cat. 2429, and PI. As. 

 Bar.ii. 9,.t. 112. 



Khasia Mis.,, alt, 0-4000 ft. ; frequent on the southern faog, WalUch, &a. 



Stem 3-6 ft., stout, glabrous, puberulous upwards. Uppermost leaves often 12 by 

 4-5 in., acuminate at both ends, subentire, punctulate on both surfaces, nerves beneath 

 sometimes puberulous; petiole 2i in; Thi/rse 4-8 in., short-pedunded ; bracts | in., 

 linear. Cah/x-tuhe \ in. ; teeth sublinear, closely villous. Corolla densely villous, 

 brick-red or orange; limb small, lobes hardly patent. Stamens glabrous, 2 small 

 rudiments, present. Style thinly hairy. Capsule IJ by i in., glabrous, 12-14-seeded. 

 Seeds J in. diam., much compressed, glabrous. — Wallich says the flowers are bright 

 orange-red ; it is generally a brick- red obscurely orange; it is not known wild of the 

 colour depicted by Wallich, or in Bot.Mag. 



Tab. brevicalffx ; calyx-teeth scarcely J in.T— Pegu ; Kurz. Moulmein ; Parish. 

 T^asserimj Beddome. — ^A shrub, 15 ft. (Beddome). Thyrse much less densely villous 

 than in P. curviflorus type. Sepals without sometimes nearly glabrous, much shorter 

 than in P. curviflorus type. Mowers greenish-yellow {Parish). — T. Anderson is 

 mistaken in supposing that this variety is cultivated in Lower Burma, and not wild. 



2. P. Walllcbii, Clarke; leaves large elliptic acuminate at both 

 ends glabrous, thryse dense closely villous, calyx-teeth ^ in., corolla t in. 

 tubular curved scarcely widened upwards. P. asperulus, Wall. Cat. 7171 

 partly, not of Nees. Loxanthus Gomezii, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7170, and 

 in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iil. 99, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 322, partly. 



Khasia Mts.; &omez. Jaintea Hims; Jarain, alt. 3000 ft, ClarJee. 



Leaves 10 J by 3i in., subentire; petiole 1 in. Thyrse 2-4 in., short-peduncled ; 

 bracts \ in., linear. Calyx-tube ^g in., teeth linear-lanceolate villous. Corolla 

 densely villous, red ; limb small, lobes subequal, scarcely patent. Stamens and style 

 glabrous, — Besembliig P. curviflorus, but with a smaller thyrse, and very much 

 smaller corolla. 



3. P. tubiflorus, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 99, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 321 ; leaves large elliptic or ovate narrowed at both ends softly 

 pubescent beneath, panicles elongate dense somewhat pubescent, calyx-teeth 

 i in., corolla } in. tubular curved scarcely widened upwards. T. Anders, in 

 Joiirn. Linn. Soc. ix. b()&,pa/rtljy. Justicia' tubiflora, Wall. Cat. 2428. 



Assam Plains ; Samilion, Jenkins, Masters : and adjacent Khasia Tbeai, 

 alt. 2000 ft. ; Borpani, B.f. S; T. 



Leaves attaining 10 by 3-5i in., subentire or crenulate, densely punctulate above, 

 almost woolly (but deciduously) pubescent beneath; petiole 1-2 in., pubescent. 

 Panicle 2-8 in., densely closely ramous, subthyrsoid ; pedicels often i in. ; bracts 

 ^ in., linear. Calyx-tube -fg in.; teeth linear-lanceolate, pubescent or glabrate. 

 Corolla nearly as of P. Wallichii, yellow-red (Nees). Capsule IJ by J in., glabrous, 



