472 'cix. ACANTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [StroUlanthes. 



short axillary branch which has 2 opposite bracts, 1 barren, the other with a flower 

 often supported by the two normal but minute bracteoles. 



VAR. microphylla, Nees; leaves very thin herbaceous uppermost cuneate or 

 rhomboid at the base, bracts lanceolate or subovate many foliaceous not cordate, sepals 

 in fruit much broader than in S. Wallichii type, corolla-mouth much on one side, 

 capsule more than f in., seeds in. Euellia alata, Wall. Cat. 2371 6. N.W. 

 Himalaya, alt. 7-11,000 ft.; from Kashmir to Kumaon, common, Wallich, &c. 

 Connected by intermediate forms with the Sikkim type. Leaves often large, some- 

 times small. 



132. S. atropurpureus, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 86, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 195; leaves ovate acute coarsely serrate sparsely hairy, 

 spikes lax, flowers solitary or paired, many of the lower bracts leaf-like, 

 sepals linear subobtnse patently hairy, corolla If in. blue. T. Anders, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 477. Kuellia atropurpurea, Wall. Cat. 2398. 



SUBALPINE W. HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft. ; from Jamu to Nepal, frequent, 

 Wallich, &c. 



A perennial, often growing in swamps ; stems 1-1| foot, thick, succulent, hirsute 

 upwards, or dwarfed 36 in. Lower leaves petioled or the petiole winged to the 

 base. Corolla usually much curved, the ventricose part of the tube very broad. 

 Otherwise as S. Wallichii var. microphylla, of which this species has been treated 

 (perhaps correctly) at Kew as a var. 



133. S. subnudatus, Clarice ; leaves petioled elliptic acuminate at 

 both ends nearly glabrous uppermost sessile cordate, spikes linear hairy 

 interrupted, nearly all the bracts small oblong, sepals linear elongated sub- 

 obtuse hairy, corolla H in. purple. Goldfussia sp. n. 29, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H. f.fT. 



STJBALPIXE SIKKIM ; Lachoong, alt. 9000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stems 1 foot, from a woody rootstock, slender, nearly glabrous, leaves 1^ by 

 in., crenate, with minute scattered bristly hairs above and on the nerves beneath, 

 raphides obsolete ; petiole in., one or two pairs of the leaves at the base of the 

 spikes sessile cordate. Spikes 1-4 in. ; flowers mostly subsolitary, occasionally oppo- 

 site ; bracts | in., oblong or elliptic (none of the flowers with large bracts similar to 

 the uppermost sessile cordate leaves as in S. Wallichii) ; bracteoles similar to the 

 bracts. Sepals in fruit ^ | in., as of S. Wallichii. This has been taken as a form 

 of S. Wallichii; but none of the numerous forms of S. Wallichii have bracts and 

 hairy spikes without foliaceous bracts like it. 



134. S. urophyllus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 192; leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate at both ends glabrous, flowers scattered, lower bracts leaf-like 

 upper small long-petioled ovate, corolla \ in. curved pubescent without. 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc.ix. 477. Euellia urophylla, Wall. Cat. 2344. 

 Dipteracanthus urophyllus, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 82. 



KHASIA MTS. ; Wallich. JAIXTEA, alt. 4000 ft. : Jarain, Clarke. 



A small, ramous, nearly glabrous shrub. Leaves 5J by 1 in., those on the flower- 

 ing branches much reduced, serrate, not (or very obscurely) lineolate ; nerves 9 pair ; 

 petiole 1| in. Floivers scattered, alternate and subopposite on small-leaved branches; 

 bracts in. exclusive of their in. petioles, nearly glabrous, persistent ; bracteoles 

 similar. Calyx ^-5- in., divided nearly to the base, pubescent; segments linear, 

 enlarged more hairy in fruit. Capsule ^-| in., 4-seeded. Seeds \ in., ovate, 

 pubescent ; areoles very small. 



VAE. sikJcimensis ; leaves much broader, corolla 1 in. much curved purple-blue. 

 Darjeeling; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6125); alt. 6000 ft., Treutler. Leaves 5| by 

 2^ in. " Flowers faintly fragrant" (Treutler). 



135. S. stenophyllus, Clarke ; leaves narrowly lanceolate attenuate 



