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_ Stenosiphonium.] crx. AcaxTHACEX. (C. D. Clarke.) 427 
linear viscous-pubescent, stamens 2. S. confertum, Z. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix, 464, partim. 
S. Mapnas; Courtallum, Wight. 
Branches glabrous. Leaves 3 by 14 in., young obscurely scabrous beneath; 
petiole 3 in. Spikes 2-3 in., in terminal panicles, densely clothed with minute patent 
gland-headed hairs ; lower whorls mostly 4—6-fld., distant even at flower-time; bract 
4 in., ovate with a short obtuse apex; bracteoles rather longer than the bract, similar 
to the calyx-segments. Calyx 4 in.; segments linear-ligulate (not subulate), united 
at flower-time about 3 their length, in fruit free. Corolla exceeding 3 in. Anterior 
filaments minutely hairy at the base, posterior reduced to 2 microscopic teeth. 
_ 2. S. confertum, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 105; leaves rhomboid.ellip- 
tic or ovate, spikes scarcely interrupted viscous-hairy, bracts obovate shorter 
than the calyx, flowering calyx divided nearly half-way down segments 
linear viscidly hairy, stamens 4. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 464, 
partim, S. Russellianum, Wight Ic. t. 873, not t. 1503, as see WigAt's note 
under the latter. 
S. DEccaN ; Pulney Mts. and near Courtallum, WigAt. 
Very near 8. diandrum, Wight, and united therewith by T. Anderson; probably 
the posterior stamens may be present or absent in the same species. The present 
plant differs from S, diandrum in the leafy habit and shortened very hairy spikes, 
which have numerous white simple hairs in addition to the gland-tipped hairs. The 
stamens differ from those of all the other species, being all exserted; but the 
anthers of the posterior pair are hardly j as long as those of the anterior (this is not 
correctly shown by Wight). 
.9. S. setosum, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 464; leaves rhom- 
boid-elliptie or ovate, flowering spikes dense somewhat interrupted below 
very hairy, bracts linear as long as the calyx, stamens 2.—Strobilanthes 
n. 67, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Mysore or Carnatic ; G. Thomson. . 2e. 
Leaves altogether as of S. diandrum. Spikes 2-5 in, with white simple and 
gland-tipped hairs; bracts 4 in. and upwards, linear only slightly widened towards 
the base, Calyx-segments united for about 4 their length at flower-time, subulate, 
very hairy, Flowers, stamens and capsules exactly as of S. diandrum, from which 
this species hardly differs except by the bracts. 
4. S. Russellianum, Wees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 84, and in DC. 
Prodr, xi, 105; leaves rhomboid-elliptic or ovate glabrous beneath, spikes 
linear much interrupted, bracts ovate as long as the calyx, corolla 1-1 in., 
Stamens 4, Wight Ic. t. 1503 (not t. 873) ; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
lx. 464. partly. Ruellia Russelliana, Wall. Cat. 2400. R. arcuata, Wall. 
Cat. 2334 a & b. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA ; plentiful in and around the Nilgherries, Wight, &e. 
CEYLON ; Walker, Thwaites. 
Stems and leaves as of S. diandrum. Spikes 3-6 in., elongate, all the whorls 
generally distinct even at flower-time, glabrous except a few minute bristles at the 
‘epal-tips or (in Wight's n. 2189) sparingly glandular-pubescent; bracts (from the 
middle of the spike) 4 in., rhomboid, shortly obtusely mucronate, but the lower bracts 
often pass into leaves being 3 in, broad cordate-ovate, and the upper are often nar- 
rowly obovate. Calyx 1 in., segments united to the middle, teeth narrowly lanceolate 
acuminate, glabrous with minute white bristles or glandular-pubescent. Anterior 
filaments very hairy at their base; posterior about half as long, included. Pisti? an 
capsule as in S. diandrum. densel 
,' AR. subsericea, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 464; younger leaves "Vall 
White-silky beneath mature silky or glabrous beneath, S. subsericeum, Nees in Wall. 
