524 cix. ACANTHACBiB. (C. B. Clarke.) [Monothecium. 



bracts and bracteoles linear or setaceous. Sepals 5, equal, linear-setaceous. 

 Corolla small, tubular, limb deeply 2-lipped. Stamens 2 ; anthers narrowly 

 oblong, 1-celled, mutioous, attached by the middle of the back. Style 

 minutely bifid. Capsule oblong, on a short solid stalk, 4-seeded. Seeds 

 compressed, orbicular, rugose subtubercled; retiuacula stout. — Species 2, 

 Indian and Tropical African. 



DK. aristatum, T. Anders, in Thwaites lEnum. 234; leaves ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate pubescent on the nerves beneatb, bracts ^-j- in. linear 

 setaceous lineolate. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 269. Justicia aristata. Wall. 

 Cat. 2481 ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 115. Anthocometes aristatus, 

 Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 312. 



Cetlon ; Walker, Wight, &c. Nilsheeet Mts. ; G. Thomson. 



Stems 1 foot, procumbent, much branched, often rooting. Leaves IJ by f in., 

 cnneate at both ends; petiole J in. Spikes ^-\^ \a., peduncled or sessile, pubescent 

 or nearly glabrous ; bracteoles (barren bracts frequent). Sepals \'va. Gorolla^m., 

 white, lower lip brown-spotted. Capsule ^ in. — This is so like Justicia prooumbens 

 that an example of it in Herb. Kew is marked " Rostellularia prooumbens, Var. a or 

 $," by Nees' hand. 



XXXYII. CZiXNACANTHTTS, Nees. 



A tall herb, minutely pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire or 

 toothed. Flowers conspicuous, dull red, in small drooping cymes at the 

 tips of the branches ; bracts and bracteoles small, linear. Sepals 5, equal, 

 linear-subulate. Corolla-tvbe elongate, curved at the base, , widened 

 upwards ; limb 2-lipped. Stamens 2 ; anthers scarcely exserted, 1-oelled, 

 narrowly oblong, muticous, attached by the middle of the back. Style 

 minutely bifid. Capsule oblong, on a short solid stalk, 4-seeded. Seeds 

 muricate (Nees). 



Only differs from Hypoestes by the small bracts. 



C> Burmanni, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 511. Justicia nutans, Burm. 

 Fl. Ind. 10, t. 5, fig, 1. J. fulgida, Blume Bijd. 784. Beleropone? fulgida, 

 HassJc. Cat. Sort. Bogor. 161. 



Malacca; ifamja^. -t-Disteie. Java, Borneo, Hainan. 



Leaves 2^ by 1 in., acuminate, base cuneate or rouujjed ; petiole \ in., puberulons. 

 Cymes about 5-fld. ; bracts ^ in., linear; pedicels ^j in. <Se^aZ« J in., rusty pubescent. 

 Corolla IJ in., lobed ^J in. Stamens and pistil glabrous. 



XXXVIII. JUSTICIA, Zinn. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers sessile or nearly so, spiked or 

 panicled (rarely solitary), small or middle-sized; bracts large or small; 

 bracteoles narrow, or 0. Calyx 5- or 4-partite ; segments narrow. Corolla- 

 tube shorter, or scarcely longer, than the 2-lipped limb ; upper lip 2-lobed or 

 subentire, lower 3-lobed, lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, filaments often 

 dilated, hairy near the base; anthers 2- celled ; cells oblong or round, 

 usually more or less separate, lower always with a white basal appendage. 

 Ovary 4-ovulate ; style filiform, shortly bifid. Capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, 

 4-seeded from the base, or with a long solid cylindrio stalk 4-seeded at 

 the apex. Seeds^ ovoid, more or less compressed, tubercular, scaly or 

 gloohidiate-snbspinesoent (appearing hispid), never with fine elastic hairs 

 springing out when wetted.— Species 100, in the warm regions of both 

 hemispheres. 



