426 CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke) = [Hemigraphis. 
setulose above, more pubescent beneath; nerves 9-10 pair; petiole 3 in. Spikes 
1-3 in., ovoid or cylindric, very shortly peduncled, solitary; bracts $ in., green, per- 
sistent; bracteoles 1-1 in. Sepals 4 in., linear-lanceolate, hairy. Corolla 1 in. 
(purple ?) straight, subsymmetric, upper half narrowly ventricose. Longer filaments 
densely bearded with long white hairs turned to one side. Ovary glandular-hirsute 
upwards; style sparsely hairy. Capsule 4 in., pubescent, 6-seeded. Seeds yz M., 
compressed, orbicular, when wet the tine white hairs spring out abundantly on all 
sides; areoles 0.—Habit and fruit-spikes so exactly those of a typical Strobilanthes 
that neither Nees nor T. Anderson appear to have tried the ovules ; they are always 
6, and the capsule has 6 seeds on 6 retinacula. 
Sect. 3. Corolla large, tubular, yellow. Longer filaments bearded in their 
upper half by long obtuse white papillose hairs. 
12. H. flava, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 74; leaves large 
obovate narrowed at both ends scabrous finally glabrate, bracts elliptic long 
acuminate, bracteoles lanceolate acuminate, corolla 13-13 in. Ruellia flava, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 43, and Ic. Ined.; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 153.  Strobi- 
lanthes scaber, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 227, excl. all syn. ; Benth. in 
Gen. Pl. ii. 1087 (as to the Pegu plant). S. flavus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 243. 
Peau; Roxburgh, Kurz. MoviaEIN; Griffith (Herb. Propr. n. 278), Lobb. 
TENASSERIM ; Beddome. CEYLON?; Walker (? cultivated). 
A shrub; branches glabrous. Leaves 8 by 3 in., minutely crenulate, tubercular, 
scabrous, becoming nearly glabrous; petiole 4 in. Heads terminal on the arms of 
a panicle, dense, sparingly ciliate or glabrous; bracts 3 in.; bracteoles j in. Sepals 
nearly 4 in. linear. Corolla densely hairy within, ventricose portion about as 
long as the cylindric. Anthers connivent in pairs. Ovary with (at least) 6 ovules. 
Capsule (fide Kurz) 8-seeded.—The inflorescence is Strobilanthes-like, and it might 
be more naturally placed in Sérobilanthes ; but it is very distinct specifically from 
S. scaber, Nees, by the 6-8 ovules, very much longer flower and bearded filaments. 
—The 3 examples ticketed as from Ceylon have 6 ovules, and seem identical with 
the Pegu plant. Nees’ S. scaber was a purple-fld. species founded on Wight n. 1949, 
on which type-sheet T. Anderson has written S. heteromallus, T. Anders., nov. sp- 
XVI. STENOSIPHONIUM, Nees. 
Shrubs. Leaves ovate or elliptic, acuminate, lower tapering into the 
petiole, upper subsessile, subcordate, crenate, upper surface densely covered 
by raphides. Flowers sessile, solitary or 2—3-nate in opposite axils ; clusters 
running into close or interrupted spikes, or panicled; bract ovate or lanceo- 
late ; bracteoles 2, narrow, about as long as the calyx. Calyx subequally 
5-fid, segments linear or lanceolate, imperfectly connate often for half their 
length. Corolla tubular-ventricose, suddenly widened about the middle; 
limb oblique, lobes 5, subequal, twisted to the left in bud. Stamens 2 
perfect, or 4 perfect the 2 posterior much the smaller, anterior usually 
exserted ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, muticous. Ovary and style glabrous, Or 
at the apex of the ovary glandular, Dise small, annular. Stigma simple ; 
ovules 3—4 in each cell. Capsule oblong-linear, seed-bearing nearly from 
the base. Seeds 6-8, on stout hooked retinacula, compressed, discoid, 
apparently glabrous; when moistened the abundant white hairs of extreme 
tenuity straighten out.—Species 5, all of the Deccan and Ceylon. 
1. S. diandrum, Wight Ic. t. 1502 (not of Nees); leaves rhomboid- 
elliptic or ovate, spikes interrupted viscous-pubescent, bracts ovate shorter 
than the calyx, flowering calyx divided more than half-way down teeth 
