366 5CVI. ACANTHACE/E, 



Bracts glandular-liairy. 

 Capsule 4-seeded. 



Flowers in short subsessile spikes on the naked 



branches 8. S. scrobicidatus. 



Flowers in pedunculate axillary spikes. 



Seeds glabrous 9. S. warreensis. 



Seeds luiiry 10. S. asper. 



Capsule 2-8eeded ; petioles winged, the wings 

 auricled at the base ; spikes viscous-hairy, strong- 

 smelling 11. S. perfoliatus. 



Stamens 4 ; pollen globose, echinate or tubereulate (Genus 

 Acanihopiale, C. B. Clarke) ; petioles not winged nor auricled ; 

 spikes viscidly pubescent ; capsule usually 2-seeded ; seeds 

 hygroscopically hairy 12. S. ixiocephalus. 



1. Strobilanthes reticulatus, Stapf, in Kew Bull (1894) p. 347. 

 A small shrub ; stem shortly strigose and subquadrangular in the upper 

 part. Leaves up to 3 by Ig in., ovate, acute, subeutire, dark green, 

 densely lineolate and with short stiff hairs on the upper surface, paler 

 and strigose on the nerves and veins beneath, base rounded or sub- 

 cordate ; main nerves 6-8 pairs, prominent with conspicuous reticulate 

 venation between ; petioles g the lensth of the leaf-blade, often nar- 

 rowly winged. Flowers in ovate shortly pedunculate spikes | in. long, 

 from the axils of the upper leaves ; bracts reaching | in. long, ovate, 

 glabrous or subglabrous outside, more or less villous inside ; bracteoles 0. 

 Calyx -g- in. long, deeply divided; tube jo ^"' ^^ng ; segments linear- 

 subulate, ciliate with long white hairs. Corolla 1 in. long ; narrow part 

 of tube shorter than the campanulately ventricose portion ; lobes rotund- 

 ovate. Stamens 2, included; filaments hairy; stamiuodes 2, minute, 

 dentiform. Ovules 2 in each cell. Capsules not seen. — Flowers : Oct. 



Deccan : Mahableshwar in the jungle near Kate's Point, CooA-el 

 There is but one specimen in Herb. Kew., which was collected by me in October 

 1892. Further specimens from the locality would be desirable. 



2. Strobilanthes sessilis, JS^ees, /h Wall PI As. Bar. v. 3 (]832) 

 p. 85, VAR. Ritchiei, C. B. Clarl-e, in HooJc. f. Fl B. I. v. 4 (1884) 

 p. 452. A small undershrub ; stems 12-18 in. long, numerous, erect, 

 quadrangular, usually hairy. Leaves sessile or nearly so, I-I5 in. long, 

 nearly as broad as long, ovate, acute, lineolate and hairy above, nearly 

 glabrous except on the nerves (which are bristly) beneath, rounded or 

 often cordate at the base. Flowers in strobiliform axillary and terminal 

 pedunculate or subsessile spikes 1-3 in. long, often 3 together at the 

 tops of the branches ; peduncles of variable length, hairy ; bracts f in. 

 long, ovate, long-acuminate, tinged with purple, bristly and ciliate with 

 long, often jointed, hairs ; bracteoles 0. Calyx divided to the base, 

 ^ in. long ; sepals lanceolate, denselv ciliate, subequal. Corolla purple, 

 \^ in. long, hairy outside, slightly hairy inside, but densely so at the 

 insertion of the stamens; cylindric part of the tube shorter than the 

 campanulately ventricose upper portion ; lobes ovate. Stamens in- 

 cluded; longer filaments clothed with long hairs to the top, the shorter 

 glabrous above their insertion or rarely wltli 2 or 3 hairs. Style hairy, 

 slightly swollen below the stigma. Capsules | in. long, linear-oblong, 

 acute, glabrous or with a few minute glandular hairs at the tip. Seeds 

 y'^ in. in diam., suborbicular, hygroscopically hairy all over, brown. 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 263. Strobilanthes sessiloiclcs,Dtih. & (jibs. 



