302 Acanthacece. {^StrobUanthes.. 



lower part of tube rather over \ in,, slightly curved, the upper 

 part campanulate-funnel-shaped, hairy within, lobes short, 

 rounded ; stam. 2, not exscrted, fil. with spreading- white hair 

 below; capsule \ in., narrowly rhomboid-oblong, scarcely 

 compressed, blunt, slightly tapering to base, glabrous ; seeds 

 2, \ in, glabrous, dark brown. 



Upper montane zone at about 6000 ft.; very rare. Sita Eliya, near 

 Hakgjala; first noticed by W. Nock, Superintendent of Hakgala Bot. 

 Gardens, in 1893. Fl. March, April; bright violet. 



l^ndemic. 



Whole plant very strongly musk-scented. The seeds take just a year 

 to mature. 



3. S. stenodon, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 432 (1884). 



C. P. 3874, 3876. 



Stems 4-5 ft., obscurely quadrangular, glabrous, youngs 

 shoots cottony ; 1. 2-4 in., lanceolate-oval, tapering to base,, 

 acuminate, obtuse, faintly crenate-dentate, glabrous and copi- 

 ously lineolate above, densely adpressed-pubescent beneath,, 

 with silvery or yellowish silky hair, lat. veins very oblique, 

 petiole i-ii in.; fl. opp., moderate-sized, spikes slender,, 

 linear, rather lax, unbranched, axillary and terminal, bracts 

 about \ in., leafy, obovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded, concave, 

 woolly in upper part, veined, bractlets o ; cal. slender, nearly 

 glabrous, cut fully half way down, segm. rather unequal (2 

 longer), narrowly linear, very acute, bristle-pointed ; cor. -tube 

 about \ in., glabrous outside, hairy within, lower half very 

 narrow, upper half campanulate-funnel-shaped, laterally com- 

 pressed, split for some way down the back between the 

 posterior lobes, lobes i in., the two upper linear-oblong, sub- 

 acute, spreading, divaricate, the three lower (forming a lower 

 lip) oblong, obtuse ; stam. 2, exserted through the split cor.- 

 tube ; style curved, exceeding stam.; capsule ^ in., clavate- 

 ovoid, pointed; seeds 2, oblong-oval, glabrous, striate, yellow. 



Intermediate district ; very rare. Below Lakkaigalla, Matale East, 

 1863 (Thwailes); Lagalla, E. Matale, 1865 (Beckett); on the summit of 

 Ritigala, N.C. l*rov. (2500 ft.), not in flower, 1887. Fl. November; very 

 pale violet, with darker veins, faintly almond-scented. 



Endemic. 



Has a strong outward resemblance to StcnosipJtflniian Russcllianuvty 

 and before the flowering period the leaves are often very white beneath, 

 as in the var. subscriccum of that species, to which Thwaites referred 

 C. P. 3876. The specimens from Lagalla are for the most part nearly 

 glabrous, but the Ritigala ones have the young stems and the under 

 surface of the 1. very densely silky, with adpressed white or golden hair. 

 Roots brought into the Gardens thence in 1887 did not flower till 1893, 

 and then died off 



The deeply cut narrow lobes of the cor. give this a very difierent look 

 to the rest of the genus. 



