Strobilantkes.] cix. ACAXTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 437 



Series A. Bracteatce. Bracts prominent, persistent or only late decidu- 

 ous. Flowers spiked, clustered or strobilate ; spikes sometimes interrupted 

 below, but flowers never all scattered. 



* Flowers capitate or shortly spicate. (An artificial section passing by 

 gradations into the strobiliform or interruptedly spicate sections.) 



f Seeds glabrous (in a few not known). Species of Ceylon and the 

 Deccan Peninsula. 



21. S. barbatus 9 Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 85, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 179 ; leaves broad- elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, bracts 

 obovate cuspidate squarrose, corolla white very hairy within, seeds usually 

 2. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 468 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 212. 

 S. tetrapterus, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 342; Dalz. Sf G-ibs.Bomb.Fl. 

 187 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 468. Ruellia ciliata, Heyne in 

 Herb. Rottler; Wall. Cat. 2392 (not Wall. Cat. 2415). 



W. DECCAN PENINSTJLA ; from the Bombay Ghats to Cape Comorin, alt. 3000 ft., 

 Wight, Dalzell, &c. 



A gregarious shrub, flowering once at about 7 years old, then dying (Beddome) ; 

 stem often winged. Leaven 7 by 3 in., crenulate or subentire, lineolate especially 

 jibove ; nerves 7-8 pair ; petiole 1-3 in., base often auriculate, sometimes winged. 

 Heads 12 in., sessile, very dense ; bracts | in., obscurely quadrifarious, green, 

 ciliate; bracteoles ^ in., linear, ciliate. Calyx ^ in., divided more than half-way 

 down, green, ciliolate; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla f-1 in.; cylindric base 

 as long as the suddenly-widened subcampanulate portion ; limb nearly erect, subequal. 

 Filaments sparsely hairy upwards. Pistil sparsely hairy and glabrous. Capsule 

 |-f in., clavate, always 2-seeded. Seeds nearly ^ in. long, very thin, elliptic, areoles 

 0. The fruit has only been seen in the form S. tetrapterus, Dalz. In the old 

 examples of 8. barbatus the corolla is barely in., the heads and bracts are smaller, 

 the calyx less deeply divided ; but Beddome says (from knowledge of the living 

 plant) that there is only one species here. 



22. S. lanceolatus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 181; glabrous except 

 the calyx, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends nearly entire, heads 

 small capitate few-fld., calyx-segments in flower lanceolate acute slightly 

 hairy in fruit, capsule 4-seeded. S. adenophorus, Nees 1. c. 182; T. Anders, 

 in Thwaites Enum. 228, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 466, not of Beddome. 

 Martynia lanceolate, Moon Cat. PL Ceyl. Goldfussia Myrtinia, Nees I. c. 

 174. 



CEYLON ; Four Korles and Saffragam, Macrae, Thtvaites, &c. 



A small shrub ; branches quadrangular. Leaves 3 by in., prominently lineolate 

 above ; nerves 6 pair ; petiole ^ in. Heads % in. (exclusive of the corolla), 2-4-fld., 

 in appearance solitary peduncled, peduncles slightly thickened upwards quadrangu- 

 lar or subalate ; floral leaves 2, elliptic, in., in the dried examples erect, overtopping 

 closely enveloping the flower-head; proper bract g- in., oblong; bracteoles 2, 5- in., 

 sublinear, often suppressed in the upper flowers as commonly in close heads. C'n///x 

 % in., divided half-way down, segments in fruit elongate obtuse. Corolla 1^-1^ in., 

 nearly glabrous without, light-blue ; cylindric nearly as long as the ventricose part. 

 Filaments hairy downwards. Ovary hairy at the apex. Capsule in., narrowly 

 oblong. Seeds % in. long, thin, elliptic, glabrous ; areoles the- length of the seed. 



23. S. heteromallus, T. Anders, ins.-, villous, subhispid, leaves 

 ovate acute, heads ovoid, bracts oblong overtopping the calyx, ovary densely 

 hairy at the tip. S. scaber, Var. y Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 84, 

 Yar |3 Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 178, as to Wight's Deccan material. Kuellia 

 scabra, Wall. Cat. 2377 (not Wall. Cat. 2393). 



