Hemigraphis.] cix. ACAKTHAOEiB. (C. B. Clarke.) 425 



Cat. 2383, letters A, B ; Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 83. Strobilanthes 

 burmanica, Eurz in Jowm. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 92. 



Peght ; WalUch, Sjurz. — Distbib. Ava. 



Similar to, but stouter than, H. latebrosa ; leaves less sharply toothed. Inner 

 tracts of the heads J-| in., narrowly elliptic or oblong, overtopping the calyx. 

 Corolla, I in. and upwards ; larger and broader than that of S. latebrosa. Stamens 

 as in S. lafebrosa, or- (fide KTees) one anther-cell sometimes rudimentary. — The long 

 inner bracts give this plant a different aspect from the Decoan S. latebrosa. Brac- 

 teoles ; Nees says lanceolate longer than the calyx, from which it is probable that 

 he means by bracteole that which he has called bract in the diagnosis of the same 

 species. Kurz's Strobilanthes burmanica is more hairy than Wallich's Pegu examples ; 

 and it may be 'doubtful if several of the species here admitted are other than local 

 varieties of H. latebrosa. 



Vae. crenata ; viscid -pubescent, less softly white hairy, leaves crenate. Ruellia 

 crenata, Benth. ; HoTienacTc. in Mora 1849, 558. Malabar ; Canara, Hohenacker, 

 n. 737 ; Concan, Stocks ; Belgaum, Silchie ; Bombay, I/ow ; Bellary, Bedciome. 



9. K. Griffithiana, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 463 ; leaves 

 lanceolate remotely obscurely tootbed glabrate, beads terminal sbortly 

 cylindric bairy, bracteoles mncb sborter tbau the calyx. Ruellia Griffitbiana, 

 iVees in DC. Frodr. xi. 149. 



Meegui ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. u. 6091) ; Tenasserim, Selfer (Kew Distrib. 

 n. 6187). 



Bootstoeh perennial; stems several, 1 foot, erect, scarcely branched, slender, 

 pubescent upwards. Leaves 2 by ^ in., sessile, attenuate to both ends, pubescent 

 when young. Splices j— 1 in., viscidly hairy; bracts ^— J in., elliptic, subobtuse ; 

 bracteoles |— J in., narrow. Sepals. J in. and upwards, linear-lanceolate, not very 

 unequal. Corolla J in. and upwards, more ventricose than in others of this section, 

 bearded in the paJate within. Longer filaments densely bearded upwards with long 

 white hairs, shorter glabrous. Capsule rather more than ^ in., usually 8-seeded. 

 Seeds ^'5 in., much compressed, discoid, densely elastically white-hairy when wetted. 



10. K. quadrifaria, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 463 ; birsute, 

 leaves ovate or elliptic acute, bracts large, corolla Ij in. Euellia quadri- 

 faria, Wall. Cat 7152; Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 83, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 147. 



MoiriMBiir; Parish, u. 403. Tbnasseeim ; Beddome, nn. 96, 97. — Disxbib. 

 Ava. 



Hirsute with white or yellowish hairs from tubercular bases. Branch stout, 

 shrubby. Leaves 4i by 21 in., upper narrower, base obtusely rhomboid, crenate- 

 serrate ; petiole ^ in. Meads dense, terminal and peduncled on short axillary branches, 

 hirsute; bracts 1 by ^J in., inner gradually smaller ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate 

 rather shorter than the calyx. Sepals J in., narrowly lanceolate, bases suboonnate. , 

 Corolla sparingly pubescent, more ventricose than in the other species of this section, 

 "deep blue" (Parish). Filaments oi the longer stamens densely shaggy with long 

 white hairs to the apex ; anthers all subequal, muticous. Style simple, hairy ; ovules 

 4-6 in each cell. Ca/psule \ in., narrowly oblong, slightly hairy upwards, 8-12-seeded 

 nearly from the base. 



11. H. grlaucescensj Clarice ; leaves oblong narrowed to eacb end 

 scabrid pubescent on the nerves beneatb, spikes dense strobilate, bracts 

 ovate acute birsute, bracteoles very small lanceolate. Strobilanthes glau- 

 cescens, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7155, and in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 85, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 178; T. Anders, in Jov/rn, Linn. Soc. ix. 467. 



Peott and Tenasseeim ; Oriffith, &c. 



A shrub; branches scabrous. Leaves 6 by 2 in., crenulate, lineolate, sparingly 



