Hemigraphis.] CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 425 
Cat. 2383, letters A, B; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 83. Strobilanthes 
burmanica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 92. 
Prev; Wallich, Kurz.—DrtsTRIB. Ava. 
Similar to, but stouter than, H. latebrosa ; leaves less sharply toothed. Inner 
bracts of the heads 3-4 in., narrowly elliptic or oblong, overtopping the calyx. 
Corolla 3 in. and upwards; larger and broader than that of H. latebrosa. Stamens 
as in H. latebrosa, or (fide Nees) one anther-cell sometimes rudimentary.—The long 
inner bracts give this plant a different aspect from the Deccan H. latebrosa. Brac- 
teoles 0; Nees says lanceolate longer than the calyx, from which it is probable that 
he means by bracteole that which he has called bract in the diagnosis of the same 
species. Kurz’s Strobilanthes burmanica is more hairy than Wallich’s Pegu examples ; 
and it may be doubtful if several of the species here admitted are other than local 
varieties of H. latebrosa. : 
VAR. crenata ; viscid-pubescent, less softly white hairy, leaves crenate. Ruellia 
crenata, Benth.; Hohenack. in Flora 1849, 558. Malabar; Canara, Hohenacker, 
n. 737 ; Concan, Stocks; Belgaum, Ritchie; Bombay, Law; Bellary, Beddome. 
9. H. Griffithiana, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 463; leaves 
lanceolate remotely obscurely toothed glabrate, heads terminal shortly 
cylindric hairy, bracteoles much shorter than the calyx. Ruellia Griffithiana, 
Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 149. 
grov; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6091); Tenasserim, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 
n. 6187). 
Rovkstock perennial; stems several, 1 foot, erect, scarcely branched, slender, 
pubescent upwards. Leaves 2 by à in., sessile, attenuate to both ends, pubescent 
when young. Spikes 4-1 in., viscidly hairy; bracts 1-} in., elliptic, subobtuse ; 
bracteoles i in, narrow. Sepals } in. and upwards, linear-lanceolate, not very 
unequal. Corolla } in. and upwards, more ventricose than in others of this section, 
bearded in the palate within, Longer filaments densely bearded upwards with long 
White hairs, shorter glabrous. Capsule rather more than j in., usually 8-seeded. 
Seeds y, in., much compressed, discoid, densely elastically white-bairy when wetted. 
10. H. quadrifaria, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 463; hirsute, 
leaves ovate or elliptic acute, bracts large, corolla lj in. Ruellia quadri- 
faria, Wall. Cat. 7152; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 83, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 147. 
MOULMEIN ; Parish, n. 403. TENASSERIM ; Beddome, nn. 96, 97.—DISTRIB. 
va. 
Hirsute with white or yellowish hairs from tubercular bases. Branch stout, 
shrubby. Leaves 4} by 2} in, upper narrower, base obtusely rhomboid, crenate- 
Serrate ; petiole } in. Heads dense, terminal and peduncled on short axillary branches, 
hirsute; bracts 1 by 4-3 in. inner gradually smaller ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate 
rather shorter than the calyx. Sepals 4 in., narrowly lanceolate, bases subconnate. 
Corolla sparingly pubescent, more ventricose than in the other species of this section, 
“deep blue” (Parish). Filaments of the longer stamens densely shaggy with long 
white hairs to the apex; anthers all subequal, muticous. Style simple, hairy ; ovul e 
in each cell, Capsule } in., narrowly oblong, slightly hairy upwards, 8-12-seede 
nearly from the base. 
ll. H. glaucesc Clarke; leaves oblong narrowed to each end 
Scabrid pubescent on ihe "herves beneath, spikes dense strobilate, bracts 
9vate acute hirsute, bracteoles very small lanceolate. Strobilanthes glau- 
Cescens, Mees in Wall. Cat. 7155, and in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 85, and in 
DC. Prod», xi. 178; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 467. 
Prev and TEeNAssERIM ; Gri th, &c. . : 
4 shrub; branches scabrous. es 6 by 2 in., crenulate, lineolate, sparingly 
