534 cix. ACANTHACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Jmficia. 



damssa vascnlosa, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 104. Adhatoda vascnlosa, 

 JS'ees in DC. Prodr, xi. 407. 



E. HiJtALiTA and Khasia Mts., alt. 2-5000 ft., common ; Wallich, S.f. cf T., 

 &c. 



Soofsiock perennial ; branches 8-20 in., glabrous except at the tip. leaves 5 by 

 2 in., pnncticalate above; petiole | in. SpiJces 1—4 in., axillary and tenninal, simple 

 or paniculate, pnbescent ; bracts oblong or linear, mostly shorter than the calyx, 

 pubescent ; bracteoles similar to the bracts, but smaller. Calyx sub-5-partite ; s^- 

 ments | in., lanceolate. Corolla pubescent, yellowish slightly pink-spotted; tube 

 cylindric ; upper lip hardly broader than one of the three lobes of the lower. Anther- 

 cells divaricate, lower with a minute white appendage at the base. Ovary glabrous ; 

 style pubescent in the lower part. Capsule not seen, the abundant specimens all 

 being in flower. — T. Anderson places this in Saphidotpora, and in the absence of the 

 seed it is impossible to prove he is wrong ; but in the Sect. Saphidospora, the flowers 

 are " laxly panicled/' as T. Anderson says. 



Tab. ? JParishii ; leaves glabrous, uppw lip of corolla ovate J in. broad lower 

 erect-patent. — Moulmein; Parish, n. 417. Tenasserim, Mooleyit; Seddome, u. 8S. 

 — This may be specifically distinct. 



Vae. Brandisii ; bracts (even in the upper part of the spikes) exceeding ^ in. 

 elliptic-acuminate. — Pegu ; Sitang, £randis. — Capsule J in., narrowly cylindric, 

 clavate, very hairy. Seeds roughly verrucose, glabrous, 



34. aT. andrograpliioides, Clarke ; leaves ovate acuminate glabrous 

 base rhomboid or rounded, flovrers solitary opposite, coroUa 5 in. both lips 

 erect-patent. 



TufASSEKiM ; Mooleyit, Seddome. 



Closely resembling J. vasculosa, both in leaves and inflorescence, bat the corolla 

 as of Androffraphis. Iieaves 3 by 1 in. Spikes (all seen) solitary, terminal, simple, 

 pubescent ; bracts small linear, or the lower ^ in., linear-spathulate. Lower anther- 

 cell with a microscopically small white spur, 



35. J. ptjrchostoma, Wall. Cat. 2478 ; leaves ovate acuminate at 

 both ends minutely pubescent on the nerves beneath, spikes axillary linear 

 dense nearly glabrous, bracts minute, coroUa J-^ in. T. Anders, in Jburn. 

 Linn. Soe. ix. 517 ? Qendamssa ? sumatrana, Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 832, 



PenanG; Wallich. — DiSTBIB. Sumatra. 



Wallich's imperfect example is perhaps the same as J. vasculosa var. Farishii 

 above. Branches slender, with long internodes, glabrous. Leaves 6 by 2J in., nearly 

 glabrous, closely lineolate above ; petiole IJ in. Spikes 3J by i in., those seen all 

 axillary, but tliere may have been also terminal spikes ; bracts"^ in., ovate or lanceo- 

 late; bracteoles j^ in., linear-lanceolate. Sepals | in.— J. ptychostoma, iVeei in Wall. 

 PL As. Mar. iii. 108 (Rhytiglossa ? ptychostoma, Nees in L>C. Prodr. xi. 337), is 

 founded on this Wallichian number, but the description of the bracts is so different 

 from the example that there must have been some confusion. 



26. t. lUaing'ayi, Clarke; leaves ovate-lanceolate or narrowly lanceo- 

 late minutely pubescent on both surfaces, flowers solitary mostly alternate, 

 corolla 5 in. 



PEXAifG; Mtungay (Kew Distrib. n. 1181). 



A smaU shrub (Maingay); branches elongate, slender, glabrous except at the tips. 

 Leaves 4 by J-1 in., very variable in breadth on the same branch, base cuneate ; 

 petiole 1 in. Spikes axillary and terminal, simple or divided, 2-3 in., slender, lax, 

 pubescent; lower flowers distant, mostly alternate; bracts J in., linear- lanceolate, 

 pubescent. Calyx and corolla nearly as of J. vasculosa, but upper corolla-lip ovate, 

 broader. Capsule i in., stalk solidifi"ed.— The line between the small Justicias of this 

 section and Dianthera is artificial, and the present species has quite the habit of 

 criers which have been removed by Bentham (in Herb. Kew) to Dianthera. It is 



