Strobilanthes.] .cix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 459 



Seeds |- in., ovate, shaggy ; areoles hardly any. In spite of the enormous differ- 

 ences in the capsule and seeds, this plant has been much mixed with JEchmanthera 

 tomentosa. 



Series B. Nudatce. Bracts caducous, often before the flowers expand. 

 Flowers clustered or in distant mostly opposite pairs ; not most of them 

 scattered alternate. Seeds in all hairy. (All, except S. Newii from N. 

 India or Malay Peninsula.) 



* Heads even in fruit capitate or ovate, not interrupted below. 



89. S. greniculatuSy Clarice ; nearly glabrous, leaves elliptic acumi- 

 nate serrate, heads 2-3-fld., bracts large ovate acuminate caducous, brac- 

 teoles 0. S. gracilis, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 474, not of Bed- 



MISHMEE ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6116). 



A small shrub; branches slender, somewhat zigzag. Leaves 5 by 1| in., base 

 cuneate or rhomboid, serrulate, upper surface dense with raphides ; nerves 6-7 pair ; 

 petiole ^ in. Peduncles 1-3 in., with a node carrying two reduced caducous leaves 

 at the middle, there geniculate and sometimes divided; heads f in., 2-4 outer 

 bract-like leaves barren, early caducous ; bract f by in., lineolate. Calyx \-^ in., 

 divided nearly to the base ; segments linear, unequal, obtuse, glandular. Corolla 

 1 in., glabrous, purple. Capsule f in., clavate, 4-seeded, glandular-pubescent. 

 Seeds T ' 5 in., ovate, shaggy; areoles small. Each flower is subtended by one bract, and \ 

 there are 2-4 outer empty similar bracts ; before the expansion of the corolla all the 

 bracts but 1 or 2 of the uppermost fall, and these disappear before fruit. 



VAR. Integra ; leaves nearly entire, sepals in fruit nearly J in. hairy. Khasia 

 Mts.; Clarke. Leaves 5 by 2| in., subovate ; petiole -| in. Seeds in. and up- 

 wards. Probably merely the fully-developed state of S. geniculatus, whick Griffith 

 collected in a colder country. 



90. S. capitatus, 21 Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 475 ; leaves 

 ovate acuminate at each end nearly glabrous, bracts elliptic- oblong herba- 

 ceous pubescent as long as the calyx, bracteoles half as long as the calyx, 

 corolla lf-2 in. deep blue. Euellia capitata, Wall. Cat. 2351, partly ; 

 Don Prodr. 120. Goldfussia capitata, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 88, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xi. 173. G. biceps, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7161, and in 

 Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 172. Acanthacea sp. 

 Griff. Itin. Notes, 116, n. 213. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from NEPAL to BHOTAN, common ; 

 Wallich, Griffith, H.f. Sf T., &c. PEGU ; Karen Hills (fide T. Anderson). DISTRIB. 

 Ava. 



A shrub, 1-3 ft. Leaves 6 by 2f in., serrate, obscurely lineolate above, minutely 

 hairy on the nerves beneath ; nerves 6-7 pair ; petiole 1 in- Peduncles usually 

 short, -1 in., sometimes 2-4 in., glabrous or pubescent. Heads 1 in. diam., closely 

 capitate even in fruit, many-fld., outer empty bracts sometimes long leaf-like, some- 

 times hardly half so long as the heads, caducous; bracts proper to each flower elon- 

 gate upwards, closely adpressedly softly white pubescent; bracteoles 53- in., ligulate, 

 herbaceous, pubescent, caducous in fruit. Calyx fc in., deeply divided but connate into 

 a hardened short tube at the base ; segments narrowly lanceolate, softly hairy even in 

 fruit. Corolla curved, tubular- ventricose, nearly glabrous. Stamens glabrous. 

 Ovary glandular ; style thinly patently hairy. Capsule in., slightly clavate, pubes- 

 cent, 4-seeded. Seeds - in., ovate, shaggy ; areoles small. 



VAR. nitida ; heads larger shining glabrate in fruit, bracteoles nearly as long as 

 the calyx obovate-oblong glabrous fimbriate in fruit. Khasia Mts. ; Mousto, alt. 

 2500 ft., Clarke. Bracts and bracteoles shining scarious in fruit from a short greea 

 base. Seeds 5 in.^ densely silky. 



