DicUptera.] oix. acanthaoea (C. B. Clarko.) 551 



larger than the calyx (except in D. parvibracieata) ; flowers sessile, oppo- 

 site, one of each pair usually reduced to a rudimentary calyx and bracteoles ; 

 feracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, as long as the calyx (except in D. 

 pa/rvibracteata). Calyx sub-5-partite ; segments eqaal, linear-lanceolate, 

 more or less pubescent. Corolla red or rose, purple-spotted, tube slender, 

 limb deeply 2-lipped ; upper lip entire or emarginate, lower 3-lobed recurved. 

 Stamens 2 ; anthers 2-oelled ; cells ovoid, superposed, muticous. Ovary 

 4-ovulate ; style filiform, shortly bifid. Capsule clavate, stalk solid ; pla- 

 centae rising elastically from their base. Seeds ovoid, compressed, glabrous, 

 verruoose or glandular subpapUlose. — Species 60, tropics of both Hemi- 

 spheres. 



Justicia chinensie, Yahl, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 124, Wall. Cat. 2466 (type sheet), 

 has been long cultivated at Calcutta, having been introduced from China or Malaya ; 

 it looks like an enlarged or garden form of D. Burmanni, noticed below under D. 

 Jjeonotis, Dalz. 



* Inflorescence panicled, i. e. eacTi pair of bracts mostly long-petioled. 



1. D. parvibracteata, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. Ill, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 488 ; leaves ovate acamiaate nearly glabrous, bracts -,'5 in. 

 linear. Justicia retorta, Vahl Enum. i. 150 P J. latebrosa, Koen. : Soxb 

 Fl. Ind. i. 136. 



Madeas ; Circars, Wight (Herb. Propr. n. 51 or 2014) ; Vizagapatam (Jaipoor 

 Hills), Seddome. 



Stem diffuse, striate, obscurely pubescent upwards. Leaves 5 by 2J in. (or all 

 except the lowest small, 1-2 in.), base shortly acuminate ; petiole 1 in. Panicle 6 in., 

 divaricate, lax, nearly glabrous ; floral leaves at the bifurcations ^-% in., linear-lan- 

 ceolate; bracteoles T^ in., linear. Caiyx -fg i'a., sub-5-partite ; segments linear-lan- 

 ceolate^ minutely pubescent. Corolla \ in,, slender, minutely pubescent. Capsule 

 J in., clavate, pubescent ; placentae rising elastically. — Justicia latebrosa, Eoen., has 

 never been satisfactorily recovered. The Ic. Ined. of this at Kew is D. parvibraoteata ■ 

 a separate imperfect drawing of a capsnle added in the corner perhaps not pertaining. 

 But Roxburgh's description does not suit in several points, of which " Flowers large " 

 is difficult to get over. A scrap in Wallich's Herbarium, marked in old handwriting 

 '\Justicia latebrosa, Roxb.," is DicUptera cuneata. 



2. D. Beddomei, Clarke ; leaves ovate acuminate minutely pubescent, 

 bracts ^ in. Unear-oblong suddenly mucronate ciliate. 



N. Madeas ; Nallaymallays (in Kurnool), Seddome. 



Stems diffuse, striate, glabrous except the tips. Leaves h\ by 3J in., pubescen 

 beneath or nearly glabrous, base acuminate; petiole 2 in. Panicle 6 in., lax 

 branches often patently white-hairy; floral leaves at the bifurcations gradualU 

 reduced, uppermost linear ; bracteoles ^ in. , linear-lanceolate. Corolla | in., miuutelj 

 pubescent. Capsule nearly ■J in., clavate, pubescent ; placentae rising elastically fron 

 the base. Seeds verrucose. 



3. D. Kurzil, Clarke; paitently white-hairy, leaves lanceolate, bracts 

 ^ in. linear-lanceolate hirsute glandular-hairy. D. speeiosa, Var. /3 only, 

 Smtz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. iii 97. 



Pe&f; Kwrz. 



Stem stout, striate, patently white-hairy. Leames 5 by 1^ in., acuminate at both 

 ends, thinly hairy on both surfaces j petiole Jin. Panicle 6-15 in., divaricate, lax, 

 patently white-hairy ; bracts and bracteoles with glandular hammer-headed hairs 

 and also white-hirsute. Corolla J-f in., slender, minutely hairy. Capsule J in., 

 clavate, pubescent, plaeentEe rising elastically. Seeds verrucose. — Placed doubtfully 

 as a var. of D,. speeiosa by Kurz ; the inflorescence is different, and the corolla is 

 considerably smaller. 



