Strobilanthes. | CIX. ACANTHACEE, (C. B. Clarke.) 455 
Shrubby, 1-2 ft., branching; stems hirsute. Leaves 21 by 1j in., base obtuse or 
rounded, densely minutely lineolate above ; nerves 7-8 pair; petiole 3 in. Peduncles 
1-4 in., hirsute; bracts j-3 in., obtuse or scarcely acute, closely strobilate; brac- 
teoles } in. spatbulate-oblong. Calyx i in., divided $ the way down; segments 
narrowly oblong, obtuse, hairy. Corolla 1 in., curved, glabrous without, purplish ; 
cylindric base scarcely so long as the ventricose portion; limb somewhat 2-lipped. 
Stamens glabrous. Ovary hirsute at the apex, style sparsely hairy. Capsule } in., 
hairy, 4-seeded. Seeds 4, in., orbicular, distinctly pubescent when young, mature 
subglabrous, the base of the short hairs only remaining ; areoles 0.—A species not 
very closely allied to any other in the genus. 
77. S. imbricatus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 86, and Cat. 
7156, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 186; leaves spathulate elliptic acute sparsely 
hairy on both surfaces, spikes cylindric strobiliform in axillary quasi-panicles, 
corolla very small, placent rising elastically from the bottom of the de- 
hiseing capsule. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 473. S. pterocaulis, 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 93. 
Prau and TENASSERIM ; Helfer, M*Lelland, Kurz.—DisTRIB. Ava. 
An annual herb fide Kurz, but the examples have all the appearance of the other 
perennial species ; stems stout, sharply quadrangular, hirsute or glabrate. Leaves 
attaining 123 by 5 in. (or the upper much smaller 2 by 1 in.), crenate or toothed, 
lineolate on the upper surface; nerves (in the larger leaves) 15 or more pair; petiole 
very short owing to the long-decurrent ieaf-base. Spikes lj in., mostly 5-11 in lax 
hirsute axillary panicles; leaves at the trichotomous divisions scarcely 4 in.; bracts 
jin, obovate-oblong, hirsute towards the apex; bracteoles à in., linear-spathulate. 
Sepals i in., linear, obtuse, hirsute at the tips. Corolla } in., subcampanulate, violet 
ex Nees, yellow ex Kurz. Capsule} in., hairy at the tip, 4-seeded. Seeds ys in., 
orbicular, hairy ; areoles nearly half the diam. of the seed, glabrous.—The spikes in 
fruit are like those of Rungia. Wallich’s specimens from Ava have much smaller 
leaves than the Pegu examples. 
78. S. longipes, Clarke ; leaves elliptic acuminate at each end sub- 
entire pubescent or glabrate, spikes oblong hairy or glandular-puberulous, 
racts narrowly obovate obtuse or emarginate, calyx nearly equally sub-5- 
partite segments linear-spathulate obtuse, corolla 1} in. S. acuminatus, 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 478, chiefly (not Adenacanthus acumi- 
natus, Nees). 
LENASSERIM ; Helfer (Herb. Propr. n. 304, Kew Distrib. n. 6114) ; Mooleyit, 
eddome, . . : 
Branches slender. Leaves 6 by 23 in., obscurely toothed, raphides conspicuous in 
the lower paler surfaces, embedded obscure in the upper; nerves 8 pair ; petiole iin. 
Spikes 1-2} in., clavate-oblong, continuous; bracts 4-2 in., lower deciduous in fruit ; 
?racteoles 3 in., linear-obovate. Calyx } in. and upwards ; segments distinctly wider 
ât the tips. Corolla nearly straight, puberulous; ventricose portion nearly 1 iu., 
linear portion à in. ; lobes rounded, subequal, Capsule į in., pubescent at the tip, 
4-seeded. Seeds Win. ovoid, inelastically shaggy ; areoles subobsolete.— Kurz has 
founded his S. subflaccidus on Helfer’s plant (Kew, n. 6114), but, as he says the 
calyx is 2-lipped with the upper lip three-lobed only 4 the way down, it is clear that 
his S. subflaccidus cannot be this plant; there may have been some error in distribu- 
tion, or Kurz may have relied on T. Anderson's reduction of this n. 6114 under 
Adenacanthus, Nees. 
79. S. subcapitatus, Clarke; leaves elliptic acuminate subentire 
glabrous, spikes ellipsoid or subovoid small laxly peduncled, bracts elliptic 
Concave or obovate minutely ciliate-pubescent. 
TENASSERIM ; Helfer (Kew Distrib. n. 6111). 
hrubby ; branches slender, quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves 4 by 1j in., base 
