556 oix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) {Peristrophe 



■Capsule I in., Tiecous-pabescent. — A strongly marked species ; the Moulmein plant 

 (P. grandifiora. Parish ms.) has the flowers hardly larger than in some examples 

 trom Silhet. 



5. P. speciosa, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 113, and in DC. 

 Frodr. xi. 495 ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or elliptic acute nearly glabrous, 

 floral leaves mostly large, bracts linear-oblong not acute nearly glabrous 

 many widened upwards, corolla If in. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 ix. 521. Justicia speciosa, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 122 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2722 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2464; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1915. 



SuBTEOPiCAL HiMAlAlA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan, frequent; 

 WaUich, &c. Silhet Station ; Clarice. 



Leaves 5 by 2 in., base rhomboid or acute ; petiole 1 in. Floral leaves often 

 1-2 in., so that the flower-clusters often appear terminal or axillary subcapitate rather 

 than panicled; bracts § by ^-g in., subobtuse, sometimes spathulate, tips often 

 recurved. Anther-cells linear-oblong, one superposed half its length. 



6. P. montana, Nees in ' Wall. Fl. As. Bar. iii. 113, and in DC. 

 Frodr. xi. 493, partly ; leaves elliptic acuminate at botb ends subglabrous, 

 bracts large elliptic glabrous nervose, corolla 2 J in. Wight Ic. t. 1553 ; T. 

 Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 521. Justicia sylvestris. Wall. Cat. 

 2468. 



W. Deocan Peninsula from the Concan southward, and Ceylon, frequent; 

 Wight, &c. 



Leaves 5i by If in., raphides very slender on both surfaces; petiole IJ in. 

 Bracts | by §-J in., obtuse or minutely apiculate, not acuminate. Filaments pubes- 

 cent ; anther-cells linear, one half its length below the other. — Described from Wight, 

 Herb. Propr. n. 2017, its type (named in Nees' hand) ; and includes all the S. Indian 

 examples of Nees and T. Anderson, not their Kbasi material. 



7. P. tinctoria, Nees in Wall. Fl. As. Ba/r. iii. 113, and in DC. Frodr. 

 xi. 493 ? ; dusky-puberulous, leaves sbort-petioled ovate subacute not large, 

 bracts elliptic subacute nervose not cUiate, corolla \\ in. slender. T. Anders, 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 521, partly. Justicia tinctoria, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 123; Wall. Cat. 2465. J. Eoxburghiana, Boem. Sc Sch. Syst. Mant. i. 

 140. 



India ; cultivated frequently from Assam to Cetlon. — Distbib. Malaya, S.E. 

 Asia ; where wild not known. 



Leaves 2-3 by l-lj in.; lower petioles rarely exceeding J in., dusky-puberulous. 

 Sracts f by ^ in., somewhat nervose, dusky-puberulous. Anther-cells linear, one 

 superposed for half its length. Capsule hardly i in., shortly stalked.— A well-marked 

 cultivated form, described from Roxburgh's and Wallich's specimens. Nees has 

 diagnosed his P. tinctoria so as expressly to exclude (by the ciliate bracts, &c.) all 

 the examples ; so that the name P. tinctoria, Nees, can only be understood to refer 

 to some of Nees' synonyms. The figure of Dianthera japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jwp. 

 21, t. 4, cited by Nees for this species, is a Bicliptera, and with it much of Nees' 

 synonymy falls to the ground. 



8. P. fera, Clarke ; leaves long-petioled ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 more or less pubescent, bracts eUiptio often elongate nervose ciliate often 

 hairy, corolla If in. P. montaua, Var. j3 sylvestris, Nees in DG. Frodr. 

 xi. 493 (as to the N. Indian examples). P. tinctoria, Nees I. c. as to descr. 

 only ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 521, chiefly. Justicia acuminata, 

 Wall. Cat 2425, left example on type sheet. — Peristrophe sp., Crriff". Bin, 

 Notes, 36, n. 596. 



Easteen Fbontiee Bhotan, Oriffiih. AasAM and Khasia Mts., alt. 1-4000 ft., 

 common, S.f. S( T., &o. 



