Strobilanthes.] cix. AOANTHACBiB. (C. B. Clarke.) 435 



Decoajt PENiNStri,A; S. Canara, on the Kudra Mukli Mt., alt. 6000 ft., 

 Seddome. 



A rigid shrub, 3-4 ft. j tips of the branches and young leaves densely clothed 

 with caducous yellowish wool. Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, 

 3 by li in., base rhomboidal, mature nearly glabrous except the nerves beneath ; 

 nerves 9 pair, approximate, subparallel ; petiole ^ in. Spiies 1-2 in., clustered in the 

 upper axils, forming a dense terminal panicle, thinly, duskily, deciduously woolly ; 

 bracts ^-J in., ovate, obscurely acuminate ; bracteoles scarcely J in., narrowly lanceo- 

 late. Calyx \ in., divided half-way down ; segments narrowly lanceolate. Corolla 

 very pubescent, ventricose portion much longer than the cylindric base. Filaments 

 hairy. Ovary glabrous, style minutely sparsely hairy ; ovule solitary in each cell (in 

 the only ovary examined), probably never as in Beddome's figure, which shows the 

 ovules 2 in each cell, the lower pendulous. 



16. S. cuspidatus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. is. 465 ; leaves 

 ovate acuminate subentire densely white silky beneath, spikes linear oblong 

 glandular fulvous hairy, bracts narrowly elliptic acuminate, corolla 1 in. 

 blue-purple. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 221. Bndopogon cuspidatus, -BeraiA. 

 in PI. Mohenack. n. 1169, and in Linncsa, xxiv. 646. E. versicolor, Wight 

 III. t. 164 b. fig. 4 (left-hand); and Ic. t. 1497, both figure and description. 



NilGHEEBIBS, alt. 4-7000 ft., frequent; Wight, Gen. Mnnro, &c. 



A shrub, 2-5 ft. Leaves 4 by 2J in., base shortly acuminate, mature glabrous 

 above, raphides not prominent j nerves 8 pair, approximate, subparallel ; petiole IJ 

 in. Spikes 1-9 in., often laxly panieled at the ends of the branches ; bracts | in., 

 base concave, acuminate, tip recurved; bracteoles i in., linear. Ca/ya; J in., divided 

 I the way down ; teeth linear, very glandular-hairy (not so lanceolate as in 

 Beddome's figure). Corolla nearly glabrous; 2 rows of long white hairs on the 

 palate within, between which the style (itself nearly glabrous, not as in Beddome's 

 figure) lies. Filaments glabrous, except near the base. Capsule J in., 4-seeded ; seeds 

 discoid, with a circular areola on each face, densely hairy except on the areola. — 

 T. Anderson refers Wight le. 1. 1497 to S. viscosus, but the plant from which that 

 figure was drawn is at Kew, and is S. cuspidatus. 



17. S< consangfuineus, Clarke, not of T. Anders. ; leaves ovate 

 acuminate obscurely toothed glabrous beneath, spikes linear-oblong glandular 

 hairy, bracts narrowly elliptic hardly so long as the calyx, corolla |- in. 

 S. neglectus, T. Anders, ms. Bndopogon consanguineus, Nees in Wall. PI. 

 As. Bar. ui. 99. and partly in DC. Prodr. xi. 104. Ruellia spicata, Soth 

 Nov. 8p. 310 ; Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 153. 



S. Madbas ; Negapatam and Nilgberries, Wight ; Courtallum, Wight, n. 1982. 



Very similar to the last species ; but the leaves are more distinctly toothed, the 

 flowers smaller. Leaves glabrate, prominently lineolate above ; nerves 7 pair. Spikes 

 compound, axillary and tferminal, often slender, sublinear. Calyx J in., divided half- 

 way down or more ; segments narrowly lanceolate, glandular-hairy. Corolla-lobes 

 ovate, acute. Filaments glabrous, except at the very base. Capsule |-J in., 4-seeded. 

 Seeds discoid, areolate on both faces, densely hairy except on the areolae. — This is the 

 original Fndopogon consanguineus of Nees, which was founded on Wight n. 1982, the 

 example of which authenticated in Nees' hand is at Kew. Subsequently, in DC. 

 Prodr., Nees united with this species the totally remote & exareolatus. T. Anderson 

 published (in Thmaites Fnum. 226) this latter species as S. consanguineus, T. Anders., 

 while he separated in the herbarium the old Wight n. 1982 on which he has written 

 S. neglectus, nov. sp. 



Vae. Amommn ; leaves more clearly toothed, spikes slender minutely pubescent or 

 very nearly glabrous, bracts acuminate to an obtuse apex often overtopping the calyx. 

 S. consanguineus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 465, partly ; Bedd. Ic. PI. 

 Ind. Or. t. 216. Buellia sesamoides. Wall. Cat. 2i08, c and a chiefly. Endopogoa 

 Amomum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Mar. iii. 99, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 104. — NiU 

 gherries ; Wight, n. 1980, &c. ^ 



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