Tab, 6922. 

 STROBILANTHES coloeatus.. 



Native of Assam and the Eastern Himalaya. 



Nut. Ord. Acanthaces:. — Tribe Kcellieje. 

 Genus Steobilanthes, Blume ; {Bentli. et HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 108G.) 



SrEOisTLAXTirES (Paniculate) coloratut ; suflrutcx glabrescons, ramis teretibus, 

 foliis 4— 7-polticaribua ovatis ellipticisve acuminata sorratis, panieulia erect is 

 multifloris, bracteis ellipticis caducis, ramis graciliboa strictis, sepalis sub- 

 tequalibus linearibus obtusis glabris, corolla? sesquipollicaris tubo ventricoso 

 glabra pallide azureo-parpureo, lobis rotandatis, capsula late ovata acuta 4- 

 sperma, seininibus ovatis pubescentibus vix areolatis. 



S. coloratus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. ix. p. 481 ; Clarke in Jlooh. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 473. 



Goldfussia colorata, Nees in Wall. Plant. As. Par. vol. iii. p. 89 ; and in DC. 

 Prodr. vol. xi. p. 176. 



Ruellia colorata, Wall. Cat. No. 2388. 



This is a very, handsome species of the enormous 

 Asiatic genus Sirobilanthes, of which there are upwards of 

 150 species in British India alone, and this is its head- 

 quarters, for indeed only one species has been found 

 beyond the limits of tropical Asia, and that one in tropical 

 Africa. S. coloratus is an ally of S. WalUchii, which was 

 figured in tins work under the name of Goldfussia Tkomsoni 

 (Tab. 5119), which has, however, much fewer flowers, with 

 a curved deep red-purple corolla. S. coloratus is a native 

 of the Eastern Himalaya, at elevations of 2000 to 5000 feet, 

 in Sikkim and Bhotan, where it has been gathered by C. B- 

 Clarke, and it is abundant in the Khasia Mountains, south 

 of Assam, whence Wallich's collectors first procured it, and 

 where I found it abundantly at elevations of 3000 to 4000 

 feet, attaining 10 feet in height, with a panicle two to 

 three feet long, and nearly as broad. The specimen here 

 figured was raised at Kew from seeds sent by Dr. King, of 

 the Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, and flowered in 

 January of last year. 



Desce. A tall glabrous undershrub, four to six feet 



FEB. 1st, 1887. 



