104. ACANTHACE^. [14. IX^dalacanthus. 



Mayurbhanj, Simlipahar Mnts., elev. 4000 ft. ! 



Mr. Gamble has kindly matched this plants vrith a similar one collected b.y him 

 on Mahendragiri, 4000 ft. (Ganjam), and identifies it as S. jeyporenMs. ' The 

 branchlets in our specimens are angled and nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-6' long, 

 ovate or ell. -ovate, hairy and densely lineolate above, paler and hairy on the nerves 

 beneath, crenate or crenulate-dentate. scarcely acuminate, rounded at base or 

 suddenly shortly decurrent on petiole, sec. n. 9-12 distinct both sides, rather 

 strong, running nearly to margin then upcurved for some distance parallel to it, 

 tertiary nerves numerous close parallel scalariform. Petiole of larger leaves 1-1 'S", 

 sparsely villous. 



According to Clarke in F.B.I, the flowers of S. jey pore n sis are white, in linear- 

 oI)long viscidly patently hairy spikes with lanceolate acuminate recurved bracts 

 ■7" long. Calyx -5" and more with segments linear from a short lanceolate base, 

 patently hairy. Corolla nearlv straight with ventricose portion of the tube much 

 longer than the cylindric. Ovary 4-ovulate in Beddome's figure. 



4. S.sp.? 



A shrub 3-4 ft. high. Branchlets glabrous 4-grooved. Leaves 

 lanceolate tapering both ends do-oo" by -S-l-S", acuminate entire 

 glabrous except on midrib beneath Avhieh is minutely pubescent, 

 sec. n. 9-10 oblique nearly to margin then running parallel within it 

 for some distance, tertiaries sub-scalariform not very strong. 

 Petioles -5-1'' slender. 



Ramnagar Hills ! Probably flowers in the r.s. 



H. D^DALACANTHUS, T. Anders. 



(Eranthemum, L., in ]<^at. Pflanz. Fam.) 



Shrubs or undershrubs, more rarely herbs with usually 4-angled 



branches opp. entire or obscurely toothed lineolate leaves and usually 



showy flowers in spikes, heads or corymbs. Bracts iisually large, 



bracteoles narrow, shorter than the "calyx. Calyx lobes narrow. 



Corolla with slender tube, widened only near the mouth ; lobes 



obovate, rounded, twisted to left in bud. Stamens 2 glabrous. 



Anthers narroAvly oblong, 2-celled, exserted or subincluded; pollen 



spherical, honeycombed. Style long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, 



stigma simple, linear. Capsule clavate, with solid terete base. 



Seeds compressed discoid, hygroscopically hairy on acute retinacula. 



Lindau includes this genus in Eranthemum, which it very closely resembles, and 



can only be distinguished by the twisted (not imbricate) corolla lobes in bud and 



usually by the bracts much exceeding the calyx. 



I. Bracts imbricating, foliaceous, often white, very nervose :— 



Bracts "S-'TS", cuspidate. Flowers blue . .' . . .1. nervosns. 

 Bracts -6-1", long-acuminate. Flowers lilac or purple ." . 2. pnrpura'scens. 

 II. Bracts rather distant, linear or lanceolate-linear:— 



Bracts -o-Q". Flowers blue-purple or slate-coloured . . 3. montanus. 

 Several species (including vervosus) are cultivated. One of these, D. splendem 

 T. Anders., with brick-red curved flowers, is common in the lower Himalaya close to 

 our area. 



1. D. nervosus, T. Anders. 



A handsome shrub 2-6 ft. high with 4-angled puberulous branches, 

 large soft deep-green leaves 5-9" long, elliptic to ovate, acuminate, 

 with tapering base. Flowers pure blue 1-1-25" long and -75" diam. 

 m ternately sub-corymbosely panicled terminal spikes with mostly 

 white, green-veined imbricating bracts about •5--75" long, mostly 



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