Strobilanthes.] CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 459 
Seeds 1-3 in., ovate, shaggy ; areoles hardly any.—In spite of the enormous differ- 
ences iu the capsule and seeds, this plant has been much mixed with ZEchmanthera 
tomentosa. 
Series B. Nudate. Bracts caducous, often before the flowers expand. 
Flowers clustered or in distant mostly opposite pairs; not most of them 
scattered alternate. Seeds in all hairy.—(All, except S. Newii from N. 
India or Malay Peninsula.) 
* Heads even in fruit capitate or ovate, not interrupted below. 
89. S. geniculatus, Clarke; nearly glabrous, leaves elliptic acumi- 
nate serrate, heads 2-3-fld., bracts large ovate acuminate caducous, brac- 
teoles 0. S. gracilis, T. Anders. in Journ, Linn. Soc. ix. 474, not of Bed- 
dome, 
MISHMEE ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n, 6116). . 
A small shrub; branches slender, somewhat zigzag. Leaves 5 by 13 in., base 
cuneate or rhomboid, serrulate, upper surface dense with raphides ; nerves 6-7 pair ; 
petiole din. Peduncles 1-3 in. with a node carrying two reduced caducous leaves 
at the middle, there geniculate and sometimes divided; heads 2 in., 2-4 outer 
bract-like leaves barren, early caducous ; bract 3 by ł in., lineolate. Calyx ł-} in., 
divided nearly to the base ; segments linear, unequal, obtuse, glandular. Corolla 
li im, glabrous, purple. Capsule $ in. clavate, 4-seeded, glandular-pubescent. 
Seeds 1, in., ovate, shaggy ; areoles small.—Each flower is subtended by one bract, and 
there are 2-4 outer empty similar bracts ; before the expansion of the corolla all the 
bracts but 1 or 2 of the uppermost fall, and these disappear before fruit. . 2. 
AR. integra ; leaves nearly entire, sepals in fruit nearly } in. hairy.— Khasia 
Mts; Clarke. Leaves 5 by 2i in., subovate ; petiole 4-4 in. Seeds j in. and up- 
wards.— Probably merely the fully-developed state of S. geniculatus, which Griffith 
collected in a colder country. 
90. S. capitatus, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 475 ; leaves 
ovate acuminate at each end nearly glabrous, bracts elliptic-oblong herba- 
Ceous pubescent as long as the calyx, bracteoles half as long as the calyx, 
corolla 13-9 in. deep blue. Ruellia capitata, Wall. Cut. 2351, partly ; 
Don Prodr.190. Goldfussia capitata, Nees in Wall. Pi. As. Rar. in. 88, 
and in DC. Prodr. xi. 173. G. biceps, Nees in Wall, Cat. 7161, and in 
Wall, Pl. As. Rar. iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 172.—Acanthacea sp. 
Griff. Itin, Notes, 116, n. 213. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from NEPAL to BHOTAN, common ; 
Wallich, Griffith, H. f. & T, &c. Prau; Karen Hills (fide T. Anderson).—DisTRIB. 
va, 
, A shrub, 1-3 ft. Leaves 6 by 22 in., serrate, obscurely lineolate above, minutely 
ary On the nerves beneath; nerves 6-7 pair; petiole 1} in. Pedunctes usually 
short, 1-1 in., sometimes 2—4 in., glabrous or pubescent. Heads 1 in. diam., closely 
Capitate even in fruit, many-fld., outer empty bracts sometimes long leaf-like, some- 
times hardly half so long as the heads, caducous; bracts proper to each flower elon- 
gate upwards, closely adpressedly softly white pubescent; bracteoles 4—4 in., ligulate, 
‘rbaceous, pubescent, caducous in fruit. Calyx X in., deeply divided but connate into 
a hardened short tube at the base; segments narrowly lanceolate, softly hairy even in 
TU. Corolla curved, tubular-ventricose, nearly glabrous. Stamens glabrous. 
` Ovary glandular ; style thinly patently hairy. Capsule 3 in., slightly clavate, pubes- 
Cent, 4-seeded. Seeds 42 in. ovate, shaggy ; areoles small. 
"AR. nitida ; c Rina glabrate in fruit, bracteoles nearly as long it. 
ze calyx obovate-oblong glabrous fimbriate in fruit.— Khasia Mts. ; Mousto, ait. 
900 ft., Clarke.— Bracts and bracteoles shining scarious in fruit from a short green 
ase. Seeds } in., densely silky, 
