442 CIS. ACANTHACB.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [StrobilantJies. 



An erect shrub. Leaves 7 by 2i in., crenate, lineolate on both surfaces ; nerves 

 6-7 pair beneath, minutely scabrid ; petiole 2 in. Sends several (sometimes 35) to 

 the panicle ; panicle branches slender, glabrescent ; outermost pair of pollen bracts 

 usually ^ in., lanceolate, next pair resembling the proper bracts but empty, patently 

 glistening hairy or quite glabrous ; bract proper | in., sessile, green ; bracteoles 0. 

 Sepals nearly i in., linear, scarious below, terminating in a dense tuft of multicellular 

 hairs. Corolla 1 in., subsymmetrie, pale-blue, hairy within ; ventricose "portion 

 longer than the contracted ; segments round. JPilamenfs hairy towards the base. 

 Style sparsely hairy. Capsule J in., narrowly ellipsoid. Seeds | in., thin, subquad- 

 rate elliptic, shaggy with adpressed wavy silky hair not elastic when wetted, glabrous 

 on the oblong large areoles. 



37. S. anceps, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 189 ; thinly hairy, leaves ovate 

 acuminate, heads small oblong, bracts obovate obtuse tips 'green squarrose 

 or reflexed. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 466 ; JSedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. 



t. 204. 



Ceylon ; alt. 3-6000 ft. , frequent, Gardner, &c. 



A small undershrub, much branched. Leaves 3 by IJ in., obtuse or acuminate at 

 the base, subentire, with scattered hairs and occasionally a few red glands beneath ; 

 nerves 6 pair; petiole ^ in. Fedttncles O-IJ in., numerous, often in clusters of 3, 

 thickened upwards, 1-headed ; heads J in., ovoid, in fruit often 1-2 in. oblong ; bracts 

 i-i in., adpressed downwards often densely red, glandular, tips prominently reflexed; 

 bracteoles i in., linear. Calyx i in., divided nearly to the base ; segments linear, 

 thin, hairy, much enlarged in fruit. Corolla | in., slightly pubescent without, slightly 

 hairy within, straight, subsymmetrie, white; contracted base much shorter than the 

 urceolate portion, segments rounded. Filaments with long hairs. Ovary densely 

 glandular at the tip, style glabrous. Capsule J in., oblong, pubescent, 4-seeded. 

 Seeds -fi; in., ovoid, closely hairy with short thick annulate hairs, elastioally springing 

 out when wetted. 



Vae. microstachya ; leaves and heads more hairy less glandular, calyx very small, 

 corolla more hairy without. S. macrostachya, Benth. in Flora 1849, 557. liuellia ? 

 punctata, Nees in, DC. Frodr. xi. 147; Wight lu. t. 1563. — Hills of S. Deccan; 

 Courtallum,7F"iyAi; Mangalore, .HbAewaeirer, n. 463 ; Anamallays, .Beddome. Leaves 

 5 in. ; filaments nearly glabrous. Beddome says that this plant is "very scabrous, the 

 hairs arising from harsh papillse." Wight's figure of S,uellia ? punctata is drawn from 

 his Herb. Propr. n. 656, preserved at Kew, written up by Wright, and quoted by Nees j 

 but it is a particularly softly hairy form. As Beddome remarks, it is not taken up by 

 T. Anderson. 



Vae. ? punctata, T. Anders, in Thwaites Knum. 229 ; leaves small ovate glabrous 

 densely glandular beneath, bracts orbicular glabrous ciliated densely glandular tips 

 not reflexed. Strobilanthes punctatus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 182 (sp.), not of 

 Sedd. — Ceylon ; IValker. Leaves i-lj in., subobtuse, base often subcordate. 

 Perhaps specifically distinct, but there is only one example, without fruit, named 

 by Nees. 



88. S. Arnottianus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 179; softly laxly hairy, 

 leaves cordate-ovate acute, heads obovoid nodding, bracts ovate acuminate, 

 corolla subcampanulate lobes somewhat acute. T. Anders, in Thwaites 

 Unum. 228, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 466; Sedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 

 t. 261. 



Ceylost ; Newera Ellia, WalTcer, &c. 



An undershrub, branches hirsute upwards. Leaves 4 by 2 in., crenate-serrate, 

 thinly hairy on both surfaces j nerves 4-5 pair ; petiole 1-2 in. Seads J-1 in., 

 white-hairy j bracts i-| in., sessile ; bracteoles f-f in., linear-oblong. Calyx ^\ in., 

 divided nearly to the base ; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla f in., straight, sym- 

 metric, almost funnel-shaped from the very short contracted base, slightly hairy within 

 and without, whiteish. Filaments attached very low down the corolla, glabrous; 

 anthers exserted. Ovary and style hairy. Capsule 4-seeded ; seeds (unripe) hairy. 



