3. Steobilajtthes.] 79. ACANTKACEM. [4. Petalidium. 



close and spicate in the Chota Nagpnr species Calyx deeply 

 5-fid. Corolla tubnlar-ventricose with 5 sub-equal spreading 

 ronnded petals. St. 4 didynamous. Ovary cells 2-ovuled» 

 Style long, stigma simple. 



1- S. auriculatus, Nees. Hntid, K. ; Gada Kalha, S. 



A shrub 2-6 ft. with usually unequal leaves, hairy above, 

 with auriculate base, and axillary and terminal linear spikes 

 of blue flowers, spikes 1-3" long with densely imbricate obovate 

 obtuse bracts with recurved margins, velvety pubescent or 

 usually with spreading white cilia J* long. (Var. Edgewor- 

 thiana). 



This plant t often forms a dense undergrowth under Sal in the Singbhum 

 forests, it flowered in 1898 and flowers gregariously every 6 years. The 

 seedlings were 2-3 inches high in Jan. 1899 but there were also a few 

 old plants flowering. Jaspur, rocky hill tops, Wood. Manbhum, ■ very 

 common on |the banks of nullahs " Campbell. ; Hazaribagh (Koderma 

 forest, etc). Fls. Dec. -Feb y. Fr. March-April. 



L. sessile oblong or ovate or lanceolate crenate, the larger one of a pair 

 sometimes attaining 10" by 2j', sometimes sub-equal. Sec. n. 10-13 prs. 

 Corolla blue I" long slightly curved. Bracts densely covered with stalked 

 glands beneath. Bradeoles 0. Capsule %' glabrous. 



The pounded leaves are rubbed on the body during the cold stage 

 of intermittent fever, Camp. 



2. S. scaber, Nees. 



A herb \vith creeping rootstock, rather stiff entire or 

 crenate leaves and yellow flowers 1" long in bracteate capitate 

 spikes. 



Along watercourses in Saranda forests and Santal Pargsnahs. Fls* 

 Jany.-April. 



L. ell. or ovate 2$-5' f with raphides above, scabrous beneath. Spikes 

 1*1 £" from upper axils and in short terminal panicles. Bracts £-1*'' 

 lanceolate caudate, hairy or glandular. Corolla tubular for \" chen ventri- 

 cose, 1* long and f diam. villous within. Capsule $" downy. Seeds 2 

 (sometimes 3 !) in each cell with broad, membranous margins and long 

 silky hairs. 



4. Petalidium, Noes. 

 1. Petalidium barlerioides, Nees. 



• A straggling shrub with largish white flowers sub-soli- 

 tary or in opp. decussate pairs in dense or sub-capitate spikes , 



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