Strobilanthes.'] AcailtJiacecE. 307 



obtuse, silky with long yellowish hair, bractlets shorter, 

 oblong-linear ; cal. § in., segm. almost distinct sep., linear 

 subacute, covered with long silky hair ; cor.-tube f-i in., with 

 a very short narrow base, then narrowly campanulate, glabrous 

 without, with 2 lines of hair within ; stam. 4, included ; 

 capsule ^ in., obovate-ovoid, pointed, pubescent ; seeds 2, 

 \ in., shaggy with long hair. 



Van /3, laniceps, Clarke^ I. c. 



Hairs on peduncles, bracts and cal. more copious, dense 

 and long. 



Moist region, 2000-3000 ft.; very rare. Only found at Watagoda, 

 Hantane in 1855 (Thwaites). Fl. Dec; pale sulphur-yellow, with two 

 pink bands along the upper side of the tube. 



Also in Southern India. , 



Var. /3 is scarcely worth note ; it grew with the type. 



13. S. anceps, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 189 (1847). 

 Thw. Enum. 229. C. P. 2000. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 442 (excl. mzx. punctata). Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 204. 



Stems 2-3 ft., swollen above nodes, sub-quadrangular below, 

 sharply so and often slightly winged above, pubescent with 

 crisp deflexed hairs, much branched divaricately; 1. variable, 

 1^-4 in., rounded or tapering at base, acuminate, subacute, 

 entire or very slightly crenate-dentate, glabrous or shortly 

 hairy above, hairy on veins beneath, strongly ciliate, petiole 

 f-i in., hairy; fl. 4-8, spikes i-ij in., not very crowded, 

 peduncles 1-3 in., terminal and lateral, usually with a pair of 

 sessile leafy ovate bracts half way up and another pair at 

 summit, the bases of which are decurrent, forming wings on 

 peduncle, floral bracts broadly oval or spathulate-oval, leaf- 

 like, obtuse or subacute, recurved, slightly pubescent, strongly 

 ciliate, often densely covered with minute yellow glands, 

 bractlets filiform ; sep. \ in., rather longer than bractlets, 

 linear, hairy ; cor.-tube f in., narrowly campanulate, straight, 

 very glandular-pubescent outside, stam. included ; capsule not 

 seen, \ in., oblong ; seeds 4, 3^ in., closely covered with 

 hygroscopic elastic hairs.' 



Moist zone up to 7000 ft.; common, gregarious; very rare in the low 

 country, e.g.., Eknaligoda, near Ratnapura; Singhe Raja Forest; Am- 

 bagamuwa. FL August-April ; white. 



Also in Southern India. 



An insignificant-looking species. Has a faint aromatic scent. 



14. S. punctatus, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 182 (1847). 

 S. anceps, van, Thw. Enum. 229. C. P. 3998, 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 442 {S. anceps., van). 



Stems slender, quadrangular, with many erect branches, 



