HemigrapJiis.] cix. ACANTHACE^B. (C. B. Clarke.) 425 



Cat. 2383, letters A, B ; Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 83. Strobilanthes 

 burmanica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 92. 



PEGU ; Wallicli, Kurz. DISTRIB. Ava. 



Similar to, but stouter than, H. latebrosa ; leaves less sharply toothed. Inner 

 bracts of the heads - in., narrowly elliptic or oblong, overtopping the calyx. 

 Corolla I in. and upwards ; larger and broader than that of H. latebrosa. Stamens 

 as in H. latebrosa, or (fide Nees) one anther-cell sometimes rudimentary, -The long 

 inner bracts give this plant a different aspect from the Deccan H. latebrosa. Brac- 

 teoles ; Nees says lanceolate longer than the calyx, from which it is probable that 

 he means by bracteole that which he has called bract in the diagnosis of the same 

 species. Kurz's Strobilanthes burmanica is more hairy than Wallich's Pegu examples ; 

 and it may be doubtful if several of the species here admitted are other than local 

 varieties of H. latebrosa. 



VAE. crenata ; viscid -pubescent, less softly white hairy, leaves crenate. Ruellia 

 crenata, Benth.; Hohenack. in Flora 1849,558. Mala'bar; Canara, Hohenacker, 

 n. 737; Concan, Stocks; Belgaum, Ritchie; Bombay, Law; Bellary, Beddome. 



9. H. G-riffithiana, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 463 ; leaves 

 lanceolate remotely obscurely toothed glabrate, heads terminal shortly 

 cylindric hairy, bracteoles much shorter than the calyx. Ruellia Griffithiana, 

 Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 149. 



MEBGUI ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6091) ; Tenasserim, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 

 n. 6187). 



RootstocJc perennial ; stems several, 1 foot, erect, scarcely branched, slender, 

 pubescent upwards. Leaves 2 by ^ in., sessile, attenuate to both ends, pubescent 

 when young. Spikes 3! in., viscidly hairy; bracts 3 | in., elliptic, subobtuse ; 

 bracteoles ^- in., narrow. Sepals \ in. and upwards, linear-lanceolate, not very 

 unequal. Corolla | in. and upwards, more ventricose than iir-others of this section, 

 bearded in the palate within. Longer filaments densely bearded upwards with long 

 white hairs, shorter glabrous. Capsule rather more than in., usually 8-seeded. 

 Seeds T ' g in., much compressed, discoid, densely elastically white-hairy when wetted. 



10. H. quadrifaria, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 463 ; hirsute, 

 leaves ovate or elliptic acute, bracts large, corolla 1 in. Euellia quadri- 

 faria, Wall. Cat. 7152 ; Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 83, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 147. 



MOULMEIN ; Parish, n. 403. TENASSEEIM ; Beddome, nn. 96, 97. DISTBIB. 

 Ava. 



Hirsute with white or yellowish hairs from tubercular bases. Branch stout, 

 shrubby. Leaves 4^ by 2| in., upper narrower, base obtusely rhomboid, crenate- 

 serrate ; petiole ^ inf Heads dense, terminal and peduncled on short axillary branches, 

 hirsute; bracts 1 by g-| in., inner gradually smaller ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate 

 rather shorter than the calyx. Sepals | in., narrowly lanceolate, bases subconnate. 

 Corolla sparingly pubescent, more ventricose than in the other species of this^ section, 

 "deep blue" (Parish). Filaments of the longer stamens densely shaggy with long 

 white hairs to the apex ; anthers all subequal, muticous. Style simple, hairy ; ovules 

 4-6 in each cell. Capsule i in., narrowly oblong, slightly hairy upwards, 8-12-seeded 

 nearly from the base. 



11. H. g-laucescens, Clarice; leaves oblong narrowed to each end 

 scabrid pubescent on the nerves beneath, spikes dense strobilate, bracts 

 ovate acute hirsute, bracteoles very small lanceolate. Strobilanthes glau- 

 cescens, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7155, and in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 85, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 178; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 467. 



PEGU and TENASSEEIM ; Griffith, &c. 



A shrub ; branches scabrous. Leaves 6 by 2 in., crenulate, liueolate, sparingly 



