442 CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) — [Strobilanthes. 
An erect shrub. Leaves 7 by 2} in., crenate, lineolate on both surfaces ; nerves 
6-7 pair beneath, minutely scabrid; petiole 2 in. Heads several (sometimes 35) to 
the panicle; panicle branches slender, glabrescent ; outermost pair of pollen bracts 
usually 4 iù., lanceolate, next pair resembling the proper bracts but empty, patently 
glistening hairy or quite glabrous; bract proper 3 in., sessile, green ; bracteoles 0. 
Sepals nearly } in., linear, scarious below, terminating in a dense tuft of multicellular 
hairs. Corolla 1 in., subsymmetric, pale-blue, hairy within; ventricose portion 
longer than the contracted; segments round. Filaments hairy towards the base. 
Style sparsely hairy. Capsule } in., narrowly ellipsoid. Seeds } in., thin, subquad- 
rate elliptic, shaggy with adpressed wavy silky hair not elastic when wetted, glabrous 
on the oblong large areoles. 
37. S. anceps, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 189; thinly hairy, leaves ovate 
acuminate, heads small oblong, bracts obovate obtuse tips green squarrose 
or zeflexed. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 466; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 
t. 204. 
CEYLON ; alt. 3-6000 ft., frequent, Gardner, &c. . 
A small undershrub, much branched. Leaves 3 by 1} in., obtuse or acuminate at 
the base, subentire, with scattered hairs and occasionally a few red glands beneath ; 
nerves 6 pair; petiole J in. Peduncles 0-1} in., numerous, often in clusters of 3, 
thickened upwards, 1-headed ; heads } in., ovoid, in fruit often 1-2 in. oblong ; bracts 
i-i in., adpressed downwards often densely red, glandular, tips prominently reflexed ; 
bracteoles i in., linear. Calya 4 in., divided nearly to the base; segments linear, 
thin, hairy, much enlarged in fruit. Corolla $ in., slightly pubescent without, slightly 
hairy within, straight, subsymmetrie, white; contracted base much shorter than the 
urceolate portion, segments rounded. Filaments with long hairs. Ovary densely 
glandular at the tip, style glabrous. Capsule lj in., oblong, pubescent, 4-seeded. 
Seeds 4; in., ovoid, closely hairy with short thick annulate hairs, elastically springing 
out when wetted. 
VAR. microstachya ; leaves and heads more hairy less glandular, calyx very small 
corolla more hairy without. S. macrostachya, Benth. in Flora 1849, 557. Ruellia f 
punctata, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 147; Wight Iv. t. 1563.—Hills of S. Deccan; 
Courtallum, Wight; Mangalore, Hohenacker, n. 463; Anamallays, Beddome. Leaves 
5 in.; filaments nearly glabrous. Beddome says that this plant is “ very scabrous, the 
hairs arising from harsh papilla.” Wight’s figure of Ruellia ? punctata is drawn from 
his Herb. Propr. n. 656, preserved at Kew, written up by Wright, and quoted by Nees ; 
but it is a particularly softly hairy form. As Beddome remarks, it is not taken up by 
T. Anderson. 
Van.? punctata, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 229 ; leaves small ovate glabrous 
densely glandular beneath, bracts orbicular glabrous ciliated densely glandular tips 
not reflexed. — Strobilanthes punctatus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 182 (sp.), "of of 
Bedd.-—Ceylon; Walker. Leaves 3-1} in., subobtuse, base often subcordate. 
P enaps specifically distinct, but there is only one example, without fruit, named 
y Nees. . 
38. S. Arnottianus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 179; softly laxly hairy, 
leaves cordate-ovate acute, heads obovoid nodding, bracts ovate acuminate, 
corolla subcampanulate lobes somewhat acute. T. Anders. in Thwaites 
Erum. 228, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 466; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 
. 201. 
CEYLON; Newera Ellia, Walker, &c. 
An undershrub, branches hirsute upwards, Leaves 4 by 2 in., crenate-serrate, 
thinly hairy on both surfaces; nerves 4-5 pair; petiole 1-2 in. Heads 3-1 in, 
white-hairy ; bracts 3-3 in., sessile ; bracteoles 1-1 in., linear-oblong. Calyx 4-9 n» 
divided nearly to the base; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla 3 in., straight, sym- 
metric, almost funnel-shaped from the very short contracted base, slightly hairy within 
and without, whiteish. Filaments attached very low down the corolla, glabrous; 
anthers exserted. Ovary and style hairy. Capsule 4-seeded ; seeds (unripe) hairy. 
