Strobilanthes.'] AcaiztkacecS. 3 1 3 



pact) sessile or stalked, axillary and terminal, bracts variable, 

 the lower ones often passing into 1., all closely overlapping, 

 ovate, acute, irregularly serrate, finely pubescent, often 

 spreading or reflexed with long serrate leafy ends, bractlets 

 linear, acute, puberulous ; cal. segm. short, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute; cor. pubescent outside, tube i^ in., exserted, lower 

 I in. narrow, tubular, rest inflated, narrowly campanulate; lobes 

 short, rounded, crisped ; stam. included ; capsule not seen. 



Moist low country up to 2000 ft.; very rare. Kukul Korale; Ambaga- 

 muwa. Fl. Nov.-April; white tinged with pink. 

 Endemic. 

 This has not been recently collected. 



25. S. sexennis, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 187 (1847). 



S. ceriiithoides., Nees, 1. c. 724. Thw. Enum. 229. Mackeftstea* 

 sessi'h's, Nees, 1. c. 308. C. P. 66, 2593 (2594). 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 474. 



Stems 4-10 ft, bluntly quadrangular (cylindrical when 

 old), much branched, glabrous, often with transverse raised 

 ridges, swollen above nodes ; 1. sessile, 3-6 in., oblong or 

 lanceolate, attenuate below but dilated and stem-clasping at 

 base, shortly acuminate, acute, finely serrate-dentate, 

 glabrous, lineolate ; fl. rather large, either distant in long 

 axillary and terminal spikes or closely placed in short ones, 

 rachis glandular-hairy or glabrous, bracts about f in., rotun- 

 date-oval, acute, concave or cupped, glabrous or densely 

 glandular-hairy, bractlets rather longer than bracts, oblong, 

 obtuse, glabrous or glandular-hairy ; sep. oblong-linear, ob- 

 tuse, glabrous or glandular-hairy ; cor. glabrous outside, 

 tube I in, or more, curved upwards, narrow portion short, rest 

 narrowly campanulate, lobes large, rounded, emarginate ; 

 stam. included ; capsule ^ in., ovoid, sharp-pointed ; seeds 

 2, very rugose. 



Var. (3, argoitus, C/arA^e in Fl. B. Ind., I. c. S. argutus, Nees, 

 I. c. 188. 



L. on petioles 1-2 in, long, more deeply dentate, glabrous, 

 thick ; spikes rather dense, paniculate, usually very glandular - 

 pubescent. 



Var. y, hirsutissimus, Aitd. in Thw. I. c. S. hirsutissimus, Nees, 

 1, c, 187. C. P. 3626. 



L. on petioles 1-2 in, long, broadly oval, often cordate at / 



base, very coarsely serrate, hispid-hairy on both sides, thinner; / 



spikes lax, slender, with distant fl. 



* Named after Sir J. A. Stewart Mackenzie, Governor of Ceylon, 

 1837-40, who was the collector or contributor of many Ceylon plants now 

 in the Kew Herbarium, 



