3o8 Acanthacecs. yStrobUanthes. 



densely pubescent ; 1. very small, \-\ in., ovate or rotundate, 

 on very short hairy petioles, obtuse or cordate at base, obtuse 

 or rounded at apex, margin recurved, entire, with a few 

 bristles on margin, otherwise glabrous, copiously dotted 

 beneath with dark red sessile resinous glands ; fl. 3 or 4, 

 heads very small, peduncles |-i in., terminal and axillary, 

 with a pair of small leafy rounded bracts half way up, floral 

 bracts spathulate-rotundate, strongly ciliate at base, gland- 

 dotted, bractlets linear, ciliate ; sep. linear, with long white 

 cilia ; cor. very pubescent outside, tube f in., funnel-shaped ; 

 stam. 4, included ; capsule not seen. 



Montane zone ; very rare. Adam's Peak, 1869 (Thwaites). FI. Feb. 

 and March ; white. 



Endemic. 



A very distinct species, of which only a poor specimen of Walker's 

 was available to Nees, Anderson, and Clarke, and hence placed by them 

 under S. anceps. 



15. S. Arnottianus, Nces in DC. Prod. xi. 179 (1847). 

 Thw. Enum. 228. C. P. 2005. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 442. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 261. 



Stems 2-4 ft., sub-quadrangular, hispid pubescent especi- 

 ally above ; 1. 2-3^ in., ovate, cordate at base, acuminate, 

 acute, dentate-serrate, hispid above, hairy beneath ; fl. rather 

 small, 2-5, heads small, rounded, solitary or 2 or 3 ter- 

 minating short axillary branches, peduncle about \ in., de- 

 flexed, with white spreading hair, bracts broadly oval, obtuse, 

 leafy, silky-hairy beneath, bractlets linear ; sep. linear, rather 

 longer than bractlets, with long silky hair ; cor. pubescent 

 outside, tube \ in., funnel-shaped-campanulate, straight, lobes 

 ovate, subacute, quite equal ; stam. slightly exserted ; capsule 

 not seen ; ' seeds hairy.' 



Upper montane zone ; rare. Abundant about Nuwara Eliya. Fl. white. 



Endemic. 



16. S. asperrimus, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 183 (1847). 



S. tri/idus, Noes, Thw. Enum. 228 (part). S. lupulinus, And. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 468 (part). C. P. 254 (part). 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 443. 



Stems shrubby below, very stout, bluntly quadrangular, 

 tumid above nodes, slightly hispid ; 1. large, 5-9 in., oval, 

 much tapering at base and decurrcnt on petiole, acuminate, 

 subacute, dentate -serrate, more or less hispid -hairy or 

 minutely prickly on both sides, sometimes bullate between 

 the fine reticulate veins, petiole about h in., obscure ; fl. 

 numerous, heads at first globose but extending into oblong- 

 ovoid spikes ii-2i in. long, usually in threes, on reflexed 



