XCTI. ACANTHACE.B. 3(53 



p. 411 ; Woodr. iu Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355. — Flowers : 



Aug.-Nov. 



Konkan: Stocks] Deccan : Cliattersinghi hill near Poona, Kanitkar\ ; Deva Ghat 

 near Poona, Z>a^^e// ! ; S.W. of Poona, Dalzelll; rocky hills near Poona, Beddome. 

 S. M. Country : Belgauin, Ritchiel — Di.strib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Very close to D. vagans, from which the short or sometimes only microscopically 

 visible spurs of the anther-cells serve to separate it. 



16. D.S:DALACA]VTHUS, T. Anders. 



Perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, entire or 

 obscurely toothed, lineolate from imbedded cystoliths. Flowers in linear 

 distant or close .«pikes or heads ; bracts usually large ; bracteoles linear- 

 lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes narrow, often 

 scarious. Corolla slender ; tube long, narrow, widened at the mouth or 

 in some species from the middle ; lobes obovate, twisted to the left in 

 bud, spreading in flower. Stamens 2, glabrous ; anthers narrowly 

 oblong, 2-celled, muticous, exserted or subiucluded. Ovary glabrous, 

 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style long, sparsely pubescent "or 

 glabrous ; stigma simple, linear. Capsule clavate, with solid cyhndric 

 base. Seeds normally 4, compressed, discoid, hygroscopically hairy ; 

 retinacula acute. — Distrib. India and Malaya ; species about 18, 



Bracts white with green veins, obovate, obtuse, with a short 



reflexed mucro 1. D. roseus. 



Bracts green, ovate, acuminate. 



Flowers in dense, usually solitary, uninterrupted spikes ; 



bracts exceeding | in. long 2. D. purpurascens. 



Flowers in interrupted usually paniculate spikes ; bracts 



lees than | in. long 3. D. Tnontanns, 



var. concanensis, 



1 . Dsedalacanthus roseus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 9 

 (1867) p. 487. Stems 2-6 ft. high. Leaves 5-8 by l|-3 in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, lineolate on both sides, entire or obscurely 

 crenulate, base tapering, often decurrent into the petiole ; main nerves 

 about 10 pairs, promiuent below; petioles ^-1\ in. long. Inflorescence 

 with a strong sickly odor ; flowers in linear subinterrupted lax axillary 

 and terminal spikes often 6 iu. long, solitary or occasio!ially 2 or 3 

 together forming a terminal panicle ; peduncles quadrangular ; bracts 

 ^ in. long, obovate, with a reflexed mucro, white with verv prominent 

 raised green nerves, densely hairy on the midrib and ciliate on the 

 margins with long hairs ; bracteoles as long as or slightly longer than 

 the calyx, narrowly linear, acute, densely clothed on the back and 

 ciliate with long white hairs. Calyx \ in. long, scarious, white-pubescent, 

 divided about g-way down ; lobes lanceolate, very acute, with a strong 

 midnerve from base of calyx to the apex of each lobe. Corolla always 

 blue in the Bombay Presidency, fading to purple or red, 1-1| in. lono-, 

 slightly pubescent outside ; tube slender, slightly enlarged and funnel- 

 shaped to about i in. below the limb ; lobes | in. long, oblong-obovate, 

 rounded or truncate at the apex. Stamens exserted beyond the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments glabrous. Ovary glabrous ; style glabrous or nearly so. 

 Capsules I in. long, clavate, pointed, glabrous. Seeds 1-i in. in diam., 

 hygroscopically hairy, very densely so on the margin. — Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 419 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355 ; Talb. Trees', 



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