462 CIX. ACANTHACEX, (C. B. Clarke.) | [Stroddlanthes. 
about as long as the moderately-widened ventricose part; segments ovate. Filaments 
and style sparsely hairy. Capsule } in., narrowly elliptic, pubescent upwards, 4-seeded. | 
Seeds } in., ovate, silky ; areoles hardly any.—Kurz rightly refers this to the neigh- 
bourhood of S. pentstemonoides. 
98. S. discolor, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix.477; leaves elliptic 
cuspidate-acuminate glabrous, heads cymose running into compound 
panicles, bractsifugacious, calyx hairy, corolla 14 in. nearly glabrous. 
Goldfussia discolor, Mees in DC. Prodr. xi. 172 (excl. West Himalayan 
examples). 
Buoran, Assam, and Kasia Mrs.; Griffith (Herb. Propr. nn. 2399, 2400; 
Kew Distrib. nn. 6105, 6120). 
A shrub, closely resembling S. pentstemonoides and S. sessilis; differing from the 
former in having the leaves more shortly petioled, less sharply toothed, the inflores- 
cence more compound ; from the latter in the leaves cuspidate acuminate. In the 
type examples of Nees the leaves are scarcely whitened beneath. Bracts not seen, 
oblong-lanceolate, fide Nees. 
Var. nudicalyz ; leaves densely lineolate above coriaceous very white beneath, 
bracts } in. obovate, sepals glabrate lineolate. Goldfussia sp. n. 25, Herb. Ind. Or. 
H. f. & T.—Khasia, alt. 4000 ft. ; Mausmai Falls, Grigith (Kew Distrib. n. 6120); 
Cherra, H. f. & T.—The type examples of this collected by J. D. H. look like a 
very distinct species; but some of the pieces of Griffith have the sepals glandular 
hairy. 
99. S. isophyllus, 7. Anders. in Cat. Hort. Calcutt. 43, and in Journ. 
Linn, Soc. ix. 478 ; leaves linear-lanceolate attenuate at both ends glabrous, 
heads numerous small cymed, bracts elliptic obtuse green shorter than the 
calyx, bracteoles nearly as long as the bracts, corolla 1 in. nearly glabrous 
lavender. Goldfussia isophylla, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7162, and in Wall. PI. 
As. Rar. iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 176; Bot. Mag. t. 4363 ; Maund 
Bot. t. 244, Strobilanthes Goldfussia, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 71, 
excl, syn, 
KnasrA Mrs., or adjoining parts of Silhet or Assam. All the examples are of 
cultivated plants. 
A nearly glabrous, erect, very ramous shrub, 1-2 ft. Leaves 3 by 4-4 in., oppo- 
site, subequal, entire or slightly serrulate, covered with raphides on both surfaces ; 
nerves 4-5 pair; petiole 0-1 in. Heads } in. diam., 1—4-fld., terminal but appearing 
axillary cymed, the reduced leaves on the short axillary branches being caducous ; 
bracteal leaves to the heads caducous; bract J in., green, nearly glabrous, subper- 
sistent; bracteoles } in., linear-oblong, green, nearly glabrous. Calyx i in., divided 
nearly to the base, pubescent; segments sublinear. Corolla curved; cylindric base 
much shorter than the ventricose portion, lobes short round. Stamens and style 
hairy. Capsule nearly À in. glabrous, 4-seeded. Seeds jj in., ovate, silky ; areoles 
hardly any. 
100. S. anisophyllus, T. Anders. in Cat. Hort. Calcutt. 43, and in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 478 ; leaves very unequal or pseudo-alternate lanceolate 
acuminate at both ends glabrous, heads small often cymed, bracts elliptic 
obtuse green about as long as the calyx, bracteoles rather shorter than the 
bracts, corolla 13 in. nearly glabrous lavender. Ruellia anisophylla, Wall. 
Cat. 2349 ; Hook. Fl. Exot.t.191. R. persicifolia, Griff. Irin. Notes, 70 ; 
Bot. Reg. t.955.  Goldfussia anisophylla, Wees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 88, 
and in DC. Prodr. xi. 176; Bot. Mag. t. 3404. 
KnasrA Mrs., alt. 1-4000 ft., common; Wallich, &c. . 
A shrub, 2-3 ft. Leaves 3} by $-1 in.; the opposite leaf of each pair 1} by in. 
or obsolete.—Except in the unequal, rather broader leaves, this wholly agrees with 
