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liiieolate especially ou the upper side, base tapering, often running 

 down wing-like into the petiole ; main nerves 7-9 pairs, conspicuous ou 

 both sides ; petioles about 1 in. long, frequently obscure owing to the 

 decurrence of the leaf-blade, often winged, the wings sometimes running 

 into the wings on the'stem or branch. Flowers in axillary and terminal 

 dense heads or spikes 1-2 in. long; bracts | in. long, densely imbricate, 

 rhomboid-cuneate, cuspidately mucronate, ciliate and, as well as the 

 bracteoles, becoming viscous-hairy in hnit (Talbot) ; bracteoles |-|- in. 

 long, lanceolate, cuspidate, ciliate. Calyx ^ in. long, divided more than 

 |-way down ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Corolla white, 

 g in. long, hairy inside, often with a few scattered hairs on the outside 

 of the limb ; lower half of the tube narrow-cylindric, the upper portion 

 suddenly campanulately enlarged ; lobes ^ in. long, oblong, obtuse, 

 ciliate. Stamens 4, exserted ; longer filaments bearded, the shorter 

 hairy at the base only ; rudimentary 5th stamen sometimes present. 

 Style glabrous. Capsules g-| in. long, clavate, glabrous, 2-seeded. Seeds 



i lu. 



4 



long, broadly elliptic, subacute at the apex, very thin, yellow, 

 without areoles, glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 437 ; Bedd. Icon. PI. Ind. 

 Or. p. 49, t. 212 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 261 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355. StrobilantJies ietrapterus, Dalz. in 

 Ivevv Journ. Bot. v. 2 (1850) p. 342 ; Dak. & Gibs. p. 187.— Flowers : 

 Oct.-Dec, septennially {Beddome, Talbot). 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Hooker I ; Wari country, Dahell ! Kanaka : Bhiva ! ; common 

 in the Yellapur taluka, Talbot ; Mulas, Bttchie, l'J38 !— Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



7. Strobilanthes ciliatus, Nees, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. v. 3 (1832) 

 p. 85. A small shrub ; stems and branches terete or subquadrangular, 

 often fimbriate at the nodes. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., lanceolate, 

 acuminate, lineolate (densely so above), glabrous or nearly so, serrate, 

 base attenuated into the petiole ; main nerves 6-7 pairs ; petioles 

 |-1| in. long, sometimes obscure. Flowers in axillary slender glabrous 

 spikes 1-3 in. long; peduncles long, slender, glabrous, jointed and 

 bracteate below the middle and there deflexed ; bracts 5 in. long, ovate, 

 subacute, glabrous, lineolate, the margins often obscurely toothed ; 

 bracteoles i in. long, shorter than the calyx, linear, subobtuse, mucronu- 

 late, lineolate, glabrous. Calyx J in. long, glabrous or nearly so; tube 

 about J^ in. long ; segments subequal, linear, subobtuse. Corolla white, 

 g-g in. long ; tube narrow in the lower part, campanulately swollen in 

 the upper half ; lobes g in. long, oblong, rounded at the apex, spotted 

 with lilac at the base (Beddome). Stamens 4, exserted ; filaments of the 

 longer stamens bearded ; anthers purple. Ovary glabrous ; style 

 glabrous. Capsules not seen. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 439 ; Bedd. Icon. PI. 

 Ind. Or. p. 49, t. 211 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 261 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, 

 part 3, p. 375. — Flowers : Oct.-Nov., probably annually (Beddome). 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Bakell ! ; Savantvddi, Cooke !, Woodrow. Kanaka : evergreen 

 forests of the Yellapur taluka of N. Kanara, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), 

 apparently endemic. 



The plant has a strong aromatic odor, and is used medicinally by the natives in the 



regions wliere it grows ( Watt). 



8. Strobilanthes scrobiculatus, Dalz. ex C. B. Clarke, in Hook, 

 f. Fl. B. I. y. 4 (18S4) p. 445. A small branched shrub; older 



