464 CIX. ACANTHACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Strobilanthes. 
Kuasia Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft., common; Wallich, &c. Assam; Griffith, Mrs. 
Mack. 
An erect shrub, 1-2 ft.; branches hairy. Leaves lj by $ in., upper cordate 
sessile, lower sometimes short-petioled, serrate; nerves 5 pair, springing near the leaf- 
base. Spikes 2-6 in., terminal, hairy, dense at the tip, usually much interrupted 
below? the lowest flowers often distant solitary in the axil of altogether leaf-like 
persistent bracts; bract proper }-} in., herbaceous, glandular, deciduous ; bracteoles 
lin. elliptic. Calyx 4-} in. (or more in fruit), divided nearly to the base; segments 
linear-oblong, subobtuse, glandular-pubescent. Corolla curved; narrow cylindric 
base of the tube hardly so long as the ventricose part. Filaments glabrous; style 
thinly hairy. Capsule 1-$ in. glandular-pubescent, 4-seeded. Seeds 3 in., ovate, 
hairy; areoles small. 
.105. S. phyllocaulos, Clarke; leaves short-petioled ovate acute 
hairy, spikes long dense interrupted below in fruit, bracts ovate, corolla 
i in. nearly glabrous purple. 
Knasra Mrs., alt. 5000 ft.; Moflong, J. D. H.; Dingling, Clarke. . 
Stems stout, hairy ; internodes not half as long as the leaves. Leaves 35 by ljin., 
without the acumination characteristic of S. extensus, base of the lower leaves shortly 
acuminate, serrations often 40-50 to the leaf (rarely 20 in S. extensus), upper surface 
softly densely adpressedly hairy, lower softly patently hairy reticulately nervose; 
nerves 8 pair, subequally distant (not all springing near the base of the leaf). Inflo- 
rescence, flowers and capsule exactly as of S. extensus.—So unlike S. extensus in its 
densely leafy stem that it has been sorted in the Herbarium with ZEchmanthera 
leiosperma, which it exceedingly resembles; but it is difficult to separate it from S. 
extensus by any technical character. 
,106. S. Newii, Beddome ms.; leaves petioled ovate acute pubescent, 
spikes much interrupted panicled, bracts lanceolate, corolla 14-13 m. 
nearly glabrous purple. S. extensus, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 202, not of 
ees. 
W. Mysore; Manjeerabad, New (fide Beddome). 
A small shrub; branches puberulous, glandular hairy towards the tips. Leaves 
2 by 1i in., base rounded or subcordate, serrate, puberulous scabrous above pubescent 
beneath; petiole 1-2 in. (uppermost leaves sessile) ^ Panicles 6-10 in.; flowers 
nearly all opposite distant. Calyx and corolla nearly as of S. extensus.— Col. Beddome 
published this as S. extensus, to which it is no doubt closely allied, but the leaves 
will not match, and the bracts are totally different, very hairy, early caducous, the 
bracteoles subobsolete. 
107. S. alatus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 194; leaves petioled ovate 
acute hairy, spikes early panicled, flowers all distant, bracts narrowly 
oblong caducous, corolla 12 in. nearly glabrous purple. T. Anders. ?? 
Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 476 (excl. Sikkim examples). X. reflexus, Nees l. c. 
s osi attenuatus, Nees l.c. 193 (excl. syn.). Ruellia urticifolia, Wall. 
Gi. Le . 
W. TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft., common; from Kashmir to Kumaon. 
—Distris, N.E. Cabul. 
A shrub, 2-4 ft., erect, viscous-hairy. Leaves 5 by 23 in., upper sessile, lower 
long-petioled, base cordate rounded or attenuate, serrate; nerves 7-8 pair; petiole 
1-3 in., linear or winged upwards. Spikes (by the early fall of the bracts) forming 
terminal panicles; upper flowers soon in distant pairs, not capitate ; bracts narrow- 
lanceolate or oblong, caducous ; upper hardly so long as the calyx; bracteoles j in., 
narrowly oblong, caducous. Calyx 4- in., deeply divided ; segments unequal, linear, 
obtuse, green, viscous-hairy. Corolla ventricose, mouth curved, constricted base 
hardly longer than the calyx, 2 hairy lines within. Stamens glabrous. Ovary glandular, 
style very remotely minutely hairy. Capsule 3 in., narrowly elliptic, glandular-hairy, 
