464: cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Strobilanthes. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., common; Wallich, &c. ASSAM; Griffith, Mrs. 

 Mack. 



An erect shrub, 1-2 ft. ; branches hairy. Leaves \\ by f in., upper cordate 

 sessile, lower sometimes short-petioled, serrate; nerves 5 pair, springing near the leaf- 

 base. Spikes 2-6 in., terminal, hairy, dense at the tip, usually much interrupted 

 below ; the lowest flowers often distant solitary in the axil of altogether leaf-like 

 persistent bracts; bract proper |-| in., herbaceous, glandular, deciduous; bracteoles 

 ^ in., elliptic. Calyx ^-^ in. (or more in fruit), divided nearly to the base ; segments 

 linear-oblong, subobtuse, glandular-pubescent. Corolla curved ; narrow cylindric 

 base of the tube hardly so long as the ventricose part. Filaments glabrous ; style 

 thinly hairy. Capsule g- in., glandular-pubescent, 4-seeded. Seeds in., ovate, 

 hairy ; areoles small. 



105. S. phyllocaulos, Clarke ; leaves short-petioled ovate acute 

 hairy, spikes long dense interrupted below in fruit, bracts ovate, corolla 

 1^ in. nearly glabrous purple, 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 5000 ft. ; Moflong, J. D. H. ; Dingling, Clarke. 



Stems stout, hairy ; internodes not half as long as the leaves. Leaves 85 by 1^ in., 

 without the acumination characteristic of S. extensus, base of the lower leaves shortly 

 acuminate, serrations often 40-50 to the leaf (rarely 20 in S. extensus), upper surface 

 softly densely adpressedly hairy, lower softly patently hairy reticulately nervose; 

 nerves 8 pair, subequally distant (not all springing near the base of the leaf). Inflo- 

 rescence, flowers and capsule exactly as of S. extensus. So unlike S. extensus in its 

 densely leafy stem that it has been sorted in the Herbarium with JEchmantliera 

 leiosperma, which it exceedingly resembles; but it is difficult to separate it from 8. 

 extensus by any technical character. , 



106. S. Newii, Beddome ms. ; leaves petioled ovate acute pubescent, 

 spikes much interrupted panicled, bracts lanceolate, corolla 1^-1 5 in. 

 nearly glabrous purple. S. extensus, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 202, not of 

 Nees. 



W. MYSORE; Manjeerabad, New (fide Beddome). 



A 'small shrub ; branches puberulous, glandular hairy towards the tips. Leaves 

 2 by H in., base rounded or subcordate, serrate, puberulous scabrous above pubescent 

 beneath ; petiole ^fe in. (uppermost leaves sessile). Panicles 6-10 in. ; flowers 

 nearly all opposite distant. Calyx and corolla nearly as of 8. extensus. Col. Beddome 

 published this as S. extensus, to which it is no doubt closely allied, but the leaves 

 will not match, and the bracts are totally different, very hairy, early caducous, the 

 bracteoles subobsolete. 



107. S. alatus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 194; leaves petioled ovate 

 acute hairy, spikes early panicled, flowers all distant, bracts narrowly 

 oblong caducous, corolla 1 in. nearly glabrous purple. T. Anders, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 476 (excl. Sikkim examples). S. reflexus, Nees I. c. 

 194. S. attenuatus, Nees I. c. 193 (excl. syn.}. Euellia urticifolia, Wall. 

 Cat. 2346. 



W. TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft., common; from Kashmir to Kumaon. 

 DISTRIB. N.E. Cabul. 



A shrub, 2-4 ft., erect, viscous-hairy. Leaves 5 by 2| in., upper sessile, lower 

 long-petioled, base cordate rounded or attenuate, serrate ; nerves 7-8 pair ; petiole 

 1-3 in., linear or winged upwards. Spikes (by the early fall of the bracts) forming 

 terminal panicles ; upper flowers soon in distant pairs, not capitate ; bracts narrow- 

 lanceolate or oblong, caducous ; upper hardly so long as the calyx ; bracteoles I in., 

 narrowly oblong, caducous. Calyx | in., deeply divided ; segments unequal, linear, 

 obtuse, green, viscous-hairy. Corolla ventricose, mouth curved, constricted base 

 hardly longer than the calyx, 2 hairy lines within. Stamens glabrous. Ovary glandular, 

 style very remotely minutely hairy. Capsule a in., narrowly elliptic, glandular-hairy, 



