468 cix. ACANTHACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Strobilantheg. 



terminal, pedicelled. Calyx |-J in., divided nearly to the base ; segments linear. 

 Corolla straight, tubular-ventricose, hardly in. diam. ; segments short, round. 

 Filaments and style glabrous ; ovary 4-ovulate. Capsule in., clavate, compressed, 

 pubescent, 4-seeded. Seeds / 5 in., orbicular ; when wetted the fine hairs spring out ; 

 areoles very small. Kurz, after removing this species to Strobilanthes, suggests that 

 it is allied to Hemigraphis Griffithiana, of which not merely the ovules, but the 

 inflorescence, &c., are totally different. 



119. S. secunduSj T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 480 ; leaves 

 elliptic acute at both, ends nearly glabrous, spikes lax long, flowers distant 

 in opposite pairs, bracts petioled ovate deciduous, corolla 1 in. minutely 

 pubescent without yellow with a brown-purple tube. Strobilanthes sp. 

 n. 23, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T., partly. 



MISHMEE and ASSAM ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6122). ASSAM ; Simons. 



Leaves Q\ by 3 in., crenate or subentire, ashy puberulous on the nerves beneath 

 otherwise glabrous, upper surface with minute raphides ; nerves 8 pair ; petiole % in. 

 Spikes 12 in., whip-like, sparingly branched (in Griffith's type specimens), sometimes 

 depauperated 3 in., 5-fld. ; lower bracts leaf-like, upper gradually smaller, leaf-like, 

 deciduous, uppermost only in., lanceolate; bracteoles obsolete. Calyx % in., divided 

 nearly to the base, glabrous, enlarged in fruit ; segments unequal, narrowly lanceolate, 

 linear-elongate, subobtuse. Corolla curved, cylindric base hardly so long as the calyx. 

 Capsule nearly 1 in., base long barren narrow, 4-seeded. Seeds |- in., ovate, 

 shaggy ; areoles very small. 



120. S. flaccidifolius, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 194; glabrous, 

 leaves elliptic acute at both ends, spikes forming somewhat dense panicles, 

 flowers opposite many remote, bracts petioled ovate deciduous, corolla 2 in. 

 nearly glabrous purple. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 481. S. 

 Championi, T. Anders, in Benth. Fl. Hongk. 261. S. flaccidus, Mann, 

 Assam For. Rep. 1876-7, par. 135; Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb. 280 ; Kurz 

 For. FL ii. 239. Kuellia indigofera, Griff. Trav. 237. E. indigotica, Fortune, 

 Resid. Chin. 158. Balfour, Cyclop. Ind. IV. (Ruellia}. E. Cusia, 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2386. Goldiussia Cusia, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. 

 iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 175. Dipteracanthus ? calycinus, Champ, in 

 Hook. Kew Journ. v. 133. 



N. and E. BENGAL with ASSAM, alt. 1-4000 ft. in the lower hills, often cultivated, 

 Hamilton, Griffith, &c. DISTEIB. N. Burma, S. China. 



A shrub. Leaves and^owers closely resembling (when dry) those of S. secundus, 

 but the inflorescence denser, the flowers rather larger. Capsule f in., not constricted 

 at the base ; lower seeds less than \ in. from the base. Except as to the capsule, this 

 looks exceedingly like a cultivated torm of S. secundus. Yields the dye " Room." 



Series C. Alterniflorce. Bracts persistent or caducous, large or small, 

 in opposite pairs (sometimes unequal) one of each pair mostly barren. 

 Spikes linear lax usually interrupted often flexuose, zigzag or twisted, or 

 compound passing into much-branched panicles ; spikes upwards at least 

 generally sympodal. Flowers mostly distant, alternate. (Several species 

 in this section have some of their flowers opposite, but these are in such 

 case often twisted much to one side ; and in many cases where such occur 

 as solitary in the axils of leaves, they are really alternate on shortened 

 axillary branches with 2 opposite bracts, whereof one only contains a flower.) 

 Species of N. India and the Malay Peninsula. 



121. S. divaricatusj T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 478 ; leaves 

 lanceolate or elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, spikes axillary and 

 terminal elongate flexuose or zigzag, flowers distant both paired and alter- 



