a NIRE RARI RR RARE 
Strobilanthes.] ^ crx. AcawTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 445 
Capsule unknown.— This imperfectly known species may very possibly have its true 
position nearer to S. Heyneanus var. campanulata. 
45. S. scrobiculatus, Dalz. ms.; leaves elliptic acuminate at both 
ends nearly glabrous, spikes numerous subsessile along the naked branches, 
corolla 1 in. blue. 
BOMBAY GHAUTS ; Dalzell; Mahabeleshwur, Ralph. 
Woody branches elongate, much divided, leafless, covered with flowers, tips leafy. 
Leaves 3 by 1 in., nearly entire; nerves 7 pair; petiole à in. : Spikes 1 in., subses- 
sile, viscous hairy; bracts i in., narrowly obovate, persistent in fruit; bracteoles 
jin. sublinear. Calyx à in., divided nearly to the base; segments linear, hairy. 
Corolla symmetric, nearly glabrous, pale below, a beautiful blue upwards ; ventricose 
part rather narrow longer than the contracted; lobes ovate, crenulate. Stamens 
included, glabrous. Style with a few hairs. Capsule } in., 4-seeded. Seeds y in., 
thin, ovate, densely covered with fine long hairs, elastic when wet, except the small 
areoles.—A ppears to be the most beautiful species of the genus; it is allied to S. 
txiocephalus. 
46. S. papillosus, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc, ix. 468; scabrous 
hispid, leaves ovate acute, heads ellipsoid, bracts elliptic elongate scabrous 
hispid, corolla 13-12 in. Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t.201. S.scaber, Var. ? B, 
Benth. in Pl. Hohenack. n. 1431. 
NILGHERRY Mrs. ; alt. 7000 ft., Hohenacker, Beddome. Mysore; Lobb. . 
A large shrub (Beddome) ; branches very harshly scabrous. Leaves 2} by 13 in., 
obtuse, base very shortly cuneate, callous-dentate, hispid with tubercle-based hairs 
above, setulose beneath ; nerves 6 pair; petiole 2 in. Heads 1}-2 in., strictly capi- 
tate; peduncles thickened upwards, acutely 4-angled, very harshly scabrous; floral 
leaves 2 in., empty, overtopping the head ; bract very rigid ; bracteoles 1 in., narrowly 
lanceolate, membranous, ciliate. Calyx divided nearly to the base; segments 14 in., 
linear-lanceolate, very acute, membranous, ash-coloured, ciliate. Corolla subsym- 
metric, nearly glabrous, blueish ; cylindric part hardly so long as the ventricose ; lobes 
ovate. Stamens glabrous, included. Pistil thinly hairy. Capsule unknown. —Allied 
to S. Perrottetianus according to Beddome, and it may turn out so to be when the 
seeds are known. , 
47. S. exsertus, Clarke; leaves petioled ovate acute at both ends 
Scabrid-pubescent, spikes densely capitate solitary terminal, bracts obovate 
as long as the calyx, corolla ł in., anthers exsert. Stenosiphonium zeylani- 
cum, Var. a, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 225, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Xx. 463. 
CEYLON; Thwaites (C. P. 3577); Damboul, Beckett. 
À shrub, 1-2 ft., creeping, rooting ; branches suberect, quadrangular, pubescent. 
eaves 13 by 2 in., crenate, rather harsh, lineolate on both surfaces, sparsely 
Setose above, more softly beneath; nerves 5-6 pair; petiole i in. Heads sessile 
tween 2 somewhat enveloping leaves ; quasi-peduncles 0-14 in., often thickened 
Upwards ; bracts j in., subobtuse, green, persistent, patently white-hairy. Calyx 
3, divided about half-way down at flower-time, teeth lanceolate, hairy. Corolla 
curved, nearly glabrous without ; cylindric base jin. funnel-shaped part nearly 
as long; lobes ovate. Filaments glabrous except at the base, 2 longer distinctly 
fXserted ; anthers all subequal. Ovary glabrous, tip glandular, 4-ovulate; style 
glabrous, stigma simple. Capsule } in., oblong, glabrous, 4-seeded from near the base. 
Seeds 4 in. diam., much compressed, orbicular, densely elastically hairy, except on the 
Conspicuous areoles.—Placed in Stenosiphonium by 'Y. Anderson, and regarded as a 
var, of Hemigraphis venosa. The inflorescence does not do for Stenosiphonium, nor 
the leaves, and the ovules are never more than 4 to the ovary. | . tr 
^R. B integra, T. Anders. l. c. ; leaves entire glabrous, corolia 1 u^ ven Hn 
Constricted cylindric base of the tube short.—Ceylon; Thwaites (C. P. n. 
