Strobilanthes.] ^ cix. AcANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 431 
canthus acuminatus, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7153, and in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 
84, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 197 (excl. tab. cited). 
Burma; “locus incertus,” Wallich. 
A herb; branches elongate, nearly glabrous. Leaves 5 by 1} in., base long 
attenuate, often subserrate, lineolate above; nerves 6-7 pair, minutely fuscous 
pubescent beneath; petiole 0-1 in. Peduncles 1-2 in.; spikes 4-1 in.; bracts 4 in., 
ovate ; bracteoles + in., elliptic, wider upwards than the bracts. Calyx scarcely } in., 
glandular-ciliate. Corolla (ex Nees) } in. at least, glabrous, tubular; limb equal 
with obtuse segments. Ovary 4-ovulate. Capsule not known.—Description mainly 
from Nees, the single sheet of Wallich being too imperfect to verify several points. 
T. Anderson, proceeding on the similarity in the leaves, has assumed that Nees’ 
description is materially wrong, and that Wall. Cat. 7152 is really identical with 
S. longipes, n. 76 infra. If that be so, it remains as S. subflaccidus, Kurz. 
3. S. Parishii, Clarke; leaves elliptic acuminate thinly hirsute, 
spikes linear-oblong strobilate white-hairy, bracts oblong or slightly wider 
upwards, calyx 2-partite both segments very shortly toothed. 
MOULMEIN; Parish. TENAssERIM; Beddome. 
A branching herb ; stems subterete rufous-pubescent or subhirsute. Leaves 5} by 
2} in., base cuneate or obtuse, crenate, nerves 6 pair; petiole }-2 in. . Spikes 2 by 
2 in., short-peduncled ; bracts } by 1-1 in., obtuse; bracteoles l in., linear. Calyx 
iin, nearly as of S. rufescens. Corolla 1} in., nearly straight, glabrous, blue; 
cylindric base of the tube hardly half so long as the campanulate ; lobes short, round, 
Capsule 3-4 in., pubescent, 4-seeded. Seeds scarcely 7; in., orbicular, elastically 
white-hairy ; areoles hardly any. 
4. S. foetidissima, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 92; leaves 
ovate acuminate at both ends serrate-dentate hirsute on both surfaces, 
spikes short-peduncled lax short tawny-hirsute, bracts obovate-cuneate 
obtuse, calyx-segments deeply lobed. 
MARTABAN; Kurz. . 
A herb; branches fulvous-hairy. Leaves 3-5 in., membranous, long-petioled. 
Bracts 3 in., glandular-hirsute; bracteoles similar, but shorter and broader. Calyx 
as long as the bracts, adpressedly glandular-puberulous. Corolla 1} in., and filaments 
glabrous, Style hirsute. Capsule $ in., glabrous. Seeds j in. diam., adpressedly 
villous.— Copied from Kurz, who says it is allied to S. rufescens, whence it is pre- 
sumed the calyx is definitely 2-lipped; but in the large capsule and seeds it differs 
from the other species allied to S. rufescens. 
Subgenus 2. Endopogon. Calyx deeply subequally 5-fid. Stamens 2 
fertile.—(Spikes mostly continuous, sometimes shortened into heads, less 
commonly interrupted at the base, the lowest flowers then in opposite pairs; 
tracts persistent). 
* Seeds (even in water) glabrous, without areoles on the faces.— 
Lower half of the corolla-tube cylindric, suddenly widening into the 
ventricose part.—Species of Ceylon, with one (S. foliosus) in the S. Deccan 
Peninsula. 
5. S. viscosus, 7. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 226, excl. syn. Wight, 
and in Journ, Linn. Soc. ix. 465, partly; leaves elliptic acuminate at both 
ends crenulate sparsely pubescent or glabrate, spikes linear subinterrupted 
Yiscous-hairy, flowering calyx } in. divided less than half-way down. 
ndopogon viscosus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 104, excl. Var. humilis, not of 
tg At. 
CEYLON, up to 7000 ft. alt., frequent; Gardner, Walker, Thwaites (n. 2898, 
n. 2002, partly), &c. 
