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corolla as long or longer, by ^ inch wide, pale purplish 

 blue at tips of lobes. 



On both plateaus Nilgiris, Ootacamund, Fir. i October 

 1Q15 ; Pulneys, Shembaganur, July 1910. Fyson 3904, 1184. 



Strobilanthes luridus Wight.; F.B.I, iv 450, XVIII 

 64. A stout straggling shrub remarkable for the flowers 

 being in erect spikes on the old wood, and having very 

 broad bracts. Leaves 6 by 3 ^ inches, ovate acute, 

 softly hairy on both sides, finely crenulate. Spike 6 to 10 

 inches. Bracts I^ by ^A inches broadly obovate, very 

 glandular, sticky. Bracteoles and sepals nearly as long, 

 narrow. Corolla l tol Vi inches. Glabrous outside slightly 

 2-Iipped, lurid purple. Capsule ^ inch. Seeds J^ inch 

 across, obovate or nearly circular, very thin. t. 453. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor on Lambs Rock Road at 6,000 feet : 

 flowered 1Q18. 



Pulneys : Neutral Saddle shola at 5,500 feet ; Fir. 1904. 

 Fyson 6510. Bourne 5251. 



Strobilanthes asper Wight.\ F.B.I, iv 452, XVIII 68. 

 Characterised by the spikes of flowers being fascicled 

 at the ends of slender axillary peduncles. Leaves ovate 

 or elliptic, acuminate, coarsely serrate, scabrid on both 

 sides, and very much lineolate on the upper, by the 

 sub-epidermal linear crystals. Peduncles I to 3 inches. 

 Spikes 5^ to M inch shortly stalked, fascicled or in a 

 short raceme. Bracts }/>, inch ovate acuminate ; bracteo- 

 les and sepals about as long narrower. Narrow (lower) 

 part of corolla not exserted beyond the sepals. 



Nilgiris: Neduvattam, Fir. September 1908. Bourne 5250. 



Strobilanthes sessilis Nees.\ F.B.L iv 452, XVIII 69. 

 A small shrub, distinguished from all our species by its 

 stalkless leaves. Stem 12 to 18 inches hairy on all green 

 parts. Leaves sessile ovate acute, I by J4 inch hairy 

 on both surfaces, lineolate also on the upper. Spikes 



