Strobilanthes.'] AcanthacecB. 3OI 



Fl. on slender ped., in lax panicles, no 



floral bracts, rarely bi'actlets {Leptacanthics). 



Cor. glabrous outside. 



L. oval, nearly sessile . . .26. S. HELICOIDES. 

 L. lanceolate, petiolate . . .27. S. PANICULATUS. 



Cor. pubescent outside . . .28. S. pulcherrimus. 



1. S. viscosus, And. in Thw. Emnn. 226 (i860). 



Jiisticia z'iscflsa^ Moon Cat. 3. Eftdopogon viscosus., Nees in DC. 

 Prod. xi. 104 (excl. var. /3). C. P. 2928, 2002 (part). 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 431. 



Stems 3-5 ft., glabrous, purple, with many erect branches, 

 1. variable, typically 2-4 in., oval, acute at base, acuminate, 

 acute, serrate, hispid on both sides, often very much 

 smaller and nearly glabrous, or sometimes larger and nearly 

 rotundate, petiole |-i in.; fl. rather large, opp., spikes 2-4 in., 

 axillary and terminal, shortly stalked, narrow, interrupted, 

 densely covered with long glandular hairs, bracts about \ in., 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute, bractlets \ in., linear, all very 

 viscous with glandular hairs ; cal. glandular-pubescent segm. 

 about as long as tube, linear-lanceolate, acute ; cor.-tube i in,, 

 pubescent outside, lower half very slender, upper half much 

 ventricose, oblique, lobes short, rounded, recurved ; stam. 2, 

 slightly exserted, anth. large. 



Var. /3, digritalis, Clarke. Endopogon digitalis., Nees, 1. c. 



L. glabrous ; bracts shorter, without glandular hair. 

 Var. y, argrutus, Clarke. Endopogon argutus, Nees, 1. c. 



L. glabrous, more rigid and more acurately toothed. 



Montane zone, 3000-7000 ft.; rather common, gregarious. Fl. 

 November-March ; white, or very pale pinkish-purple. 



Endemic. 



A variable species in the character of the inflorescence, which always 

 has a strono- musky odour; but the two named varieties are scarcely 

 worth distinction. 



2. S. Hockii, Tri?n. [Plate LXX.] 



Stems 2-4 ft., stout, rough on the angles, 1. large, 3-7 in., 

 broadly oval, acuminate, acute, finely crenate-serrate, densely 

 covered on both sides with erect, stiff, glandular hair, paler 

 beneath and with parallel prominent veins ; fl. large, spikes 

 numerous, close not interrupted, the whole forming a compact 

 pyramidal infl., bracts about | in., lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 

 bractlets linear, a little shorter, all closely covered with gland- 

 tipped hairs and very viscous ; cal. about as long as bracts, 

 segm. more than half as long as tube, linear, uppermost rather 

 the largest ; cor. about i in., glabrous outside, the narrow 



