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CVI. ACANTHACEiE. 
f justicia. 
Bracts broad, subspathulate, green distinctly clawed, 
bract edged with stiff 
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(io) 
J. ptychostoma 
J. patulinervis 
J. rupestris 
J, Scortechinii 
J. pubiflora 
J. subcymosa 
J. selangorensis 
J, lsetevirens 
J. vegeta 
J. Robinsonii 
i. Spathulifer^e. 
longer than flowers. 
Flowers i to a bract; 
white hairs. 
Corolla glabrous . 
Corolla hairy outside 
Flowers i to a bract; bract not hairy on edge. 
Bracts orbicular . 
Bracts ovate 
Bracts obovate . 
Flowers 2 or 3 to a bract. 
Bracts medium clawed not ciliate 
Bracts large purple, not ciliate 
Bracts medium, not clawed ciliate 
Bracts large, oblong, green . 
Bracts ovate, green puberulous; shrubby plant 
ii. Lancibracteat^e. 
oblong. 
Bracts linear acute, *5 in. long 
Bracts '25 in. long. 
Spikes short, few-flowered 
Spikes long; flowers secund. 
Bracts and calyx glabrous . . (13) 
Bracts and calyx hairy . . . (14) 
iii. Brevibracteat^. Bracts much shorter than flowers; racemes dense. 
Weak herb; flowers not secund . . . (15) J. vasculosa 
Stout herbs; spikes secund or sub-secund, 2 to 
3 in. long. 
Bracts ovate as long as the calyx . . {16) 
Bracts narrow linear-lanceolate . . {17) 
Bracts lanceolate. 
Flowers yellow; fruit-6 in. long . . (18) J. uber 
Flowers cream pink spotted; fruit *4 in. 
long.(19) J. microcarpa 
Spike 8 to 10 in. tall; flowers whorled . . (20) J. valida 
Spikes elongate; flowers distant. 
Spikes shortly sparingly branched 
Panicle 1*5 in. long; branches few, *5 in. long; 
flowers ’6 in. long ..... 
Inflorescence panicled with long slender branches. 
Leaves herbaceous, 6 by 3 in. . . . (23) 
Leaves membranous ovate, 5 by 3 in. . . (24) 
Leaves sub-coriaceous, 5 by 2 in. or less . (25) 
iv. Henicophyll^e. Leaves distant alternate or with 
than the other. 
Glabro plants; leaves alternate. 
Slender plant, internodes long . 
Much-branched shrub.(27) J. subalternans 
Leaves hairy beneath . . . . . (28) J. alternifolia 
Leaves one much smaller than the other. 
Base round ...... (29) 
Base cuneate ...... (30) 
Bracts as long as the flowers, lanceolate, linear or 
(11) J. breviflos 
(12) J. bracteata 
J. secundiflora 
J. odontites 
J. pectinella 
J. Clarkeana 
(21) J. Maingayi 
(22) J. lancifolia 
J. sumatrana 
J. ovalis 
J. remotifolia 
one leaf smaller 
(26) J. henicophylla 
J. otophora 
J. inconspieua 
Clarke, 
(1) J. ptychostoma Nees, Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 108; 
l.e. 682. 
A weedy herb, nearly or quite glabrous, about 1 ft. tall, seldom 
more, branched. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, base 
cuneate, edges undulate, 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 2-25 in. wide, generally 
