dibuliform, limb regular, tube very hairy within; 

 stamens monodelphous at the base; anthers oblong: 

 capsule 4-seeded; seeds near the base, the lower 

 ones often aborting, upper oblong, obtuse, sub -trun- 

 cate, pubescent 



Western slopes of the Neilgherries under shade by 

 the roadside, about 2 miles below Sisparah, Flower- 

 ing February. 



shortly monadelphous at the base, joined by a mem- 

 brane. Capsule oblong, smooth, obtuse or somewhat 

 attenuated at the base, 4-seeded in the middle. 



1512. (A.) Strobilanthes sessiloides (R. W.), 

 suffiruticose, very hairy all over, stem erect, four- 

 sided: leaves sessile, rotundato-cordate, serrate, bul- 

 lately reticulate, coriaceous : spikes axillary and ter- 



The generic distinction between Goldfussia and minal, bracts broad cordate, cuspidate, entire. — Very 

 Strobilanthes is to me very obscure, and I am unable like the preceding, but differs in being generally a 



to say with certainty whether this species belongs 

 to the one or other genus. At first I referred it to 

 Strobilanthes, and fear, on reconsideration, that I have 



larger plant, in the much coarser clothing, in the 

 buUately reticulate leaves, the corolla being much 

 hairyer within. Spikes from 1 to 3 inches long, the 



changed for the worse. Leaves with the petiol 6 to margins of the upper bracts tinged with a purplish 

 - 10 inches long, flowers pale blue. Each capitulum, blush, flowers deep lilac coloured and very handsome. 



usually only 2-flowered, has 3 pairs of opposite bracts, Neilgherries but rare, growing with the other. 



1513. (A.) Strobilanthes Perrottetianus 



there long and matted. 



as shown at fig. 4 of the plate. The pubescence 



of the calyx is not very well shown in fig. 3, the 



hairs lengthen as they approach the apex and are (Nees), shrubby, branches reddish, hairy : leaves ovate, 



caudato-cuspidate, undulato-crenate, hairy,very rough 

 above : spikes axillary, opposite, secund, oval, nod- 

 1509. Goldfussia Dalhousiana (Nees), leaves ding, dense, hairy; bracts ovate, acute, the in- 

 terior ones larger, thiner, and coloured ; stamens 

 monadelphous. — An erect shrub, 3-8 feet high, thick- 

 ly covered with brownish-purple bristles, becomin 

 smoother by age : leaves 4-8 inches long, 1 to 

 broad, hairy ; peduncles 1-3 inches long, simple or 

 bifid or trifid, naked. Spikes about an inch long, com- 

 pact, hairy. Corolla pale blue, from 9 to 12 lines 

 long, tube narrow, throat inflated. Stamens incluse 



unequal, oval, acuminate at both base and apex, 

 serrated and, like the herbaceous stem, hairy: spikes 

 terminal (and axillary ?) oval, glabrous ; peduncles 

 erect, straight : bracts roundish, concave, caducous. — 

 Simla, flowering September. 



The drawing was made firom the original specimen 

 named by Nees. 



1510. Goldfussia PENSTEMOiXOiDES (Nees), leaves united by a hairy membrane, capsule contracted 

 elliptic oblong, attenuated at both ends, unequal, ser- at the base, compressed, 2-seeded in the middle. 



■ - " Neilgherries, not unfrequent on the outskirts of 



terminal 



tate, afterwards lengthening and becoming denuded ; clumps of jungle about Ootacamund. 



stem erect, straight, tetragonous. ^n >f / * x o xxr /tvt x 

 Hathepoor, Sept. Edgeworth. 1514. (A.) Strobilanthes Wightianus (Nees), 

 The drawing from which the plate is taken was shrubby, erect, very haury, obtusely d-angled or near- 

 communicated by Mr. Edgeworth, several years ago, h terete ; leaves ovate, petioled, undulato-crenate, ru- 

 but unavoidably left, with many others from the gous : spikes axillary, opposite and terminal : bracts 

 same skilful pencil, unpublished until the present foliaceous, ovate: corolla a little longer than the bracts, 



time. As this was, at first, the only species of the 

 genus intended to be introduced I, with a view to 

 rendering the generic analysis more perfect, added, 

 to those of the original drawing, dissections of G. 

 tsophylla^ an authentic specimen of which I happen- 

 ed to have from the Calcutta Botanic garden. 

 They will be found in the upper left hand corner 

 of the plate. 



Strobilanthes. 



This is a large genus. Nees has therefore found it 

 necessary to divide it, and has grouped the 65 species 

 K?fDwn to him under 4 heads — viz. 



A. Genuini. Spicae dense strobiliformes. 



B. SquARROsi. C. Denudati, and 

 D. Pteracanthl Spicae laxae, folioseae, flexuosae 



cauleque saepe alatae vel sabalatae. These sections 

 will be noticed under each of the following species 

 by the addition of the sectional letter to their number. 



1511. (A.) Strobilanthes sessilis (Nees), suf- 

 fruticose, very hairy, stem erect, 4-angled: leaves they respectively grow. 

 sessile, ovate, acuminate, crenate, spikes axillary, op- 

 posite and terminal; bracts ovate, cuspidate.— Stems 



lobes emarginate. — Stems 2 to 10 feet high, very 

 straight, erect, or sometimes with a tendency to 

 spread, very hairy with long, thick, articulated, 

 spreading bristles: leaves opposite, 1| to 3 inches 

 long, about 1 inch broad, very hairy, rugose: pedun- 

 cles axillary, short, spikes about the size of a 

 cherry, ovate or sub-globose, cemuous. Bracts 

 densely imbricated, spreading at the points, foliace- 

 ous ; uie interior ones membranaceous: corolla 8 or 

 9 lines long, nearly of the colour of that of Hyocia- 

 mus niger, and like that reticulated with purplish 

 veins, limb 5-lobed, lobes obovate, emarginate, equal, 



throat hairy within. 



There are two varieties if not distinct species of this 

 plant, the one tall, 4-8 feet, generally found in low 

 marshy ground, as detached plants ; the other in high 

 and dry ground, forming dense clumps of low bushes. 

 In the former the flowers are larger and more con- 

 spicuous: in other respects they seem so much 

 alike that I refrain from viewing these as two species, 

 though their habits are so distinct, under the belief 

 that the differences depend on the localities in which 



sub-cordate, crenate: spikes about an inch: calyx 

 about 4 an inch long, the lobes lanceolate, the two 

 lower ones narrower. Corolla about an inch long, 

 varying from pale blue up to purplish. Stamens 



1515-16. (A.) Strobilanthes luridus (W. R.), 

 a large, ramous shrub ; branches virgate, bearing the 

 inflorescence on the lower naked portions: leaves 

 oval, oblong, acuminate, pubescent on both sides, fine- 

 ly serrated : spikes ascending, one or two together, 

 opposite : bracts large, orbiQukr emarginate or slightly 



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