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STREPTOSOLEN 



STROBILANTHES 



STREPTOSOLEN (Greek, streptos, twisted, solen, 

 tube, with reference to the form of the corolla-tube). 

 Solanacese. Scabrous-pubescent shrub, suitable for 

 greenhouse culture and for outdoors, as an ornamental, 

 in the extreme S. Lvs. entire, not large, rugose: fls. 

 orange-red, pedi celled, in a terminal corymbose panicle; 

 calyx tubular - campanulate, 

 shortly 5 -cleft; corolla -tube 

 elongated, spirally twisted be- 

 low, widening above, limb 

 spreading, 5-lobed, lobes broad, 

 very obtuse; perfect stamens 

 4, didynamous; ovary stipi- 

 tate, 2-celled: caps, somewhat 

 leathery, valves 2-cleft. One 

 species, Colombia. 



Jamesonii, Miers (Browdllia 

 Jamesonii, Hort., & Benth.?). 

 Fig. 3739. Handsome ever- 

 green scabrous- pubescent 

 shrub, 4-6 ft. high, hardy and 

 much cult, in Calif, as far north 

 as San Francisco. June. G.C. 

 II. 21:797. Gn. 26:6. R H. 

 1883:36. B. M. 4605. F.S. 

 5:436. P.M. 16:6. G.M. 39: 

 200. V . 7 : 298 ; 9 : 147. An old 

 favorite in northern green- 

 houses. p. TRACY HUBBARD.! 



STRICKLANDIA (named in 

 honor of Sir C. W. Strickland). 

 Amaryllidacese. Perianth nar- 

 rowly funnelform, tube short, 

 segms. oblanceolate, equal; 

 stamens not declinate, filaments 

 united half-way up in a cup, 

 lanceolate above it, without 

 any teeth between; ovary glo- 

 bose, 3-lobed, 3-celled: caps. 

 short, deeply 3-lobed, loculicid- 

 ally 3-valved; seeds many, 

 small. One species, Andes of 

 Ecuador. S. eucrosioides, Baker 

 (Leperiza eucrosioides, Baker. 

 Phsedrandssa eucrosioides, 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Stenomesson 

 Strickldndi, Baker). Bulb ovoid, 2 in. diam.; tunics 

 brown, membranaceous : Ivs. 2 to a st., produced after 

 the fls., thin, green, oblong, 6-9 in. long: peduncle slen- 

 der, terete, 1 ft. high: fls. 3-4 in an umbel, horizontal 

 or cernuous; spathe- valves linear; perianth-tube green, 

 lobes red, laxly nerved, not keeled nor tipped with 

 green. Andes of Ecuador. G.C. III. 30:263. Cult, as 

 for Phsedranassa. 



STROBILANTHES (Greek, cone and flower, refer- 

 ring to the inflorescence) . Acanthacex. Herbs or shrubs, 

 erect, sometimes tall, glabrous, scabrous-pubescent or 

 villous; greenhouse, or out-of-doors in extreme South. 



Leaves opposite, in a few species strongly separated, 

 entire or toothed: fls. blue, violet, or white, rarely yel- 

 low, solitary at the axils of the opposite bracts, sessile or 

 short-pedicelled, sometimes in dense or interrupted 

 terminal spikes or the peduncles clustered at the axils; 

 calyx deeply 5-cleft or almost 5-parted, segms. linear; 

 corolla-tube slender at the base, widened above; limb 

 spreading, 5-lobed, lobes ovate; perfect stamens 4 or 2: 

 caps, oblong or linear, 2-celled at or near the base. 

 About 200 species, India, Malaya, China, and Japan, 

 also 1 in Trop. Afr. Adapted to the warmhouse. 



Strobilanthes are mostly erect half-shrubby plants 

 cultivated for their flowers and foliage. Only young, 

 well-grown plants are attractive, the older ones becom- 

 ing weedy and unattractive. Some species are grown as 

 ornamental foliage bedding plants, but they are not so 



3739. Streptosolen 

 JamesoniL 



desirable for general use as the coleus, the slightest 

 cool weather changing the color of their leaves to a very 

 undesirable shade. In the greenhouse they make fine 

 decorative foliage plants but require at all times a high 

 temperature and an abundance of moisture and much 

 syringing. Under unfavorable conditions they lose 

 their leaves and become unsightly. 



anisophyllus, T. Anders. (Gold- 

 fussia anisophylla, Nees) . Branches 

 somewhat zigzag: Ivs. broadly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, 

 opposite, but one of each pair 

 much smaller than the other: fls. 

 purplish and white ; corolla funnel- 

 shaped, very broad at the mouth, 

 with a somewhat irregular 5-lobed 

 limb. India. B.M. 3404. B.R. 

