Strobilunthes. | CIX. ACANTHACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 475 
A very large shrub (Beddome), glabrous or the sepal-tips thinly glandular-hairy ; 
branches terete. Leaves 7 by 21 in., serrulate; nerves 10 pair. Panicle lax, 
branches long curved, flowers distant; bracts in opposite pairs, 4—1 in., sometimes 
both, more often one only, carrying a flower on a pedicel O-4in. Sepals i-jin., 
linear-ligulate. Corolla slightly curved, nearly glabrous, constricted part of the tube 
"ort (from Beddome). Filaments and style hairy (Beddome). Capsule à in., 
glabrous. 
,142. S. helicoides, 7. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 929, and in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 483 ; leaves elliptic or obovate acuminate glabrous, panicle 
very compound capillary divaricate glabrous, flowers scattered mostly in 
appearance pedicelled, bracts much smaller than the calyx, corolla 1 in. 
glabrous without violet. Bedd. Ie. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 220. Leptacanthus 
helicoides, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 170. 
CEYLON, up to 3000 ft. alt.; Walker, Thwaites. 
A shrub, 2-3 ft., glabrous except the sepal-tips. Leaves 4 by 1} in. (lower larger), 
base cuneate rounded (or the upper cordate), toothed, paler beneath ; nerves 5-6 
pair; petiole 0-3 in. Panicle 6-12 in. diam., dense with slender divaricate recurved 
or zigzag branches; bracts at the forks 4-} in., ovate ; bracts below the flowers 7,-¢ in., 
linear or linear-obovate. Sepals } in., linear, glabrous or sparsely glandular-hairy 
at the tips. Corolla nearly straight, ventricose, constricted base very short ; segments 
short, rounded. Capsule 4 in., glabrous, 2-seeded (4-seeded, Nees).—The flowers are 
in appearance solitary terminal on pedicels 4-} in., with 2 bracts (called bracteoles by 
dome) placed 0—j. in. below the flower. 
143. S. rubicundus, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 483 (not of 
Thwaites Enum. 229); leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends nearly 
glabrous, panicle compound slender glandular-pubescent, bracts at the 
lorks ovate acuminate, flower-bracts 0, corolla $ in. pubescent without 
violet. S. paniculatus, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 199, not of T. Anders. 
Ruellia rubicunda, Heyne in Herb. Rottler; Wall. Cat. 2337. Leptacan- 
thus r bicundus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 90, and in DC. Prodr. 
xi. 170. 
S. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Wynaad and Coorg, alt. 2-3000 ft., Rottler, Beddome . 
A rather delicate shrub, 5-6 ft. ; branches cylindric, glabrous. Leaves 5 by 1j in., 
tnulate crenate or subentire ; nerves 6-7 pair, glabrous or pubescent beneath ; petiole 
in. Panicle 8 in., narrow ; bracts at the forks 3—} in., lanceolate from an ovate base 3 
pedicels 4-4 in, mostly ebracteolate except at the base. Calyx i-j in., divi ed 
deeply, closely pubescent ; segments lanceolate-subulate, otten very unequal. 
orolla nearly straight; base funnel-shaped, hardly cylindric. Capsule not seen. 
144. S. paniculatus, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 483, not of 
Beda. ; leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends nearly glabrous, panicle 
compound slender glandular-pubescent, bracts at the forks linear or linear- 
oblong, pedicels very short, flower-bracts 0, corolla nearly 1 in. glabrous 
without. S. rubicundus, T. Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 229, not of Journ. 
Linn, Soe. ix. 483. 
CEYLON; Thwaites (C. P. n. 1). | 
Pedicels 0 i in. po 13d. iandular-hairy. Otherwise as S. rubicundus ; 
e leaves are in the examples a good deal longer. 
145. S. pulc ' Anders. in Thwaites Enum. 229, excl. syn.» 
and in Journ. Tam hoe T A Ceylon plant only; leaves elliptic und 
nate at both ends hairy on the nerves beneath, panicle large very conpor te 
Viscous hairy, bracts at its divisions ovate acute, flower-bracts eid , 
vorolla, 1 in. puberulous without violet, capsule hairy. Leptacanthus 
alkeri, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 170, not of Wight. 
