Strobilanthes.] CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 453 
70. S. Dupeni, Beddome ms.; leaves subcordate ovate acuminate bristly 
pubescent on both surfaces, spikes large oblong dense viscous slightly hairy, 
bracts 4-ranked large ovate obtuse adnate at base closely imbricate, capsule 
4-seeded, seeds hairy. 
ANAMALLAY Mts. ; top of Neliamputty Ghat, Beddome. 
A shrub. Leaves 4} by 21 in., crenate, bristly above, chiefly on the 9 pair of 
nerves beneath ; raphides small, obscure ; petiole 1-2 in. Spikes 21 by 3 in., appearing 
terminal on short axillary peduncles ; bracts 3 by 4 in., coloured, nervose, very sticky; 
bracteoles small, lanceolate, Calyx à in., deeply 5-lobed ; linear green acumination 
of the segments longer than the short elliptic scarious base. Corolla large, blue. 
Capsule i in., ellipsoid, sessile, glabrous. Seeds in. diam. ; areole nearly half the 
diam. of the seed. 
71. S. auriculatus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 69, 86, t. 295, 
and in DC. Prodr. xi. 191 ; leaves sessile auriculate oblong or ovate acumi- 
nàte hairy, Spikes linear oblong closely velvety, bracts obovate obtuse, 
bracteoles 0, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 472; Bedd. Ic. Pi. Ind. 
Or. t.210. S. amplectens, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7158, and in DC. Prodr. 
Xi. 191. Ruellia auriculata, Wall Cat. 2341. 
CENTRAL INDIA, alt. 1—4000 ft., common; Behar; Jubbulpore to Chota Nagpore, 
J. D. H., Beddome, &c.—D1sTRIB. Ava. 
_ A shrub, 2-6 ft. ; branches many divaricate often zigzag, quadrangular, glabrous, 
tips more or less hairy. Leaves often very unequal, sometimes one 10 by 24 in. oblong, 
the other 3 by 1j ovate, sometimes subequal, serrulate, sparsely hairy above; nerves 
(in the longer leaves) 10-13 pair, minutely hairy beneath. Spikes 3) by } in., mostly 
terminal, solitary, quasi-peduncled ; bracts i-3 in., broader than long, very obtuse, 
apex often recurved in fruit. Calyx divided nearly to the base; segments }-4 in., 
unequal, linear, obtuse, closely velvety. Corolla 1 in., curved, very slightly hairy, 
pale Purple; cylindric base mucb shorter than the ventricose part ; limb somewhat 
2-lipped. Stamens and pistil nearly glabrous. Capsule 3 in., glabrous, 4-seeded. 
Seeds scarcely 4 in., thin, orbicular, elastically white-hairy ; areoles very small. 
Var, Edgeworthiana; bracts with spreading white cilia } in. long, sepals long 
white-ciliate at the tips. S. Edgeworthiana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 190. —Sub- 
tropical Himalaya, alt. 500-2000 ft., from the Siwaliks (Stewart) to Sikkim (Gamble), 
frequent in the dry Terai. Parasnath, Edgeworth. Tenasserim; alt. 2000 ft., 
Beddome.—Distrib. Upper Burma. . le densel 
Var, plumulosa ; leaves broadly elliptic, spikes short axillary subsessi e ensely 
White-eiliate, g, plumulosus, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7157, and in Wall. Pl. As. Rar, iii. 
86, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 191.—Mts. of Prome; Wallich. — Leaves 8 by 3} in., sub- 
equal, spathulate to the widened auriculate base. Spikes 1-14 in. — desi 
AR. bracteolata ; leaves sessile auriculate oblong acuminate hairy, spikes inear- 
oblong ciliate, bracts obovate, bracteoles 1 in. linear-spathulate.— Khasia Mts., alt. 
ft.; Nunklow and Myrung, H. f. & T.— Branches divaricate, hairy. Leaves 
unequal, the larger 41 by 3-1 in., serrate. Spikes 1-24 in., quasi-peduncled, mostly 
Solitary ; bracts 3 iu., less obtuse than those of S. auriculatus. 
72. S. Maclellandi, Clarke; leaves large elliptic acuminate at both 
te M sparsely hairy, spikes linear, bracts obovate obtuse white hairy, brac- 
eoles 0, 
RANGOON; M'Lelland. . ; 
Branches stout, quadrangular, zigzag, bairy. Leaves 12 by 4} me lower petioved, 
uppermost subsessile, none auricled; nerves 20 pair. Spikes 3 by i no This has 
white, hair » pendent mostly 3 together from short axillary peces a nd slender 
een supposed a form of S. auriculatus, but the large many-nerve the secds nearly 
Pendent spikes give it a different aspect: the capsule is rather larger, ne 
Y e same as in S, auriculatus, It Pould appear distinct enough but for the subjoined 
aniety, 
