363 



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KoNKAN : Law !. Slocks \ : Malheran, Cooke '. S. M. Country : Ramghat, Eiichie, 

 5 8 8 o ' • 



~2~''' Chorla Gh&t, Dalzelll; Castlerock, Cooke], Bhival, Woodrow. Kanara: 

 common in the evergreen forests between the Nilkund and Gairsoppa Grhats, Tulbot. 

 — DiSTRiB. India (VV. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



5. Strobilanthes callosus, iVW, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. v. 3 (1832) 

 p. 85. A shrub (3-20 ft. high ; stems rigid, rough and warted, glabrate. 

 Leaves 4-9 by lg-3in., one of each pair often smaller than the opposite 

 one, elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the margins crenate and 

 ciliate (the crenatures sometimes with a blunt tooth), strongly liueolate 

 on the upper surface with cystoliths (which in dried specimens are 

 usually stellately arranged with a stiff short bristle above the centre of 

 each cluster), dark green above, paler and more or less hairy on the 

 nerves beneath, base tapering wing-like into the petiole ; main nerves 

 10-14 pairs, slender, prominent ; petioles variable in length, sometimes 

 reaching (in the large leaves) 3 in. long. Flowers axillary, in simple or 

 branched ovoid, pedunculate, subtetragonal spikes with rounded edges, 

 1-3| in. long; peduncles often with one or two pairs of orbicular sessile 

 bracts below the spike ; bracts g-| in. long, often as broad as long, 

 broadly elliptic or obovate, rounded at the a])ex, concaxe, glabrous, 

 covered with a viscous secretion with a balsamic but not agreeable odor, 

 green with a pink tinge ; bracteoles 0. Disk bright orange. Calyx 

 ^ in. long in flower, much enlarged in fruit, divided nearly to the base; 

 segments leathery, elliptic-lanceolate, -^-i in. broad, obtuse, slightly 

 penicillate at the apex, softly pubescent, nerved. Corolla 1| in. long 

 or more, with a white tube and purple limb, glabrous outside, with yellow 

 hairs in the mouth inside ; cylindric base of the tube narrow, shorter 

 than the ventricose portion ; lobes k in. long, rounded, much crumpled 

 in aestivation. Filaments of the longer stamens bearded. Capsules 

 I by ^ in., obovoid, acute, apiculate, narrow at the base, 2-seeded. 

 Seeds I by | in., broadly ovate, acute, densely clothed (except the 

 oblong nucleus) with white appressed liairs. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 451 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 188; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 262; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 356. Strobilanthes Gralmmianus, 

 Wight, Icon. t. 1520 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 187. S. ciliata ?, Grab. Cat. 

 p. 162 (not S. ciliatus of Nees). — Flowers: Sept.-Nov., at intervals of 

 7 or 8 (many natives say 10) years. Mr. Talbot says that a general 

 flowering took place in N. Kanara in 1887. Vebn. Kdrvi. 



Very common on tlie Gluits. Covers large areas on the Konkan and N. Kanara 

 Ghats, forming the undei-growth in many deciduous moist forests ( Talbot). The stems 

 whici), if liept regnlarly cut down, grow to the thickness of a walking-stick, are used 

 by the natives for making mud walls, tlie stems being placed close together and 

 covered with a plaster of mud and cuwdung. Konkan: Stocks], Law \\ Matheraa, 

 below Chowk Point, H. M. Birdwood. Deccan : Purandhar, A. G. Cane]; Maha- 

 bloshwar, Cooke\ Kanaka: Anmod (N. Kanara), Talbot, 1(510! — Distrib. India 

 (W. Peninsula, Central India). 



6. Strobilanthes barbatus, i\><*, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. v. 3 



(1832) p. 85. A large shrub S-12 ft. high, subscandent (Dalzell), with 

 numerous ex])osed roots from tlie lower part of the stem (Beddome) ; 

 stems and branches quadrangular, often broadly winged (sometimes 

 wingless). Leaves coriaceous, 4-10 by 2-4 in., elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, crenulate or subentire, glabrous, shining above, densely 



