1. Thunbergia..] <J. ACANTRACEM. [3. Stbobilawthss. 



T. alata, Boj. with winged petioles and yellow corolla with a browa 

 or purple eye, and T. grandifiora, Roxh., with blue flowers inr&cemea, 

 are often cultivated. 



2. Daedalacantlms, T. And. 



Shrubs or under shrubs with the leaves marked with 

 raphides. Fls. showy, red or blue, in spikes with large 

 usually prominently nerved, often imbricating, bracts. 

 Corolla with slender tube and spreading rounded lobes. St. 2. 

 Ovary glabrous, cells 2-ovuled. Style long, stigma simple. 



1. D. nervosus, T. And. 



A shrub 2-6 ft. with ovate acuminate entire glabrous 

 leaves attaining 9" by 4", very handsome in flower with blue 

 flowers 1-lJ;'' long and f" diam. ia ternately panicled terminal 

 spikes with white green-veined imbricating bracts. 



Ravines in Singbhum, not uncommon, Fls. Jany. -March. 



L. with very tapering base and about 7-12 prs. of rather strong sec . 

 n. Petiole i-l\ v . Spikes 1-3". Petals £ v elliptic. Bracts |" concav- 

 elliptic. Anths. exserted, Capsule §*. 



2. D. purpurascens, T. And. Gulsham, H. 



Similar to last but smaller, 2-4 ft. Spikes solitary and 

 ternate, axillary and terminal but not usually panicled. Corolla 

 lilac or rose-purple 1-1J* long, tube pubescent. Bracts 

 similar but ovate or rhomboid, long-acuminate, pubescent 

 beneath and margins long-ciliate. 



Associated with the last, but also in drier valleys and much more 

 common. Singbhum ,- Manbhum ; Sirguja, Wood ; Hazaribagh ; Palaenau, 

 in ravines ; S. P. Pis. Jany. -March. 



Stems shortly pubescent, 4-angled. L. ovate and base decurrent on 

 the petiole, rarely exceeding 6" by 4" and with 6-8 prs. sec. n. Spikes long 

 or short peduncled, oblong, dense l£-2'' often very numerous. St. scarcely 

 exserted. 



There is a form without the long ciliae to the bracts. 



3. Strobilantlies, Blums. 



Shrubs or horbs with loaves often unequal in the pairs, 

 and ofton bearing raphides. Inflorescence various, but always 



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