XCVI. ACANTHACEJE. 373 



STBOBILANTRES MEMBRANACFMS, Talb. Trees, Shrubs, Bomb. ed. 2 (1902) 

 p. 2G1. A stout gregarious shrub. Leaves broadly ovate, long-acuminate, narrowed 

 into the petiole, deeply crenate-serrate, raembi-anous, rugose, hispidulous, 2-7 by 

 1-4 in. ; petiole ^-^ in. long. Heads ovoid, \-\\ in. long, densely viscous-hairy ; 

 hairs mostly jointed. Seeds ^V in., exareolate, quite glabrous. 



Distinguished from otlier Bombay species of Strohilanthcs by its rugose hispidulous 

 softly membranous leaves. Common in the jungles near the Tinai Ghat, N. Kauara 

 {Taihot). 



18. CALACANTHUS, T. Anders. 



An erect shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves large, 

 entire. Flowers large, solitary and sessile in the axils of bracts, 

 arranged in long lax spikes terminal and from the upper axils ; bracts 

 and braeteoles herbaceous. Calyx sub-5-partite ; segments unequal, the 

 upper and two lower lanceolate, the two lateral innermost, linear. 

 Corolla purple, deeply 2-lipped ; upper lip narrow, shortly 2-fid ; lower 

 lip large, convex, shortly 3-fid ; lobes contorted in bud. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, inserted above the middle of the tube ; filaments connate 

 at the base, in pairs connected by a transverse line or membrane ; 

 anthers subequal, oblong, 2-eelled, ciliate. Disk not prominent. Ovary 

 2-cellpd ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style long, filiform, hairy ; stigma 

 simple, linear. Capsule obovoid, compressed, acute at both ends, 

 2-seeded. Seeds compressed, hairy, supported on retinacula. — Distrib. 

 Western Peninsula of India; species 1. 



] . Calacanthus Dalzellianaj T. Anders, ex Benth. 6f Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. V. 2 (1876) p. 1088. A leafy gregai-ious shrub 5-6 ft. high, black 

 when dry ; stem erect, quadrangular, glabrous, except for a few hairs 

 at the nodes. Leaves 5-8 by 2-3| in., the upper subsessile, the lower 

 petiolate, elliptic, acuminate, entire, slightly ciliate, glabrous or nearly 

 so, minutely lineolate on both surfaces, base tapering ; main nerves 

 10-12 pairs, arcuate, prominent ; petioles 0-l| in. long. Spikes of 

 flowers terminal and from the upper axils, 1-6 in. long, simple or 

 branched ; bracts |-1| by ^ in., elliptic-lanceolate, penninerved, and, as 

 well as the braeteoles and calyx-segments, hirsute and densely ciliate 

 with long white hairs ; braeteoles | by ^ in., oblong-lanceolate. Calyx 

 I in. to top of longest segment, divided nearly to the base, the longest 

 segment -^-4- in. wide, lanceolate, 5-nerved, 2 other segments narrower, 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved, the 2 lateral segments linear-subulate, shorter 

 than the others. Corolla bluish-piirple, 1| in. long or more, hairy 

 outside ; upper lip 2-fid ; lower lip 3-lobed, convex, transversely plicate 

 and with 2 rows of bright yellow hairs down its centre ; narrow portion 

 of tube short. Stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments glabrous ; anthers 

 ciliate, subsagittate at the base. Ovary and style hairy. Capsules 

 4~8 ^y 3 ^^■' obovoid, compressed, narrowed at the base and acute at 

 the apex, pubescent. Seeds 5 in. in diam., hairy, yellowish. Fl. B. I. 

 v. 4, p. 478 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 264 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 IS at. V. 12 (1899) p. 356. LepidagatMs grandi/lora, Dalz. in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. v. 2 (1850) p. ]38 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 190; Bedd. Icon, PI. 

 Ind. Or. p. 54, t. 226.— Flowers : Oct.-Dec. 



KoNKAN : Grhats, BalzdV. ; Matheran (just before reaching the summit below the 

 Chauki), Cooke !, Woodrow. S. M. Country : Parva Ghat, Ritchie, 1201 ! Kanaka : 

 Supa Ghdts of N. Kanara, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W- Peninsula), apparently 

 endemic. 