 955 (as Ruellia persicifolia) . R.B. 

 29 : 36. Similar to S. isophyllus in 

 habit and use. 



calldsus, Nees. Shrub, 6-8 ft. 

 high: Ivs. elliptic-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, puberulous, narrowed into a 

 long, slender petiole which is winged to the middle: fls. in 

 short, oblong spikes, large, pale violet-blue; corolla-tube 

 very short, dilated into a subcampanulate throat and 

 expanding into a limb 2 in. across; lobes orbicular, 

 undulate. B.M. 7538. A native of W. India, where it 

 forms a shrub 6-8 ft. high; said to flower in its third 

 year. 



Dyerianus, Mast. An erect, branching, soft-wooded 

 stove shrub: st. hirsute: Ivs. opposite, 6-8 in. long, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, serrulate, cordate at base, sessile, 

 variegated with iridescent tints of blue and lilac, rose- 

 purple beneath: fls. in erect spikes, 1^ in. long, pale 

 violet; calyx unequally 5-lobed, lobes linear, obtuse; 

 corolla-tube curved, ventricose, limb of 5 short, broad, 

 revolute lobes. Burma. B.M. 7574. R.B. 20:133. 

 J.H. III. 26:359. A.G. 17:297. V. 19:67. G.M. 46: 

 149. Used for bedding. 



gossypinus, T. Anders. Shrubby, covered with dense 

 yellowish wool: Ivs. 4x2 in., ovate, acute, base broad- 

 rhomboid, subcoriaceous, entire, wool of upper sur- 

 face deciduous: spikes 1-3 in. long, linear-oblong, 

 woolly, compound, becoming paniculate: fls. violet; 

 calyx-segms. narrowly lanceolate; corolla nearly 

 straight. India. B.M. 7790. G.M. 56:958. 



isophyllus, T. Anders. (Goldfussia isophylla, Nees). 

 A low, much-branched, bushy shrub, 2-3 ft. high, 

 swollen at the joints: Ivs. short-petioled, opposite, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, distantly serrulate or entire : peduncles 

 axillary, shorter than the Ivs., bearing several fls.: 

 corolla 1 in. long, funnel-shaped, blue and white; limb 

 5-lobed; lobes emarginate. India. B.M. 4363. B. 

 5:244. Used either for bedding or for pots. Blooms 

 profusely either in winter or summer, according to 

 treatment. 



Micholitzii, Ridley. Subshrub, 3-4 ft. high: st. 4- 

 angled. dilated at the nodes: Ivs. lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 6x2 in., one of the pair much larger than 

 the other, acuminate at both ends: racemes axillary, 

 very numerous, cone-like, ^-%in. long; bracts rounded, 

 white, tipped with green: fls. white, projecting slightly 

 from the cone. Sumatra. 



S. auriculAtus, Nees. Shrub, 2-6 ft. high, glabrous, except the 

 more or less hairy tips of the branches: Ivs., one sometimes 10 x 2 1 A 

 in., the other 3 x 1 Vi in., ovate, serrulate: spikes terminal, solitary: 

 fls. pale purple. India. H.U. 6, p. 196. S. glomeratus, T. Andf-rs. 

 Shrub, with branches often horizontal and hairy upward: Ivs. 

 ovate and acute, complanate (flattened), serrate, hairy or villoi 

 above: fls. purple, about 2 in. long. India. B.M. 3881 (as Gold- 

 fussia glomerata). S. Wdllichii, Nees. Weak subalpme s, 

 with angled branches: Ivs. elliptic, acuminate: fls. blue, in pan 

 or solitary. Himalaya. B.M. 5119 (as Goldfussia Thomsom). 



HEINRICH HASSELBRING. 

 F. TRACY HUBBARD.! 



