462 cix. ACAXTHACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) [Strolilantfyes. 



about as long as the moderately-widened ventricose part; segments ovate. Filaments 

 and style sparsely hairy. Capsule % in., narrowly elliptic, pubescent upwards, 4-seeded. 

 Seeds | in., ovate, silky ; areoles hardly any. Kurz rightly refers this to the neigh- 

 bourhood of 8. pentstemonoides. 



98. S. discolor, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 477; leaves elliptic 

 cuspidate-acuminate glabrous, heads cymose running into compound 

 panicles, bracts ^fugacious, calyx hairy, corolla 1^ in. nearly glabrous. 

 Goldfussia discolor, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 172 (excl. West Himalayan 

 examples). 



BHOTAN, ASSAM, and KHASIA MTS.; Griffith (Herl. Propr. nn. 2399, 2400 ; 

 Kew Distrib. nn. 6105, 6120). 



A shrub, closely resembling S. pentstemonoides and 8. sessilis ; differing from the 

 former in having the leaves more shortly petioled, less sharply toothed, the inflores- 

 cence more compound ; from the latter in the leaves cuspidate acuminate. In the 

 type examples of Nees the leaves are scarcely whitened beneath. Bracts not seen, 

 oblong-lanceolate, fide Nees. 



VAE. nudicalyx; leaves densely lineolate above coriaceous very white beneath, 

 bracts | in. obovate, sepals glabrate lineolate. Goldfussia sp. n. 25, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H.f. $ T. Khasia, alt. 4000 f t. ; Mausmai Falls, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6120); 

 Cherra, H. f. Sf I 7 . The type examples of this collected by J. D. H. look like a 

 very distinct species ; but some of the pieces of Griffith have the sepals glandular 

 hairy. 



99. S. isophyllus, T. Anders, in Cat. Sort. Calcutt. 43, and in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 478 ; leaves linear-lanceolate attenuate at both ends glabrous, 

 heads numerous small cymed, bracts elliptic obtuse green shorter than the 

 calyx, bracteoles nearly as long as the bracts, corolla 1 in. nearly glabrous 

 lavender. Goldfussia isophylla, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7162, and in Wall. PI. 

 As. Ear. iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 176; Sot. Mag. t. 4363 ; Maund 

 Sot. t. 244. Strobilanthes Goldfussia, Dalz. Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 71, 

 excl. syn. 



KHASIA MTS., or adjoining parts of Silhet or Assam. All the examples are of 

 cultivated plants. 



A nearly glabrous, erect, very ramous shrub, 1-2 ft. Leaves 3 by J-^ in., oppo- 

 site, subequal, entire or slightly serrulate, covered with raphides on both surfaces; 

 nerves 4-5 pair ; petiole 0-| in. Heads \ in. diam., 1-4-fld., terminal but appearing 

 axillary cymed, the reduced leaves on the short axillary branches being caducous ; 

 bracteal leaves to the heads caducous ; bract \ in. , green, nearly glabrous, subper- 

 sistent ; bracteoles ^ in., linear-oblong, green, nearly glabrous. Calyx in., divided 

 nearly to the base, pubescent; segments sublinear. Corolla curved ; cylindric base 

 much shorter than the ventricose portion, lobes short round. Stamens and style 

 hairy. Capsule nearly in., glabrous, 4-seeded. Seeds T ' a in., ovate, silky; areoles 

 hardly any. 



100. S. anisophyllus, T. Anders, in Cat. Sort. Calcutt. 43, and in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 478 ; leaves very unequal or pseudo-alternate lanceolate 

 acuminate at both ends glabrous, heads small often cymed, bracts elliptic 



and in DC. Prodr. xi. 176 ; Sot. Mag. t. 3404. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-4000 ft., common ; Wallich, &c. 



A shrub, 2-3 ft. Leaves 3^ by f -1 in. ; the opposite leaf of each pair 1| by in. 

 or obsolete. Except in the unequal, rather broader leaves, this wholly agrees with 



