Strobilanthes.] cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 461 



94. S. multidens, Clarke ; leaves ovate shortly acuminate at both 

 ends minutely sparsely hairy on both surfaces, heads panicled viscous hairy, 

 bracts small obovate viscous hairy deciduous, calyx viscous-pubescent, 

 corolla 1-if in. purple. 



SIKKIM, alt. 3-6000 ft.; J, D. H., &c. BHOTAN; Griffith, Herb. Propr. 

 n. 2398. 



Leaves 7\ by 4 in., closely regularly serrate (often with more than 100 teeth to 

 the leaf ; both surfaces with few remote minute hairs and small scattered raphides. 

 Bracts | in,, very viscous-hairy; bracteoles in., linear-oblong. Capsule in., 

 viscous-pubescent, 4-seeded. Seeds ^ in., subquadrate, fulvous-hairy ; areoles sub- 

 obsolete. This is the so-called Sikkim 8. Dalhousianus ; it is nearer the true S. pent- 

 stemonaides, but the young heads are never glabrous globose as in that, and the 

 panicle is compound very glandular-hairy. The corollas in Griffith's Bhotan example 

 are not more than 1^ in., but are not thoroughly expanded. 



95. S. rhombifolius, Clar&e; leaves subsessilo rhomboid-ovate 

 shortly acute at both ends glabrous, bracts small elliptic concave caducous, 

 bracteoles 0, corolla 1^-lf in. nearly glabrous. Goldfussia sessilis, Nees in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 172, not Strobilanthes sessilis, Nees, 



ASSAM ; Jenkins. 



Branches long, subterete, glabrous. Leaves (often unequal) 3^ by 2 in., remotely 

 serrulate, lineolate on both surfaces ; nerves 5 pair. Peduncles 1-3 in., 1-3-headed ; 

 heads \ in. cliam., closely capitate ; all the bracts early caducous. Calyx in flower 

 5~ | in., divided nearly to the base ; segments narrowly lanceolate, fuscous pubescent. 

 Corolla nearly as of 8^ pentstemonoides, purple-.mouthed. Filaments glabrous, 

 longer hairy near the base. Capsule not seen. This seems very near S. pentste- 

 monoides, differing little but in the shape of the leaves ; the heads however, by the 

 time the first flowers expand, have lost all their bracts, which gives them a very 

 different look. 



96. S. oligroeephalus, T. Anders, ms. in Herb. Kew ; leaves elliptic 

 caudate-acuminate nearly glabrous oiliate, young heads globose, bracts 

 round concave glabrous, bracteoles 0, calyx hairy, corolla 1 in. pubescent 

 without dark-purple. Goldfussia sp. n. 24, Herb. Ind. Or, H.f. fy T. 



UPPER SIKKIM, alt. 5-7000 ft.; Yoksun, J. D. If., &c. 



A small shrub, 1-2 ft..; branches slender, terete, glabrous. Leaves attaining 6| 

 by 3 in. (usually smaller much narrower), base cuneate, minutely remotely denticulate, 

 sparingly thinly lineolate, sparsely puberulous especially toward the margins beneath ; 

 nerves 5-6 pair; petiole f in. Bracts as in S^pentstemonoides, but rather smaller. 

 Corolla viscous-pubescent without, usually nearly black, When dried hardly 

 distinguishable from 8. pentstemonoides but by the smaller heads and the ciliate 

 leaves. 



VAE.? Trett fieri; heads slightly elongate, bracts ovate-lanceolate herbaceous hairy, 

 bracteoles in. linear, sepals - in. Sikkim, alt, 9-10,000 ft., frequent on Tonglo 

 and Sundukphoo, Treutler, &c. 



97. S. dasyspermus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii, 94; leaves 

 elliptic or ovate acuminate very sparsely minutely hairy, heads even in 

 fruit capitate forming (by the falling of the floral leaves) quasi-pamcles, 

 bracts small oblong caducous, corolla 1 in. blue glabrous without. 



PEGTJ; Kurz. 



An erect, nearly glabrous herb, 3-4 ft. (Kurz) ; branches obscurely quadranpruhir. 

 Leaves 5i by 2 in., base suddenly shortly acuminate (the uppermost and reduced 

 floral leaves sessile cordate), crenate-serrate, subghibrous, minutely lineolate above; 

 nerves 7-8 pair ; petiole 0- in. Heads few-fid., glandular-hairy ; peduncles - in. ; 

 bracts J in. ; bracteoles in., obovate- oblong, caducous. Calyx -fc in., divided 

 nearly to the base ; segments linear-ligulate. Corolla nearly straight ; cylindric base 



