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undulate, base narrowed, reticulated with pink ; petiole \ inch ; spike 

 solitary, sessile, 4 inches long, many-flowered ; bracts \ inch long, 

 imbricate, lanceolate, green, hard and coriaceous, pungent pointed ; 

 flowers pale lilac ; corolla tube slender, incurved, f inch long, lobes 

 ^ inch, obovate. A very beautiful pot plant, the leaves beautifully 

 reticulated with pink lines like a Fittonia. 



mucronata, Lindau (fig. "Bot. Jahrb." xx. (1894), 35, t. 35).— Tro- 

 pical West Africa. Leaves oblong-lanceolate ; inflorescence densely 

 spicate, long-peduncled ; bracts § inch long, obovate, narrow at 

 the base, mucronate at the rounded apex, 5-nerved, lower segment 

 of calyx bifid. Scarcely of more than botanical interest. 



undulaefolia, Salisb., "Par. Lond." t. 12; (fig. "Bot. Mag." 

 t. 2186). — South India, where it is much cultivated, particularly 

 about temples. Spikes linear, axillary, about 4 inches long, densely 

 bracteated ; bracts about ^ inch long, elliptic, acute ; flowers 

 large, sessile, showy, orange-coloured, tube about 1 inch long, 

 linear-incurved, limb all on one side, 5-lobed. In Ceylon there 

 is a yellow-flowering variety which I have not seen in cultivation. 

 A most useful and showy pot plant for the stove, flowering most 

 freely ; it should be propagated annually from cuttings after 

 flowering, the old plants being thrown away ; if pieces of the 

 stem are inserted in the propagating frame they send off side 

 shoots which will root readily and form nice plants. 

 Cystacanthus 



turgidus, Nichols., "Diet. Gard." i. 428 ; (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 6043). 

 Cochin China. Syn. Meninia turgida. Leaves opposite, elliptic, 

 4-7 inches long, glabrous ; flowers panicled, showy, white, 

 reticulated with pink lines, throat yellow. A pretty pot plant. 

 Daedalacanthus 



macrophyllus, Wall., "Cat.." 7179; (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 6686).— 

 Burma. Spikes long, linear, erect, subinterrupted ; bracts elliptic, 

 imbricated ; corolla 1J inch long, very pale blue ; limb J inch in 

 diameter. Common in many stoves ; very inferior to nervosus. 



nePVOSUS, Vahl, "En." i. 164 ; (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 1358).— India. 

 Spikes short, 1-3 inches long, subinterrupted, often ternate in 

 terminal panicles ; bracts \ inch, elliptic, concave, margins entire, 

 not ciliate, not much acuminate, imbricated ; calyx \ inch, 

 whitish ; corolla 1\ "inch, dark blue. A very useful winter- 

 flowering stove plant, very much grown. 



roseus, Vahl, "En." i. 165, asJusticia; (fig. "111. Hort." xxiii. 

 235). — South India mountains. Spikes linear, lax, 5-6 inches long 

 subinterrupted ; bracts obovate with a short recurved mucro, 

 glandular-pubescent, strongly nerved ; flowers 1-1J inches long, 

 rose-coloured. A very pretty species, rare in cultivation. 



Strictus, Roxb., "Fl. Ind." i. 114; (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 3068); 

 " Bot. Reg." t. 867. — North India. Spikes linear, interrupted, 

 forming a large, terminal panicle ; bracts narrow, elliptic, obtuse ; 

 corolla about 2 inches long, blue. 



Wattii, Bedd. in "Gard. Chron." (1901), 644.— North India. 

 Often met with under the name of parvus, a later name given by 



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