452 CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Strobilanthes. 
CEYLON; Walker; alt. 2000 ft., Thwaites. 
A shrub, 3-5 ft. Leaves 7 by 3} in., crenate, lineolate cn both surfaces 3 nerves 
7 pair; petiole 14 in. Spikes quasi-peduncled, mostly solitary, sometimes 1 in, ovoid 
capitate, sometimes 2} in., distinctly densely strobiliform ; bracts 1 in., entire or denti- 
culate, the ligulate tip often squarrose sometimes closely reflexed in fruit, sometimes 
obsolete. Calyx } in., divided more than half-way down; segments lanceolate, slightly 
hairy. Corollai} in., narrow, hairy, white (T. Anderson) ; linear-cylindric base shorter 
than the long urn-shaped upper part; lobes short. Filaments hairy towards the 
base. Pistil glabrous. Capsule not seen.—Evidently different from the Bombay 
S. callosus, but may not belong to this part of the series. 
68. S. asper, Wight Ic. t. 1518, not of Dene.; thinly softly hairy, 
leaves ovate shortly acuminate at both ends, spikes in close panicles or 
subfasciculate, bracts oblong or ovate, base narrowed. T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 466. 
Mrs. of S. INDIA, alt. 5-8000 ft. ; Nilgherries, Anamallays, Bababooduns, Gardner, 
Wight, &c. MALABAR Gnars; Concan, Stocks. . 
A shrub, 2-4 ft. Leaves 44 by 21 in. crenate; nerves 7 pair ; petiole 1; in. 
Spikes in flower 1-1} in., oblong; in truit 2-3 in., with bracts and calyces enlarged ; 
thinly softly hairy, somewhat viscous; bracts }-} in., often reddish ; bracteoles 3 in., 
linear. Sepals X in., linear-lanceolate. Corolla 2 in. (or in Wight’s figure much 
larger), glabrous without, hairy within; linear-cylindric base about as long as the 
ventricose portion ; limb somewhat oblique, segmentsshort rounded. Filaments hairy 
towards the base. Pistil glabrous. Capsule } in., oblong, 4-seeded. Seeds 13 În., 
orbicular, elastically hairy; areoles prominent, round, glabrous.—The form ot the 
bracts seems very variable; the typical Nilgherry plant has them broadly ovate; à 
Bababoodun example (reckoned by Wight distinct) has them linear-oblong ; and 
there are a great number of intermediate forms. 
69. S. sessilis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 85, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 177 ; leaves sessile ovate acute hairy, spikes cylindric exactly 
strobiliform, bracts large ovate acute hairy, bracteoles 0, corolla 14 in. pale 
purple. Bot. Mag. t.3902; Wight Ill. t. 164 b, fig. 4 (right-hand), and Ie. 
t.1511; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 467. 
NIıLGHERRY Mrs., alt. 6-8000 ft.; Wight, &c., frequent. WvyNaap and TRA- 
YANCORE ; Beddome. 
Stems 12-18 in., numerous, erect, little divided, from a woody perennial root, 
patently villous. Leaves 3-1} in., base rounded or subcordate, crenate, softly villous 
on both surfaces. Spikes 1-2 in., short-peduncled, quasi-axillary and terminal ; 
bracts } in., softly hairy. Sepals X in., lanceolate. Corolla nearly straight, subsym- 
metric, slightly hairy within and without ; cylindric base nearly as long as the ventri- 
cose part; segments rounded. Filaments included ; longer shaggy, shorter glabrous 
with much smaller anthers. Ovary glabrous, gland-bearing near the tip; style thinly 
hairy ; ovules 4. Capsule not seen. . 
VAR. sessiloides (Wight Ic.t. 1512); leaves larger bristle-hirsute rugose, spikes 
larger, bracts (especialiy the upper) corolloid glabrate upwards, corolla rather larger 
more hairy both within and without. S. sessiloides, Wight Ic. t. 1512, not of T. 
Ander. 5.— Nilgherries ; Wight.—A very trifling variety (or mere form, Beddome) of 
S. sessilis. 
Var. Rifehiei; bristly without any soft hairs, leaves nearly glabrous beneath 
except the bristly nerves, bracts acuminate long-bristly. S. sessiloides, Dalz 4^ Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 187 ; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 467, not of Wight.—Malabar 
Ghats ; near Bombay, Dalzell ; Purwhar Ghat, Ritchie; Tulkut (perhaps i.e. Talikote), 
Stocks. —Noted by Ritchie as flowering only once in 7 years, but the woody root with 
annual undivided stems seems the same as in S. sessilis. Stems densely hispid with 
very long stout white bristles or glabrate. Leaves scabrous-hispid lineolate above, 
much more glabrous than in S. sessilis. Bracts and spikes with white or tawny 
bristles nearly } in. long, sometimes dense sometimes few scattered. 
