372 XCVI. ACANTHACE.E. 



LeptacantJius alatus, 'W'ight, Icon. t. 1527. Eadopogon integrifolius, 

 Dalz. ill Kew Journ. Eot. v. 2 (1850) p. 342 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 185.— 

 Flowers: Dec-Mar. [about once in 7 years {Talbot); triennially (//. 

 M. Birdivood, Cat. Fl. Matberau & Mahableshwar, p. 25)j. Mr. Talbot 

 {I. c.) says that a general flowering took place near Ainsbi (N. Kanara) 

 in 1887. A^'een. Waiti. 



KoNKAN : Sfocksl, Law'. ; in old forests in all the elevated parts of the Konkan, 

 Dalzelll ; Matheran, Cookel, H. M. Birdwuod; hills near Panvel, Dalzell ^~ Gibson. 

 Xanara : evergreen forests from Ainshi southwards, gregarious, Talbot ; Kadgal, 

 Woodrow. — DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



12. Strobilanthes ixiocephalus, Benth. in Flora, v. 33 (1849) 

 p. 557. A small straggling shrub ; branches terete, the older glabrous. 

 Leaves 2|-7 by l|-24 in., one of each pair usually smaller than the 

 other, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, crenate, densely liueolate on both 

 sides, the upper side and the nerves beneath rough with short stiff 

 hairs, base cuneate, often unequal-sided ; main nerves 8-10 pairs, 

 slender, prominent ; petioles |-2 in. long. Flowers in pedunculate 

 ovoid viscid spikes |-1| in. long, with a balsamic odor, solitary and 

 axillary, or in branched (often ternate) cymes which are axillary or 

 terminally clustered ; bracts | by ^^ in., ovate, usually bluntly 

 acuminate, viscous-hairy ; bracteoles ^-^ in. long, linear-spathulate, 

 viscous-hairy. Calyx |— |^ in. long, enlarged in fruit, divided almost to 

 the base, viscous- hairy ; segments linear, obtuse. Corolla white, ^- 

 1| in. long, slightly pubescent outside, hairy inside ; narrow portion of 

 the tube about equalling the ventricose portion ; lobes j in. long, ovate- 

 oblong. Stamens included, hairy at the base, the longer hlameiits 

 slightly hairy upwards ; pollen globose, echinate or tuberculate. Style 

 faintly pubescent. Capsules ^ in. long, obovoid, narrowed at the base, 

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

 ovoid, subacute, flattened, hygroscojjically hairy, very densely so on the 

 margin. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 444 ; Bedd. Icon. PI. Ind. Or. p.'47, t. 203 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 262; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 356. Strohilanihes Neesiana, Wight, Icon. t. 1523 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 188. S. glutinosa, Grab. Cat. Bo. PI. p. 162 (not of Nees). — 

 Flowers : Nov.-Jan., septeunially (//. M. Birdwood) or annually 

 (Talbot). It flowered abundantly at Mahableshwar in November 1896 

 (If. M. Birdwood, Cat. Fl. Matheran & Mahableshwar, p. 24). Veen. 

 Ddrmori ; Kdrva. 



KoNKAN : stocks !, Law ! ; Salsette and Konkan hills, Dalzell Sf Gibson ; V'ingoria, 

 Kanit/i'ar] Deccan : Panchgani, IVoodrrnvl; Mahableshwar (near the lake), Cookel 

 S. SI. Country : Ramghat, Balzell I Kanara : common in N. Kanara from the coast 

 inland in both evergreen and deciduous forests, often on laterito, Talbot; Supa and 

 K41a naddi, Ritchie, 1216!; Kumbarvada, TatJbot, 1829!— Distrib. India (W. Penin- 

 sula), apparently endemic. 



Species not seen. 



STROBILANTHKS MINOR. Talb. Trees, Shrubs, Bomb. ed. 2 (1902) p. 262. A 

 small shrub 1-2 ft. higli. Leaves small, ovate, bluntly acuminate, 1^-3 by ^-1^ in., 

 petioles ^-1 in. long. Flowers ], in. hmg, in dense small subglobosc heads ; bracts 

 green, ovate, ciliatc, \ in. across; briicteules ciliato. Corolla blue, very hairy within. 

 Stamens 4; filaments hairy downw.ai-ds. Stylo hairy. Banks of the Kala naddi near 

 Supa, N. Kanara. 



