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Strobilanthes. | CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. D. Clarke.) 435 
Deccan PENINSULA; S. Canara, on the Kudra Mukh Mt., alt. 6000 ft., 
Beddome. 
A rigid shrub, 3-4 ft.; tips of the branches and young leaves densely clothed 
with caducous yellowish wool. Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, 
3 by li in, base rhomboidal, mature nearly glabrous except the nerves beneath ; 
nerves 9 pair, approximate, subparallel ; petiole 4 in. Spikes 1-2 in., clustered in the 
upper axils, forming a dense terminal panicle, thinly, duskily, deciduously woolly ; 
bracts 1—] in., ovate, obscurely acuminate ; bracteoles scarcely + in., narrowly lanceo- 
late. Calyx 4 in. divided half-way down; segments narrowly lanceolate. Corolla 
very pubescent, ventricose portion much longer than the cylindric base. Filaments 
hairy. Ovary glabrous, style minutely sparsely hairy; ovule solitary in each celi (in 
the only ovary examined), probably never as in Beddome's figure, which shows the 
ovules 2 in each cell, the lower pendulous. 
16. §- cuspidatus, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn, Soc. ix. 465; leaves 
ovate acuminate subentire densely white silky beneath, spikes linear oblong 
glandular fulvous hairy, bracts narrowly elliptic acuminate, corolla 1 in. 
blue-purple. Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 221. Endopogon cuspidatus, Benth. 
in Pl. Hohenack. n. 1169, and in Linnea, xxiv. 646. E. versicolor, WigAt 
Ill. t. 164 b. fig. 4 (left-hand), and Ze. t. 1497, both figure and description. 
NILGHERRIES, alt. 4—7000 ft., frequent ; Wight, Gen. Munro, &c. 
A shrub, 2-5 ft. Leaves 4 by 2} in., base shortly acuminate, mature glabrous 
above, raphides not prominent; nerves 8 pair, approximate, subparallel; petiole 14 
in. Spikes 1-3 in., often laxly panicled at the ends of the branches ; bracts $ in., 
base concave, acuminate, tip recurved; bracteoles 4 in., linear. Calyx Y in., divided 
$ the way down; teeth linear, very glandular-hairy (not so lanceolate as in 
Beddome’s figure). Corolla nearly glabrous; 2 rows of long white hairs on the 
palate within, between which the style (itself nearly glabrous, not as in Beddome's 
figure) lies. Filaments glabrous, except near the base. Capsule } in., 4-seeded ; seeds 
discoid, with a circular areola cn each face, densely hairy except on the areola.— 
T. Anderson refers Wight Ic. t. 1497 to S. viscosus, but the plant from which that 
figure was drawn is at Kew, and is S. cuspidatus. 
17. S. consanguineus, Clarke, not of T. Anders.; leaves ovate 
acuminate obscurely toothed glabrous beneath, spikes linear-oblong glandular 
hairy, bracts narrowly elliptic hardly so long as the calyx, corolla % in. 
-neglectus, T. Anders. ms. Endopogon consanguineus, Nees in Wall. PI. 
As. Rar. iii. 99, and partly in DC. Prodr. xi. 104, Ruellia spicata, Hoth 
Nov. Sp. 310; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 153. 
S. Mapras ; Negapatam and Nilgherries, Wight ; Courtallum, Wight, n. 1982. 
Very similar to the last species; but the leaves are more distinctly toothed, the 
flowers smaller. Zeares glabrate, prominently lineolate above ; nerves 7 pair. Spikes 
compound, axillary and terminal, often slender, sublinear. Calyx jin. divided half- 
way down or more; segments narrowly lanceolate, glandular-hairy. Corolla-lobes 
ovate, acute. Filaments glabrous, except at the very base. Capsule 3-3 in., 4-seeded. 
Seeds discoid, areolate on both faces, densely hairy except on the areolæ.—T his is the 
original Endopogon consanguineus of Nees, which was founded on Wight n. 1982, the 
example of which authenticated in Nees’ hand is at Kew. Subsequently, in DC. 
rodr., Nees united with this species the totally remote 5. exareolatus. T. Anderson 
published (in Thwaites Enum. 226) this latter species as S. consanguineus, T. Anders., 
While he separated in the herbarium the old Wight n. 1982 on which he bas written 
- neglectus, nov. sp. . 
VAR. Amomum ; leaves more clearly toothed, spikes slender minutely pubescent or 
Very nearly glabrous, bracts acuminate to an obtuse apex often overtopping the Eon 
: Consanguineus, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 465, partly ; Bedd, Ic. Pt. 
Ind. Or. t. 916. Ruellia sesamoides, Wall, Cat. 2408, c and a chiefly. Endopogou 
Amomum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 99, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 104.—Nil- 
gherries; Wight, n. 1980, &c. fo 
