458 cix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [StrolilantJies. 



occur blotched; nerves 9-11 pair. Inflorescence and flowers as of S. maculatus, but 

 the bracts usually - in. wide towards their base. Seeds T ' 5 in. diam., pubescent. 

 Certainly closely allied to S. maculatus, and may be a high-level hairy form of it, as T. 

 Anderson supposed; but besides the difference in the bracts fixed on by Nees the seeds 

 are about double the diam., much more shortly dusky hairy. 



86. S. petiolaris, Nees in DC, Prodr. xi. 189, in part ; leaves ovate 

 acuminate at both, ends mature nearly glabrous, spikes linear paiiicled hairy, 

 bracts obovate-spathulate, corolla ! in. ventricose. S. maculatus, T. 

 Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 473, chiefly. 



SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 3-10,000 ft., common ; Griffith, T. Anderson, &c. 

 ASSAM; Griffith. 



A lax shrub, perhaps not specifically distinct from S. maculatus ; the leaves are 

 often spotted as on it, the small seeds' are similar ; but the bracts are much broader 

 (as Nees states), and the corolla is much larger, usually purplish or even rose instead of 

 lavender blue ; nerves 7 pair, i. e. much more distant than in S. maculatus & mona- 

 delphus. The species reaches a very high level, the Alpine specimens being smaller 

 with smaller leaves but equally large flowers. 



VAR. tubiftos; spikes divaricate densely glandular-hairy, corolla (nnexpanded) 

 more than 1 in. the veutricose portion scarcely in. diam. Mishmee ; Dailoo, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. nn. 6095, 6103)." Corolla deep blue ; bracts lead-coloured" (Griffith's 

 field-note). This is very possibly a distinct species, though it must be closely allied to 

 S. petiolaris ; but it is very dangerous to assume the shape of the corolla from buds 

 in this genus. 



87. S. perfoliatus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 471 ; leaves 

 sessile lanceolate or elliptic much acuminate at both ends glabrous, spikes 

 axillary cymose lax subcontinuous very viscid ciliate, bracts oblong linear- 

 acuminate, capsule clavate 2-seeded. Endopogon integrifolius, Dalz. in 

 Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 342 ; Dalz. <Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 185. Leptacanthus 

 alatus, Wight Ic. t. 1527. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Concan, Canara, Coorg, Law, Dalzell, &c. 



Shrubby, nearly glabrous except the spikes. Leaves attaining 15 by 4| in., more 

 often 6 by 1^-2^ in., very variable in size and in width, sparingly toothed, lineolate 

 above; nerves 6-12 pair; petiole winged to the base, there dilated, auriculate, 

 sometimes subdecurrent, never perfoliate. Spikes 2-5 in., closely cymed (or solitary) 

 on very short axillary peduncles, very open, hardly interrupted even at the base in 

 fruit; bracts f by & in.; bractseoles ^ in., linear. Calyx \-\ in. (elongate in fruit), 

 divided nearly to the base, segments linear. Corolla \\ in., straight, glabrous 

 without, hairy within; cylindric base of the tube nearly as long as the ventricose 

 part. Stamens included ; longer filaments glabrous. Ovary glabrous, style thinly 

 hairy. Capsule -| in., compressed. Seeds in., ovate, shaggy; areoles hardly 

 any. 



88. S. glutlnosuB, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 86, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 194 ; viscous hairy, leaves ovate acute, spikes short, lowest bracts 

 leaf -like upper obovate or oblong shorter than the calyx, corolla 2 in. T. 

 Anders, in Journ. Linn^ Soc. ix. 476. Kuellia glutinosa, Wall. Cat. 2350. 

 K. Jacquemontiana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 145. 



KASHMIR, GTJRWHAL, KUMAON and NEPAL; Wallich, Jacquemont, &c. 



A shrub, 2-5 ft. ; branches villous. Leaves 3 by 1| in., base cuneate or rounded, 

 crenate, villous on both surfaces ; nerves 5-6 pair ; petiole -f in. Spikes densely 

 capitate, or more often the lowest flowers are remote, solitary, opposite in the 

 axils of bract-like leaves ; bract - in., ovate, subfoliaceous, persistent ; bracteoles 

 in., oblong. Calyx - in., divided nearly to the base ; segments linear, obtuse, 

 viscous hairy. Corolla nearly glabrous ; linear-cylindric base nearly as long as the 

 ventricose part. Stamens glabrous. Capsule f in., viscous-pubescent, 4-seeded. 



