Strobilanthes.] cix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 445 



Capsule unknown. This imperfectly known species may very possibly have its true 

 position nearer to S. Heyneanus var. campanulata. 



45. S. scrobiculatus, Dalz. ms. ; leaves elliptic acuminate at both 

 ends nearly glabrous, spikes numerous subsessile along the naked branches, 

 corolla 1 in. blue. 



BOMBAY GHATTTS ; Dalzell; Mahabeleshwur, Ralph. 



Woody branches elongate, much divided, leafless, covered with flowers, tips leafy. 

 -Leaves 3 by 1 in., nearly entire ; nerves 7 pair; petiole | in. Spikes 1 in., subses- 

 sile, viscous hairy ; bracts i n ., narrowly obovate, persistent in fruit ; bracteoles 

 in., sublinear. Calyx % in., divided nearly to the base ; segments linear, hairy. 

 Corolla symmetric, nearly glabrous, pale below, a beautiful blue upwards ; ventricose 

 part rather narrow longer than the contracted; lobes ovate, crenulate. Stamens 

 included, glabrous. Style with a few hairs. Capsule in., 4-seeded. Seeds T ' 3 in., 

 thin, ovate, densely covered with fine long hairs, elastic when wet, except the small 

 areoles. Appears to be the most beautiful species of the genus; it is allied to S. 

 ixiocephalus. 



46. S. papillosus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 468 ; scabrous 

 hispid, leaves ovate acute, heads ellipsoid, bracts elliptic elongate scabrous 

 hispid, corolla H-lf in. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 201. S. scaber Yar ? 8 

 Benth.in PL Hohenack. n. 1431. 



NILG-.HERRY MTS. ; alt. 7000 ft., HohenacJcer, Beddome. MYSORE ; Loll. 



A large shrub (Beddome) ; branches very harshly scabrous. Leaves 2f by If in., 

 obtuse, base very shortly cuneate, callous-dentate, hispid with tubercle-based hairs 

 above, setulose beneath ; nerves 6 pair ; petiole f in. Heads 1^-2 in., strictly capi- 

 tate ; peduncles thickened upwards, acutely 4-angled, very harshly scabrous ; floral 

 leaves 2 in., empty, overtopping the head ; bract very rigid ; bracteoles 1 in., narrowly 

 lanceolate, membranous, ciliate. Calyx divided nearly to the base ; segments 1^ in., 

 linear-lanceolate, very acute, membranous, ash-coloured, ciliate. Corolla subsym- 

 nietric, nearly glabrous, blueish ; cylindric part hardly so long as the ventricose ; lobes 

 ovate. Stamens glabrous, included. Pistil thinly hairy. Capsule unknown. Allied 

 to S. Perrottetianus according to Beddome, and it may turn out so to be when the 

 seeds are known. 



47. S. exsertus, Clarice ; leaves petioled ovate acute at both ends 

 scabrid-pubescent, spikes densely capitate solitary terminal, bracts obovate 

 as long as the calyx, corolla f in., anthers exsert. Stenosiphonium zeylani- 

 cum, Yar. a, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 225, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 ix. 463. 



CEYLON ; Thivaites (C. P. 3577) ; Damboul, Beckett. 



A shrub, 1-2 ft., creeping, rooting; branches suberect, quadrangular, pubescent. 

 Leaves 1| by | in., crenate, rather harsh, liueolate on both surfaces, sparsely 

 setose above, more softly beneath; nerves 5-6 pair; petiole in. Heads sessile 

 between 2 somewhat enveloping leaves ; quasi-peduricles 0-1^ in., often thickened 

 upwards; bracts in., subobtuse, green, persistent, patently white-hairy. Calyx 

 \ in., divided about half-way down at flower-time, teeth lanceolate, hairy. Corollj, 

 curved, nearly glabrous without ; cylindric base \ in., funnel-shaped part nearly 

 as long ; lobes ovate. Filaments glabrous except at the base, 2 longer distinctly 

 exserted ; anthers all subequal. Ovary glabrous, tip glandular, 4-ovulate ; style 

 glabrous, stigma simple. Capsule % in., oblong, glabrous, 4-seeded from near the base. 

 Seeds in. diam., much compressed, orbicular, densely elastically hairy, except on the 

 conspicuous areoles. Placed in Stenosiphonium by T. Anderson, and regarded as a 

 var. of Hemigraphis venosa. The inflorescence does not do for Stenosiphonium, nor 

 the leaves, and the ovules are never more than 4 to the ovary. 



VAE. integra, T. Anders. 1. c. ; leaves entire glabrous, corolla 1 in. ventricose, 

 constricted cylindric base of the tube short. Ceylon ; Thwaites (C. P. n. 3661). 



