550 cix. ACANTHACB*. (C. B. Clarke.) \Bungia. 



Calyx I in.; iiegments linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Anther-oells superposed, lower 

 white-tailed. Capsule \ in., paberulous. Seeds small, minutely verrucose. 



16. R. parviflora, -Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 110, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 469, excl.. syny, leaves small ovate or lanceolate nearly glabrous, 

 bracts dimorphic barren elliptic or oblong subobtuse striate hardly margiaed, 

 fertile obovate glabrous scarions-margined ciliate, bracteoles eUiptio scarcely 

 acute, corolla I in. R. repens, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 518 

 'partly, not ofNees. R. longifoUa, BeAd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 266, not ofNees. 



S. Deccan Penikbttia; Wight (2011, 2285 Herb. Propr.'). Cetion; Thwaiies 

 (C.P^nn. 257, 3354). 



A smajl, ramous weed. "Lovier leaves 1 by J-| in., petioled, ovate, upper narrow 

 sometimes'linear. SpiJces ^ by | in., nearly all terminal, markedly 1-sided ; barren 

 bracts not cuspidate. Capsule \ in. ; seeds small, minutely verrucose. — This, the 

 typical 'Jl. parvyiora, Nees, appears a very rare plant ; Nees, however, referred 

 numerous specimens with the fertile bracts hairy all over to ..E. parviflora, but 

 which are .H. pectinata, Nees, as far as the description goes. 



Vae, pectinata ; flowerless bracts mucronate often cuspidate flowering hairy. R. 

 pectinata, JVees in DC. Prodr. xi. 470 ; Wight Ic. t. 1547 ; T. Anders, in Joitrn. 

 lAnn. Soc. ix. 517. R. parviflora, Nees I. c. partly; Griff. Notul. iv. 144; Dalz. 

 Sc Gibs. ■Somb. Fl. 195. R. polygonoides, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Mar. iii. 110, and 

 "Cat. 7181, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 471 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. M. 196. Justicia pectinata, 

 Linn. Ameen. Acad. iv. 299 ; Lamk. III. i. t. 12, fig. 3 ; Moxb. Corom. J'l. ii. 29, 

 t. 153, and Fl. Ind. u 133 ; Wall. Cat. 2458. J. parviflora, jRetz Obs. v. 9. J. 

 infracta, Vahl Emim. i. 155. — Throughout India, from the Hunalaya to Ceylon and 

 Pegu, a universal weed. — Usually ramous. Leaves | by i|^ in. ; , petiole^ in. Spihes 

 1 tiy J iu., terminal and axillary, clustered, subsessile, distinctly 1-sided ; barren 

 bracts ^ by -^ in., scarcely margined ; fertile ^ in. diam., orbicular, apiculate, scarious- 

 marginate, hairy on back as well as on margins ; bracteoles -j'j in., elliptic, subacute. 

 Calyx ^ in.; segments linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla blae or whiteish, upper 

 lip short. Anther-cells superposed, lower white-tailed. — The area of this abundant 

 plant shouldiperbaps be extended to Java, &c., but the examples thence (Dicliptera 

 coerulea, ^^MOTe £ijd. 791) differ considerably fr-om all the Indian materia), which is 

 very uniform in character, the size of the beads and bi-acts varying a'little. 



Vae. muralis ; spikes very dense, barren bracts ovate «,oute hardly longer "than 

 the fertile. R. muralis, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 470. — S. Deccan Peninsula; 

 Sohenacicer, n. IS, Sea. Chittagong; J. D. ■£[., &c. Distrib. Ava. — Spikes some- 

 times If by J in., densely strobiliform. 



Tab. origanoides ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, spikes dense narrow, barren bracts 

 orbicular scarious-margined very hairy on the back nearly as the fertile. R. ori- 

 ganoides. Wees in Wall. PI. As. Har. iii. 110, and Cat. 7182, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 471. — Pegu; Wallich. 



SPECIES not seen. 



E. Mastebsi, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 519 ; glabrous, leaves long- 

 petioled ovate, spikes terminal ternate or panicled lax, bracts remote alternate spathu- 

 late-linear obtuse, corolla small. 



Assam ; banks of E. Soonder, Masters. 



Herbaceous, larger than the other species of the genns. ieanes '(including petiole) 

 5-8 by li-2 in., minutely lineolate, pale beneath. Spihes 3-6 in^ more or less 

 secund, glabrous or pubescent ; bracts \ by 5', rn., mostly linear, obtuse, glabrous ; 

 bracteoles as the bracts or ovate acute glumaceous. Corolla j; in,, glabrous. Cap- 

 sule J in., sparsely puberulous or pubescent (T. Anderson). 



XL VII. DXCI.XPT£RA, J'«<««. 



Diffuse herbs. Leimes ovate, acute, entire or obscurely undulate. 

 Inflorescence cymose, clustered or panicled ; proper bracts opposite, unequal, 



