Strolilanthes.~\ cix. ACANTHACE/E. (C. B. Clarke.) 435 



DECCAN PENINSULA; S. Canara, on the Kudra Mukh Mt., alt. 6000 ft., 

 Beddome. 



A rigid shrub, 3-4 ft. ; tips of the branches and young leaves densely clothed 

 with caducous yellowish wool. Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, 

 3 by 1$ in., base rhoniboidal, mature nearly glabrous except the nerves beneath ; 

 nerves 9 pair, approximate, subparatlel ; petiole ^ in. Spikes 1-2 in., clustered in the 

 upper axils, forming a dense terminal panicle, thinly, duskily, deciduously woolly ; 

 bracts - in., ovate, obscurely acuminate ; bracteoles scarcely * in., narrowly lanceo- 

 late. Calyx % in., divided half-way down; segments narrowly lanceolate. Corolla 

 very pubescent, ventricose portion much longer than the cylindric base. Filaments 

 hairy. Ovary glabrous, style minutely sparsely hairy ; ovule solitary in each cell (in 

 the only ovary examined), probably never as in Beddome's figure, which shows the 

 ovules 2 in each cell, the lower pendulous. 



16. S. cuspidatus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. is. 465 ; leaves 

 ovate* acuminate subentire densely white silky beneath, spikes linear oblong 

 glandular fulvous hairy, bracts narrowly elliptic acuminate, corolla 1 in. 

 blue-purple. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 221. Endopogoncuspidatus, Benth. 

 in PL HoJienack. n. 1169, and in Linncea, xxiv. 646. E. versicolor, Wight 

 III. t. 164 b. fig. 4 (left-hand), and Ic. t. 1497, both figure and description. 



NILGHERRIES, alt. 4-7000 ft., frequent ; Wight, Gen. Munro, &c. 



A shrub, 2-5 ft. Leaves 4 by 2| in*, base shortly acuminate, mature glabrous 

 above, raphides not prominent ; nerves 8 pair, approximate, subparallel 5 petiole 1 

 in. Splices 1-3 in., often laxly panicled at the ends of the branches ; bracts in., 

 base concave, acuminate, tip recurved; bracteoles ^ in., linear. Calyx $ in,, divided 

 | the way down ; teeth linear, very glandular-hairy (not so lanceolate as in 

 Beddome's figure). Corolla nearly glabrous; 2 rows of long white hairs on the 

 palate within, between which the style (itself nearly glabrous, not as in Beddome's 

 figure) lies. Filaments glabrous, except near the base. Capsule | in., 4-seeded ; seeds 

 discoid, with a circular areola en each face, densely hairy except on the areola. 

 T. Anderson refers Wight Ic. t. 1497 to S. viscosus, but the plant from which that 

 figure was drawn is at Kew, and is S. cuspidatus. 



17. S. consang-uineus, Clarke, not of T. Anders. ; leaves ovate 

 acuminate obscurely toothed glabrous beneath, spikes linear-oblong glandular 

 hairy, bracts narrowly elliptic hardly so long as the calyx, corolla f in. 

 S. neglectus, T. Anders, ms. Endopogon consanguineus, Nees in Wall. PI. 

 As. Rar. iii. 99. and partly in DC, Prodr. xi, 1U4. Ruellia spicata, Roth 

 Nov. Sp. 310 ; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 153. 



S. MADRAS ; Negapatam and Nilgherries, Wight ; Courtallum, Wight, n. 1982. 



Very similar to the last species; but the leaves are more distinctly toothed, the 

 flowers smaller. Leaves glabrate, prominently lineolate above ; nerves 7 pair. Spikes 

 compound, axillary and terminal, often slender, sublinear. Calyx g in., divided half- 

 way down or more ; segments narrowly lanceolate, glandular-hairy. Corolla-lobes 

 ovate, acute. Filaments glabrous, except at the very base. Capsule |-j in., 4-seeded. 

 Seeds discoid, areolate on both faces, densely hairy except on the areola3. This is the 

 original Endopogon consanguineus of Nees, which was founded on Wight n. 1982, the 

 example of which authenticated in Nees' hand is at Kew. Subsequently, in DC. 

 Prodr., Nees united with this species the totally remote S. exareolatus. T. Anderson 

 published (in Thwaites Enum. 226) this latter'species as S. consanguineus, T. Anders., 

 while he separated in the herbarium the old Wight n. 1982 on which he has written 

 S. neglectus, nov. sp. 



VAR. Amomum leaves more clearly toothed, spikes slender minutely pubescent or 

 very nearly glabrous, bracts acuminate to an obtuse apex often overtopping the calyx. 

 S. consanguineus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 465, partly ; Bedd. Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t. 216. Ruellia sesamoides, Wall Cat. 2408, c and a chiefly. Eudopogou 

 Amomum, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 99, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 104. Nil- 

 gherries ; Wight, n. 1980, &c. 



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