450 cix. ACANTHACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Strobilantlies. 



far removed from S. vestitus ; but it is so nearly allied that the specimens have been 

 sometimes confounded by the best botanists. 



61. S. calycinus, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 227, and in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 469 ; leaves elliptic aoauninate at both ends hairy on both 

 surfaces, bracts spathnlate ovate obtuse glabrous or hairy. Bedd. Ic. 

 PL Ind. Or. t. 209. S. coloratus, Nees in DG. Prodr. ix. 186, not of T. 

 Anders. 



Cbtion, alt. 5-7000 ft. ; Gardner, &c. 



A sfarab, 4-6 ft., stem glabrous below, more or less hairy upwards. Bracts spathu- 

 late, often subpetioled, lower passing sometimes into leaves as shown in Beddome's 

 figure. Corolla varying from green to a lurid reddish yellow. Seeds 4 to the capsule, 

 scarcely \ in., obovate. — Otherwise as S. SooTceri, from which this species (which is 

 Nees' S. ooloratus) differs at sight by being a little more hairy. The S. calycinus 

 var. ;3 of Nees is founded on a sheet of 3 fragments, whereof 2 are >S. calycinus T. 

 Anders., 1 is S. Sooheri. 



Vab. ?parvifolia; leaves J- J in. long, heads small 2-5-fld., corolla scarcely 

 } in., anthers subexserted. S. calycinus, Ifees in DO. JProdr. ix. 469. — Ceylon; 

 Walker. 



62. S. lazus, T. Anders, in Thwaites Enum. 228, and in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ix. 469 ; leaves cordate ovate acuminate minutely scabrous-hairy or 

 glabrate, bracts ovate or orbicular subentire glabrous or cUiate. Bedd. le. 

 PL Ind. Or. t. 223. 



Ceylon; Hantani, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



A shrub, 4-6 ft. ; branches glabrate. Leaves 6 by 3i in., crenate or toothed ; 

 nerves 6 pair ; petiole 2 in. Spikes 2-5 in., often in dense subsessile clusters on the old 

 wood ; bracts J-1 in.; bracteoles i in., linear-oblong. Sepals i in. (or more in fruit), 

 lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, ciliate. Corolla J-1 in., glabrous except hairy lines 

 within, orange-red ; ventricose portion shoirt, about as long as the contracted portion ; 

 lobes ovate, elongate, subacute, as described by T. Anderson, not well shown in 

 Beddome's figure. Stamens and pistil glabrous. Capsule J in., narrowly ellipsoid, 

 4-seeded. Seeds ^— ^ in., thin, obovate or subquadrate, glabrous ; areoles obsolete. — 

 Easily distinguished from the allied Ceylon species by the broad decisively-cordate 

 base of the leaves. 



63. S. Andersonii, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 222, and Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t. 208 ; leaves rhomboid-elliptic or ovate acuminate loosely villous 

 on both surfaces, bracts elliptic obtuse glabrous ciliate. T. Anders, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 469. 



S. Deccan; Anamallay Mts., alt. 6000 ft., Beddome. 



A very large shrub up to 20 ft. (Beddome) ; branches hairy upwards. Leanes 7 

 by 4 in., rhomboid, base rounded or subcordate, crenulate ; nerves 7 pair; petiole 

 IJ in. Spikes 1-2 J in., axillary, nodding; bracts | in.; bracteoles | in., linear- 

 oblong. Sepals |-| in., linear-oblong, ciliate. Corolla 14 in., subeampanulate, 

 contracted base very short, subsymmetric, glabrous except hairy lines within, pale- 

 blueish. Stamens Ani pistil ^abroMS. Capsule not seen; but the species is doubt- 

 less closely allied to S. calycinus, as Beddome says, and the leaves still more resemble 

 S. vestitus. 



64. S. luridus, Wight Ic. t. 1515-6 ; leaves ovate acuminate closely 

 softly hairy on both surfaces, bracts large orbicular entire glabrous. T. 

 Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 469. 



NiLGHBEEY Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft.; Gardner, Wight, &e. Akamallat Mis. 

 (fide Beddome's list). 



Gregarious shrubs, 10-18 ft, high, often forming entire coppices, flowering every 



