440 cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [StroMlanthes. 



xi. 183 ; glabrous, leaves broad-lanceolate acuminate at botb ends, spikes 

 small oblong often deflexed at flower-time, corolla small. T. Anders, in 

 Joui'n. Linn. Soe. ix. 468, partly ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 211. Euellia 

 ciliata, Wall. Cat. 2415 (not Wall. Cat. 2392). Goldfussia Zenkeriana, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1517 ?, not of Nees. 



S. Decoan Pbninsttla ; the Ghauts up to 4000 ft., common, Beddome ; Nilgher- 

 ries, Mangalore, &c., Courtallum, Wight (n. 1949, Herb. Propr.). 



Eesembling & warreensis in leaves and spikes ; but the peduncles and bracts are 

 perfectly glabrous, the spikes slenderer. Corolla in the dried examples ^-J in. ; 

 Wight's figure shows them very much too large ; Beddome figures (and describes) 

 them an inch, but his description appears largely taken from 8. warreensis. 



31. S. adenophorus, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 225, not of Nees nor 

 of T. Anders. ; glabrous, leaves lanceolate acuminate at botb ends subentire, 

 heads oblong, bracts obovate, calyx-segments lanceolate subobtuse. 



S. Decoan ; Anamallay Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft., Beddome. 



Shrubby, 3--4 ft. Leaves 4 by 1 in., conspicuously lineolate above ; nerves 6 pair, 

 slender; petiole \ in. Meads 1-2 in., often deflexed; bracts J- J in., obtuse, some- 

 times mueronate, glabrous, lineolate ; bracteoles J in., narrowly ligulate. Calyx 

 nearly J in., divided about half-way down; segments membranous. Corolla 1-1^ in., 

 glabrous without, very hairy within, nearly straight ; cylindrio rather shorter than 

 the urceolate part. Mlaments hairy downwards. Fistil glabrous. Capsule not 

 seen. — Beddome says that T. Anderson identified this plant with the Ceylon S. lan- 

 ceolatuSjhni, there must have been some mistake, as except in the leaves there is little 

 resemblance between the two. In its habit, deflexed peduncles, and bracts, this seems 

 very nearly allied to S. ciliatus, Nees, but in the absence of seeds it is hazardous to 

 guess at affinity. 



32.? S. decurrens, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 189; glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic acuminate at both ends, spikes clavate-oblong, bracts large narrowly 

 elliptic obtase deoarrent. S. pallidas, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Son. ix. 

 470. Groldfussia decurrens, Wight Ic. t. 1522 (not Bndopogon decarrens, 

 Nees). 



S. Deccan; Coimbatore, Courtallum and Nilgherries, Wight; Anamallays, 

 Beddome. 



Herbaceous (flde Wight), green. Leaves 7 by 2J in., entire or obscurely crenate, 

 conspicuously lineolate above ; nerves 10 pair ; petiole 1 in. Peduncles 1-2 in., slightly 

 thickened upwards, quadrangular or subalate, divaricate or deflexed, often with 2 

 bract-like leaves below the head ; heads \\ in., tapering at the base ; bracts 1 by ^ in. 

 bracteoles J in., linear-ligulate. Calyx ^ in., subscarious, divided more than half-way 

 down, segments lanceolate. Corolla IJ in., glabrous without ; cylindric portion 

 scarcely so long as the ventricose. Filaments hairy downwards. Fistil glabrous. 

 Capsule not seen. — This species is placed here from its similarity to S. ciliatus and 

 8. adenophorus. 



f f Seeds hairy. 



^ Species of the Seccan Peninsula and Ceylon. 



83. S. Walkeri, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 181 ; nearly glabrous, leaves 

 broadly elliptic acuminate at both, ends, spikes ovoid few-fld. cymose, bracts 

 ovate adnate obtuse buUate, capsule with 2 very large seeds. Bedd. Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t. 222 ; T. Anders. Thwaites Enum. 227, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 ix. 470. 



Cbtlon ; alt. 4-7000 ft.. Walker, &c. 



A shrub, 6 ft., gregarious, flowering when about six years old, then dying. Leaves 

 6i by 2| in., crenate, minutely sparsely scabrid-pubescent ; nerves 7-8 pair; petiole 



