530 cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Justicia. 



distinct from the next. T- Anderson r^ards the presence of scattered solitary 

 flowers in the lower axils as of specific importance, and has deviated from the resnlts 

 of the older botanists accordingly. 



18. J. tranquebariensis, Zinn. f. Suppl. 85 ; very woody, leaves 

 ^— 5 in. orbicular or obovate pnbemloiis or, pubescent, bracts ovate or 

 orbicular puberulous or pubescent, corolla 5 in. Wall. Cat. 2462 ; T. Anders. 

 in Joum. Linn. Soc. ix. h\i, partly. Gendamssa tranquebariensis, Nees in 

 Wall. PL As. Bar. iii. 105; Wight III. t. 104 b, fig. 8, aud Jc. t. 462. 

 Adhatoda tranquebariensis, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 399. 



S. Madbas and Cbtlon, especially on hot dry low hills, frequent ; Wight, &c. 



A low, intricate undershrub ; nodes very short. Inflorescence, corolla, capsnle 

 and seeds as of J. glanea. — Wight's figure represents a more difiuse plant with leave 

 considerably larger than in any of the specimens ; it is a form intermediate between 

 J. glauea & tranquebariensis as here understood ; Col. Beddome believes these two not 

 specifically distinct. 



19. J. salsoloideSj T. Anders, in Joum. lAnn. Soc. is. 514 ; branches 

 softly white-hairy, leaves small spathnlate or oblong subglabrous, bracts 

 elliptic or oblong, corolla ^— j in. densely white-hairy. 



Cabnatic and Mtsobe ; Wight, G. Thomson. 



A rigid, much-branched, small undershrub ; branches densely shortly hairy. 

 Leaves sessile, |—^ in., obtuse. Spikes terminal, few-fld., with scattered solitary, often 

 ebracteate flowers in the axils below; bracts i by ^ in.; bracteoles similar, smaller, or 

 often 0. Sepals ^ in., linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Lower anther-cell tailed. 

 Capsule J in., clavate, densely pubescent (T. Anderson). — Easily separated from J. 

 trinervis (and its Tar. arenaria) by the white-furred branches and narrower non- 

 margiuate bracts. 



Sect. 3. Caloplianoides. Flowers axillary, solitary clustered or in 

 dense cymes, without a terminal spike or panicle. Calyx sub-5-partite. 

 Corolla small. Seeds subtubercnlar or verrucose, not hispid. 



* Bracts obovate or spathulate (all perhaps var. of one). 



20. J. quadrifaria, Wall. Cat. 2479 ; leaves shortly petioled elliptic 

 acute at both ends puberulous on the nerves beneath, flowers in close 

 axillary clusters, corolla 5— y in. T. Anders, in Joum. Linn. Soc. ix. 514, 

 partly. Gendarussa quadrifaria. Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ui. 105. 

 Adhatoda quadrifaria, Nees in DC. Prcdr. xi. 396. 



K H ASIA and Jaintea Mts., alt. 3000 ft. ; Wallich, kc. Assam; Gri^/A (Kew 

 Distrib. n. 6188).— Distkib. S. China. 



Branches 2 ft., little divided, rusty-pubescent. Leaves Sk by IJ in., drying black, 

 not or obscurely lineolate ; petiole J in. Flowers 1-5-nate ; bracts ^ in., spathulate, 

 orbicular or euiarginate, very rusty -pubescent ; bracteoles similar, smaller, or 0. 

 Sepals \ in. and upwards, linear-lanceolate, lineolate, puberulous. Corolla hairy, 

 white rose-spotted. Lower anlher-cell white-tailed. Capsule ^ in., minutely pubes- 

 cent, 4-seeded ; solid pedicel very short. Seeds tubercular, verrucose, glabrous. 



21. J. Zolling'eriana, Clarke ; leaves shortly petioled oblong acu- 

 minate at both ends nearly glabrous, flowers in close axillary clusters, 

 corolla 5-4 in. J. quadrifaria, T. Anders, in Joum. Linn. Soc. ix. 514, 

 partly. Adhatoda Zollingeriana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 396. 



Teu ASSEBiM ; Seddorne. — Distetb. .lava. 



Besembling J. quadrifaria, but much more glabrous. Branches minutely pnbes- 



