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bracteoles lanceolate, foliaceous, 3-nerved, villous ; flowers small, 

 white, shorter than the bracts. Near Dharwar ; flowers in the rains. 

 Syn. Strobilanthes mysorensis, N. ab E. in DC. Prod. 11. 



16. STROBILANTHES. 



1. HEYNEANUS, N. ab E. in DC. Prod. 11, p 184.-Stems 

 about a foot high, herbaceous, strigose, and hirsute ; leaves elliptic- 

 cuspidate, running down into a long petiole, crenate-serrate, hirsute ; 

 spikes axillary, compound, shorter than the leaf, subglobose, 

 glabrous; bracts orbicular, ventricose; calyx short, the segments 

 oblong-obtuse, glabrous; corolla half an inch long. Chorla Ghaut. 



2. SESSILOIDES, Wight Ic. PI Ind. Or. t. 1512. A low, sutfru- 

 ticose plant ; branches numerous, spreading, hairy all over ; stem 

 erect, quadrangular; leaves sessile, rounded-cordate, serrate, blis- 

 tered, reticulate, coriaceous ; spikes axillary and terminal, short ; 

 flowers blue, numerous, handsome; bracts broadly-cordate, cus- 

 pidate, entire. Phoonda Ghaut, in abundance. 



3. GRAHAMIANUS, Wight loc. cit. t. 1520. A tall branched- 

 shrub ; stem quadrangular; older branches glabrous, tuberculated ; 

 leaves broadly ovate-cuspidate, acuminate, crenate-dentate, running 

 down into a long petiole, hirsute, with stellate hairs above, pubescent 

 beneath, reticulately veined ; peduncles axillary, or on the naked 

 branches, trifid, shorter than the petiole ; spikes ovate-oblong, 

 glabrous ; bracts orbicular, ventricose, corolla large, blue ; capsule 

 short-compressed, 4-seeded ; seeds pubescent. Comes nearest to 

 S callosus. 



4. WARREENSIS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 341. Stem 

 suffruticose, dichotomously branched, knotty and smooth ; leaves 

 oblong-acuminate, running gradually into the petiole, glabrous on 

 both sides, repand-toothed ; spikes in the opposite axils peduncled, 

 simple, solitary, drooping; peduncles jointed in the middle; flowers 

 small, spotted with purple. The Warree Country. 



5. TETRAPTERUS, Dalz. loc. cit. 342. Shrubby, subscandent, 

 glabrous ; leaves oval, shortly acuminated, running down the petiole 

 and along the stem, crenate, coriaceous, shining above ; spikes 

 axillary opposite, and terminal solitary, peduncled ; bracts herba- 

 ceous, rhomb-cuneate, long-cuspidate, ciliated ; corolla somewhat 

 2-lipped, white ; leaves 9 to 10 inches long. The Warree Country. 



6. ASPERUIMUS, N. ab E., DC. Prod. 11, p 183. Stem rigid, 

 rough, and tuberculated, hirsute at joints; leaves elliptic-acute, run- 

 ning down like a wing into a petiole, shorter than the leaf, crenated, 

 hispid, and bristly ; peduncles axillary, trichotomous ; spikes ovate ; 

 bracts broadly oval, ventricose, labrous, lower ones more remote 

 and smaller ; rachis hirsute. Well marked by the small foraming, 

 left on the falling off of the rigid hairs on the leaf. The Ghauts. 



