Rungia.] cix. aoanthaoe^. (C. B. Clarke.) 547 



petioled ovate or broad-lanoeolate, spites ovoid or oblong dense often 

 clustered, bracts roundly obovate margined hairy, braoteoles obovate 

 margined, corolla ^ in. Wight Ic. t. 1548 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soe. 

 ix. 518 {except the Ceylon plant) i E. longifolia, T. Anders,, in Thwaites 

 Enum. 2S5, partim. 



Mts. of S. Deocan PEnrfrsirLA ; Wight, Gardner, &c. 



Stems herbaceous, hairy.. Leaves 2|'by IJ.inj, cuneate at both ends ;-petiole \ in. 

 Spikes 1 by i in. ; bracts obscurely 4-seriate (many " barren more or less unlike the 

 fertile), i by J in., obtuse rarely apiculate ; bracteoles similar to the bracts, but 

 smaller. Calyce ^in.; segments linear- lanceolate,..softly hairy. Anther-cells super- 

 posed, lower white-tailed.. Capsule J in., nearly glabrous.. Seeds small, minutely 

 glandular-verrucose, ultimately glabrous. — This is not allied to R. repens as Nees 

 supposed, but may be a var..of R. longifolia, as T..Anderson first supposed. 



5. R. longrifolia, Nees Sf Am. in DC. Prodi: sd. 471, excl. Philippine 

 example, mot of Bedd'ome; nearly glabrous, leaves linear-lanoeolate, spikes 

 shortly oblong, often clustered, bracts biform. fertile roundly obovate 

 marginate minutely pubescent, corolla ^, in. T. Anders. . in Journ. lAnn, 

 Soc. ix. 517, chiefly. 



, Cbtlon ; Walker, &c. 



Leaves 4 by J in. Mowerless hracfs in 2 rants on one side of the spike, ovate- 

 lanceolate, obscurely margined. Otherwise as S. latior, from which this typical form 

 of S. longifolia is easily separable : not so the 



Vab. latifoUa, Wight ms. ; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, barren bracts 

 few less distinctly 2-Fanked less unUke the fertile. B. latior, Nees tj" T'.' Anders, in 

 herb, partim. — Ceylon, numerous examples. S. Travancore; Beddome. — I follow 

 Wight (in preference to Nees and T. Anderson) ;in regarding all the Ceylbn forms as 

 one species, of which the S. Indian' is an allied species, or a variety.. T. Anderson 

 divided Thwaites n.. 89 between M. latior and R. longifdlia, depending upon the 

 breadth of the leaves alone. 



6. R. crenata, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. \k: 518 », Jfeaves petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate sparsely hairy, spikes short dense 1-sided, bracts markedly 

 biform barren oblong acute mucronate fertile orbicular marginate, corolla 

 \ in. Eungia sp. n. 9, Serb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



W. Deocan Peninsula 5 Canara,,iaM; ; Concan, Stocks; Belgaum, Ritchie. 



Stem herbaceous, ramous, nearly glAbrous. Leames 2}, by 1 in., base shortly 

 acuminate, sparsely laxly hairy on both surfaces, finally scabrid lineolate glabrate ; 

 petiole J in. Spikes 1 by fin.,, terminal, or sessile quasi-axillary clustered ; flowerless 

 bracts in 2 regular series on one side the spike, i by tJj in., green, striate, not or very 

 narrowly margined; flowering bracts ^in. diam., somewhat hairy ; bracteoles ^ in., 

 obovate, scarious-margined. Gaiyx ^ in. ; segments liinear-lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Capsule scarcely \ in., pubescent-^AlUed to .S,_part'j^o»'a,i*rees, but with much longer 

 flowerless bracts. 



7. S. stolonlfera, Clarke ; leaves petioled ovate minutely scabrid- 

 pubescent, bracts ovate minutely hairy, calyx glabrous, corolla tubular 

 ^ in., anther-cells white-tailed. Dicliptera sp.. n. 14, Herh. Ind. Or. 

 K.f. 4" T. Justicia sp. (Sect. Eostellularia), Bentk. ms. in Herb. Kew. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 2-5000 ft. ; B.f. Sc 2"., &c. 



Stems 18 in., procumbent, rooting, branched ; many small-leaved barren branches 

 from the lower nodes. Leaves 1-3 by |,-li in., cuneate at both ends, undulate some- 

 times sinuate, with few minute scattered hairs on both surfaces; petiole \ in. Spikes 

 i-lj in., terminal and quasi-axillary, imperfectly 2-4-farious ; bracts i by J in., sulj- 

 obtuse, scarious-margined ; bracteoles oblong, nearly as long as the bracts. Calyx 

 ^ in., deeply 5-partite; segments narrowly lanceolate, scarious. Corolla-tube ^ by 



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