460 cix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Strobilanthes. 



91. S. quadrangnlaris, Clarke; leaves large subsessile broadly 

 elliptic acuminate at both ends serrate minutely hairy, heads ovoid pedun- 

 cled, bracts large ovate acute grey pubescent caducous, corolla li in. pubes- 

 cent without. Euellia quadrangularis, Wall. Cat. 2358. E. bracteata, 

 Wall. Cat. 2357 b only. Goldfussia bracteata, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. 

 iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 173. 



NEPAL ; Wallich. KTJMAON ; Mohargari, alfc. 6500 ft., and Kalamundi, alt. 8500 ft., 

 Strachey fy Winter!) otto m. 



Stem 2 ft., herbaceous, acutely quadrangular, somewhat pubescent upwards. 

 Leaves 8 by 3 in., shortly scabrous-setulose above, remotely minutely hairy beneath ; 

 nerves 13 pair. Peduncles 1-4 in., 12 in each axil or the uppermost-subuinbellate, 

 hairy, clavate, quadrangular upwards, 1 -headed ; heads in flower 1| in. ; bracts f-1 in., 

 deciduous before the flowers expand ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 3- in., distinctly gamo- 

 sepalous, subequally 5-fid ; segments linear-oblong, green, very viscidly golden-pubes- 

 cent. Corolla in shape nearly as of S. Dalhousianus. Capsule not seen. 



92. S. pentstemonoides, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 477, in 

 part ; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, bracts orbicular con- 

 cave whitened glabrous, bracteoles 0, calyx pubescent, corolla 1^ in. nearly 

 glabrous pale purple. Euellia pentstemonoides, Wall. Cat. 2340. E. 

 Cephalotes, Wall. Cat. 2352. E. capitata, Wall. Cat. 2351, partly. Gold- 

 fussia pentstemonoides, Nees in Wall. PI. As. JKar. iii. 88, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 175 ; Wight Ic. t. 1510. 



STJBTEOPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-6000 ft., from NEPAL to BHOTAN, frequent ; 

 Wallich, H.f. Sf T., &c. 



A much branched shrub, 3-8 ft. diam. ; stems glabrous. Leaves 6^ by 2J in., 

 closely serrate, lineolate on both surfaces ; nerves 7 pair ; petiole | in. Peduncles 

 1-3 in., sometimes glandular-hairy, 1-2 together, mostly 1-3-headed ; heads |-1 in., 

 young exactly globular, outer bracts enclosing the heads ; but in some of Wallich's 

 examples the young heads are oblong-cylindric, strobiliform ; bracts |-^ in., obtuse, 

 early caducous. Calyx \ in., in fruit often ^ in., divided nearly to the base, segments 

 linear. Corolla more or less curved ; narrow part of the tube sometimes minutely 

 pubescent. Stamens glabrous. Capsule f in., oblong-clavate, glandular-pubescent, 

 4-seeded. Seeds | in., ovate, silky ; areoles very small. 



VAE. flexuosa ; small, branches short flexuose rooting, peduncles long with Ismail 

 head. Ruellia flexuosa, Wall. Cat. 2412. Goldfussia flexuosa, Nees in Wall. PL As. 

 Ear. iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 175." India," Serb. Wight. Branclies\-\\ foot, 

 apparently prostrate. Leaves 2\ by | in., thinly herbaceous; nerves 5 pair. The 

 example in Herb. Wight looks very unlike the Himalayan 8. pentstemonoides', and, 

 though taken up as a species by Nees, T. Anderson seems to have been so dissatisfied 

 about it that he has left it out altogether. But there is a piece of the same thing 

 mixed in Wallich's herbarium with Ruellia Cephalotes (Wall. Cat. 2352, type sheet) ; 

 and it is probably an alpine starved (or cultivated ?) form of S. pentstemonoides. 



93. S. Dalhousianus, Clarice; leaves elliptic acuminate at both 

 ends hairy, bracts orbicular concave whitened glabrous, bracteoles 0, calyx 

 glabrate or sparingly hairy, corolla nearly 2 in. glabrous purple. B. pent- 

 stemonoides, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 477, partly. Goldfussia 

 Dalhousiana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 174; Wight Ic. t. 1509. 



W. TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft.; from Kashmir to Kumaon, frequent ; 

 Lady Dalkousie, Thomson^ &c. 



A suberect shrub, 2-3 ft.; stems hairy. Bracts scarcely \ in., caducous; outer- 

 most oblong, green upwards, small, not enclosing the heads. Calyx in the typical 

 form glabrous, subscarious, lobes linear-oblong, sometimes minutely softly hairy. 

 United with S. pentstemonoides by T. Anders., from which it differs in habit, in having 

 much more hairy leaves and less hairy calyx. It also grows at a different level. 



