Strobilanthes.] CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 449 
Stems slender, shrubby, pubescent or softly shaggy. Leaves 4 by 2 in., crenate, 
lineolate and sparsely slenderly bristly above, paler more glabrate beneath ; nerves 
6 pair; petiole $ in. Heads 3 in., numerous, on axillary and terminal peduncles ; 
bracts 3 in., very narrow, outermost pair often more or less leaf-like, persistent ; 
bracteoles 4 in., linear. Sepals } in. and upwards, linear, densely softly white-hairy. 
Corolla nearly straight and symmetric; cylindric part shorter than the ventricose, 
lobes ovate. Stamens glabrous (T. Anders). Capsule ł in., oblong, glabrous, with a 
tuft of hairs at the apex, 4-seeded. Seeds 74 in., ovate, densely subinelastically silky ; 
areoles very small. 
58. S. Falconeri, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 484; leaves 
ovate or elliptic acuminate hairy, heads small subsessile dense with long 
soft silvery bristles, bracts ovate hirsute herbaceous, corolla 3 in. straight 
slightly hairy without. S. Karensium, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 
94, ex descr. 
MovurMEIN; Falconer. TENASSERIM; Beddome. 
Stem tetragonous, ciliate with long, patent, weak, white hairs. Leaves 4 by 1} in., 
narrowed at both ends (upper ovate base obtuse), sparsely white-hairy on both sur- 
faces, not lineolate; nerves 6 pair; petiole 2 in. Heads 2} in., surrounded by leaves; 
bracteoles } in. linear. Calyx deeply 5-partite; segments shorter than the brac- 
teoles, linear, hirsute. Corolla 14 in., curved near the mouth, a little hairy without, 
deep blue; stamens included. Capsule tomentose at the apex. Seeds large, ovate, 
hirsute.—The species seems allied to S. Brandisii, but is remarkable by the copious 
long soft white bristles upon the flower-heads, which extend in less numbers to the 
leaves and stem, 
** Flowers strobilate. 
t Seeds glabrous. (Species of Ceylon and S. Deccan Peninsula.) 
59. S. vestitus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 180; hirsute, leaves rhom- 
boid-elliptic acuminate, bracts ovate acuminate hirsute. T. Anders. in 
Journ, Linn. Soc. ix. 466; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 260. 
CEYLON, alt. 5-7000 ft. ; Walker, Thwaites. . 
erbaceous (fide Beddome); branches stout. Leaves 54 by 2] in., narrowed 
downwards, cuneate or shortly rounded on the petiole, serrulate, hirsute on both sur- 
faces; nerves 7 pair; petiole 1} in. Spikes 1-3} in.; bracts 3 in., somewhat squar- 
Tose ; bracteoles 4 in., oblong. Calyx } in. (in fruit 3 in.), divided nearly to the base ; 
Segments lanceolate, shaggy with white or tawny hairs. Corolla liin., subsymmetric, 
glabrous ; cylindric base short, broad. Filaments and pistil glabrous. Capsule 
"i in., 4-seeded. Seeds 4 in, thin, ovate, apiculate, glabrous ; areoles very small, 
obiong. 
60. S. Hookeri, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 185, excl. Var. B; leaves 
broadly lanceolate, base cuneate sparsely hairy or glabrate, bracts orbicular 
or ovate glabrous or slightly ciliate. T. Anders. in 1 hwaites Enum. 227, 
and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 469; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. t. 262. 
CEYLON, alt. 7000 ft.; Gardner, Thwaites, &c. 
A shrub, 5-6 ft., branches nearly glabrous. 
Serrulate, upper surface with scattered weak hairs above or 1 
Leaves 5} by 2 in., acuminate, 
nature glabrous; nerves 
8 pair ; petiole 1 in, Spikes 1-3 in.; bracts 1 in., entire or minutely toothed, obtuse 
or subacute, white; bracteoles } in., spathulate-oblong. Calyx 3 in., divide near M 
to the base; segments lanceolate, often setulose, white. Corolla 1} in., campa , 
cylindric base, broad, very 
frequently 2.seeded. Seeds 
ong.—The colours 
Subsymmetrie, glabrous, white with purple streaks ; 
ion Stamens and pistil glabrous. Capsule j in, penty 
n., very thin, ovate, apiculate, glabrous ; areoles very small, . : 
are from a field-note of Col. Walker, This is placed by T. Anderson in a section 
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