80 On some netv or imperfectly known Indian plants. [No. 2, 



calycis longitudine, lobis lanceolatis acutis, superioribus breviori- 

 bus, intus fauce et ad filamentorum insertionem tombacino-villo- 

 sula ; capsulaa lignosse, lis Ph. thyrsiflorce siniillimse, pollicares, 

 circa 10-sperma. — Pegu (Dr. Brandis.) 



76. Justicia flaceida, Kurz. — Planta annua, erecta, glabra, 1-2 

 ped. alta, simplex v. parce ramosa ; folia cuneato-oblonga v. 

 cuneato-elliptico-oblonga, sessilia cum basi rotundata auriculata, 

 acuminata, integra, flaceida, membranacea, lutescente viridia, 7-10 

 poll, longa, utrinque minute lineolata ; flores sessiles v. subsessiles, 

 interrupte spicati, paniculam puberulam terminalem basi foliolis 2 

 breviter petiolatis lanceolatis parvis supportam formantes ; bractea3 

 bracteolseque minutye, lineari-subulatre, glanduloso-puberulsG ; 

 calycis segmenta linearia, obsolete albido-marginata, minute 

 adpresse pubescentia, circ. f-1 lin. longa; corolla pailide lutea v. 

 testacea, circ. semipollicaris, extus parce puberula, tubo gracili ; 

 labium superius oblongum, subintegrum ; inferius brevius, 3-lobum ; 

 antherarum loculi inferiores basi curvato-corniculati ; capsula3 circ. 

 semipollicares v. paulo longiores, parte sterili compressa quam fertilis 

 oblonga acuta paulo longiore v. sequilonga, 4-sperma3, dum imma- 

 turro parce glanduloso-pubescentes. — Pegu (Dr. Brandis). 



Resembling J. vasctilosa, but at once distinguished from it by the 

 sessile leaves, &c. 



SELAGINE2E. 



77. Gymnandra spectabilis. n. sp. Herba 1-2 pedalis 



glaberrima, caulibus crassis teretibus apicem versus foliatis ; folia 

 radicalia non vidi ; caulina obovato-oblonga, obtusa v. obtusiuscula, 

 sessilia v. basi attenuata semiamplexicaulia, crassa, glaberrima, 

 nervis venisque subindistinctis, spicae elongatae, term in ales, dense 

 bracteatae ; bracteas obovataB, sessiles, deorsum majores et grada- 

 tim foliacese, acutatse, dentata3; tlores sessiles, bracteolis paullo 

 longiores v. subsequilongi. — Rare in shady rocky ravines on the 

 Phalloot, at about 13000 ft. elevation in Sikkim Himalaya. Evi- 

 dently allied to 67. borealis, Pall., but this differs by the shape of 

 the corollas, which are more than double the length of the 

 bracteoles. 



78. Gymnandra globosa, n. sp. 9 Pi. VII, Fig. 1. Herb^. 



