《中国植物志》|| 爵床科 ACANTHACEAE ||穿心莲属 Andrographis Wall. ex Nees ||穿心莲 Andrographis paniculata (Burm.f.) Nees

2.穿心莲（中国高等植物图鉴）一见喜（思茅），印度草，榄核莲 图版32: 1-5
Andrographis paniculata (Burm. f.) Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Ras. 3: 116. 1832; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9: 502. 1867. C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Ind. 4: 501. 1884; R. Ben. in Lec. , Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 4: 698. 1935; Bremek. in Dansk Bot. Ark. 20 Nr. 1: 75. 1961;海南植物志3: 556-557. 1974;中国高等植物图鉴4: 166. 1975;云南植物名录(下册): 1669. 1984. ——Justicia paniculata Burm. f. Fl. Ind. 9: 1763.
一年生草本。茎高50-80厘米，4棱，下部多分枝，节膨大。叶卵状矩圆形至矩圆状披针形，长4-8厘米，宽1-2.5厘米，顶端略钝。花序轴上叶较小，总状花序顶生和腋生，集成大型圆锥花序；苞片和小苞片微小，长约1毫米；花萼裂片三角状披针形，长约3毫米，有腺毛和微毛；花冠白色而小，下唇带紫色班纹，长约12毫米，外有腺毛和短柔毛，2唇形，上唇微2裂，下唇3深裂，花冠筒与唇瓣等长；雄蕊2，花药2室，一室基部和花丝一侧有柔毛。蒴果扁，中有一沟，长约10毫米，疏生腺毛；种子12粒，四方形，有皱纹。
我国福建、广东、海南、广西、云南常见栽培，江苏、陕西亦有引种；原产地可能在南亚。澳大利亚也有栽培。
茎、叶极苦，有清热解毒之效。

《云南植物志》|| 爵床科 Acanthaceae ||穿心莲属 Andrographis Wall. ex Nees ||穿心莲 Andrographis paniculata (Burn. f.) Nees in Wall.

2.穿心莲（图鉴）图版212: 1-6
一见喜（思茅），印度草，榄核莲
Andrographis paniculata (Burn. f.) Nees in Wall. (1832); T. Anders. (1867); C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. (1884); R. Ben. in Lecomte (1935); Bremek. (1961); 海南植物志 (1974); 图鉴 (1975); 云南种子植物名录 (1984); 中国植物志 (2002)*.
Justicia paniculata Burm. f. (1763).
一年生草本。茎高50-80厘米，四棱，下部多分枝，节膨大。叶片卵状长圆形至长圆状披针形，长4-8厘米，宽1-2.5厘米，先端略钝，花序轴上叶较小。总状花序顶生和腋生，集成大型圆锥花序；苞片和小苞片微小，长约1毫米；花萼裂片三角状披针形，长约3毫米，有腺毛和微毛；花冠白色而小，下唇带紫色斑纹，长约12毫米，外有腺毛和短柔毛，2唇形，上唇微2裂，下唇3深裂，花冠筒与唇瓣等长；雄蕊2，花药2室，一室基部和花丝一侧有柔毛。蒴果扁，中有一沟，长约10毫米，疏生腺毛；种子12粒，四方形，有皱纹。
云南及福建、广东、海南、广西、常见栽培。江苏，陕西也有引种；原产地可能在南亚。澳大利亚亦有栽培。
茎叶极苦，入药，清热解毒。

《Flora of China》|| Acanthaceae || Andrographis ||穿心莲 Andrographis paniculata

1. Andrographis paniculata (N. L. Burman) Wallich ex Nees in Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 116. 1832.

穿心莲 chuan xin lian

Justicia paniculata N. L. Burman, Fl. Indica, 9. 1768.

Herbs to 50 cm tall, annual, much branched. Stems 4-angled, glabrous. Petiole 0.3-1 cm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 1.5-7 × 1-2.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, abaxially pale green, adaxially green, secondary veins 3-5 on each side of midvein, base attenuate and decurrent onto petiole, margin entire, apex acute to shortly acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, leafy panicles of secund racemes; rachis glabrous to sparsely pubescent; bracts triangular to subulate, 1-1.5 mm; bracteoles linear to subulate, 1-1.5 mm. Pedicel 2-9 mm, sparsely pubescent with gland-tipped and non-glandular trichomes (gland-tipped pubescent). Calyx 2.5-3 mm, outside glabrous or gland-tipped pubescent, lobes subulate. Corolla white, 0.9-1.5 cm, outside gland-tipped pubescent; tube basally funnelform for 4-8 mm; lower lip with purple dots, 5-7 mm, erect, lobes ca. 3 mm; upper lip 5-7 mm, reflexed, 2-lobed, lobes ca. 1 mm. Stamens exserted from corolla tube. Style 6-10 mm, sparsely pilose toward base. Capsule ellipsoid-compressed, 1.5-2 × 0.3-0.4 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with gland-tipped trichomes, ca. 12-seeded. Seeds ca. 2 × 1.5 mm, rugose. Fl. and fr. throughout year. 2n = 50.

Cultivated or naturalized in Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Yunnan, and Zhejiang [native to India and Sri Lanka; cultivated or naturalized in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Caribbean].

This species is used medicinally.