XCYI. ACA.NTHACE.E. 3G5 



davate, pointed, much narrowed at the long solid base, with a few 

 minute widely scattered hairs on the capsule and a ring of minute 

 glandular hairs at its point. Seeds ^ in. in diam. Dcedalacanthus 

 concanensis (sp.), T. Anders. MS. DcedalacantJms montanus, Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355 (not of T. Anders.). Emn- 

 themuin montanum, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 195. — Flowers : Oct.-Jan. 



Rare. Konkan: StocJcs\, Law], BalzelV. S. M. Country: Dharwar, Dalzdl ^• 

 Gibson. — Disteib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Dcedalacanfhus 7iervosus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 9 (1867) 

 p. 487. A shrub 2-5 ft. high, a native of N. Bengal and Tirhut, 

 commonly planted in gardens, sometimes found as an escape. It has 

 white, concave, ovate, acuminate bracts with green nerves and veins and 

 blue flowers in uninterrupted spikes often forming a terminal panicle. — 

 Flowers : Nov.-Jan. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 418 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 355 and Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 415^ 



Dcedalacanthus purjnwascens, a common plant on the Ghats, is often 

 mistaken for D. nervosus. 



17. STROBILANTHES, Blume. 

 Shrubs or herbs. Leaves opposite, often unequal, toothed or sub- 

 entire, often lineolate with cystoliths. Flowers capitate or in strobilate 

 or interrupted spikes, or paniculate, sessile or sometimes pedicellate ; 

 bracts and bracteoles large or small or 0, persistent or caducous. Calyx 

 (in Bombay species) deeply and subequaliy 5-divided. Corolla straight 

 or curved; tube usually ventricose above; lobes 5, ovate or rotund, 

 subequal, twisted to the left in bud. Stamens (in Bombay species 

 except S. retimlatus) 4, didynamous ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, muticous. 

 Disk small, or elongate as a stalk to the ovary. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 

 2 in each cell ; style linear ; stigma of one long linear branch, the other 

 branch obsolete." Capsule 4- or 2-seeded. Seeds much compressed, 

 glabrous or hairy ; retinacula strong, curved ; placentas in a few species 

 separating elastically from the base, carrying the seeds with them. — 

 DiSTKiB. Mostly Asiatic ; species nearly 200. 



Stamens 2; pollen ellipsoid, longitudinally ribbed (Sect. Eii- 



do'pogon) !• S. reticulatus. 



Stamens 4 ; pollen ellipsoid, longitudinally ribbed (Sect. Eu- 

 strobilanthes). 



Flowers ebracteolate. 

 Bracts hairy. 



Leaves sessile ; bracts bristly with jointed hairs ; 



corolla 1^ in. long -• S. sessihs, 



var. Bitchiei. 



Leaves petiolate ; bracts softly glandular-hairy ; 



corolla 1-^1 in. long 3. S.lupuUnus. 



Bracts glabrous. 



Corolla i-| in. long ; bracts white 4. S. Hei/neanm 



Corolla IJ in. long ; bracts green with a pink tinge... 5. 6*, callosus. 

 Flowers bract eolate. 



Stems usually winged ; bracteoles longer than the calyx. 6, barbatus, 

 Stems not winged ; bi*acteoles shorter than the calyx. 

 Bracts glabrous ; peduncles long and slender, jointed 



and deflexed above the middle 7. S. cihaiios. 



