StroWlanthes.'l cix. ACANTHACSja. (C. B. Clarke.) 443 



— The segments of the corolla are ovatej longer and much more acute than in 

 Beddome's figure. > 



39. S. asperrimus, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 183 ; leaves broadly elliptic 

 aouminate at both, ends hairy, heads panicled, bracts elliptic concave 

 glabrous, bracteoles 0. S. lupulinus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 469, partly. S. Hookeri Yar. /3, Nees I. c. 185. 



Cbtion ; WalTcer, Gardner, &c. 



Apparently a large shrub ; branches swollen at the joints, scabrous, hirsute upwards. 

 tieaves 9 by 4 in., crenate ; nerves 11 pairj petiole \\ in. Panicles in Walker's 

 examples very compound; heads 1-lJ in., broadly oblong ; bracts fin. Calyx less 

 than I in., divided nearly to the b.ise; segments ligulate, scarious, lineolate. Corolla 

 I in., little contracted below, subsymmetric, glabrous without, hairy within. Capsule 

 i in., 4-seeded. Seeds \ in., thin, snborbicnlar, densely elastically hairy on the 

 margin, areoles very large extended over all the seed but the margin. 



40. S. trifidus, Nees in DC. ProAr. xi. 185 ; nearly glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic acuminate, heads globose solitary or in small cymes, bracts ovate or 

 elliptic concave, bracteoles 0. S. tener, Nees I. c. 184. S. coloratus, Nees 

 I. c. 86, not of T. Anders. S. lupulinus, T. Anders, in, Thwaites Enum. 228, 

 and in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 469, partly. 



Cbtlon, frequent ; Gardner, &c. 



Regarded by T. Anderson as a glabrescent form of S. asperrimus, which it may 

 be, but the capsule is unknown and the inflorescence much less compound. JLeaves 

 3-10 in., base attenuated or rounded, drying black. Bracts membranous, the upper 

 even in the young heads often coloured membranous. 



41. S. lupulinus, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 85, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 184; hairy, leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends, spikes in 

 small dense cymes, bracts elliptic obtuse concave softly hairy, bracteoles 

 obsolete. S. Dalzellii, T. Anders, ms. in Serb. Kew. Ruellia lupulina, 

 Wall. Cat. 2355 a S{ c. 



W. Deooan PEiriifSiriA ; Concan, Dalzell, Stocks; Eam Ghaut near Belgaum, 

 Ritchie. CoiraTALLTiM ; Wight. 



Branches stout, woody, hairy upwards. Leaves 6 by 2-3 in., denticulate, laxly 

 villous on both surfaces or subsetulose above ; nerves 8 pair ; petiole I4 in. Peduncles 

 axillary, very short ; spikes IJ in., oblong, subumbellate or solitary ; bracts §-1 in. 

 Calyx \-\ in., divided nearly to the base; segments ligulate, obtuse, scarious, glabrous, 

 tips bristly. Corolla |-1 in., glabrous without, hairy within, straight, subsymmetric ; 

 cylindric part as long as .the suburceolate, lobes short. Filaments hairy downwards. 

 Pistil glabrous or the style upwards microscopically hairy. Capsule scarcely J in., 

 oblong, 4-seeded. Seeds | in., elliptic, elastically white hairy only on the very 

 margin. — The Bombay botanists took this species for a hairy-bracteate form of S. 

 ' rugosus (Wight Ic. t. 1619). 



42. S. Keyneanus, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 85, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 184 ; leaves broadly elliptic acuminate at both ends hairy, spikes 

 subglobose cymose, bracts elliptic ventricose glabrous, bracteoles 0, corolla 

 I in. Balz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. FL 187. S. rugosus, Wight Ic. t. 1619. S. 

 lupulinus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 469, partly. Buellia brao- 

 teata, Seyne in Herb. Bottler ; Wall. Oat. 2357, type sheet only, not Gold- 

 fuasia braoteata, Nees. 



W. Decoan Peninsula from the Bombay Ghats to the Bababooduns and Nil- 

 gherries ; Heyne, Wight, Dalzell, &c. 



Stems never exceeding 18 in. high (Dalzell, Stocks), hirsute upwards. Leaves 

 6 by 2| in., closely serrate, tubereular-hairy above, softly hairy beneath, drying green 



