Strobilanthes.] ACANTHACES, 807 
Fruit a clavate capsule with a solid. cylindric base. Seeds nor- 
mally 4, compressed, discoid ; retinacula acute. 
Spikes interrupted, narrow-linear, forming large terminal ana 
bracts obtuse rictus 
Spikes short, uninterrupted, oblo 
Spikes forming a close sek caeeie bracts elliptic, subobtuse or 
shortly acuminate, not ciliate 
Spikes solitary ; bracts ovate, much acuminate, ciliate .. purpurascens, 
1531. Dapatacanruus strictus T. And. sR) B. Teive4i9. 
Chittagong; Ti 
stoutish herb, 8 feet high. 
1532. DapaLacantHus NERVosUs T. And.” Fo Bo Bay. 416 ; 
yy ys 
Ti ane N. Bengal ; Chota Nagpur; Sundribuns. 
toutish herb, 2-6 feet high. 
1583. ie ere PURPURASCENS T. And.; F. B. I. iv. 420; 
-D.5. Hranthemum pulchellum F, I. iii. 111. 
ba ota Nagpur 
A wicubial herb, 2-4 feet high. Hind. Gulsham; Beng. 
Kalla-jati. 
702. Strobilanthes Bl. 
8 s or herbs; leaves opposite, often unequal, toothed or 
subentire, often with raphi des. cease gis or in arene 
in a straight or cated | corolla; tube Seitiewhad swollen ; hes 5, 
round or ovate, subequal, eedbell in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 
anthers oblong, 2-celled, muticous. Disk small or elongated as a 
stipe to the ovary. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules 2 
in each cell : style linear; stigma of one long, linear arm, the 
other arm obsolete. Frwit a 2- or 4-seeded capsule. Seeds much 
compressed, glabrous or hairy ; retinacula strong, curved ; placentas 
sometimes ieygenar elastically from the base, carrying the seeds 
with them 
*Calyx shia to the base, one lip shortly 2-fid, the other shortly 3-fid ; 
dense, strobilate, hirsute ; corolla pale-purple [p. 808 
rufescens var. rubiginosa. 
