92 ACANTHACE^ 



THUNBERGIA. 



Climbing plants with opposite leaves, and flowers 

 pedicelled in the leaf-axils ; distinguished from all 

 other by the two large sepal like bracteoles, the calyx 

 reduced to a mere ring or a circle of small teeth, and the 

 fruit depressed globose with stout beak (sterile part) 

 above. 



Species about 70 in the tropics of the old world. 



T. grandiflora ^oxb, with large blue-flowers is 

 common in Madras Gardens. T. mysorensis has a 

 yellow flower with brown centre. 



Thunbcrgia tomentosa Wall ; F.B.I, iv 391, I 2. 

 Leaves ovate, lobed or not at the base. Bracts I inch. 

 Calyx teeth very slender, up to % inch long. Corolla 

 pure white, tube lYz inch narrow, limb 2 inches across 

 flat. Capsule with beak I to iVz inch hairy. 



On the Ghats, up to 6,500 feet. 



STROBILANTHES. 



Strobilanthcs foliosus T. Anders.; Vol. I p. 31 1, var 

 capitatus. Old stems very thickly covered with glandu- 

 lar hairs which emit a strong scent similar to that of 

 sandal-wood oil. t. 451. 



Flowered in profusion in sholas at Shembaganur, in 191 8 

 and on Lamb's Rock Road, Coonoor, etc., about the same time. 

 Fyson 6281. 



Strobilanthcs gossypinus T. Anders. ; F.B.I, iv 434, 

 XVIII 14. A beautiful plant with all green parts 

 covered with yellowish wool, and dull gold woolly 

 spikes, as also the corolla. 



Flowered near Ootacamund, October 191 7. 



Strobilanthes consanguincus Clarke ; F.B.L iv 435, 

 XVIII 17. "Similar to S. cuspidatus, Vol. I p. 312, IL 



