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STROBILANTHES SESSILIS. SESSILE-FLOWERED 
STROBILANTHES. 
Class and Order. 
DecanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Rve viacex. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis herbaceis. Corolla hypogyna, 
infundibuliformis, tubo sensim transeunte in limbum cam- 
panulatum, quinquefidum, laciniis equalibus v. subequa- 
libus, obtusis v. emarginatis. Stamina 4, corolle tubo 
inserta, inclusa, didynama; anthere biloculares, loculis pa- 
rallelis. Stylus simplex ; stigma subulatum, incurvum, v. 
involutum, Ovarium biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Cap- 
sula subunguiculata, tetragono-columnaris, bilecularis, 
tetrasperma, loculicide bivalvis, valvis medio septiferis v. 
dissepimento soluto. Semina discoidea, angulata, retina- 
culis uncinatis subtensa.—F rutices v. rarius herbe, in Asia 
tropica crescentes ; foliis oppositis ; spicis axillaribus v. ter- 
minalibus, plus minus densis; bracteis foltaceis v. foliaceo- 
membranaceis, persistentibus v. caducis, bracteolis parvis v. 
rarius nullis; floribus majusculis, ceruleis v. albis. Endl. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
SrropiLANTHEs * sessilis ; herbacea hirsutissima, caule erecto 
quadrangulari, foliis sessilibus ovatis acuminatis crena- 
tis, spicis axillaribus oppositis terminalibusque bracteis 
ovatis cuspidatis. Nees. 
SrropitanrueEs sessilis. Nees von Esen. in Wall. Pl. Asiat. 
Rar. 3, 85.—Herb. Wight. n. 1946. 
This plant, whose blossoms are very handsome, was raised at the | 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds sent by Dr. Lusx, from Bom- 
bay, in 1833, and flowered in the stove for the first time in October, 
1839; but much more freely in April, 1841. I suspect there is a 2 
mistake in the opinion, that the species was first discovered in the - 
‘southern part of the Peninsula of India. The idea has been suggested 
* So called from erpoGsr0s, the cone of a Pine, and asbos, a flower, from 
the imbricated bracteas at the base of the flowers resembling a Pine-cone. 
