522 cix. ACANTHACE*. (C. B. Clarke.) [Lepidagathis. 



Linn. Soc. ix. 496 ; leaves subsessile linear acute at bott ends scabrous pale 

 beneath, spikes terminal or axillary tetragonal subsecund dense woolly, 

 bracts herbaceous obliquely lanceolate mucrona;te ciliate 1-nerved, calyx 

 5-partite membranous ciliate upper segment lanceolate rounded at the tip 

 3-nerved. 



Bttbma ; S. Scott. 



Perennial ; stems several, ^3 ft., tetragonous, winged, glabrous. Leaves 3-6 in., 

 scabrous. Spikes 1-2 in., hoary woolly. Terminal spikes 2-3 together, axillary 

 solitary opposite ; bracteoles membranous, concave, obovate, obtuse at both ends, 

 ciliate. Corolla and capsule appear (ex descr.) same as of L. hyalina (T. Anderson). 

 — Not seen. 



** Leaves crenate or crenate-serrate. (Anther-oells more separated and 

 more divergent at the base than in the rest of the genus.) 



22. Xi. ceylanica, Ntes Monogr. Lepidag. 35, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 



259 ; leaves petioled ovate-lauoeolate nearly glabrous, bracts as long as the 

 calyx elliptic or obovate scarious 3-nerved glabrous ciliate. T. Anders, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 498. L. nervosa, Wight Ic. t. 1620. 



Cetlon ; Walker, Thwaites. 



Stems 2-3 ft., herbaceous, diffuse, 4-angnlar, glabrous. Leaves 3 by 5- in., acumi- 

 nate at both ends, crenate-serrate, obscurely puberulous ; petiole ^ iu. Spikes | in., 

 ovoid or obovoid, in dense panicles or clusters ; bracts 5 by J in., mucronate ; brac- 

 teoles 5 by J in., subfalcate, scarious, 3-nerved, ciliate. Calyx J-J in., deeply 5-fid, 

 scarious, glabrous, ciliate ; outer segment oblong or elliptic, other 4 narrow. 

 Corolla ^ in. Capsule i in., 4-seeded. 



23. Zi. Vralkeriana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 260 ; leaves petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate nearly glabrous, bracts half as long as the calyx elliptic. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1530 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 499. L. ceylanica, 

 Var. /3, iVees Monogr. I,epidag. 35. 



Cetlon ; Walker, Macrae, &c. 



Bracts ^ in., 3-nerved, subscarious. Calyx J in., densely minutely glandular- 

 hairy or glabrate ciliate. Otherwise as L. ceylanica, which it so greatly resembles 

 that Wight has noted on the specimen he has figured a doubt whether it was the 

 *' true Walkeriana," which it certainly is. 



24. Xi. fasciculata, JVees in Wall. PI. As. Par. iii. 95, and Monogr. 

 Lepidag. 10, and in. DC. Prodr. xi. 260; leaves petioled ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate pubescent, bracts herbaceous as long as the calyx ovate or elliptic 

 3-nerved hairy. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 498 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. 

 Or. t. 228 ; Wawra Pot. It. Pr. S. Cob. i. 88, t. 13. L. hirta, Nees Monogr. 

 Lepidag. 37. L. goensis, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 340 ; Balz. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 191. fiuellia fasciculata, Betz. Obs. iv. 28 ; Poxb. PI. Ind. iii. 

 48; Wall. Cat. 2406, and 2394 partly. 



Throughout Tropical and Subtbopioai. India, from the base of the N.W. 

 Himalaya and Benoal to Cetlon and Tenassebim ; mostly rare, plentiful in 

 Malabaria. 



Stems 1 foot, herbaceous, diffuse, hairy. Leaves 2 by 1 in., crenate-serrate, 

 pubescent at least on the nerves beneath; petiole J in. Spikes J in. diam., or 

 often elongate, interrupted below with the lower flowers in opposite pairs; bracts 

 ^l in., in fruit somewhat enlarged; bracteoles rather shorter than the bracts, 

 talcate-oblong. Corolla and capsule nearly as of L. hyalina. — This plant always 

 occurs mixed with Memigraphis latebrosa, Nees ; without counting the ovules or 

 seeds it may be distinguished therefrom by the presence of bracteoles, the capi- 



