Strobilanthes.'] cix. ACANTHACEiE. (C. B. Clarke,) 431 



canthus acuminatus, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7153, and in Wall. PI. As. Sar. iii. 

 84, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 197 {excl. tab. cited). 



BuBMA ; " locua incertus," WalUch. 



A herb; branches elongate, nearly glabrous. Leaves 5 by 1| in., base long 

 attenuate, often subserrate, lineolate above; nerves 6-7 pair, minutely fuscous 

 pubescent beneath ; petiole 0-J in. Peduncles |-2 in. ; spikes J-1 in. ; bracts \ in., 

 ovate ! bracteoles j in., elliptic, wider upwards than the bracts. Calyia scarcely J in., 

 glandular-ciliate. Corolla (ex Nees) | in. at least, glabrous, tubular ; limb equal 

 with obtuse segments. Ovary 4-ovulate. Capsule not known. — Description mainly 

 from Nees, the single sheet of Wallieh being too imperfect to verify several points. 

 T. Anderson, proceeding on the similarity in the leaves, has assumed that Nees' 

 description is materially wrong, and that Wall. Cat. 71S2 is really identical with 

 S. longipes, n. 76 infra. If that be so, it remains as S. subflacoidus, Kurz. 



3. S. Farishil, Clarke; leaves elliptic acuminate thinly hirsute, 

 spikes linear-oblong strobilate white-hairy, bracts oblong or slightly wider 

 upwards, calyx 2-partite'both segments very shortly toothed, 



MoTJLMEiN; Parish. TenasseeiM; Beddome. 



A branching herb ; stems subterete rufous-piibescent or subhirsute. Leaves 5\ by 

 2i in., base cuneate or obtuse, crenate, nerves 6 pair; petiole J-2 in. Spikes 2 by 

 4 in., short-peduncled ; bracts J by J-^ in., obtuse; bracteoles ^ in., linear. Calyx 

 J in., nearly as of S. rufesoens. Corolla IJ in., nearly straight, glabrous, blue ; 

 cylindric base of the tube hardly half so long as the campauulate; lobes short, round. 

 Capsule J— J in., pubescent, 4-seeded. . Seeds scarcely -^^ in., orbicular, elastically 

 white-hairy ; areoles hardly any. 



4. S. foetldissima, Zurz In Joum. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 93 ; leaves 

 ovate acuminate at both ends serrate-dentate hirsute on both surfaces, 

 spikes short-peduncled lax short tawny-hirsute, bracts obovate-cuneate 

 obtuse, calyx-segments deeply lobed. 



Maetaban; Kurz. 



A herb ; branches fulvous-hairy. Leaves 3-5 in., membranous, long-petioled. 

 iroc!!* I in., glandular-hirsute 5 bracteoles similar, but shorter and broader. Cah/x 

 as long as the bracts, adpressedly glandular-puberulous. Corolla IJ in., ani filaments 

 glabrous. Style hirsute. Capsule | in., glabrous. Seeds \ in. diam., adpressedly 

 villous.— Copied from Kurz, who says it is allied to S. rufescens, whence it is pre- 

 sumed the calyx is definitely 2-lipped ; but in the large capsule and seeds it differs 

 from the other species allied to S. rufescens. 



Subgenus 2. Bndopogron. Ca^j/a; deeply subequally 6-fld. Stamens 2 

 fertile. — (Spikes mostly continuous, sometimes shortened into heads, less 

 commonly interrupted at the base, the lowest flowers then in opposite pairs ; 

 bracts persistent). 



* Seeds {even in water) glabrous, without areoles on the faces. — 

 Lower half of the corolla- tube cylindric, suddenly widening into the 

 ventricose part. — Species of Oeylon, with one {8. foliosus) in the S. Deccan 

 Peninsula. 



5. S> viscosus, T. Anders, in Thwaites Unum. 226, excl. syn. Wight, 

 and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 465, partly ; leaves elliptic acuminate at both 

 ends crenulate sparsely pubescent or glabrate, spikes linear subinterrupted 

 viscous-hairy, flowering calyx ^ in. divided less than half-way down. 

 Endopogon viscosus, Nees in L)C. Prodr. xi. 104, excl, Var. humilis, not of 

 Wight. 



Ceylon, up to 7000 ft. alt., frequent; Q-ardner, Walker, Thwaites (n. 2898, 

 a. 2002, partly), &c, 



