Strobilanthes.] cix. ACANTHACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 437 



Series A. Sracteates. Sracts prominent, persistent or only late decidu- 

 ous. Flowers spiked, clustered or strobilate ; spikes sometimes interrupted 

 below, but flowers never all scattered. 



* Vlowers ca/pitate or shortly spieate. (An artificial section passing by 

 gradations into tbe strobiliform or interruptedly spioate sections.) 



f Seeds glabrous (in a few not known). — Species of Ceylon and the 

 Deccan Peninsala. 



21. S. barbatus, Nees in Wall. PL As. Bar. iii. 85, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 179 ; leaves broad-elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, bracts 

 obovate cuspidate squarrose, corolla white very hairy within, seeds usually 

 2. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 468 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 212. 

 S. tetrapterus, Dalz. in HooJc. Kew Journ. ii. 342 ; Dalz. l( Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 187 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Sob. ix. 468. Euellia oiUata, Seyne in 

 Herb. Bottler ; Wall. Cat. 2392 {not Wall. Cat. 2415). 



W. Deccan Peninsuia ; from the Bombay Ghats to Cape Comorin, alt. 3000 ft., 

 Wight, Dalzell, &o. 



A gregarious shrub, flowering once at about 7 years old, then dying (Beddome) ; 

 stem often winged. Leaves 7 by 3 in., crenulate or subentire, lineolate especially 

 above ; nerves 7-8 pair ; petiole 1-3 in., base often auriculate, sometimes winged. 

 Meads 1-2 in., sessile, very dense ; bracts | in., obscurely quadrifarioas, green, 

 ciliate; bracteoles J in., linear, ciliate. Calyx \ in., divided more than haQ-way 

 down, green, ciliolate ; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla |— 1 in.; cyliudric base 

 as long as the suddenly-widened sabcampanulate portion ; limb nearly erect, subeqaal. 

 Filaments sparsely hairy upwards. Pistil sparsely hairy and glabrous. Capsule 

 i-f in., clavate, always 2-seeded. Seeds nearly ^ in. long, very thin, elliptic, areoles 

 0. — The fruit has only been seen in the form S. tetrapterus, Dalz. In the old 

 examples of S. harhaius the corolla is barely J in., the heads and bracts are smaller, 

 the calyx less deeply divided ; but Beddome says (from knowledge of the living 

 plant) that there is only one species here. 



22. S. lanceolatus, JVee* in DC. P'rodr. xi. 181; glabrous except 

 the calyx, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends nearly entire, heads 

 small capitate few-fld., calyx-segments in flower lanceolate acute slightly 

 hairy in fruit, capsule 4-seeded. S. adenophorus, Nees I. c. 182 ; T. Anders, 

 in Thwaites JEnum. 228, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 466, not of Beddome. 

 Martynia lanceolate. Moon Cat. PI. Ceyl. Goldf ussia Myrtinia, Nees I. c. 

 174. 



Cetlon; Four Korles and Saffragam, Macrae, Thwaites, &c. 



A small shrub ; branches quadrangular. Leaves 3 by | in., prominently lineolate 

 above; nerves 6 pair; petiole i in. Meads \ in. (exclusive of the corolla), 2-4-fld., 

 in appearance solitary peduncled, peduncles slightly thickened upwards quadrangu- 

 lar or subalate ; floral leaves 2, elliptic, \ in., in thedried examples erect, overtopping 

 closely enveloping the flower-head ; proper bract \ in., oblong ; bracteoles 2, \ in., 

 sublinear, often suppressed in the upper flowers as commonly in close heads. Calyx 

 J in., divided half-way down, segments in fruit elongate obtuse. Corolla li-l^ in., 

 nearly glabrous without, light-blue; cylindric nearly as long as the ventricose part. 

 Mlamenis hairy downwards. Ovary hairy at the apex. Capsule J in., narrowly 

 oblong. Seeds ^ in. long, thin, elliptic, glabrous ; areoles ^ the length of the seed. 



23. S. heteromallus, T. Anders, ms. ; villous, subhispid, leaves 

 ovate acute, heads ovoid, bracts oblOng overtopping the calyx, ovary densely 

 hairy at the tip. S. scaber, Var. y Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 84, 

 Var. ^ Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 178, as to Wight's Deccan material. Ruellia 

 scabra, Wall. Cat. 2377 {not Wall. Cat. 2393). 



