Strobilanthes.] CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. D. Clarke.) 461 
94. S. multidens, C/arke; leaves ovate shortly acuminate at both 
ends minutely sparsely hairy on both surfaces, heads panicled viscous hairy, 
bracts small obovate viscous hairy deciduous, calyx viscous-pubescent, 
corolla 12 in. purple. 
EEIN, alt. 3-6000 ft.; J. D. H., &c. BHoraw; Grifith, Herb. Propr. 
n. 2398. 
Leaves 7} by 4 in., closely regularly serrate (often with more than 100 teeth to 
the leaf; both surfaces with few remote minute hairs and small scattered raphides. 
Bracts $ in., very viscous-hairy; bracteoles in., linear-oblong. Capsule $ in., 
viscous-pubescent, 4-seeded. Seeds 1 in. subquadrate, fulvous-hairy ; areoles sub- 
obsolete.— This is the so-called Sikkim S. Dalhousianus ; it is nearer the true S. pent- 
stemonoides, but the young heads are never glabrous globose as in that, and the 
panicle is compound very glandular-hairy. The corollas in Griffith's Bhotan example 
are not more than 1} in., but are not thoroughly expanded. 
95. S. rhombifolius, Clarke; leaves subsessile rhomboid-ovate 
shortly acute at both ends glabrous, bracts small elliptic concave caducous, 
bracteoles 0, corolla 14-13 in. nearly glabrous. Goldfussia sessilis, Mees in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 172, not Strobilanthes sessilis, Nees. 
ASSAM ; Jenkins, . 
Branches long, subterete, glabrous. Zeaves (often unequal) 3} by 2 in., remotely 
serrulate, lineolate on both surfaces ; nerves 5 pair. Peduncles 1-3 in., 1-3-headed ; 
heads } in. diam., closely capitate; all the bracts early caducous. Calyx in flower 
i-i in., divided nearly to the base; segments narrowly lanceolate, fuscous pubescent. 
Corolla nearly as of S. pentstemonoides, purple-mouthed. Filaments glabrous, 
longer hairy near the base. Capsule not seen.— This seems very near S. pentste- 
monoides, differing little but in the shape of the leaves; the heads however, by the 
time the first flowers expand, have lost all their bracts, which gives them a very 
different look. 
96. S. oligocephalus, T. Anders. ms. in Herb. Kew; leaves elliptic 
caudate-acuminate nearly glabrous ciliate, young heads globose, bracts 
round concave glabrous, bracteoles 0, calyx hairy, corolla 14 in. pubescent 
without dark-purple.—Goldfussia sp. n. 24, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
UPPER SIKKIM, alt. 5-7000 ft.; Yoksun, J. D. H., &c. nz 6 
A small shrub, 1-2 ft.; branches slender, terete, glabrous Leaves attaining 64 
y 3 in. (usually smaller much narrower), base cuneate, minutely remotely denticulate, 
sparingly thinly lineolate, sparsely puberulous especially toward the margins beneath ; 
nerves 5-6 pair; petiole 2 in. Bracts as in S. pentstemonoides, but rather smaller. 
Corolla viscous-pubescent without, usually nearly black.— Vhen dried hardly 
distinguishable from S. pentstemonoides but by the smaller heads and the ciliate 
eaves, l 
VAR.? Treutleri ; heads slightl elongate, bracts ovate-lanceolate herbaceous hairy, 
bracteoles 4 in. linear, sepals Pa fn — Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft., frequent on Tonglo 
and Sundukphoo, Zreutler, &c. 
7. S. dasyspermus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 94; leaves 
elliptic or ovate acuminate very sparsely minutely hairy, heads even 1n 
frut capitate forming (by the falling of the floral leaves) quasi-panicles, 
bracts small oblong caducous, corolla 1 in. blue glabrous without. 
Prev; Kurz. 
An erect, nearly glabrous herb, 3-4 ft. (Kurz) ; branches obscurely quadrangular, 
Leaves 54 by 2} in. base suddenly shortly acuminate (the uppermost and red need 
floral leaves’ sessile cordate), crenate-serrate, subglabrous, minutely lineolate above ; 
perves 7-8 pair; petiole O-i in. Heads few-fid., glandular-hairy ; peduncles 5 ded 
bracts i in.; bracteoles å in. obovate-oblong, caducous. Calyx 3-3 in. divide 
Dearly to the base; segments linear-ligulate. Corolla nearly straight ; cylindric base 
