Tas. 7538, 
STROBILANTHES coattosvs. 
Native of the East Indies. 
Nat. Ord. AcanrHacrx.—Tribe RuELLUER. 
Genus Srrositantues, Bl, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1086.) 
Stropitantues (Bracteate) callosus; frutex erectus, caule robusto subpoly- 
gono tuberculis seriatis parvis instructo, foliis 6-9-pollicaribus elliptico- 
lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis subserrulatis ciliolatis in petiolam 
elongatum ad medium alatum angustatis, nervis utrinque cost 8-16, 
supra lineolatis et sparse pilosis, subtus glabratis, floribus amplis in 
spicas strobiliformes dispositis, bracteis late scaphaformibus obtusis 
herbaceis, bracteolis 0, sepalis linearibus obtusis, corolla subsymme- 
tricee tubo brevi, fauce inflato calyce duplo longiore intus piloso, limbo fere 
2-poll. lato lobis subsqnualibus patentibus orbicularibus undulatis 
violaceis, ore pallido, filamentis pilosis, antheris oblongis, ovario glabro, 
stylo piloso, capsula } poll. longa 2-sperma, seminibus obovatis acutis — 
appresse villosis, 
S. callosus, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. vol. iii. p. 85; et in DC. Prodr. vol. 
x. p. 185 (pro maz. part.). T. Anders. in Journ Linn. Soe. vol. ix. 
(1867) p. 469. Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 451. Kirtikar in 
Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. vii. (1892) p. 64,t. A. Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb, Fl. 188 (evel. descr. semin.). Constable in Kew Bullet. 1896, 
p. 98. 
S. Grahamianus, Wight. Ic. t. 1520. Dalz. & Gibs. l.c. 188. T. Anders. le. 
Ruellia callosa, Wall. Cat. n. 2359. 
A native of Western India, abundant below the Ghats in 
Concan, Canara, and in the Central Provinces ; also extend 
ing northward to Mt. Abu in Rajputana, there forming a 
shrub six to eight feet high, said to flower in its third year 
of growth, from June to September. When fully grown the 
stems are cut to the ground, and used with mud in making 
the walls of cottages, &c., new stems coming up from the 
stools. The leaves are used in native practice as a tonic, 
febrifuge, antispasmodic, stimulant and purgative, but 
according to Surgeon-Major Kirtikar, when used fresh, 
the hairs have an irritating action on the stomach. 
Recently dried flower-buds have been sent to the Director 
of Kew by Mr. F. C. Constable, with the following infor- 
mation: “TI was walking on a steep mountain side (in 
JuNE Ist, 1807. 
