532 cix. ACANTHACBiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Justicia. 



Normal capsule J-^ in., ellipsoid, acute at each end, hardly stalked, pubescent, 

 4-seedcd. Seeds papillose, subhispid ; abnormal 1-celled, 1-seeded capsules occur 

 1 in., ellipsoid with 3-6 vertical crested wings, with seed ovoid, larger than in the 

 normal, nearly smooth, on a nearly basal retinaculum. — The examples collected far 

 apart show the heterocarpous capsules to be characteristic, not monstrous. The 

 species is not nearly allied to any other; but as the inflorescence is axillary and the 

 calyx 5-merous, it has been moved here so as to fortify the characters of the 

 Section Mostellaria. 



Sect. 4. Crendarussa. Spikes terminal and on short lateral branches 

 (in /. Sookeriana axillary), interrupted ; terminal often large, paniculate ; 

 iiracts mostly narrow, lower rarely imbricate. CaJya; sub-6-partite. Flowers 

 small or middle-sized. Seeds (where known) verrucose or tubercular, 

 glabrous, not glochidiate nor hispid. 



27. J. Gendarussa, Linn. f. Suppl. 85 ; leaves short-petioled lanceo- 

 late glabrous, spikes puberulous or glabrous, bracts linear shorter than the 

 caly?, coroUa ^ in. Jacq. Eel. t. 11; Burm. Fl. Ind. 10; Roxb. Fl. Ind i. 

 128; Blume Bijd. 785; Wall. Oat. 2442 ; Bot. Reg. t. 635 ; Blanco Fl. Fil. 

 14 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Sitppl. 71 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 513 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 247. G-endarussa vulgaris, Nees in Wall. PI. As. 

 Bar. iii. 104, and in L>C. Prodr. xi. 410 ; Wight Ic. t. 468 ; Dscne. in Nouv. 

 Ann. Mus. d'Bist. Nat. iii. 382. — Rumph. Serb. Amb. iv. t. 28. Rheede 

 Sort. Mai. ix. t. 42. 



Throughout India, from Bengal to Ceylon and Malacca, often an escape from 

 cultivation. — Disteib. Malaya and China to the Philippines (? wild). 



Stems 2-4 ft., erect. Leaves 4 by | in. ; petiole J in. Spikes 2-5 by | in., ter- 

 minal often forming a panicle; flowers clustered, lower clusters usually distant; 

 bracts \ in. Sepals ^ in. Corolla nearly glabrous, white or rose with purple spots. 

 Lower anther-cell distinctly tailed. Capsule J in., elavate, glabrous, 4-seeded. — No 

 capsule has been seen except on an example of Wight's ; and that does not suffice for 

 a description of the seed. This commonly cultivated plant is considered by Nees and 

 T. Anderson wild in various parts of -India, but the rarity of the seeds renders this 

 doubtful. Col. Beddome says " wild on Mooleyit in Tenasserim." 



28. J. Kookeriana, T. Anders, in Thwaites Fnum. 233, and in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 518 ; leaves short petioled lanceolate glabrous, spikes simple 

 or compound all axillary lax nearly glabrous, bracts linear or liaear-spathu- 

 late mostly shorter than the calyx, corolla ^§ in. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 

 t. 268. Adhatoda fiookeriana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 403. Leptostaohya 

 zeylanica, Nees I. v. 379. 



Cetion ; Macrae, Walleer, &c. 



An undershrub, less erect, more branched than J. Qendarussa. Leaves as of J. 

 Qendarussa. SpiJces 2-7 in., simple or paniculate ; flowers distant, solitary or oppo- 

 site ; bracts \ in., linear, rarely spathulate ; bracteoles ^ in., linear, or 0. Mowers 

 nearly as of J. Qendarussa. Capsule J in., elavate, 4-seeded, Seeds verrucose, 

 glabrous. — Beddome figures the inflorescence terminal, but in the examples the upper- 

 most axils are sterile, many lower axils with spikes. 



29. J. decussata, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 4, and Fl. Ind. ed. Oarey &f 

 Wall. i. 128 ; leaves ovate or obovate pubescent or glabrate, panicle ter- 

 minal large divaricate pubescent, flowers in distant clusters, coroUa |-^ in. 

 pubescent. Wall. Cat. 2476; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 615. 

 Gendarussa decussata, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 104. Adhatoda 

 decussata, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 408. 



Peo-u and Ten asseeim, frequent ; Wallieh, Griffith, &c. 



