Dianthera.'] oix. acanthacea (C. B. Clarke,) ' 543 



minute subulate glabrous. Justicia Griffithii, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ix. 516. 



MisHMEE Hills j Griffith (fide T. Anderson). 



A glabrous herb ; stem terete, base woody, upwards herbaceous tetragonons. 

 Leaves 4-10 by 2-4 in.; base decurrent. Panicles with elongate, ascending 

 branches j flowers remote, opposite, solitary, sessile. Sepals 5, linear. Corolla ^. in., 

 tube ventricose ; limb 5-paftite, green, lower lip spotted red. Ovary 4-ovulate. 

 Capsule a little longer than the corolla, subclavate at the tip, acute (T. Anderson). — 

 Not seen. 



** Flowers \ in. or more, many distinctly pedicelled. 



5. D. colllna, Clarke ; leaves ovate nearly glabrous, panicles terminal 

 and axillary, anther-cells niuticous distant superposed. Justicia collina, 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 515. 



SiKKiM and Bhotan, alt. 5-7000 ft. ; Griffith, S.f. 8( T., &o. Khasia Mis., 

 alt. 4000 ft.; Griffith. 



A diffuse herb, 1-2 ft., branches pnbernlons. Leaves 3 by IJ in., acute, base 

 cuneate or of the upper leaves almost rounded ; petiole 1 in., or of the upper leaves 

 sometimes 0. Cymes few-fld., running into an elongate terminal panicle by the 

 gradual reduction of the leaves into bracts ; proper bract hardly ^J, in., linear ; pedicels 

 0-i in. ; bracteoles minute or 0. Sepals \ in., linear, green, glabrous. Corolla | in., 

 white, nearly glabrous; tube elongate cylindric. Capsule \ in., clavate, glabrous, 

 4-seeded. Seeds verrucose-scaly, obscurely hispidulous. 



6. D. dichotoma, Clarice ; leaves ovate acute nearly glabrous, 

 panicles terminal minutely pubescent, anther-cells muticous one superposed 

 for half its length. Justicia diohotoma, Blume Bijd. 783; T. Anders, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 516. Bhaphidospora dichotoma, Nees in DC. Frodr. 

 xi. 500. Leptostachya dichotoma, Nees I. c. 379. Peristrophe dichotoma, 

 Eassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 152. 



Ceylon (fide T. Anderson). — Disteib. Java, Philippines. 



Much resembling D. collina, the corolla rather more ventricose and rose-purple. — 

 There is no Ceylon example of this at Kew. We may suppose that T. Anderson had 

 seen such at Calcutta; C. P. 2718, which he quotes, is certainly not this plant. 



nOUBTFTTL SPECIES. 



D. ? INDICA ; leaves scarcely 1 in. rhomboid-ovate acute hairy, flowers congested 

 into axillary and terminal decompound globose or oblong spikes, spikelets by suppres- 

 sion mostly 1-fld. supported by a lanceolate often empty bract. Rhytiglossa ? indica, 

 Wavora in Oestr. Boi. Zeit. 1881, 281,' and Bot. Ueis. Br. S. Cob. 82, t. 9, fig. A. 



Gaev? HAL ; at Mussoorie, alt. 4000 ft., Wamra. 



An undershrub ; branches prostrate, variously twisted and incurved. Uppermost 

 Iraet sterile, with the fertile valvately enclosing the single flower of the spikelet; 

 bracteoles linear-setaceous, similar to the calyx- segments. Corolla ringent, rose, 

 hairy ; tube as long as the calyx ; lips as long as the tube, upper ovate, emarginate ; 

 lower, longer, cuneately 3-lobed. Filaments flattened ; anther -cells superposed, ovate, 

 muticous. Style capillary, elongate after flowering, bifid. Ovary 4-ovulate. — Not 

 seen. I know of no woody prostrate Acanthaceous plant at Mussoorie, and do not 

 understand the bracts as described. 



XLII. FTYSSXCXi'OTTZS, T. Anders. 



A small, procumbent herb. Leaves ovate, entire. Spikes peduncled, 

 few-fld.; bracts and bracteoles linear. Calyx sub-5-partite ; segments 



