242 ACANTHACER. [ Acanthus. 
corolla sky-blue or white, the upper lip very short, truncate and 
coriaceous, the lower expanded into an obovate shortly 3-lobed limb 
of 13 in. length, the middle lobe minute or almost wanting; anthers — 
3-4 lin. long, very densely hirsute-fringed ; capsule nearly an inch 
long and half as broad, very shining, blunt; seeds large. 
Has.—Common all along the coasts of Burma and adjacent islands down to 
sx ae weet] mpraally in tidal jungles of the estuaries.—Fl. Fr. all the year. 
long; bracts and bractlets conform, sometimes very deciduous, 
about 4 the length of the calyx, ovate, blunt or mucronate, rarely 
shortly acuminate; calyx-segments oval, about 4 in. long, blunt, 
ong i 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tidal jungles along estuaries of the rivers from 
Arracan down to Pegu.—Fl, Fy, Apr. 2 sate 5. —Sal. All. 
STROBILANTHES, Bl. 
Calyx 5-parted to near the base, the se ts equal ot 
: s gments equa 
aa rarely the calyx 2-lipped, with the lips 2- or 3- ; 
Stay funnel-shaped-campan te, the lobes equal or nearly Ss | 
- Stamens 4, didynamous, or 2, with ithout 1-3 rudimentary — 
ones ; anther-cells parallel. Ca; 
? or without tary 
psule club-shaped, 4- or 6-corneret 
