CVI. ACANTHACEB. 
593 
Calophanoides.] 
one below the other, tailed. Capsule linear, solid portion very 
short. Seeds 4, verrucose-tubercled. Species 2 or more, Indo- 
Malayan. _ .. . Tjr ri „ 
(1) C. quadrifaria Ridl. Justicia quadnfana Wall . C at. 
2479; Clarke, l.c. 684. 
About 2 ft. tall or less. Leaves narrow-lanceolate or elliptic 
acuminate at both ends, 1-5 to 4 in. long, -2 to 1 in. wide, glabrous; 
petioles o to -35 in. long. Flowers white, spotted rose. Calyx- 
lobes pubescent, *25 in. long. Corolla *25 in. long. Capsule 
•25 in. long, solid pedicel very short. Hub. Stream banks, rocky 
and sandy spots, Singapore, Changi. Selangor, Batu Caves (Curtis). 
Perak, Ulu Temengoh; Kwala Kenering; Ulu Selama (Kunstler). 
Kelantan River near Kwala Lebir, etc., common. Distrib. India, 
Sumatra, China. 
Justicia Neesiana T. Anders., C. Neesiana Ridl. is a more condensed, 
narrower-leaved form. I have not seen it from our region. The specimens 
given for it by Clarke, l.c. 684, are not the same species as the type which 
was collected by Wallich at Amherst. Clarke’s J. Neesiana from Perak are 
only narrow-leaved dwarf plants of /. quadrifaria. The genus seems to me 
quite distinct from typical Justicias. 
25 . GENDARUSSA, Nees 
Shrubs with narrow leaves. Flowers pinkish white in a con¬ 
densed panicle, clustered. Bracts small. Sepals 5. Corolla-tube 
narrow. Stamens 2, one anther-cell a little below the other tailed. 
Capsule clavate, 4-seeded. Species 1. T 
(1) G. vulgaris Nees, Wall. PI. As. Par. 111. 104; Wight, Ic. 
t. 468. Justicia Gendarussa Linn. fil. Suppl. 85; Clarke , l.c. 680. 
Erect bush woody below, 2 to 4 ft. tall. Stems purple. Leaves 
lanceolate, glabrous, midrib purple, 4 to 5 in. long, -5 in. wide , 
petioles -25 in. long. Panicles 3 in. long. Calyx green, spotted 
purple, viscid pubescent. Corolla -5 in. long, tube greenish white 
tinted pink, lower lip spoon-shaped, white, spotted pink; anthers 
lemon yellow. Style pink. Capsule -5 in. long. Hab. Common 
in villages and near gardens over the whole peninsula, very rarely, it 
ever fruiting here. Distrib. All eastern Asia. Native name. Ganda 
rusa. Use : As a drug for rheumatism and to ward off demons. 
26 . JUSTICIA, Linn, {in part ) 
Herbs. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence a terminal spike. 
Bracts often large. Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla small, little 
longer than calyx, lower lip ribbed, yellow or white. Stamens 2, 
one anther below the other and tailed. Capsule 4-seeded, stalked 
with the seeds only in the upper part on elastic placentae. Species 
about 100, tropics. , 
Linne’s original genus was a mixture of several and L, " d ju s^n the 
Pflanzenreich even wider. I retain under it simply the set typified by 
J. Betonica Linn., and as a section Henicophylice, which might very well 
separated as a genus also. 
Fl.M.P.,2. 
