Strobilanthes.] ^ cix. AcANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 465 
4-seeded. Seeds } in., ovate, shaggy; areoles hardly any.— The lower long-petioled leaves 
are usually cordate, but leaves acuminate at the base occur on the same plant. The 
species is better distinguished by the tips of the spikes having the flowers (quite early) 
spicate not capitate, and all the bracts very narrow ; but the leaves about the base of 
the panicle are cordate ovate acuminate. Nees has written this species up under 3 
names in the Kew Herbarium: as S. alatus, which is altogether right; as S. attenuatus, 
which is erroneous so far as he doubtfully meant it for Ruellia attenuata, Wall. & 
Nees (an Echinacanthus); and as S. extensus, which is a blunder. 
108. S. Lachenensis, Clarke; leaves ovate attenuated at the base 
laxly hairy, spikes long interrupted at the base, bracts sessile elliptic trun- 
cate at the base exceeding the calyx caducous, corolla middle-sized glabrate 
without. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen, alt. 10,000 ft., J. D. H. . 
Branches elongate, with lax white patent hairs. Leaves 2j by 1} in., obtuse or 
triangular, base (even in the uppermost) acuminate, decurrent. Spikes 2-5 in., 
solitary, simple; lower bracts 4 by 4 in., green, entire, exactly truncate, not at all 
cordate. Corolla (not expanded) 2 in., with a few scattered lax hairs towards the 
apex without.— This has been referred as a Sikkim form to S. alatus, to which it is 
certainly allied; but no one of the numerous examples of S. alatus will it match even 
reasonably well. 
109. S. collinus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 86, and in DC. 
Prodr. xi, 192; leaves large elliptic acuminate glabrous, spikes forming thin 
terminal pubescent panicles, bracts narrowly elliptic overtopping the calyx, 
corolla 2 in. nearly glabrous. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 476. 
Ruellia collina, Wall. Cat. 2343. 
PENANG; G. Porter. . 
Branch-tips stout, glabrous; internodes elongate. Leaves 9} by 3} in., base 
cuneate, repand-crenate, bearing raphides on both surfaces ; nerves 7 pair; petiole 
Pim Spikes 34 in., with few flowers in remote opposite pairs, early running into 
* few-branched panicle; bracts } in., concave; bracteoles 0. Calyx }-} in., divided 
nearly to the base; segments linear, with weak subulate pubescent tips. Corolla 
slightly curved, cylindric base as long as the ventricose part. Capsule 3 in., clavate- 
oblong, puberulous, 4-seeded. Seeds 1 in., ovate, shortly fulvous-hairy ; areoles small. 
—Habit and calyx much like those of the large Asystasias, but the capsule and seeds 
are of Strobilanthes. 
110. S. lancifolius, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 480; leaves 
elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, spikes linear interrupted hairy 
collected into terminal panicles, bracts oblong obtuse green shorter than the 
calyx deciduous, corolla 13 in. minutely pubescent without deep-blue. 
MOULMEIN; Parish. TENASSERIM; Beddome. . 
. å shrub; branches terete. Leaves 7 by 3 in., widest about the middle, serrate, 
minutely lineolate above; nerves 7-8 pair; petiole 1 in. Spikes ascending, straig t; 
flowers nearly all in opposite pairs; bracts }—4 in.; bracteoles } in., linear-oblong, 
obtuse, deciduous. Calyx 4-} in., subequally divided nearly to the base; segments 
linear-oblong, obtuse, pubescent. Corolla nearly straight, funnel-shaped, ventricose 
Upwards ; segments ovate, dense rows of long white hair within. Longer filaments 
White hairy, Capsule 3 in., glabrate, 4-seeded. Seeds shaggy. 
ll. s. denticulatus, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 483; leaves 
long-petioled elliptic acuminate at both ends fuscous-pubescent on the 
nerves beneath, spikes linear interrupted fuscous-pubescent, flowers tor 
wy, of them) in distant pairs, bracts lanceolate. Ruellia denticu. P 
all. Cat, 2418, Asystasia denticulata, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 89, 
and in DC, Prodr, xi. 164. l 
Kuasra Mrs.; Wallich. PATKOYE Mrs. (in S.E. Assam), at the river Namyoon 
(by error Kamyoon in Griffith's Journals); Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6112). 
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