370 XCVI. ACANTHACBiK. 



branches glabrous, terete, ashy-white. Leaves 2-3 by |-1 in., almost 

 all falling off before flowering-time except a few at the tops of the 

 branches, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, deusely lineolate, especially on 

 the upper side, otherwise nearly glabrous ; base tapering, unequal- 

 sided ; main nerves 6-7 pairs ; petioles | in. long. Flowers in 

 numerous subsessile spikes, elongating in fruit, on the naked branches 

 from the axils of fallen leaves ; bracts -1 in. long, obovate-oblong, hairy 

 with gland-tipped hairs ; bracteoles -^ in. long, line:ir, obtuse, glandular- 

 hairy. Calyx ^ in. long in flower (enlarged to | in. in fruit), glandular- 

 hairy ; tube -Jg- in. long ; segments linear, subobtuse, densely glandular- 

 ciliate. Corolla 1 in. long with whitish tube and limb of a beautiful 

 blue, glabrous outside, hairy inside ; lower contracted part of the tube 

 much shorter than the narrowly ventricose portion ; lobes g-^ in. long, 

 oblong, rounded or truncate and with slightly crenulate margins. 

 Stamens 4, included ; filaments glabrous ; anthers apiculate, obtuse at 

 the base. Capsules rather less than ^ in. long, lanceolate, acute, 

 4-seeded. Seeds y^-g in. long, ovoid, subacute, hygroscopically hairy 

 and with a dense fringe on the margin, which is drawn into a point at 

 the apex, giving the dry seed the appearance of having a long slender 

 acumen. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 262. — Flowers : Nov., with 

 intervals of some years. 



West coast of Peninsula, Dahell I Deccan : Mabableshwar, Ralph !, Cooke .' 

 Kanaka: common on the sunmiit of Dursingudda in the Supa taluka of N. Kanara, 

 34U0 ft. elevation, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



A very beautiful species wben in lull flower. It is very common, occupying expen- 

 sive patches in some of the ravines at Mabableshwar, but I have only seen it in flower 

 once (in 1888), when the sides of the ravines where it grew appeared, from a short 

 distance, to be quite a sheet of blue. The leaves of the branches fall before the plaut 

 flowers, only a few small ones remaining at the tips. The measurements of leavea 

 given above only apply to these lattei', and do not represent the size of the actual 

 stem-leaves. 



9. Strobilanthes warreensis, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2 

 (1850) p. 341. Slirubby, erect, 5-6 ft. high ; stem obtusely quadrangular 

 or subterete. Leaves 4^-6 by l|-2 in., lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 crenate or subserrate, glabrous, densely lineolate above, base tapering 

 and decurrent into the petiole ; main nerves 7 pairs, conspicuous on 

 both sides; petioles ^-IJ in. long, often indistinct owing to the decur- 

 rent leaf-blade. Flowers in axillary pedunculate spikes 1-3 in. long; 

 peduncles hairy ; bracts (in flower) |-^ in, long, elliptic-oblong, concave, 

 densely clothed, as are the bracteoles and calyx, \\ith gland-tipped hairs ; 

 bracteoles | in. long, shorter than the calyx, linear, obtuse. Calyx much 

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

 segments linear, subacute, one of them a little longer than the other 4. 

 Corolla |-| in. long, white, glabrous outside and with a few hairs 

 inside ; tube narrowly cylindric in the low^r, campanulately inflated in 

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

 with purple at the base. Stamens 4, exserted ; filaments of the longer 

 stamens bearded. Ovary glabrous ; style glabrous. Capsules |-| in. 

 long, oblong, subacute, minutely pubescent, 4-seeded. Seeds elliptic- 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, glabrous, flat, striate, yellow. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 4, p. 439 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 187 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 261 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb, Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 355. SirohUanihrs 



