StroUlanthes.] aix. ACANiHACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 459 



Seeds J-| in., ovate, shaggy ; areoles hardly any. — In spite of the enormous differ- 

 ences iu the capsule and seeds, this plant has been much mixed with JEchmanthera 

 tomentosa. 



Series B. Nudatce. Bracts caducous, often before tlie flowers expand. 

 Flowers clustered or in distant mostly opposite pairs, ; not most of them 

 scattered alternate. Seeds in all hairy. — (All, except S. Newii from N. 

 India or Malay Peninsula.) 



* JELeads even in fruit capitate or ovate, not intemtpted helow. 



89. S. ^enlculatus, Clarke ; nearly glabrous, leaves elliptic acumi- 

 nate serrate, heads 2-3-fld., bracts large ovate acuminate caducous, brao- 

 teoles 0. S. gracilis, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc is.. 474, nxit of Bed- 

 dome. 



MiSHMEE ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6116). 



A small shrub; braaches slender, somewhat zigzag. Leames 5 by 1| in., base 

 cuneate or rhomboid, serrulate, upper surface dense with raphides ; nerves 6-7 pair ; 

 petiole ^ in. Peduncles 1-3 in., with a node carrying two reduced caducous leaves 

 at the middle, there geniculate and sometimes divided; heads f in., ^4 outer 

 bract-like leaves barren, early caducous ; bract | by J in., lineolate. Catyx. |-J in., 

 divided nearly to the base ; segments linear^ unequal, obtuse, glandular. Corolla 

 li in., glabrous, purple. Capsvle | in., olavate, 4-seeded, glandular-pubescent. 

 Seeds -j^ in., ovate, shaggy ; areoles small. — Each flower is subtended by one bract, and 

 there are 2-4 outer empty similar bracts ; before the expansion of the corolla all the 

 bracts but 1 or 2 of the uppermost fall, and these disappear before fruit. 



Vae. Integra ; leaves nearly entire, sepals in frvut nearly J iu. hairy. — Khasia 

 Mts.; Clarice. i,eaves 5 by 2| in., subovate ;. petiole \-\ in.. Seeds ^ in. and up. 

 wards. — Probably merely the fully-developed state of S. geniouldtus, which Griffith 

 collected in a colder country. 



90. S. capitatus,. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 475; leaves 

 ovate acuminate at each end nearly glabrous, bracts elliptic-oblong herba- 

 ceous pubescent as long as the calyx, bracteoles half as long as the calyx, 

 corolla l|-2 in. deep blue. Kuellia capitata, Wall. Cat. 2351, partly ; 

 Don Prodr. 120. Groldfussia capitata, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 88, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xi. 173. G. biceps, JVees in Wall. Cat.. 7161, and in 

 Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 88, and in BC. Prodr. li. 172. — Acanthacea sp. 

 Griff. Bin. Notes, 116, n, 213. 



SuBTEOPiCAL Himalaya,, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Nepal to BnoTAif, common j 

 WallicA, Griffith, S.f. ^T.,&.c. Pe&tt; Karen Hills (fide T. Anderson), — DisiEiB. 

 Ava. 



A shrub, 1-3 ft. Leaves 6 by 2| in., serrate, obscurely lineolate above, minutely 

 hairy on the nerves beneath ; nerves 6-7 pair ; petiole 1 J iu. Feduneles usually 

 short, j-1 in., sometimes 2—4 in., glabrous or pubescent. Heads 1 in. diam., closely 

 capitate even in fruit, many-fld., outer empty bracts sometimes long leaf-like, some- 

 times hardly half so long as the heads, caducous j bracts proper to each flower elon- 

 gate upwards, closely adpressedly softly white pubescent ; bracteoles ^— ^ in., ligulate, 

 herbaceous, pubescent, caducous in fruit. Calyx J in., deeply divided but connate into 

 a hardened short tube at the base ; segments narrowly lanceolate, softly hairy even in 

 fruit. Corolla curved, tubular-ventricose, nearly glabrous. Stamens glabrous. 

 Ovary glandular ; style thinly patently hairy. Capsule J in., slightly clavate, pubes- 

 cent, 4-8eeded. Seeds ^-^ in., ovate, shaggy ; areoles small. 



Vab. nitida j heads larger shining glabrate in fruit, bracteoles nearly as long as 

 the calyx obovate-oblong glabrous fimbriate in fruit. — Khasia Mts. ; Mousto, alt. 

 2500 ft., Clarice, — tracts and bracteoles shiniug scarious in fruit from a short green 

 base. Seeds J in., densely silky. 



