Strohilanthes.] cix. ACANTHACEiB. (C. B. Clarke.) 445 



Gapsale unknown. — This imperfectly known species may very possibly have its true 

 position nearer to S. Heyneamis var. campanulata. 



45. S. scrobiculatus, Dalz. ms. ; leaves elliptic acuminate at both 

 ends nearly glabrous, spikes numerous subsessile along the naked branches, 

 corolla 1 in. blue. 



Bombay Ghauts ; Dalzell ; Mahabeleshwur, Salph. 



Woody branches elongate, much divided, leafless, covered witli flowers, tips leafy, 

 ieffioes 3 by 1 in., nearly entire ; nerves 7 pair; petiole J in. Spikes 1 in., subses- 

 sile, viscous hairy; bracts J in., narrowly obovate, persistent in fruit; bracteoles 

 J in., sublinear. Cattfx J in., divided nearly to the base ; segments linear, hairy. 

 Corolla symmetric, nearly glabrous, pale below, a beautiful blue upwards ; ventricose 

 part rather narrow longer than the contracted ; lobes ovate, crenulate. Stamens 

 included, glabrous. Stifle with a few hairs. Capsule J in., 4-seeded. Seeds ■f^ in., 

 thin, ovate, densely covered with fine long hairs, elastic when wet, except the small 

 areoles. — Appears to be the most beautiful species of the genus ;- it is allied to 8. 

 ixiocephalas. 



46. S. papillosus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 468 ; scabrous 

 hispid, leaves ovate acute, heads ellipsoid, bracts elliptic elongate scabrous 

 hispid, corolla l^-lf in. Sedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 201. S.soaber, Var. ? ^, 

 Benth. in PI. Mokenack. n. 1431. 



NliaHEEBT Mts. ; alt. 7000 ft., SoTienaeTcer, Saddome. Mtsoeb ; Zohb. 



A large shrub (Beddome) ; branches very harshly scabrous. Leaves 2f by If in., 

 obtuse, base very shortly cuneate, callous-dentate, hispid with tubercle-based hairs 

 above, setulose beneath ; nerves 6 pair ; petiole J in. Meads 1^-2 in., strictly capi- 

 tate ; peduncles thickened upwards, acutely 4-angled, very harshly scabrous ; floral 

 leaves 2 in., empty, overtopping the head ; bract very rigid ; bracteoles 1 in., narrowly 

 lanceolate, membranous, ciliate. Cali/x divided nearly to the base; segments IJ in., 

 linear-lanceolate, very acute, membranous, ash-coloured, ciliate. Corolla subsym- 

 metric, nearly glabrous, blueish ; cylindric part hardly so long as the ventricose ; lobes 

 ovate. Steme«« glabrous, included. Pssfii thinly hairy. Capsule anknown. — Allied 

 to S. Perrottetianus according to Beddome, and it may turn out so to be- when the 

 seeds are known. 



47. S. exsertus, Clarke ; leaves petioled ovate acute at both ends 

 soabrid-pubescent, spikes densely capitate solitary terminal, bracts obovate 

 as long as the calyx, corolla J in., anthers exsert. Stenosiphonium zeylani- 

 cum Var. a, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 225, and in Jowm. Linn. Soc. 

 h. 463. 



CsTLOlf ; Thwaites (C. P. 3577) ; Damboul, Beckett. 



A shrub, 1-2 ft., creeping, rooting ; branches suberect, quadrangular, pubescent. 

 Leaves la by ^ in., creuate, rather harsh, liueolate on both surfaces, sparsely 

 setose above, more softly beneath; nerves 5-6 pairj petiole i in. Seads sessile 

 between 2 somewhat enveloping leaves ; quasi-peduncles O-IJ in., often thickened 

 upv,'ards; bracts ^ in., subobtuse, green, persistent, patently white-hairy. Cali/x 

 3 in., divided about half-way down at flower-time, teeth lanceolate, hairy. CoroUx 

 curved, nearly glabrous without ; cylindric base J in., funnel-shaped part nearly 

 as long ; lobes ovate. Filaments glabrous except at the base, 2 longer distinctly 

 exserted'; anthers all subequal. Ovary glabrous, tip glandular, 4-ovuIate; style 

 glabrous, stigma simple. Capsule i in., oblong, glabrous, 4-seeded from near the base. 

 Seeds i in. diam., much compressed, orbicular, densely elastically hairy,' except on the 

 conspicuous areoles. — Placed in Stenosiphonium by T. Anderson, and regarded as a 

 var. of Semigrpphis venosa. The inflorescence does not do for Stenosiphonium, nor 

 the leaves, and the ovules are never more than 4 to the ovary. 



Vab. h integra, T. Anders. 1. c. ; leaves entire glabrous, corolla 1 in. ventricose, 

 constricted cylindric base of the tube short.— Ceylon ; Thwaites (C. P. n. 3661). 



