Perisirophe.'] cix. AOANTHAoEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 557 



Leaves 4i by 1| in. ; raphides obscure or 0; petiole (of the middle cauline leaves) 

 often exceeding 1 in. tracts J by i in., often obtusely acuminate. Corolla much 

 broader than in P. tinctoria. — Possibly the wild form of F. tinctoria. Nees, after 

 diagnosing his P. montana as having non-ciliate bracts, has thus named examples of 

 P.fera with intensely ciliate bracts. 



Vab. intermedia ; bracts more hairy, flowers smaller.— Chittagong, alt. 1000 ft. ; 

 S.f. f T. Pegu ; Eurz. Tenasserim ; Beddome.—This has been named P. jala/p- 

 ptBfolia, STees, but the corolla is much smaller than in the Malay examples of that 

 species. It is suspiciously intermediate between the P. acuminata var. fragilis and 

 P./eTO ; and both plants were collected by Beddome on the slopes of Mooleyit in 

 Tenasserim ; the corolla is the same size in both, and the only difference between 

 them is that in Var. intermedia the bracts are ^ in. broad and hairy, but in P. acumi- 

 nata var. fragilis \ in. broad and glabrous. 



XLIX. KVPOESTES, B. Br. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Fhwer-clusters spiked, 

 capitellate or rarely solitary ; bracts 2-4 together, free or united at base, 

 enclosing 1-4 flovj^ers, of which all but 1 are usually reduced or obsolete ; 

 bracteoles shorter than the bracts, narrow. Calya; -very small (or in ff. 

 lanata nearly equalling the bracteoles), deeply 5-lobed, scarions or mem- 

 branous ; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla pink purple or white (in the 

 Indian species) ; tube slender, limb 2-paTtite ; upper lip subentire, lower 

 very shortly 3-lobed. Stamens 2 ; anthers 1-celled, muticous. Ovary 

 4-celled ? ; style filiform, scarcely bifid at the tip. Cajpsv.le ellipsoid, 

 stalked, usually 4-seed-ed. Seeds ovoid, compressed, glabrqus, in the Indian 

 species verrucose. — Species 70, from Tropical and S. Africa, the Himalaya, 

 China and Australia. 



Hypoestes purpurea, ij. Pr., Nees in Wall. PI. As. Mar. iii. 114 (Justicia pur- 

 purea, Wall. Gat. 2473), is a Malay Archipelago plant, cultivated from long ago in 



1. H. lanata, Dak. in Hook, Kew Joum. ii. 343 ; leaves elliptic 

 acuminate entire nearly glabrous, spikes elongate interrupted softly hairy 

 axillary and running into large terminal panicles, bracts distinct linear, 

 corolla 1 in. DaU. Sf Gibs. Somb. Fl. 19/ ; T. Anders, in Joum. Linn. 

 Soe. ix. 522. 



CoNCAN Ghattts ; Law, Dalzell. 



An undershrub. Leaves 5 by Ij in., minutely lineolate on both surfaces ; petiole 

 I in., sometimes winged. Spikes 6 in. and upwards; flowers mostly in opposite dis- 

 tant clusters, each cluster consisting of 1-3 bracts xnd 1 (with 1 or 2 reduced) flower : 

 bracts J— | in., very hairy. Calyx \ in., hairy. Capsule nearly J in., stalked, pubes- 

 cent. Seeds verrucose. — Habit very remote from Jlypoestes, superficially resembling 

 Strohilanthes perfoliatus, but the corolla and stamens are typical Sypoestes. 



2. K. triflora, Soem. S{ Sch. Syst. i. 88 ; .leaves ovate somewhat hairy 

 on both surfaces, flower-clusters capitellate axillary and terminal, bracts 

 narrowly obovate subobtuse, corolla scarcely J in. Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 

 606 ; T. Anders, in Joum. Linn. Soe. ix. 622.. H. Wallichii, Wees in Wall. 

 PI. As. Rar. iii. 114. Justicia chinensis. Wall. Cat. 2466, letter E. 



Nepai ; Wallich ; Tambur River, alt. 1-3000 ft. , J. D. S. Sikkim and Bhotan, 

 alt. 4-7000 ft., Cla/rJce, Gh-iffUh. — Distbib. Abyssinia. 



Herbaceous, ramous. Leaves attaining SJ by 2 in., mostly much smaller, crenate 

 or denticulate, sparsely hairy above, pubescent beneath ; petiole 1\ in. Flower- 

 clusters 1-5 (often 3) together, subsessile ; bracts opposite, paired, flower in one of 

 each pair nearly always or much reduced ; bracteoles |-^ in., linear-lanceolate. 



