Strobilanthes.] cix. ACiNTHAOE.®. (C. B. Clarke.) 451 



spring from the old wood, often from near the ground. Leaves 6 by 3 in., tapering 

 at the base, crenulate j nerves 9 pair j petiole l| in. Spikes 3-11 in., often clustered, 

 pendulous ; bracts J in., blackish-pm-ple ; bracteoles f in., lignlate, minutely scabrous. 

 Calyx I in., divided nearly to the base ; segments lanceolate, minutely scabrous. 

 Corolla 1-lJ in., glabrous except lines within, lurid purple, somewhat 2-lipped j ven- 

 tricose portion short, longer than the contracted portion ; lobes ovate. Stamens and 

 pjsii? glabrous. Capsule J in., usually 4-seeded. Seeds Jin., thin, obovate, obtuse, 

 glabrous ; areoles obsolete. 



66. S. bolamputtensis, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or, t. 200 ; leaves ovate 

 acuminate glatrous except few scattered minute bristles, bracts large orbi- 

 cular serrate softly hairy afterwards glabrate. 



S. Dbcoan ; Bolamputty Hills near Coimbatore, alt. 6000 ft., JSeddome, 

 A shrub, 15 ft., flowering every year from the old wood; habit of iS. luridus. 

 Leaves 6 by 3 in., base attenuate, crenulate or toothed, lineolafce, white-bristly 

 sparsely on the surface above and on the 6-7 pair of nerves beneath ; petiole IJ in. 

 .Spiies 2-4 in., very broad, from the old wood and also terminal; bracts J-1} in. 

 wide, obtuse j bracteoles i in., narrowly oblong* Sepals f in. (at least in fruit), 

 broadly lanceolate, ciliate, somewhat white-bristly. Corolla 1 in., subcampannlate, 

 glabrous, brown (Beddome); lobes short in Beddome's picture, appear longer more as 

 of ;S. luridus in his example. Stamens and pistil glabrous. Capsule f in., broadly 

 oblong, 4-seeded. Seeds j in., thin, subquadrate, glabrous ; areoles obsolete; 



ff Seeds hairy (where kno*n). 



66. S. callosus, Nees in, Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 85 cMeJly, ani 

 in DC. Prodr. xi. 186 chiefly ; leaves elliptic acuminate at both, ends 

 sparsely hairy above glabrate beneath, bracts ovate or elliptic concave 

 obtuse glabrous, bracteoles 0, capsule 2-seeded. Balz. Sf Gibsi Bomb, Fl. 

 188 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Sac. ix. 469. S. Grrahamianus, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1620 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 187 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 469. Kuellia callosa, Wall. Cat. 2369.— Strobilanthes sp. n. 69, Herb. Ind. 

 Or. M.f. S( T. 



Bombay Ghattts and Centbai. India ; Graham, DaUell, &c. 



A shrub, 6 ft. ; branches glabrate, often warted or seabrous7tubercled. Leaves 7 

 by 3 in., sometimes much larger, crenate, conspicuously lineolate above ; nerves 8-16 

 pair J petiole 2 in. Spikes 1-4 in., often densely or laxly eymose; bracts i^-1 in., 

 orbicular or elliptic. Calyx J in., in fruit often exceeding f in. , lobed nearly to the 

 base, segments oblong, obtuse, softly hairy. Corolla IJ in., subsymmetric, glabrous 

 without, very hairy within, deep-blue (Dalzell)j cylindric base as long as the ventri- 

 cose portion. Filaments hairy downwards. Pistil glabrous. Capsule | by g- in. 

 Seeds more than j in. long, thin, obovate acute, densely shaggy with white adpressed 

 inelastic hairs, except on the large oblong areoles. — As Dalzell says his S. callo.tus had 

 the seeds "quite smooth," it might be supposed that he considered the present plant 

 S. Qrahamicmus, and called i8. DalzelUi, T. Anders, his 8. callosus ; but a reference 

 to his Herbarium and notes shows this was not so. He distinguished S. DalzelUi as 

 a species, but proposes no name for it ; while he (most erroneously') notes on his own 

 excellent fruiting specimen of S. callosus that it differs from 8. Chrahamianus in 

 having the seeds glabrous. 



Vae. hispida j bracts copiously white-hispid. — Dasgowa, in the Mahratta country^ 

 Move. 



67. S. zeylanicuSj T. Anders, in Thwaites Fnum. 227, and in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 470; glabrescent, leaves ovate shortly acuminate at both 

 ends, bracts ovate often with a lignlate apex, bracteoles about as long as the 

 calyx. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t, 224. S. callosus, Nees in Wall. PI. As. 

 Bar. iii, 86, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 185, the Ceylon material. 



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