Strolilanthes.] cix. ACANTHACE^S. (C. B. Clarke.) 475 



A very large shrub (Beddome), glabrous or the sepal-tips thinly glandular-hairy; 

 branches terete. Leaves 7 by 2| in., serrulate; nerves 10 pair. Panicle lax, 

 branches long curved, flowers distant ; bracts in opposite pairs, - in., sometimes 

 both, more often one only, carrying a flower on a pedicel 0-^ in. Sepals |- in., 

 liuear-ligulate. Corolla slightly curved, nearly glabrous, constricted part of the tube 

 short (from Beddome). Filaments and style hairy (Beddome). Capsule * in. 

 glabrous. 



142. S. helicoides, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 229, and in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 483 ; leaves elliptic or obovate acuminate glabrous, panicle 

 very compound capillary divaricate glabrous, flowers scattered mostly in 

 appearance pedicelled, bracts much smaller than the calyx, corolla 1 in. 

 glabrous without violet. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 220. Leptacanthus 

 helicoides, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 170. 



CEYLON, up to 3000 ft. alt. ; Walker, Thwaites. 



A shrub, 2-3 ft., glabrous except the sepal-tips. Leaves 4 by 1| in. (lower larger), 

 base cuneate rounded (or the upper cordate), toothed, paler beneath ; nerves 5-6 

 pair ; petiole 0-g- in. Panicle 6-12 in. diam., dense with slender divaricate recurved 

 or zigzag branches ; bracts at the forks |- in. , ovate ; bracts below the flowers T ' 2 - in., 

 linear or liuear-obovate. Sepals % in., linear, glabrous or sparsely glandular-hairy 

 at the tips. Corolla nearly straight, ventricose, constricted base very short ; segments 

 short, rounded. Capsule j in., glabrous, 2-seeded (4-seeded, Nees). The flowers are 

 in appearance solitary terminal on pedicels - in., with 2 bracts (called bracteoles by 

 Beddome) placed 0- 5 ^ in. below the flower. 



143. S. rubicundus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 483 (not of 

 Thwaites Enum. 229) ; leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends nearly 

 glabrous, panicle compound slender glandular-pubescent, bracts at the 

 forks ovate acuminate, flower-bracts 0, corolla | in. pubescent without 

 violet. S. paniculatus, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 199, not of T. Anders. 

 Euellia rubicunda, Heyne in Herb. Rottler ; Wall. Cat. 2337. Leptacan- 

 thus rubicundus, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 90, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 170. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Wynaad and Coorg, alt. 2-3000 ft., Rottler, Seddome. 



A rather delicate shrub, 5-6 ft. ; branches cylindric, glabrous. Leaves 5 by l in., 

 unulate crenate or subentire ; nerves 6-7 pair, glabrous or pubescent beneath ; petiole 

 ^ in. Panicle 8 in. , narrow ; bracts at the forks - in., lanceolate from an ovate base ; 

 pedicels -| in., mostly ebracteolate except at the base. Calyx - in., divided 

 deeply, closely pubescent ; segments lanceolate-subulate, often very unequal. 

 Corolla nearly straight; base funnel-shaped, hardly cylindric. Capsule not seen. 



144. S. paniculatus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 483, not of 

 Bedd. ; leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends nearly glabrous, panicle 

 compound slender glandular-pubescent, bracts at the forks linear or linear- 

 oblong, pedicels very short, flower-bracts 0, corolla nearly 1 in. glabrous 

 without. S. rubicundus, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 229, not of Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 483. 



CEYLON ; Thwaites (C. P. n. 3351). 



Pedicels 0-^ in. Calyx |- in., glandular-hairy. Otherwise as S. rubicundus ; 

 the leaves are in the examples a good deal longer. 



145. S. pulcherrimus, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 229, excl. syn., 

 and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 483, the Ceylon plant only ; leaves elliptic acumi- 

 nate at both ends hairy on the nerves beneath, panicle large very compound 

 viscous hairy, bracts at its divisions ovate acute, flower-bracts obsolete, 

 corolla 1 in. puberulous without violet, capsule hairy. Leptacanthus 

 Walkeri, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 170, not of Wight. 



