XCVI. ACANTHACB^. 371 



parviflonts, Bedd. Icon. PI. lad. Or. (1874) p. 45, t. 197.— Flowers : 

 Oct.-Dec. 



KoNKAN : Wari country, BalzelV. Kanaka : Mulas, Eitchie, 1937 ! ; Nilkund GMt, 

 Talbot, Woodrow. — Uistkib. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



10. Strobilanthes asper, Wight, Icon. {lS50)t. 1518 (nofo/ Dene.). 

 A shrub 2-4 ft. high ; stems with swollen nodes, the young ones obtusely 

 subquadrangular, glandular-hairy. Leaves 2|-5 by l^-S^ in., elliptic, 

 acuminate, creuate, dark green, densely lineolate aud rough with short 

 stiff hairs above, paler and hairy on the nerves and veins beneath, base 

 tapering or shortly cuneate ; main nerves 6-8 pairs; petioles |-1| in. 

 long. Flowers in solitary or branched (often ternately) pedunculate 

 oblong spikes 1-1| in. long in flower (elongating to 2 to 3 in. in fruit) ; 

 peduncles glandular-hairy ; bracts ^ by i in., glandular hairy, iri'egularly 

 ovate, obliquely and bluntly acuminate and with ciliate often curled 

 margius ; bracteoles shorter than the calyx, i in. long, linear, obtuse, 

 ciliate. Calyx i in. long; segments linear, subobtuse, hairy and ciliate. 

 Corolla ^-^ in. long, glabrous or nearly so outside, hairy inside, densely 

 so below the stamens, the narrow cylindric basal rather shorter than 

 the ventricose portion ; lobes short, rounded, sometimes slightly crenu- 

 late. Filaments of the longer stamens slightly hairy. Ovary glabrous ; 

 style pubescent. Capsules | in. long, oblong, acute, 4-seeded. Seeds 

 ^ in. long, ovate, flat, hygroscopically hairy. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 452 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 263 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 356,— Flowers : Aug.-Oct. 



Balzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan : Sfocksl ; Matheran, near little 

 Chowk Point, H. M. Birdwood. Kanaka : Santaveri, Woodrow. — Distkib. India 

 (W. Peninsula). 



11. Strobilanthes perfoliatus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 V. 9 (1867) p. 471. A much-branched shrub 3-4 ft. high, nearly 

 glabrous except the inflorescence; stems terete. Leaves 4-8 by 1|- 

 2| in. (sometimes, in exceptional cases, attaining 15 in. in length), 

 elliptic-lanceolate, much-acuminate, sparingly toothed or entire, green 

 lineolate and glabrous above, steel-grey beneath, base tapering, decur- 

 rent into the petiole, forming a wing along it to its lower insertion and 

 there auriciilate (not perfoliate) ; main nerves 6-] pairs. Flowers in 

 axillary and terminal simple or compound strong-smelling spikes 2-5 in. 

 long, close together along the rhachis or often with internodes of 

 variable length ; rhachis tetragonal, viscous-hairy ; peduncles usually 

 short; bracts |-| by ^^g in., linear-lanceolate, subacute and, as well 

 as the bracteoles and calyx, glandular-hairy ; bracteoles | in. long, 

 shorter than the calyx, linear, subacute. Calyx | in. long, divided 

 nearly to the base ; segments linear, subacute, one longer than the 

 other 4, which are somewhat unequal. Corolla blue, glabrous outside, 

 hairy inside, 1| in. long or more, tubular-infundibuliform ; narrow 

 portion of the tube shorter than the ventricose ; lobes ^ in. long, equal, 

 rounded. Stamens 4, included; filaments of the longer stamens bearded 

 with long hairs almost to the apex (not glabrous, as erroneously stated 

 in Fl. B. L). Style slightly hairy. Capsules | by i in., obovoid, 

 compressed, mucronate, glabrous, 2-seeded. Seeds ^ in. long, ovoid, 

 shaggy; areoles small. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 458; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 263: AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 356, 



