Justicia .] 
XCIII. ACANTHACE.E. 
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Bracts about 3 lines long, lanceolate, with a few setae on the margins 
and midrib . 2. J. notha. 
Flowers in axillary sessile clusters surrounded by a few broad obcordate 
bracts \ . . 3. •/. hijgropliiloides. 
Flowers in pairs on axillary simple or forked peduncles. Bracts 
setaceous 4. J. cavernarum. 
Flowers in a terminal dichotomous panicle 5. J. eranthemoid.es. 
1. J. procumbens (habit of plant), Linn. ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
ix. 511, Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 549. A procumbent, prostrate or rarely erect 
annual, often extending to above 1 or 2 ft. 'when trailing, shorter when erect. 
Leaves usually oblong lanceolate or almost linear, the lower ones small and more 
ovate, sometimes all ovate from \ to 1 in. long or all narrow and then sometimes 
nearly 2in. long ; as well as the whole plant pubescent hirsute or nearly glabrous. 
Flowers pink or white, solitary under each bract, in terminal rather dense spikes 
of f to above 1 in., with often 1 or two pairs of flowers at some distance below. 
Bracts linear-lanceolate or linear, acute, hirsute and ciliate, as long as the calyx ; 
bracteoles rather smaller ; calyx-segments 4 with occasionally a small fifth one, 
linear, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Corolla-tube nearly as long as the calyx; 
upper lip short, erect ; lower one broad, spreading, nearly as long as the tube. 
Lower anther-cell spurred and often empty. Capsule 3 to 4 lines long, the seed- 
less base short. — Rostellaria (or Rostellularin ) procumbens, Nees in Wall. PI. As. 
Ear., and in DC Prod. ix. 371 ; Wight, Ic. t. 1539 ; Justicia juncca, J. media, 
and J. abscemlens, E. Br. Prod. 47G ; liostellularia media and R. juncea, Nees in 
DC Prod. ix. 374, 37G ; R. pogonantliera, F. v. M. in Linmea, xxv. 431 ; besides 
the numerous synonyms adduced by T. Anderson, l.c. 
Hah.: Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; Thirsty 
Sound, Broadsound. Keppel Bay, etc., R. Brown , and from very numerous stations both on the 
coast and in the interior by most of the subsequent collectors. 
Var. peploides, (Water Purslane-like). Leaves ovate oblong or broadjy lanceolate, on longer 
petioles than in the type, and not so much contracted at the base, usually pubescent. Spikes 
cylindrical, compact, f to 1£ in. long, very rarely interrupted at the base. Flowers white or 
pinkish. Bracts and bracteoles obtuse, bordered by a broad white margin. Calyx-segments 
also somewhat membranous of the margin, but acute. — J. peploides, T. Anders in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ix. 511 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 550 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 537, records this 
plant as a form of T. quinqueangularis, Keen.; Rostellaria peploides, Nees. 
Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, a common plant of the colony, also in E. India. 
2. J. notha (spurious), C. B. Clarke in Hook, in FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 537. Stems 
simple or with a few erect branches from the base, about 1ft. high, glabrous, 
almost terete, more or less marked with 4 or more lines or angles, often much 
contracted at the nodes below the leaves in the dried specimens. Leaves about 
\\ in. long, sessile, oblong, obtuse or acuminate at the apex, sub-obtuse and 
sometimes more or less auriculate at the base, coriaceous, irregularly transversely 
lineolate, glabrate above, when young bearing white set* on the nerves beneath. 
Spikes about 2 in. long, terminal, solitary, and dense. Bracts about 3 lines long, 
lanceolate (elliptic, Clarke), usually erect, with a few setae on the margins and 
midrib, especially towards the end, otherwise glabrous. Flowers hairy, corolla 
white with purplish lines inside. Capsule, (24- lines, Clarke), none on the Queens- 
land specimens to hand. Rostellularia simplex, Wight Ic. t 1512 (not of D. Don.) 
— Clarke, l.c. ; Bail, in Ql. Agri. Journ. iv. 464. 
Hab.: Herberton, R. C. Burton; Irvinebank, F. Bennet. Evidently indigenous in Queensland. 
Habitats according to Hooker l.c. doubtful. 
3. J. hygrophiloides (Hygrophila-like), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 89 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iv. 550. An erect densely-branched shrub, glabrous or minutely pubescent. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, 1 to 
1^ or rarely 2in. long. Flowers white or said to be sometimes yellow, in 
axillary clusters of 2 to 6, surrounded by 3 or 4 very broadly obcordate or 2-lobed 
