Strobilanthes.] CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 437 
Series A. Bracteate. Bracts prominent, persistent or only late decidu- 
ous. Flowers spiked, clustered or strobilate; spikes sometimes interrupted 
below, but flowers never all scattered. 
* Flowers capitate or shortly spicate. (An artificial section passing by 
gradations into the strobiliform or interruptedly spicate sections.) 
T Seeds glabrous (in a few not known).—Species of Ceylon and the 
Deccan Peninsula. 
21. S. barbatus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 85, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 179; leaves broad-elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, bracts 
obovate cuspidate squarrose, corolla white very hairy within, seeds usually 
2. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 468; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 212. 
S. tetrapterus, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 342; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fi. 
187; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 468. Ruellia ciliata, Heyne in 
Herb. Rottler ; Wall. Cat. 9399 (not Wall. Cat. 9415). 
W. Deccan PENINSULA; from the Bombay Ghats to Cape Comorin, alt. 3000 ft., 
Wight, Dalzell, &c. . 
A gregarious shrub, flowering once at about 7 years old, then dying (Beddome) ; 
stem often winged. Leaves 7 by 3 in., crenulate or subentire, lineolate especially 
above; nerves 7-8 pair; petiole 1-3 in., base often auriculate, sometimes winged. 
Heads 1-2 in., sessile, very dense; bracts 2 in., obscurely quadrifarious, green, 
ciliate; bracteoles à in., linear, ciliate. Calyx } in., divided more than half-way 
down, green, ciliolate; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla 3-1 in.; cylindric base 
as long as the suddenly-widened subcampanulate portion ; limb nearly erect, subequal. 
Filaments sparsely hairy upwards. Pistil sparsely hairy and glabrous. | Capsule 
1-3 in., clavate, always 2-seeded. Seeds nearly 4 in. long, very thin, elliptic, areoles 
0.—'The fruit has only been seen in the form $. tetrapterus, Dalz. In the old 
examples of S. barbatus the corolla is barely } in., the heads and bracts are smaller, 
the calyx less deeply divided ; but Beddome says (from knowledge of the living 
plant) that there is only one species here. 
22. S. lanceolatus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 181; glabrous except 
the calyx, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends nearly entire, heads 
small capitate few-fld., calyx-segments in flower lanceolate acute slightly 
hairy in fruit, capsule 4-seeded. S. adenophorus, Nees l. c. 182; T. Anders. 
in Thwaites Enum, 228, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 466, not of Beddome. 
Martynia lanceolate, Moon Cat. Pl. Ceyl. Goldfussia Myrtinia, Wees l. c. 
Crrton ; Four Korles and Saffragam, Macrae, Thwaites, &e. 
A small shrub; branches quadrangular. Leaves 3 by 1 in., prominently Tineolate 
above ; nerves 6 pair; petiole 4 in. Heads } in. (exclusive of the corolla), 2—4-fld., 
in appearance solitary peduncled, peduncles slightly thickened upwards quadrangu- 
lar or subalate ; floral leaves 2, elliptic, 4 in., in the dried examples erect, overtopping 
closely enveloping the flower-head; proper bract 4 in., oblong; bracteoles 2, à in., 
sublinear, often suppressed in the upper flowers as commonly in close heads. Calyz 
$ in., divided half-way down, segments in fruit elongate obtuse. Corolla 14-14 10., 
nearly glabrous without, light-blue; cylindric nearly as long as the ventricose part. 
Filaments hairy downwards. Ovary hairy at the apex. Capsule $ in., narrowly 
oblong. Seeds 4 in. long, thin, elliptic, glabrous ; areoles 4 the length of the seed. 
23. S. heteromallus, 7. Anders. ms.; villous, subhispid, leaves 
ovate acute, heads ovoid, bracts oblong overtopping the calyx, ovary densely 
airy at the tip. S. scaber, Var. y Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. im. 84, 
ar. B Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 178, as to Wight’s Deccan material. Ruellia 
scabra, Wall. Cat. 2377 (not Wall. Cat. 2393). 
