460 CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Strobilanthes. 
91. S. quadrangularis, Clarke; leaves large subsessile broadly 
elliptic acuminate at both ends serrate minutely hairy, heads ovoid pedun- 
cled, bracts large ovate acute grey pubescent caducous, corolla 14 in. pubes- 
cent without. Ruellia quadrangularis, Wall. Cat. 2358. R. bracteata, 
Wall. Cat. 2357 b only.  Goldfussia bracteata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
ii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 173. 
NEPAL; Wallich. Kumaon ; Mohargari, alt. 6500 ft., and Kalamundi, alt. 8500 ft., 
Strachey & Winterbottom. 
Stem 2 ft., herbaceous, acutely quadrangular, somewhat pubescent upwards. 
Leaves 8 by 3} in., shortly scabrous-setulose above, remotely minutely hairy beneath ; 
nerves 13 pair. Peduncles 1-4 in., 1-2 in each axil or the uppermost-subumbellate, 
hairy, clavate, quadrangular upwards, 1-headed ; heads in flower 1} in.; bracts 3-1 in. 
deciduous before the flowers expand; bracteoles 0. Calyx i in., distinctly gamo- 
sepalous, subequally 5-fid ; segments linear-oblong, green, very viscidly golden-pubes- 
cent. Corolla in shape nearly as of S. Dalhousianus. Capsule not seen. 
92. S. pentstemonoides, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 477, in 
part; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, bracts orbicular con- 
cave whitened glabrous, bracteoles 0, calyx pubescent, corolla 14 in. nearly 
glabrous pale purple. Ruellia pentstemonoides, Wall. Cat. 2340. R. 
Cephalotes, Wall. Cat. 2352. R. capitata, Wall. Cat. 2351, partly. Gold- 
fussia pentstemonoides, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 88, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 175; Wight Ic. t. 1510. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-6000 ft., from Nera to BHOTAN, frequent ; 
Wallich, H. f. & T., &c. : 
A much branched shrub, 3-8 ft. diam.; stems glabrous. Leaves 6} by 23 in, 
closely serrate, lineolate on both surfaces; nerves 7 pair; petiole j in. Peduncles 
1-3 in., sometimes glandular-hairy, 1-2 together, mostly 1-3-headed ; heads ilm. 
young exactly globular, outer bracts enclosing the heads; but in some of Wallich’s 
examples the young heads are oblong-cylindric, strobiliform ; bracts 4-3 in. obtuse, 
early caducous. Calyx 1 in., in fruit often 4 in., divided nearly to the base, segments 
linear. Corolla more or less curved ; narrow part of the tube sometimes minutely 
pubescent. Stamens glabrous. Capsule $ in., oblong-clavate, glandular-pubescent, 
4-seeded. Seeds $ in., ovate, silky ; areoles very small. 
Van. fleruosa ; small, branches short flexuose rooting, peduncles long with 1 small 
head. Ruellia flexuosa, Wall. Cat, 2412. Goldfussia flexuosa, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar. iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 175.—“ India,” Herb. Wight. Branches 1-1} foot, 
apparently prostrate. Leaves 2} by 3 in., thinly herbaceous; nerves 5 pair.—The 
example in Herb. Wight looks very unlike the Himalayan S. pentstemonoides ; and, 
though taken up as a species by Nees, T. Anderson seems to have been so dissatisfied 
about it that he has left it out altogether. But there is a piece of the same thing 
mixed in Wallich’s herbarium with Ruellia Cephalotes (Wall. Cat. 2352, type sheet) ; 
and it is probably an alpine starved (or cultivated ?) form of S. pentstemonoides. 
93. S. Dalhousianus, Clarke; leaves elliptic acuminate at both 
ends hairy, bracts orbieular concave whitened glabrous, bracteoles 0, calyx 
glabrate or sparingly hairy, corolla nearly 2 in. glabrous purple. S. pent- 
stemonoides, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 477, partly. Goldfussi 
Dalhousiana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 174; Wight Ic. t. 1509. 
W. TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, frequent ; 
Lady Dalhousie, Thomson, &c. , 
A suberect shrub, 2-3 ft.; stems hairy. Bracts scarcely } in., caducous ; outer- 
most oblong, green upwards, small, not enclosing the heads. Calyx in the typical 
form glabrous, subscarious, !obes linear-oblong, sometimes minutely softly hairy.— 
United with S. pentstemonoides by T. Anders., from which it differs in habit, in having 
much more hairy leaves and less hairy calyx. It also grows at a different level. 
