Strobilanthes.] ^ crx. AcANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 443 
— The segments of the corolla are ovate, longer and much more acute than in 
Beddome's figure. 
99. S. asperrimus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 183 ; leaves broadly elliptic 
acuminate at both ends hairy, heads panicled, bracts elliptic concave 
glabrous, bracteoles 0. S. lupulinus, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
469, partly. S. Hookeri Var. 8, Nees l. c. 185. 
CEYLON; Walker, Gardner, &c. 
Apparently a large shrub ; branches swollen at the joints, scabrous, hirsute upwards. 
Leaves 9 by 4 in., crenate; nerves 11 pair; petiole 14 in. Panicles in Walker's 
examples very compound ; heads 1-14 in., broadly oblong ; bracts Zin. Calyx less 
than 4 in., divided nearly to the base; segments ligulate, scarious, lineolate. Corolla 
į in, little contracted below, subsymmetric, glabrous without, hairy within. Capsule 
i in., 4-seeded. Seeds X in., thin, suborbicular, densely elastically hairy on the 
margin, areoles very large extended over all the seed but the margin. 
40. S. trifidus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 185; nearly glabrous, leaves 
elliptic acuminate, heads globose solitary or in small cymes, bracts ovate or 
elliptic concave, bracteoles 0. S. tener, Wees l. c. 184. S. coloratus, Nees 
l. c. 86, not of T. Anders. S.lupulinus, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 228, 
and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 469, partly. 
CEYLON, frequent ; Gardner, &c. . e 
Regarded by T. Anderson as a glabrescent form of S. asperrimus, which it may 
be, but the capsule is unknown and the inflorescence much less compound. Leaves 
3-10 in., base attenuated or rounded, drying black, Bracts membranous, the upper 
even in the young heads often coloured membranous. 
4l. S. lupulinus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 85, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 184; hairy, leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends, spikes in 
small dense cymes, bracts elliptic obtuse concave softly hairy, bracteoles 
obsolete. S. alzellii, T, Anders. ms. in Herb. Kew. Ruellia lupulina, 
Wall. Cat. 2355 a & c. 
W. Deccan PENINSULA; Concan, Daizell, Stocks; Ram Ghaut near Belgaum, 
Ritchie. COURTALLUM ; Wight. . . . 
, Branches stout, woody, hairy upwards. Leaves 6 by 2-3 in., denticulate, laxly 
villous on both surfaces or subsetulose above; nerves 8 pair; petiole lj in. Peduneles 
axillary, very short ; spikes 1} in., oblong, subumbellate or solitary ; bracts q-Lin. 
Calyx 1-1 in., divided nearly to the base; segments ligulate, obtuse, scarious, glabrous, 
tips bristly. Corolla 3-1 in., glabrous without, hairy within, straight, subsymmetric ; 
cylindric part as long as the suburceolate, lobes short. Filaments hairy downwards. 
Pistil glabrous or thie style upwards microscopically hairy. Capsule scarcely 5 me 
oblong, 4.seeded. Seeds 1 dn, elliptic, elastically white hairy only on the very 
margin.—The Bombay botanists took this species for a hairy-bracteate form of 8. 
rugosus (Wight Ic. t. 1619). 
42. S. Heyneanus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii, 85, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 184 ; leaves broadly elliptic acuminate at both ends hairy, spikes 
Subglobose cymose, bracts elliptic ventricose glabrous, bracteoles 0, corolla 
4m. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 187. S.rugosus, Wight le. t. 1619. 5. 
lupulinus, 7! Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 469, part/y. Ruellia brao- 
teata, Heyne in Herb. Rottler; Wall. Cat. 2357, type sheet only, not Gold- 
fussia bracteata, Wees. . 
gh W. Deccan PENINSULA from the Bombay Ghats to the Bababooduns and Nil- 
eres; Heyne, Wight, Dalzell, &c. . . 
Stems never exceeding mE high (Dalzell, Stocks), hirsute upwards. Leaves 
6 by 23 iu., closely serrate, tubercular-hairy above, softly hairy beneath, drying green 
