Strobihmthcs.] cix. ACANTHACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 465 



4-seeded. Seeds J in., ovate, shaggy; areoles hardly any. The lower long-petioled leaves 

 are usually cordate, but leaves acuminate at the base occur on the same plant. The 

 species is better distinguished by the tips of the spikes having the flowers (quite early) 

 spicate not capitate, and all the bracts very narrow ; but the leaves about the base of 

 the panicle are cordate ovate acuminate. Nees has written this species up under 3 

 names in the Kew Herbarium : as S.alatus, which is altogether right; as S. attenuate, 

 which is erroneous so far as he doubtfully meant it for Ruellia attenuata, Wall. & 

 Nees (an Echinacanthus) ; and as S. extensus, which is a blunder. 



108. S. Lachenensis, Clarke ; leaves ovate attenuated at the base 

 laxly hairy, spikes long interrupted at the base, bracts sessile elliptic trun- 

 cate at the base exceeding the calyx caducous, corolla middle-sized glabrate 

 without. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen, alt. 10,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Branches elongate, with lax white patent hairs. Leaves 2| by 1J in., obtuse or 

 triangular, base (even in the uppermost) acuminate, decurrent. Spikes 2-5 in., 

 solitary, simple ; lower bracts by in., green, entire, exactly truncate, not at all 

 cordate. Corolla (not expanded) f in., with a few scattered lax hairs towards the 

 apex without. This has been referred as a Sikkim form to S. alatus, to which it is 

 certainly allied ; but no one of the numerous examples of S. alatus will it match even 

 reasonably well. 



109. S. collinus, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 86, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 192 ; leaves large elliptic acuminate glabrous, spikes forming thin 

 terminal pubescent panicles, bracts narrowly elliptic overtopping the calyx, 

 corolla 2 in. nearly glabrous. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 476. 

 Euellia collina, Wall. Cat. 2343. 



PENANG ; G. Porter. 



Branch-tips stout, glabrous; internodes elongate. Leaves 9 by 3 in., base 

 cuneate, repand-crenate, bearing raphides on both surfaces ; nerves 7 pair; petiole 

 in. Spikes 3-4 in., with few flowers in remote opposite pairs, early running into 

 a few-branched panicle ; bracts in., concave; bracteoles 0. Calyx J- in., divided 

 nearly to the base ; segments linear, with weak subulate pubescent tips. Corolla 

 slightly curved, cylindric base as long as the ventricose part. Capsule f in., clavate- 

 oblong, puberulous, 4-seeded. Seeds in., ovate, shortly fulvous-hairy ; areoles small. 

 Habit and calyx much like those of the large Aiystasias, but the capsule and seeds 

 are of Strobilanthes. 



110. S. lancifolius, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn-. Soc. ix. 480 ; leaves 

 elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, spikes linear interrupted hairy 

 collected into terminal panicles, bracts oblong obtuse green shorter than the 

 calyx deciduous, corolla If in. minutely pubescent without deep-blue. 



MouLMEiN; Parish. TENASSEBIM; Beddome. 



A shrub ; branches terete. Leaves 7 by 3 in., widest about the middle, serrate, 

 minutely lineolate above; nerves 7-8 pair; petiole 1 in. Spikes ascending, straight; 

 flowers nearly all in opposite pairs; bracts J-^in.; bracteoles J in., linear-oblong, - 

 obtuse, deciduous. Calyx -^ in., subequally divided nearly to the base ; segments 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, pubescent. Corolla nearly straight, funnel-shaped, ventricose 

 upwards ; segments ovate, dense rows of long white hair within. Longer filaments 

 white hairy. Capsule f in., glabrate, 4-seeded. Seeds shaggy. 



111. S. denticulatus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 483; leaves 

 long-petioled elliptic acuminate at both ends fuscous-pubescent on the 

 nerves beneath, spikes linear interrupted fuscous-pubescent, flowers (or 

 many of them) in distant pairs, bracts lanceolate. Ruellia denticu.ata 

 Wall. Cat. 2418. Asystasia denticulata, Nees in Wall. PL As. Kar. m. 89, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xi. 164. 



KHASIA MTS.; Wallich. PATKOYE MTS. (in S.E. Assam), at the river Namyoon 

 (by error Kamyoon in Griffith's Journals); Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6112). 

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